When I moved to my new apartment I decided to live alone, but sometimes it’s a bit boring. However I didn’t expect to create a space for her, until I met her some days ago while shopping. And now I have a new reason to live! She is Spaniard, from Salamanca. She is dancer, with… Read More »
“NAIVE. Naive you are if you believe life favours those who aren’t naive.” – Piet Hein It’s curious to see that some very logical people are poets and abstract creators (maths, music, games, etc) at the same time. Peeking at Piet Hein’s biography, inventor of the game of Hex (also independently invented by John Nash),… Read More »
Intriguing sentence! But I should add: if you (like me) are in the 10% of the people with more than 120 IQ, 90% of the people are “worse” than you… really? Could you visualize the faces of 10 friends and say 9 of them are “idiots”? Ok, now I see what you’re thinking: “but I… Read More »
Speaking with a friend, an old game came to my mind. 15 years ago I started playing “Elite II“, a space trade game, probably one of the firsts where there is no final objective, just interaction with the world. You could trade items between star systems, do all kind of jobs, improve your ship getting… Read More »
What was I doing during the shortest day (in Northern Hemisphere) of the year? Enjoying the “code coverage” used in testing, while traveling to my hometown by train for Xmas. Testing, code coverage… what’s that? you ask. Let me explain. A really important part of developing code is testing the code you write. It’s the… Read More »
All of us, Spaniards, usually make jokes about Spanish problems saying this sentence. But I didn’t know it is actually a quote from Alexandre Dumas! I discovered this surfing on an interesting blog about maps. Have a look also at this Atlantic-Mediterranean map.
This is a post about tech books. Sometime ago I discovered that Internet is not, and should be not, the only information source for an IT professional. It’s a good place to search for technical reference, to scan for chunks of information, but definitively it isn’t a place to read long texts. Books are the… Read More »
This title is a bit pretentious, but “Advanced Beauty is an ongoing exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound, an ever-growing collaboration between programmers, artists, musicians, animators and architects”. Concretely it’s a collection of 18 abstract videos where the image plays with the music (or probably just the inverse). Let’s see one of… Read More »
A friend of mine moved to a new house recently and wanted an Internet connection. He realized there were lots of WiFi nets around his house, so he asked me about a system to discover WiFi passwords. I told him I read somewhere about statistical attacks, and after some googling I find the tool suite… Read More »
Having a new job it’s not enough change! Last monday I finished my moving, with the help of 3 strong friends (Alga, Enric and Jordi), to my new house. A 2-room penthouse with a nice terrace, in front of Montjuic mountain. A really calm place, with a lot of vegetation, where you can’t smell city… Read More »