Let's reflect on the past work week for a moment. As often is the case, Monday is spent almost fully on meetings. Tuesday we organized a workshop called "Living Tomorrow". Remarkably enough, the outcome of the outcome of the workshop was that there is no direct desire for gadgets and toys. The focus lies on work-life balance. Gadgets and toys that can help to improve the work-life balance are welcome. A very interesting remark is that the approaches for solving some of the work-life balance issues could be very culturally bound. An example was given with respect to ‘traffic jams’. In China people prefer to live in the city and choose to avoid the commute, in Europe the desire for a house with a garden in a quiet environment seems to be more important still.

Wednesday and Thursday we had a meeting with some people from outside our team. In these discussions we discussed about MHP. For some reasons, the people from www.androme.be are not that fond of it. Today, I ran into some guy from www.streamcase.com, who seems to be more convinced of the relevance of MHP. Europe is pushing the standard and it is expected that by 2006, all of the high-end television sets will have MHP built in. Interactive TV is finally to be there?

Today, I went to see the presentation of the work of our internship students, Steven and Anneleen. They brought a very good presentation. I’m sure they will be more than pleased with the rewarded score.

And for the rest, I had some more fun playing with the J-Plugin for FileMaker. I realized some neat components that could be very useful for FileMaker developers: data change triggers, md5 hash key generation, access to sockets, etc.

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- posted by koenhandekyn @ 19:48