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Cellcrypt 2.4, Jaiku 3.0

Mobile app bonanza! I’m at ETel and we just released a new version of our client and Jaiku finally added support for Series 60 v3, like my E61.

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Wine & Warcraft

Liquor at the front, Poker in the rear



So,
the day started with a major scare of a bomb plot, the cancellation of loads of flights from UK airports during high season and shitty weather. Pretty ace, I say.

In the middle of this I found out that a friend of mine has two relatives featured in Liar’s Poker , which was weird how we came to discuss that in the first place (LP is a GREAT book about investment banking in the ’80s when the author went to work for Solomon Smith Barney)




On a positive note, found on last.fm about this weird guy from Chicago called The Polish Ambassador. Nostalgic ’80s electronica fashionably dressed in a banana suit, free to download.

Don’t know what is about today and the ’80s???

Be seeing you,

Rodolfo

And we call ourselves civilized???

John Hurt did a brilliant video message for Amnesty.

For nearly half a century I have made my living as an actor. In this role, I have participated in the telling of many stories. They were set in many different cultures and involved people from all races, religions and political beliefs.

But today, I want to tell you some different stories; stories that contain some bleak and unacceptable statistics ñ facts that affect us in the world we live in.

One in three women are beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused throughout the world. Look around you. One in three womenÖ.

Every year, 8million small arms and 16billion units of ammunition are produced. Thatís more than two new bullets for every human on the planet, enough to kill us all twice over.

20,000 people worldwide are on Death Row. Beheading, electrocution, hanging, lethal injection, shooting and stoning are still government-sanctioned forms of execution.
And we claim to be civilised.

Torture is commonplace. Refugees suffer unnecessarily. Companies sacrifice human health and even life for profit.

But this isnít a movie script. These stories are real. This is the world in which we live and these are the lives of our fellow human beings. But we donít have to accept it.

Amnesty International is a movement of ordinary people from across the world. We stand up for humanity and human rights wherever truth, justice and freedom is denied.

Human rights are ours by birth. They cannot be given or taken away by any individual, organisation or court. They are inalienable. They belong to all of us.

Protect the Human is our call to action. It shows we celebrate our shared humanity and have the determination to protect it. This is our story and weíre all players. By the year 2010, we want 1million people in the UK to stand up for humanity and human rights.
Be one of them.

One year later

And I can still remember their faces and the faces of their friends and family looking for them around town, on flyers, on tv.

Victims of 7/7 the London bombings.

New name, new brand



My company has a new name, Voylent.

Why? well read this post on the Voylent corporate blog.

Out and about in Palo Alto, CA

I have been fashionably busy lately in the San Francisco Bay Area for work and haven’t got the time to update this website (but hey, took some pics in cheap motels instead!).
Life is unremarkable and missed loads of events and concerts @ T.R.A.S.H. but can’t be bothered at the moment.

Me, in a cheap motel bathroom in San Mateo (2006)

Just learnt that Heinrich Harrer died 2 days ago in Austria. He was 94. No major news media picked up this story.

UPDATE: A week after this post there has been a lot of coverage

So,
Im in Berlin again for the 22C3 its 1am just had the lardiest burgher ever. found a flickr set on the event Im attending this keyboard is driving me nuts.

Later

So, after a week in London I will head back to Berlin to attend the CCC European Hackers Conference. Will be there from the 26th to the 31st of Dec. Drop me a line if you wanna get in touch while I’m there.