Here you have my new super-greenhouse! 130x120x50cm Material needed: – 130x90cm 5mm glass – 2.5m wood stick (x2) – 2x1m 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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
“Tell me, I’ll forget Show me, I’ll remember Involve me, I’ll understand” – Chinese proverb Some weeks ago I borrowed a baduk (Go in Korean) book from my Go teacher. It’s part of a collection of books by Lee Chang Ho (이창호), written in Korean, so I can just understand the diagrams. Luckily this book… Read More »
In my previous work I enjoyed when some coworkers tried “visual things” using a webcamera and a soft to recognize hands, fingers and such. This morning I saw a video with the last research on the field… impressive: Link to the video Which technology will win in the input world? Cameras or multi-touch screens?
Here it is a morning conversation with my new Hindi junior coworker. He is in New Delhi, working for us remotely, and I’m teaching him quite a lot of things, and love to discuss about programming problems… Me – have you read about Composite Pattern? He – i use to say to my friends that… Read More »
Perhaps, the only interesting detail to look at the winning Oscar list of each year is the short animation section nominees. Some years this Oscar goes to a western author, but I love when it goes to an Asian author… then I try to find the short on Internet, expecting a beautiful flow of images,… Read More »
“We are humans“: that’s the summary of this year’s Barcelona Go Tournament. Each year a lot of emotions cross my body the day before and the weekend of the tournament. Meeting again a lot of good people, play serious games, play unofficial games, chat, tell jokes, get delighted by some people explaining some new moves…… Read More »
Why am I keeping this amount of bottles in my freezer? Freezer (and fridge) are designed to keep the inside content cool. But it’s funny to realize that most of the content is air. Each time you open the freezer you force to move the inside air with the outside… and the inside temperature rises.… Read More »