In the last year I flew 24 times. Too many times, according to those ecological footprint quizs. So I decided to give another try to the train, for my usual Barcelona-Alicante trip. Unluckily in Spain the train’s company, “Renfe”, is really prehistoric: there are always delays, tickets are expensive (domestic flights are cheaper and quicker),… Read More »
During my stay in Novelda, my hometown, for Christmas I had an idea: “digitalize” some almost secret places near the river Vinalopó, which is next to the city. The river itself is quite small, with a width of around 2 meters, but the bed is quite wide, due to scattered floods. Walking up next to… Read More »
Last night I had a look at the public Flickr API, just to have some fun. I discovered it’s really complete, with a lot of possibilities, covering different search approaches. You can easily ask the API for info about pictures, and use the results with imagination. On the other hand, I was also interested in… Read More »
It may be true… everybody I know has one copy at home: “with an estimated 175 million copies distributed in 2006, the IKEA catalogue is thought to have surpassed the Bible as the most published printed work in the world” …read in the Information Aesthetics blog.
“Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you’re a consultant.” – Scott Adams (the author of Dilbert)
This page was part of my last project which I developed in my company: Buff catalog. And this page was part of the website of our client’s competitor in China, recently published: KranGear catalog. The funny thing is that their javascript files even include MY comments, in Spanish. The idea was to use a thermometer… Read More »
Thinking further about the subject of the previous post, I can claim that almost all tech companies produce things for the top richest population of the world (I mean, including the 3rd world). Look at Microsoft and their Vista O.S, that can only run in a really expensive machine (expensive even for the Western standards).… Read More »
The first time I heard about a “28 hour day“, I thought it was just a joke. The thing is that I didn’t realize the fact: 28hours x 6days = 24hours x 7days… until I saw this morning this comic at xkcd.com. The basic idea is to be awake 20 hours, and then sleep 8… Read More »
Do you want to try my new tiny script? Just write here your blog’s url, click the button and watch the surprise. Have fun! And now, let me explain it. Some weeks ago I was discussing with another engineer about NLP, and the importance of having some language knowledge to effectively process a text. He… Read More »
[Disclaimer: This is not a normal post in my usual style. It’s just a technical reference text. I’ve spent the whole week trying to figure out how configure my laptop and an external screen. Eventually, I got it running! So I’d like to share my config here and in some ubuntu forums] I installed Ubuntu… Read More »