After several months, Howard discovered many ways to compensate for his hearing loss on one side [ear]. […] “I no longer had to close my eyes if I kept scanning the scene by moving my head in a side-to-side motion, with a very slight up-and-down wave motion.” Composer, ethnomusicologist and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Larnier… Read More »
Six years ago I landed in this city. I’m not sure I like cities, but somehow I ended up living close to a mountain, but at the same time I’m not far from the city center. I could say this is the best of two worlds: I can grow plants, I can enjoy nature, but… Read More »
I love this tale: A backpacker was travelling and visited a wise man. The house only had a small bed and a bowl for food. The visitor, surprised, asked the wise man: – How can you live with so few things? – Your backpack is small, too. The visitor then explained his case: – It’s… Read More »
I discovered TED Talks some years ago. I think the first one I saw was Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice. A really interesting one. But at that time I saw it on youtube. I didn’t explicitly go to the TED Talks website, I just saw some talks on youtube, or google video. Some… Read More »
Nowadays we don’t read, we scan. Internet is an amazing source of information, but somehow we have evolved our reading to cope with the huge amount of information on the net, not reading deeply any more, and just scanning. This is no news, as everybody has noticed it, and actually the famous usability evangelist, Jakob… Read More »
De nuevo vuelvo a Corea, donde me esperan nuevas aventuras, pero esta vez acompañado de 2 jugadores más, Joan Alemany de Barcelona y Ángel “Pascualino” Pina de Murcia. Para intentar aportar más información, he montado un blog donde los 3 iremos escribiendo: badukaires.com Si alguien quiere leer todas mis aventuras anteriores, están en la sección… Read More »
Recently I got interest again in composing music. Moreover, I wanted to explore some options to publish my music on Internet, so I packed some of my (really) old tracks and tried to upload them to some websites. The first option could be just to upload the files to www.liopic.com and use a Flash widget… Read More »
Some months ago I deleted my facebook account. And some weeks ago I removed my account on friendfeed. Why? Despite I liked it, I found out that it took me a lot of time. Actually the problem is simpler that you could expect: friendfeed is a too good aggregator. That is, it posts all the… Read More »
People think that playing Go will develop your logical thinking power, that is, the skill used to calculate out sequences. Sometimes they say the effect of playing Go is getting a logical mind, other times the effect of having a logical mind is falling in love with Go. At least this is the usual feeling… Read More »
As I said in my previous post about spreading Go, looks like nobody has done a real “market study” about selling Go. It’s really easy to realize there are 3 separate “targets”, perhaps 4, based on the age, and for each case a different approach has to be applied. · Children They do not decide,… Read More »