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Best of 2007

As usual, here’s my Best of… for 2007.

Best Books

This list includes books I’ve read this year, which weren’t necessarily released in 2007.

Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano
La Musica Sveglia il Tempo by Daniel Barenboim
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days by Jessica Livingston

Best Albums

Lifeline by Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace by [...]

Future of music

In the past few years, I realized how difficult it is to find new talented artist through mainstream media, and that was probably the main reason I started loosing interest in music, which had been a love of mine since I was a little one.
Not that I didn’t listen to music anymore, I was simply [...]

Free Burma!



My new phone

For the past couple of months, I’ve been tempted to change my old mobile — a Nokia 6610, if I remember correctly –, so a couple of days ago, I decided to get myself a brand spanking new Nokia E61i and, boy oh boy, let me tell you it’s fantastic.

It’s my first QWERTY-mobile, so I [...]

Teaching mediocrity

Continuing on my quest for rant-Nirvana, here’s another rant. This time — and not for the first time –, I’m focusing on university.

As previously stated on this very blog, I feel university is pretty much useless — and mind you I’m referring to my field: computer engineering, but it could be easily applied to most [...]

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