Marcelo Toledo

“Jaiku is now a part of Google. For more details about Jaiku and Google, see the Q&A about the acquisition.

Jaiku’s main goal is to bring people closer together by enabling them to share their activity streams. An activity stream is a log of everyday things as they happen: your status messages, recommendations, events you’re attending, photos you’ve taken - anything you post directly to Jaiku or add using Web feeds. We offer a way to connect with the people you care about by sharing your activities with them on the Web, IM, and SMS - as well as through a slew of cool third-party applications built by other developers using our API.”

Anyways, it’s a micro blogging tool I’ve been trying lately, it’s still closed and I have a few invites, if anyone is interested, mail me.

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This is one of the tours I did, could see the coast and also visited this village created in the early days, people lived by the mountains and worked in the city, now it’s a famous and busy market as you can see:

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So much to say, so little time to write. It’s sad, but you have to arrive 2 hours before any international flight, plus, in my city to get in the airport secure, you need at least 2 hours, this sums 4 hours, plus 10 hours of flight to Amsterdam, then 8 hours to stretch a little bit, little walk in red light street, eat something, shower and 10 more hours to Bankgok, 1 more hour waiting, then the final 3 hours to Taipei, and when you arrive you are 12 hours ahead… Computex already started and it’s a boom, I am saving every picture and text to post here soon, stay tuned.

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Tomorrow I’ll be going to Taipei, only a day of traveling and 12 hours ahead, I’ll be in the Computex talking with our hardware suppliers and possible new suppliers. We have big plans for the next years and there is definitely the best place for buying well.

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Most of my friends already know that I lost my iPhone, I got out of my car, it felt and I only noticed few minutes later when I was already far away. I tried to call from my other phone dozen times, someone took it, I tried to negotiate, but it was clearly a robber, he wanted $2K for it, I don’t need to tell you where I told him to stick the phone, right?

One feature I missed that day was a security trigger, where remotely I could erase it completely. Imagine that my entire life was there, photos, contacts, schedule, etc. I could simply send an sms with a password and it could auto magically erase everything and block the phone. Or I could call my operator and tell them my phone was robbed. To be honest, I think this should be a standard security protocol, all phones should support.

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The multi-media bed, with a enormous screen where you can watch movies, access the internet, use a computer, play video game, listen to music…

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Better late, then never. In my vacations I watched Sicko, Michael Moore’s movie about heath care in the United States. He shows a number of situations where it simply doesn’t work.

People that has a private plan and got rejected when a serious decease like cancer appeared, or even people that were pretty well, but had their lungs burned because they wanted to save lives after the 09/11 accident.

A comparison is made to a different health care system applied in countries like, Canada, United Kingdom, France and Cuba. The idea is simple, everybody pays taxes and this includes health care, the same for everyone, if you are healthy you pay for those who aren’t.

In the private model, the idea is to reject more people to make more revenue, this kill people, in the public plan the idea is to make people more healthy to make more revenue, this save people.

It’s a complicated move for a country that has a private model, but it’s statistically proved that works better then the private model, people are healthier, has a better quality of life and live longer.

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Everyone that worked for an internet service provider has a funny story to tell, I have a few too, normally they are related to situations in the call center, but this is about the maid.

We had a fm radio station as a client, among other things we broadcasted online their shows, since it was a long time ago, we had to use a combination of a sound board and a sound system, it was always in the correct station and on all day long.

One day a new maid came, she started cleaning the place happily and felt so comfortable with the tremendous silence and no one around. Everything was ok but when she found the radio it was about to get wonderful, she had an idea:

- I can use some music!

As she was a fervent religious, she loved Christian songs, she changes the station right away to her favorite, turn the volume up and continue to work more then happily.

Few minutes later our phone rings, it was someone from the radio office asking why the hell was their site playing Christian Songs?!

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Some guy started studying the Linux Kernel, gently Linus rejected all of his patches, he obviously got frustrated and asked him a question:

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>
> Should I just stop attemting to make these trivial cleanups/fixes/whatever
> patches? are they more noice than gain? am I being a pain to more skilled
> people on lkml or can you all live with my, sometimes quite ignorant,
> patches?
> I do try to learn from the feedback I get, and I like to think that my
> patches are gradually getting a bit better, but if I’m more of a bother
> than a help I might as well stop.

Linus saw the frustration of the poor boy and replied with a motivational message:

To me, the biggest thing with small patches is not necessarily the patch itself. I think that much more important than the patch is the fact that people get used to the notion that they can change the kernel - not just on an intellectual level (”I understand that the GPL means that I have the right to change my kernel”), but on a more practical level (”Hey, I did that small change”).

And whether it ends up being the right thing or not, that’s how everybody starts out. It’s simply not possible to “get into” the kernel without starting out small, and making mistakes. So I very much encourage it, even if I often don’t have the time to actually worry about small patches, and I try to get suckers^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hother developers like Rusty to try to acts as quality control and a “gathering place”.

Btw, this is why even “trivial patches” really do take time - they often have trivial mistakes in them, and it’s not just because there are more inexperienced people doing them - most of _my_ mistakes tend to be at the truly idiotic level, just because it “looked obvious”, and then there’s something that I miss.

So at one level I absolutely _hate_ trivial patches: they take time and effort to merge, and individually the patch itself is often not really obviously “worth it”. But at the same time, I think the trivial patches are among the most important ones - exactly because they are the “entry” patches for every new developer. I just try really hard to find somebody else to worry about them

(It’s not a thankful job, btw, exactly because it _looks_ so trivial. It’s easy to point to 99 patches that are absolutely obvious, and complain about the fact that they haven’t been merged. But they take time to merge exactly because of that one patch that _did_ look obvious, but wasn’t. And actually, it’s usually not 99:1, it’s usually more like 10:1 or something).

So please don’t stop. Yes, those trivial patches _are_ a bother. Damn, they are _horrible_. But at the same time, the devil is in the detail, and they are needed in the long run. Both the patches themselves, and the people that grew up on them.

Linus

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It’s growing the number of unsolicited calls I received lately, once I went to a night club and they asked for my phone number, biggest mistake of my life, seems like they are going to call me every weekend. I’ve just created a contact called Spam in my iPhone, now I just want a replica of that website that stores spammers phones and a tools to sync with iPhone. Save us Phoneman!

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