http://www.liopic.com A web developer in Barcelona Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:53:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I discovered TED Talks some years ago. I think the first one I saw was Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice. A really interesting one. But at that time I saw it on youtube. I didn't explicitly go to the TED Talks website, I just saw some talks on ... http://www.liopic.com/?p=319 Nowadays we don't read, we scan. Internet is an amazing source of information, but somehow we have evolved our reading to cope with the huge amount of information on the net, not reading deeply any more, and just scanning. This is no news, as everybody has noticed it, and actually ... http://www.liopic.com/?p=318 De nuevo vuelvo a Corea, donde me esperan nuevas aventuras, pero esta vez acompañado de 2 jugadores más, Joan Alemany de Barcelona y Ángel "Pascualino" Pina de Murcia. Para intentar aportar más información, he montado un blog donde los 3 iremos escribiendo: badukaires.com Si alguien quiere leer todas mis aventuras anteriores, ... http://www.liopic.com/?p=317 Recently I got interest again in composing music. Moreover, I wanted to explore some options to publish my music on Internet, so I packed some of my (really) old tracks and tried to upload them to some websites. The first option could be just to upload the files to www.liopic.com and ... http://www.liopic.com/?p=316 Some months ago I deleted my facebook account. And some weeks ago I removed my account on friendfeed. Why? Despite I liked it, I found out that it took me a lot of time. Actually the problem is simpler that you could expect: friendfeed is a too good aggregator. That is, ... http://www.liopic.com/?p=315 People think that playing Go will develop your logical thinking power, that is, the skill used to calculate out sequences. Sometimes they say the effect of playing Go is getting a logical mind, other times the effect of having a logical mind is falling in love with Go. At least ... http://www.liopic.com/?p=314 As I said in my previous post about spreading Go, looks like nobody has done a real "market study" about selling Go. It's really easy to realize there are 3 separate "targets", perhaps 4, based on the age, and for each case a different approach has to be applied. · Children They ... http://www.liopic.com/?p=313 The population of Go players in Asia, specially in Korea, China and Japan, is enormous, compared with the tiny group of people who plays Go in Europe and America. Why? How can we spread Go effectively in Europe? That's the million Euro question! In Europe people learn to play too ... http://www.liopic.com/?p=312 Let's list all the teas that I have steeped during 2009... BLACK TEAS - Ceylon with vanilla. Sri Lanka. - Ceylon without caffeine. Sri Lanka. - Darjeeling Margaret's Hope. India. OOLONG TEAS - Taiwan Oolong (no name, was a gift). Taiwan. - Pouchong. Taiwan. - Tie Guan Jin. China. - Dong Ding. Taiwan. GREEN TEAS - Long Ching. China. - Gunpowder ... http://www.liopic.com/?p=311 Last weekend (February 20th-21st, 2010) 146 players enjoyed the 28th edition of the Barcelona Go tournament; including 80 players from Spain, 35 from France, 20 from Romania, 13 from Czech Republic, and more people from several European countries. The venue was the maths faculty (FME) of the Catalonia Tech University (UPC), ... http://www.liopic.com/?p=310