This week I’ve read some texts about men and women on Internet. To start with, “most bloggers are women“.
“According to a survey of more than 4 million blogs by Perseus Development, 56% were created by women. More bad news for the boys: men are more likely than women to abandon their blog once it’s created.”
If […]

It is a nice picture, isn’t it?

This week I have had a lot of dead time in the office (while waiting for the client’s answers), and I’ve been reading some web usability articles from Jakob Nielsen’s website. I have read almost every column he wrote, and I think I already knew most of the key issues (like colors for links, big […]

This weekend is longer, due to the national day of Catalonia festivity. I wanted to compose some music, but I had an ergonomic problem: one of my synthesizers was in an uncomfortable place. This was an excellent excuse to some DIY!
Step 1: The ingredients
I bought some handles and some “L” supports from Carrefour, and I […]

I don’t really like these kind of silly quizzes, but sometimes are funny…
“You fit in with: Humanism”
Your ideals mostly resemble that of a Humanist. Although you do not have a lot of faith, you are devoted to making this world better, in the short time that you have to live. Humanists do not […]

A morning office conversation:
Tony (a workmate): Is there a PHP function to stop for a moment the execution of a page?
Me: Yes, it is “sleep()”.
Tony: Just what I need, to sleep a little bit. Does it work with microseconds?
Me: No, it works with seconds. For example, if you write sleep(1), it is going to stop […]

This is the last weekend before my birthday (on Tuesday I’ll be 29). I wanted to make the most of these days doing some things…
For example, on Saturday I was doing some DIY, painting a small table in blue which I found some days ago. It was not really clean, so I followed my father’s […]

Two years ago, I arrived to Barcelona to continue my Ph.D studies. Two years, how long!, who could imagine all the things that were going to happen? In those days I was looking for a programming language to “fast-prototype” my ideas. The final match was between Python and Ruby, and I finally started to learn […]