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Remember everything. is the tagline of Evernote Corporation. Evernote concept is simple, your notes with you everywhere and always accessible. They version may seem a bit more accurate: Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere. I was a bit skeptical at the beginning. I have tried several times to use the Google notebook, and I never felt they got it quite right. I had to force myself into it. So far Evernote is looking promissing. Evernote, besides the web app interface to your notes provide desktop apps (for Mac and Windows), cellphone apps, clippers, and more. Definetely worthed to take for a spin. ...

One of the benefits of working with people smarter than you is the chance to never stop learning. My office mate, Bernie Ács, is an extraordinary source of experience and wisdom on production systems. Just right after coming back from vacation, he started unfolding a virtualized solution for high availability and load balancing of services. It is not me the one who should disclose the solution, but I just want to mention a piece of the puzzle that I found very interesting: ldirectord. In the words of the ldirectord developers: ...

Long time delayed, I finally got a copy of The Emperor’s New Mind by Roger Penrose. The book was originally published in 1989. Yes, I never read it from cover to back, and finally yesterday I run out of self imposed excuses and got me a copy. I guess that it was the result of listening to the Teaching Company lecture series The Phylosophy of Mind by John Searl, also falling on the same alley. Recreative reading, may be, but I am still fascinated to keep running into belivers and detractors of strong and soft AI almost 20 years after Penrose’s book was published. ...

The 11th edition of the International Workshop on Learning Classifier System 2008 is hot. So far a lot of idea exchange and interesting discussions. So far Gilles Enee, myself, Natalio Krasnogor, Albert Oriols, Thyago Duque covering map problems, encoding language and model building, TSP and metaheuristics, learning association rules, and multi class labeling. Had to rush back to the next one :D

Yup, I am just packing on the run. Should get to Atlanta late afternoon or early evening. Wish me luck :D A bit of information about the city provided by Wikipedia Atlanta (pronounced /ətˈlæntə/ or /ætˈlæntə/) is the capital and the most populous city in the state of Georgia, and the core city of the ninth most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 5,278,904. It is the county seat of Fulton County, although a small portion of the city extends into DeKalb County. As of July 2007, the city of Atlanta had a population of 519,145[4], and a combined statistical area population of 5,626,400[5]. Residents of the city are known as Atlantans.[6] ...