Open-source "is nigh"

Last few weeks have been hectic. I got my Bachelor of Engineering degree and was admitted into the Software Engineering master studies.

I'm beginning to realise the power of companies in this field, one person can't do it all. My own Tag-ToDo-List app for Android is huge now (from a development point of view). And user requests are piling up much faster than i can implement them. Faithful users can see how this is a different "to-do experience". The thing is, i have many new ideas but heavy feature implementations are time consuming, so as i promised last year, i will open-source the app. People will be able to enhance the app to their needs according to the development philosophy i've defined for it and which will be available in the project wiki as well. But more details will be posted on the Tag-ToDo-List blog. The future looks great with Google Tasks synchronization coming up, so get ready and let's make this the best open-source project for an Android app!

Pigeons

I like birds, especially pigeons and parrots. Sometimes they even make nests and eggs on my balcony. It's especially funny when they're chasing around their offspring so they learn how to fly. Here's just one of them being too curious and entering the realm of Man :)

View some of my other videos at Teo's Channel :D

Michael Jackson = An idea

Some people wonder why Michael Jackson was so popular, why he had legions of fans. I think he reached such a global scale that fans developed a common consciousness, united by MJ's every new song. In 1992 he came in my country for the first time - i recently rewatched that concert on MTV and i was impressed mainly by 2 things: the flow of passed-out people that were being carried to the ambulance was constant and performance details that you can only see by rewatching the taped concert. You don't need to be an expert to see that he was a master at work. The audio tape of that concert was the first audio tape i ever had, my mom bought it for me (i was about 6 years old then). This Michael Jackson explosion was probably even bigger here because we were an ex-communist country now open to international entertainment. I was really looking forward to a comeback concert, especially since he didn't perform lately...

Another cool thing is that every few hundred years some guy appears and creates multiple breakthroughs in his field, but not like an invention or something like that - simply through 'brutal' progress, like Leonardo da Vinci did. Michael Jackson gives me that same impression because he was not only a singer, but a composer and a dancer too. And i don't think it's a stretch to say he was the best at all 3.

I think the public memorial will be next Tuesday. My guess is that it will be the most watched live event in history. Some guy said on TV that we shouldn't build MJ a statue now; in this world we build statues of warriors and conquerors, if we don't build a statue for the guy who sung "it don't matter if you're black or white"...

P.S. He actually physically proved that "it don't matter if you're black or white" - he was everything from a black genius to a white genius. Beyond media speculation and tabloiding, isn't that a living metaphor?