When Barack Obama got elected the President of the USA, there was a lot of hope around the world. Hope, I think was the single word you could use to describe all the noise around it. Sure, the first black president, the first presidential candidate to seriously use the Web and social networks, all the … Continue reading Obama orders Federal Agencies to digitize all records
As you know, I spent most of the day in Nicosia yesterday, attending TEDxNicosia event together with Michael Stepanov. I’ve mentioned several times in this blog and on Twitter that I was overexcited about this event and my opportunity to actually go there. Michael picked me up at 8am and drove me to Nicosia. With … Continue reading TEDxNicosia : thoughts and impressions
Last Saturday I was up in the hills for a barbeque with a few of my friends. There were several groups of people at the picnic place, and all of them turned out to be Russian. More so, there were common friends between all of these groups. Eventually, people started moving from group to group … Continue reading Brothers
According to the release notes of Fedora 16 (work in progress), this release of the popular Linux distribution is dedicated to Dennis Ritchie, who passed away recently. I think this is an excellent idea. During the preparation of Fedora 16, the computing world lost one of its great contributors: Dennis Ritchie. Ritchie co-invented Unix and … Continue reading Fedora 16 dedicated to Dennis Ritchie
I’ve seen my share of creative Flickr uses – applications, groups, forums, comments, tutorials, and more. Â But one of the most creative Flickr-related things that I know, remains to be Flickr’s own blog. Â Every day they choose a theme and share inspirational images that suit that theme. Â And given that they have plenty of images … Continue reading Flickr blog creative : Live Album