Posts in October dAmerica/Chicago 2006

Sometimes “random” is the best choice
Monday, 30-October-2006

…as nature does. Create something from random numbers.
Here are a couple of examples, from a Sunday morning programming session (plus 1 extra hour from the daylight savings change):
- Random bubbles
- Random trees
Each time you reload the page, a new drawing appears.
To see them correctly, you need Firefox or Opera, because the images are SVG (Scalable […]

Thoughts about Icons on User Interfaces
Sunday, 22-October-2006

What do you understand from this picture?
It’s the switch of my bathroom heater. It has 4 positions: 0, fan, 1 and 2. It’s easy, isn’t it? Even though, last week I had to open it to try to repair it, and I discovered that one of the two small radiators, it has inside, was […]

Half glass
Sunday, 22-October-2006

Some people say the glass is half-full.
Other people say the glass is half-empty.
An engineer says the glass is double the needed size.

SVG: The vectorial graphic format… for the Web?
Thursday, 19-October-2006

If you can read this, your browser cannot render “Scalable Vector Graphics”… get FIREFOX or OPERA

I’m learning to use Inkscape, an open source application to draw graphics. It saves your drawings in SVG format. For some reason, I’ve discovered that this format is a really interesting standard for the future of the WWW. The Scalable […]

A moment where everything changes
Sunday, 15-October-2006

It’s just a point in the time line. A sigh, the past disappears and the future emerges. You are having a cup of tea and suddenly you realize that you’ve already decided to change your life. In fact you can not decide to change, but the change arrives to you. Can you really decide something, […]

Discovering potatoes on my own balcony
Thursday, 5-October-2006

Some weeks ago it was quite rainy in Barcelona. We had some continuous rain, and it’s a bit strange. On my balcony something green started to grow in a small rectangular pot that we have there. I thought they were only some mint plants, but when I tried to smell their leaves, I discovered they […]