Christmas Shopping

Jut got a new pair of boot for the cold weather in Ireland. Love them!

3 things I learned while my plane crashed

Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. What went through his mind as the doomed plane went down? At TED, he tells his story publicly for the first time.

An another inspiration TED Talk.

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action

Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers ...

Another inspirational TED Talk that I recommend to all of you.

2011: Year In Review

Interesting video that google made about 2011.

Online courses

Stanford University has for the next semester a bunch of interesting online courses that you can apply on for free.
This is the list of the courses related with Computer Science:

• Machine Learning 
• Human-Computer Interaction 
• Natural Language Processing 
• Cryptography 
• Computer Security 
• The Lean Launchpad 
• Software Engineering for Software as a Service 
• Technology Entrepreneurship 

They have more courses related to other fields like Medicine and Civil Engineering.
 I already applied for some of them. Check them out.

What a spaghetti sauce teaches us

 

Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce -- and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.

Don't make me think!

Don't make me think is a book about web usability, even though is kind of old because it already has 5 years, I recommend it to everybody who is interested in the web design.
Tomorrow I will give it back to the AIT Library.