Since I have been a few weeks without being able to post anything for several reasons (health, family, work, blog migration…), I am going to catch up “all at once”, writing in a couple of posts two month`s worth of activity.
February 23 to 26 my wife and I attended the healthcare tech trade show HIMSS, in Orlando, FL (USA).
We got a huge room at the Marriott Royal Palms, but we could not enjoy the city much due to work.
Actually, a couple people told me “Whats up with your blog? you havent posted anything for ages, and the categories are broken”. But other than that, nobody noticed, or cared, or both. Which is weird because on the other hand, my Google+ page is about to hit a million visits, and my LinkedIn profile is in the top 5%… :S
Oh, well. The truth is, the blog was indeed messed up because of a quick server migration, and I had not posted anything in a long time because I am insanely busy.
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How many times have you wished there was an easy way to wirelessly display online content on your TV without paying for expensive privative boxes?
Enter Hola.org + Chromecast
Hola is a free browser extension used by 14 million people to access geographically restricted online media.
This has been a hard winter in North America. Snow, ice, flurries, sleet… But today I got to enjoy the beach (Waverly beach – Lake Erie, Canada) in a way I had never experienced before: walking over water…. frozen water.
My wife and I were invited to the inaugural cruise for the Norwegian Getaway. A “sister ship” to the Norwegian Breakaway, in which inaugural we cruised last year, this ship is almost exactly identical. We enjoyed fine dining at Le Bistro, Taste, and The Tropicana, cocktails and music at Bliss, and particularly entertainment:
Comedian Ralph Harris at the Headliners Comedy Club Burn the Floor the musical Illusionarium, a pretty good steam-punk themed magic show with dinner Buddy Valastro (Cake Boss) live cake decorating session The return to port and docking gave us a nice view of Manhattan`s skyline, along with the scary view of the Hudson river with big chunks of ice (locals say that was unseen since 1977).
Last week I spent a couple of days working with a colleague at the IBM Innovation Center in La Gaude, France. Brainstorming sessions, beautiful sunsets and sunrises from my hotel room balcony overlooking the Mediterranean at the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, a couple of nice dinners (one with my parents at the excellent Le Mesclum the other one with the team at Le Moorea, right in the port of St-Laurent-du-Var) and back to New York.
On Wednesday January 8th I was asked to hold a meeting regarding the potential involvement of my company (Kanteron Systems) in IBM’s Watson. It was a late night meeting, on the 54th floor of the still under construction World Trade Center. The reason why the meeting took place there is because the IBM team was finishing the set up of the next day’s Watson presentation.
What is Watson, you may ask?
