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Tracks before I leave

Here are few tracks for this Summer season before I leave for vacations. Some rediscovery of Laurent Garnier who’s one of the best DJs in the world, even after having been in and out the charts for about 20 years now; some classic track for the Sonar 2013 Festival; last …

Northern Ireland

In 2011 Ars Aperta had joined a cross-European project aiming to share best practices on open web and open source technologies education and training. The project’s stateholders are quite diverse as they gather the Sourthern Regional College of Northern Ireland, the Royal University of Juan Carlos in Madrid as well …

Out and Forward

As you can guess from this picture, we are moving and tomorrow’s te big day. The truck will arrive early morning and take our belongings in a bigger place in Paris. It’s been a real work to pack everything but we are happy to move into our new place and …

Architecture Bits

Few people know I’m quite a fan of architecture, especially the designs from the late XIXth century up until the fifties. There’s an exception to this: I’m fascinated by the Soviet era architectural designs, and it looks like I’m not the only one. Below are a few links about them: …

The case for Open 3D Printing (now with links)

3D Printing is all the hype these days, at least among some communities. What it really is however spans  a lot of different things, several different uses and in general many different realities. 3D printing has actual uses in lots of industries and can be considered to be born out …

Balearic Bits…

Not a lot of people know that I’m a big fan of Balearic Music. What’s that? It’s electronic music with a certain state of mind; it’s usually categorized as Ambient/Chill Out, but there’s also House and more Trance-like music. The heart of this creative movement is based on Ibiza, but …

Hommage to Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa, an immense poet from Portugal has written texts and poems I deeply enjoy reading. I thought I would be paying a small hommage today. In his poem “O Bandarra” which is part of the famous suite “Mensagem” (Messages) he writes about a Portuguese national figure, Bandarra. But oddly …

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