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Steve Jobs is gone. Some thousands or even millions of bloggers have already written about it. I saw it this morning when waking up. Some SMS messages (including from my manager and the Swedish News Agency TT), some Tweets and tons of information in Facebook. And that was at 4AM.
A few hours later I am on a train towards Stockholm. Looking and being fascinated how different various media is describing it. I will not go into what I think of Swedish Aftonbladet writing that we lost “en färgklick” but instead mention two sites that I think did The Right Thing.
The first is Google. Their tribute to Steve is so simple, so elegant, so…perfect.
Wired tribute to Steve Jobs
The second is Wired. Their tribute is absolutely astonishing. Can one do a better design than that?
Heaven got a major upgrade today.
I have myself been working with Apple products since 1984, wrote the first code for the mac a year or so later, and finally wrote some real code for the Newton. At that time, Steve was already working with Pixar and NeXT, and I did not like the direction Apple Inc was moving. We who where Apple users all remember the 5400. Sigh… Luckily, Steve came back (although he killed the Newton), and from around 1998 the usage of MacOSX has exploded. And the iPhone, iPad etc product line that started with the MP3 player is just phenomenal.
Yes, thousands of things I am irritated on, but if I compare with the competition…it is an easy win.
From: Patrik Fältström
Subject: INFSO representation at upcoming RIPE meeting in Vienna?
Date: 7 september 2011 23:22:39 GMT+03:00
To: Antti Peltomäki
Cc: Niall O’Reilly
Antti,
Niall and I sent the attached letter to Commissioner Kroes, and got the unfortunate negative response, also attached, regarding her inability to participate in the upcoming RIPE meeting in Vienna. The fact that she could not come personally might be expected. But it is disappointing that apparently nobody from INFSO can come
The RIPE community is interested in management of identifiers in general, and E.164/ENUM specifically. RIPE NCC is the organization that manages the E.164 country codes for ENUM. So I am now asking you for some suggestions on what we can do to get some information to the RIPE community regarding INFSO work on this and related topics.
As you probably know Gordon Lennox does tend to come to these meetings but in a “private” capacity. Detlef Eckert has also been to some RIPE meetings. It would be good though to have one of the heads of unit more directly involved in ETNS to come and talk to us.
Den 16 september 2011 hölls en heldagskonferens om bredband i mindre kommuner i Sjöbo. Deltagare kom från Sandviken i norr till Ystad i söder. Socialvideo filmade och sände direkt över nätet. Det var hundratals visningar och c:a 20 samtidiga tittare hela tiden, och nästan 100 personer på plats i sessionssalen i Sjöbo Kommunhus. Även Ystads Allehandaskrev om evenemanget.
