iWoz
June 21, 2007
Bought the iWoz book in London last weekend and read it all during my trip to Seattle (more on this later, I promise). The book is sort of a biography from Steve Wozniak, his relationships and life, entrepreneurship, and a big emphasis on the Apple I and the Apple creation.
The book is as easy reading as it gets, and because of the simple and sincere way Woz exposes his personal fears and secrets it's really passionate reading for geeks of all ages. Plus it has so many parallels and similarities with myself and my still young career and life and what I went through, yes, including the Phone phreaking part, if that's what you're wondering.
Another interesting worth mentioning bit of this story is how Woz takes on Steve Jobs (and forgives him) on several situations during his life, including the way he robbed him on the Breakout/Nintendo project and the nasty episode with his Apple quit and the creation of the CL 9 company.
So if you're a geek, entrepreneur, and lived through the golden ages of Z-80, Commodore and all the 80s personal computers and electronics passion, or just one of the three, go and get it now, it's worth.
The book is as easy reading as it gets, and because of the simple and sincere way Woz exposes his personal fears and secrets it's really passionate reading for geeks of all ages. Plus it has so many parallels and similarities with myself and my still young career and life and what I went through, yes, including the Phone phreaking part, if that's what you're wondering.
Another interesting worth mentioning bit of this story is how Woz takes on Steve Jobs (and forgives him) on several situations during his life, including the way he robbed him on the Breakout/Nintendo project and the nasty episode with his Apple quit and the creation of the CL 9 company.
So if you're a geek, entrepreneur, and lived through the golden ages of Z-80, Commodore and all the 80s personal computers and electronics passion, or just one of the three, go and get it now, it's worth.
Hackday London
June 21, 2007
Everything has been said about Hackday London already, so I'll skip the detailed description bit. This is just a quick note to say that BBC and Y! rocked. We had loads of fun and learned a lot too.
The hack that we submitted didn't won any prize, so we were clearly robbed there (maybe if the timer guy hadn't shut us down during our presentation, bah...) but still a very big thumbs up to anyone on the list, to the jury, the winners, and to ourselves too. .pt rules.
Now seriously, Yahoo! has gotten the Hackday formula well tuned by now. Not even the thunderbolt episode or the problems with BT Openzone's Wifi on Saturday were enough to spoil the party. Definitively something I'll be thinking about during the next weeks to evaluate something similar, but in a Portuguese context, we'll see.
The hack that we submitted didn't won any prize, so we were clearly robbed there (maybe if the timer guy hadn't shut us down during our presentation, bah...) but still a very big thumbs up to anyone on the list, to the jury, the winners, and to ourselves too. .pt rules.
Now seriously, Yahoo! has gotten the Hackday formula well tuned by now. Not even the thunderbolt episode or the problems with BT Openzone's Wifi on Saturday were enough to spoil the party. Definitively something I'll be thinking about during the next weeks to evaluate something similar, but in a Portuguese context, we'll see.
