Funny email just received from Chronopost, France’s express delivery service. Those days either they “loose” the iphone 4G sent by Orange (twitter is filled of depressed geeks) or they just burn the entire truck.

We’re getting there at the office !

At least when ARM engineers get bored waiting for Apple to buy them out they do really cool stuff !

Got a new oliv tree on the terrace – but the lousy delivery men broke in half one of the main branches – thus extreme fixing surgery required (well not so extreme apart from the running at the plant store get the repair kit).

This chess set by Brandon Griffith is symple incredible. The guy is going to make one for each episode of the Star Wars Saga. This one is for “A New Hope” – Episode 4. I’d love to build one of those ! Please Lego make it happen !

Since 1999, Lego has released over 100 different Star Wars Mini figures. To give Star Wars Lego justice, I decided to build three different Chess sets, one for each original episode. This is the first of the series. Star Wars: A New Hope Lego Chess.

My goals with the individual chess pieces is to:
1. Is durable enough to play the game with.
2. Present a piece that closely represents a scene form the movie. My favorites are “Obi-wan and the tractor beam” & “Greedo”

The chess board:
1. Built strong enough to carry with out breaking
2. The playing area easily removes from the rest of the board to reveal compartments to store the pieces.
3. The detailing on the side on the board utilizes a lot of SNOT (Studs Not On Tops) techniques. This a technique that came out of the Adult Lego community.

Other Facts:
1. The chess board is built on a base of layered Lego plates.
2. Weighs 25lbs.
3. the Minifigs were the most expensive part on the chess set.

It’s true that sometimes when you think about all the intel google gets on your lives it’s scary – hopefully they don’t really care about your lives themselves and only want the advertisement money.

If this hadn’t been a blitz game there’s no way this trick would have worked! Gotta love the human factor when taking a bet. Pressure totally can make stupid plans work !

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Holidays are over, back to real life and soon-to-be Mobile World Congress, I’ll be booth AV38A (F-Secure) throughout the whole week, come say hello !

Was quite happy with this blitz game, seems like I’m getting it again!

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Just had an amazing 48hrs in Mexico City. First time in Southern America I was really amazed by the architecture and the history around here. While I had very little time I still manage to take 2 hours walk in the city center, going from one cathedral to a museum or to amazing old building.
Next time I’ll try to take a few days to see the pyramids and really spend some time in the museums, really feel frustrated for only having scratched the surface of this city.
One note for later – in Mexico 3G is on the 800Mhz band, so if u come from Europe make sure you have a quad-band phone…