danny

yesterday i was talking to a new friend, natalia, from brazil, about so many interesting things i felt good again of having someone to conversate on things i find interesting: films, books, philosophy, music, travelling, languages, people.

i realise that here, right now, they’re not many which whom i can have that kind of talk. i still wonder why.

such conversations make me feel as there’s so much to be done, so many interesting books to be read, so many movies to be seen, so many places to be visited, so many people to be met. and it has to do not with the amount of quality material out there which is astoundingly big. it relates to someone telling you an impression on a book or a place in her own words, her perception of it, and that is more compelling than just knowing that book, that movie will be great to see. it has to do with seeing it through other people’s eyes and their impressions on it that gives you a perspective, a sensation, a sight. after all, it is your own reading of a book what can move you. or someone else’s.

after all we’re a fundamental part of what the world means to us. and sometimes someone else is, as well, for a little while.

i just came back from a highschool meeting, guess how i feel right now. i’ll post tomorrow

i was asked (indirectly) what was i optimistic about this year? and i know there’s an answer to that. i am optimistic, very. but i really don’t know what about. it is a gut feeling of something finding a way out. and my best shot is at applied intelligence on service models, or better, service being a major player these days.

i heard about services the first time (as in “someone told me what services are about” not “i used a services and was happy about it”) in 1999, on one of the most boring presentations i’ve ever seen. boring just because it was data, and hard concepts explained from the data, and mostly because understanding services (those days) was a very hard thing to do. it was given by someone that knows a lot about services, someone that lectures everywhere in the world (but is sort of a scientist and a genius). his name is ezio manzini. i was blown away. i pay attention a lot. i couldn’t figure it out. then i worked for some years on service creation, and i felt that was the most difficult thing to design: a service.

it took almost 7 years for the world (and myself) to understand it. and now we’re very close to really harnessing its power. or at least we know there’s power in it. distributed systems, social collaboration, interaction and support, community-driven models, pay-as-you-use, sustainability are some of its advantages. and getting you from a to b without caring on how to do so is the main goal (to me at least, but i don’t know much of it).

today i saw a presentation that made me feel optimistic again, or better: made me feel like there’s something that has to do with what i feel optimistic about. still can’t put the finger on it, but instead i’ll share it with you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrpajcAgR1E&eurl=

(by the way, this presentation is incredibly not boring)

in themeanwhile, i’ll keep thinking on that tickling i feel about this year to come.

yes, they have to be made in order to break them later i guess

• get more excercise
• finish up release version of minishowcase (my freeware online gallery project)
• get a new computer
• get a nice flat
• start a web service project (one of many i have in mind, and at least one!)
• make huge truckloads of money (really?)
• post once a day, and activate my creative writing (i don’t know what does that mean but sounds like what i think i want to do, so it’ll be enough to remind me of it)
• stop posting song lyrics

• be well i guess