Posts in May dAmerica/Chicago 2008

Barcelona: “we are shabby, but we try to show good image”
Thursday, 29-May-2008

Yesterday Jordi and I were discussing about a recent Graham article on “Cities and Ambition“. Briefly it says that cities transmit you a message, and depending the city it can be things like: “be smarter” (Cambridge), “get money” (New York) or “change the world” (Silicon Valley). Inhabitants of each city show some of these feelings, […]

You can even find “plants 2.0″
Thursday, 29-May-2008

While my plants grow and grow, and are eager to the arrive of summer, RubĂ©n told me about a website, a la 2.0, to keep track of your gardens and plants: My folia, where I’ve created my garden profile. There are too few people at the moment, so the magic of 2.0 doesn’t work […]

ImageWorth: Mix your songs with pictures
Monday, 26-May-2008

Last week I’ve been quite busy. I had a small project in mind. Briefly, the idea is to search pictures that match the songs you are listening to. And present them with some visual beauties.
I named this project as: ImageWorth, try it out!
It gets the “recent listened tracks” list from your Last.fm account, and for […]

Bike stolen, again
Wednesday, 21-May-2008

It’s incredible, but my bike was stolen today. Incredible because it was next to the main entrance of the University, in the center of the city, and was stolen at 14:00. How can anybody cut an iron cable, untie it and get the bike without being noticed by anybody? Next to the main entrance of […]

Learning to climb
Wednesday, 7-May-2008

Why my hand is full of skin wounds? (No nasty thoughts, please). Because I’m learning to climb.
Some weeks ago I discovered a “climbing gym” near home, a place full of climbing walls. Instantly I decided to join an introductory course: my legs are in shape (thanks to the bike) but my arms and hands are […]