This morning I was thinking about prepositions. In Spanish there is a closed list, a short list, of prepositions. There are 20 of them (and in fact 2 of them are archaic), so it’s a small number, and you usually have to learn them by heart at school. While trying to wake up, my mind… Read More »
Yesterday I was at the Chinese Restaurant where all Go players meet every weekend. I played some interesting games with Edu (1 kyu) and César (4 dan). But the most interesting thing happened when Joan arrived. He, who is one of the most active members of the Gofme Go Club, asked me about my Go… Read More »
Yesterday was one of those days where it’s better to not wake up. Maybe the whole week was bad! At the office the bosses were complaining about everything (from timetable to holidays to our time to have lunch) . They are making a lot of changes, and it seems this company is not going to… Read More »
One of those things which sometimes made me crazy while programming are quotes (single ‘ and double ” quotes). Let me explain… Most of the modern programming languages include a way to manage strings, normally it’s surrounding them with quotes (for example, in PHP: $response=”Hi there!”). The question arrives when you want to add a… Read More »
Finish the AEGo (Spanish Go Association) website. I’m working on a new website with an easy CMS made with AJAX. I’m researching new ways to manage the content, focusing on the idea “if you want to change something, just touch it”. It’s really difficult to combine the maximum “user needs = site objectives” with the… Read More »
Summer is now here! Barcelona is raising the temperature up to 30ºC. The worst part is that it’s too hot. The weather changes suddenly from a comfortable spring temperature to a sticky and sweaty ambient. Your body needs to get used to this heat, and this means at least one week feeling sick and having… Read More »
My father usually says “an engineer is a person who solves problems with ingenious ideas”. Both words, engineer and ingenious, have the same latin root: ingenium. Both persons, him and I, are engineers. So I must agree with him! Last Saturday I was in the “Spanish Women’s Go Championships”. Obviously I didn’t play. But I… Read More »
I want to write every day, but it’s difficult to find interesting issues. I have lots of ideas, but almost all of them seem worthless. Why write or say something which is not adding new information to the reader? Here there are some of my non-adding-information thoughts: Dogs are for the countryside Barcelona is full… Read More »
Yesterday I thought about this question: “how many english words do I have in my mind?” . How vast is my English vocabulary? So I have had an idea: to program a small script in PHP which counts words from my English posts here. At the moment, with only 14 entries, the statistics are: ·… Read More »
What happens when you start to live in different cities? You actually realized you can’t stop… you can’t stay in one city although you feel it’s the best city to live in. You start to discover the world, and you feel if you stop too long in one city you are losing time. This is… Read More »