Finally on holidays!
To start with, I’m going to stay in Bournemouth (in the south of UK) for 2 weeks. I have just arrived and everything seems fabulous. The people, the house, the neighbourhood. Anyway I have to change 2 things in my mind, quickly: 1st is to think in pounds (not in euros) and 2nd […]

At the office I’m working on a big website, with a blog, a forum, other things, and a “shared” user system: so you only have to sign in once and you can surf from one module to another (blog, forum) without the need of signing in again. The client wanted standard and well known modules […]

This weekend Last.fm has changed its look & feel. Now you can see more information about the music you are listening to. And there are new features! They create a “recommendation radio”, where you can hear new music, and they add a pretty nice fader to filter songs, from popular to obscure. Great! Even more, […]

This week I’ve been reading news about Israel and Lebannon hostilities with sadness. I hope they will finish soon. Some days ago I spoke with a french friend who is living in Damascus, Syria (which is next to both countries). She told me her worries… and we started to speak about political implications, those madness […]

Today I have just broken the 10 thousand songs “barrier” in Last.fm! I don’t know anybody who has done it.
Last.fm is a website (web 2.0 style) which records the name of every song you play in your computer (you should install a plugin to do this). With this information they made charts, and calculate “neighbours” […]

At bed-time, I’m reading a Go book called “One Thousand and One Life-and-Death Problems“. It’s a collection of problems to challenge your mind. The interesting issue is that most problems are quite easy, but anyway you spend a lot of time trying to solve them. Why? Because they make you think, they put in doubt […]

I don’t usually like to comment about tech news here. But this morning I was reading the BBC News website and I got upset by one text about the new Windows Vista. It’ll come (someday) with a lot of new graphic effects, animations and amazing visual things. But, of course, you will need a monster […]

This morning I was thinking about prepositions. In Spanish there is a closed list, a short list, of prepositions. There are 20 of them (and in fact 2 of them are archaic), so it’s a small number, and you usually have to learn them by heart at school. While trying to wake up, my mind […]

Yesterday I was at the Chinese Restaurant where all Go players meet every weekend. I played some interesting games with Edu (1 kyu) and César (4 dan). But the most interesting thing happened when Joan arrived. He, who is one of the most active members of the Gofme Go Club, asked me about my Go […]