Posts in April dAmerica/Chicago 2009

Weekly senses exercise
Monday, 27-April-2009

Reading a so so article about brain improvement and the excellent book “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat“, I mixed up some ideas, until arrived to this one: try to focus on only one sense each day of the week. Of course you always have all senses in “active” mode, but […]

New DIY Greenhouse
Sunday, 19-April-2009

Here you have my new super-greenhouse!
130×120×50cm
Material needed:
- 130×90cm 5mm glass
- 2.5m wood stick (x2)
- 2×1m polystyrene-glass surface
- 100ml of water resistant paint
Lessons learned:
- Julio, stop thinking about building things!
- Pine tree wood is not convenient for outdoor, despite is the cheapest wood. They say teakwood is perfect (or other wood from wet jungle trees). […]

FriendFeed first impressions
Monday, 13-April-2009

In my previous post I criticized Facebook (”Fb”) quite a lot. But at the end it does some good stuff, like the “keep in touch with your people” thing, a decent content aggregator and a way to publish (or share) things like personal mood or thoughts, links, images, etc. But if you distill some of […]

Facebook, or waste your time channel surfing
Friday, 10-April-2009

Have you ever feel how fast the time goes by when you do some channel surfing on TV? “I spend 2 hours in front of the TV, changing from one channel to another, and finally I’ve not seen anything at all”. I had this thought of “wasted time” while surfing on Facebook recently.
Fb, the origins
I […]

Time of changes
Thursday, 2-April-2009

The economic meltdown seems to encourage new ideas to blossom up, making classical product borders less noticeable. I’m focusing on hardware technological products today, but this probably applies to all kind of products, even financial ones.
I’m going to show you a couple of interesting examples I saw in the last few days:
- Open Pandora, “Handheld […]