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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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,… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »