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Most of us, have always been wondering how an original idea can come up! Most people think that they have a unique thought, cause it’s their though, but in the end it seems like somebody else has had they very same idea before you! Of course you can cross-check that with the help of modern technology nowadays. But really, how do original ideas come to existence?
-Curiosity
Well I read today that “Curiosity is the key to all wisdom” and this phrase intrigued me to compose this very text.
Indeed I believe that curiosity is the mother of wisdom. How can you possibly think if you’r not curious? How can you tell how things work if you don’t care? Well it seems that you cannot. But you should also be careful not to cross the line. On the other side you will only need to know how things work just to know, and this doesn’t have a meaning in our real life but just in our imaginary world!
-Self awareness
If you have an idea, how can you be sure that it is an original? How the hell can you tell if it’s your idea, or your brain just copied another’s idea and placed your label on it? Or it might be a mix up of all the tons of information you get each single minute, right? But in the end that’s they way it works, you stuff all the information in your head, you blend with some alcohol and there it is, the brand new shiny original idea!!!
-Genes
Well, in my life I try to be fair as much as I can. But since my early childhood I knew I was different! I wouldn’t tell anyone though! I was so annoyed by the people that tried to be somebody, that I was trying to be as ordinary it could take. In the end, many years later, I succeeded in convincing myself that I was different! But, guess what! Everybody is different!!! Either way, after discovering about synaesthesia I knew I could blame my genes for being different (and creative!).
-Early childhood
How many times have you heard that a child’s first years are the most important? Being the most exciting years of my life, I can assure you they are! Millions of random pictures stored into your mind are spontaneously spouting in the form of hazy images, trying to find their way to the conscious side of reality. Each one of them braided with feelings, beautiful colors and sounds! The sounds of life, you can’t hear them but you can feel them! The blend of those is what makes you feel creative!
-Sleep when you’r awake, live your dreams as if they were reality!
The best ideas arise when you’r asleep. That’s quite common knowledge. Try to find the explanation!
-Don’t fall in love!
For some yet unknown reason all creative mind activities are hibernated when in love! It seems that most of the basic human needs are fulfilled and people no longer wander to accomplish perfection. It is healthy though to fall in love once in a while to keep a balance.
-Think Liquid
Although it’s a TM of bea, I kinda like it. It gives the exact idea of thinking. Liquid. Liquids are hard to be trapped, hard to be captured. They just find their way out of everything! Of course thinking out of the box is one step towards creativity, but Liquid thinking is two steps ahead! There are no boundaries in thought and imagination! You can create endless imaginary worlds that can reach infinity!

My time is running out, and as usual I will have to leave this post unfinished!
(urban creativity, farmer’s creativity, modern creativity and many more to be analyzed in the future)

Human desire to be liked is not what we are going to discuss or question about. We take it for granted.
What I wonder, is why people believe that publishing their best photographs online, and exposing their everyday life make them more attractive?
Why wouldn’t smbdy search for the latest trends in modern culture make a list of the top ten, and start publishing fake content about his life online? That would automatically make him/her one of the people in the circle that share the same cultural views, thus adorable.
Yet another social experiment would be the following:
Study the online past of a person/subject and make an opinion about his/her habits, thing he or she likes. Then try to mimic those, of course altering the content a bit not to be exactly the same. After that it all comes naturally, and he/she wonders how can it be possible that you two haven’t get known to each other for so long.

Of course our friend XKCD has already though of that social hacking and here is the proof:

Another interesting aspect of this whole idea is the following. Subject A is male and wants to mate (human nature). Subject B is female. Subject A tries subconsciously to match B’s behavior and ideas in order to gain points against the other subjects that also assert B. That’s not quite uncommon nowadays where almost everybody publishes his personal views and thing he likes.
The real work had to be done years ago, when there was no like history in social networks (because there were no social networks), and the only way to “know” somebody was to chat with him for endless hours, and do it in a way that you wouldn’t be busted.
However I still enjoy experimenting with social behaviors and I do say it in public!

When I was young, I had a dream. I imagined of one device that could replace them all. Why have a separate

-CB
-HF
-49mhz analog phone
-FM Radio
-VHF/UHF
-TV tuner
-GSM cellphone
-DECT phone
-GPS

Whilst all of them are based on RF?
Since I was a 15yo kid, of course I could only have this device in my dreams.
Now I see that time has come. With the advent of FPGA’s and modern electronics, you can have them ALL in ONE!

Why bother carrying all of this stuff, while funcube dongle exists?
Why buy expensive hardware that does very specific things, on very specific frequencies, and not write (or even re-use) some lines of code that run on generic hardware?

Why the fuck pay thousands of dollars for ICOM, YAESU and KENWOOD top-line machinery since what each of them has to show is their DSP unit? Create your own DSP unit! It’s just dragging n dropping a block!

Long live the Software Radio!
Thank you John Gilmore, Eric Blossom, Matt Ettus!

Αν και πέρασα έξω από το θέατρο την ώρα που παιζόταν το Avenue Q, δεν κατάφερα να το δω. Το ιντερνετ όμως είναι για τις τσόντες. Δηλαδή σκεφτείτε το, ποιά ήταν η πρώτη σας επαφή με το Ιντερνετ;

Αυτό βέβαια δεν είναι μόνο δική μου γνώμη. Το επιβεβαιώνει ο κύριος Google στα trends του. Τις τελευταίες 7 μέρες (Ιούλιος 2011) το keyword ntouvli αυξήθηκε κατα 550%

Σήμερα λοιπόν η ντούβλι, χτες η τζούλια, αύριο η Μαριάννα.
Οι περισσότεροι μπαίνουν στο διαδίκτυο για να χαλαρώσουν, να διαβάσουν κανα αθλητικό νέο, και να δουν καμμια ξετσίπωτη!

Δεν εχουν άδικο λοιπόν που λένε οτι το ιντερνετ είναι για τις τσόντες…

How many friends have you?
How many friends have you in facebook?
How many do you follow in tweeter?

Well, learn that the most you can handle is about 150.

Well it’s 100-200 actually

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar’s_number

καλώς δεχτείτε το νέο καλοκαιρινό μας lOOk

Spotcloud seems very promising that’s why I put $10 to test it a bit.

Here are the results:

SpotCloud Provider Review

Note that more than half of the providers are failing, but if you are lucky enough to get your instance up and IP allocated, you get a lot for what you pay.
Imaging that with the smallest instance you can get a VM for just $0.001 an hour! that translates to less than $1 per month!!!

Μάνα θα πάω στα καράβια….

Αυτή η θάλασσα….

tbc

Another time it is justed proved that what you pay is what you get

It is proven below that for 33/month you can’t get “business class” internet service

iperf for 24 hours from 100Mbit Dedicated server in europe to my little Ubuntu server hooked on the Cyta adsl line:

You can clearly see that some times during the day the 24 promised Mbps is more or less divided by 100 times ending up to have something better that an ISDN line

Το τεσσαράγωνο της παρακατιανής τεντόστρας, πατσίζει με τη σούμα των τεσσαραγώνων των δυο παϊδιών που στέκονται σούζα.

Ή αλλιώς:

“Το τετράγωνο της υποτείνουσας ενός ορθογώνιου τριγώνου ισούται με το άθροισμα των τετραγώνων των δυο κάθετων πλευρών”