One of the most impossible things to find in this life is decent men’s underwear. With “decent” I mean slips or boxers which are neither flat white, nor “gay” multicoloured. Where can I find a nice green or orange slips, please? In Barcelona I go shopping sometimes, but fashion shops don’t have a lot of… Read More »
Yesterday I had an excellent time playing Go! I looked for some Go players in Bournemouth (where I’m staying for my holidays), and I found a phone number at the British Go Association website. I rang him and we arranged a meeting. He was totally surprised: he received a call from a player with a… Read More »
This week I’ve been reading news about Israel and Lebannon hostilities with sadness. I hope they will finish soon. Some days ago I spoke with a french friend who is living in Damascus, Syria (which is next to both countries). She told me her worries… and we started to speak about political implications, those madness… 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 »
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 »
Some days ago I found at Flickr a funny photo made by one of my work-mates. As you can guess, I help my colleagues a lot with programming issues… but also I teach them “other stuff” 🙂 When I started to work in this company, one an a half years ago, someone asked me about… Read More »
Finally it’s at home!! Last January I brought my keyboard to the technical service, due to a small problem with the data-wheel. I can also program it with the numeric keyboard it has, but it’s quicker to use the data-wheel as the input device. They said it’d be repaired in 2 or 3 weeks. One… Read More »
When I arrived at Zürich I was expecting an interesting city, because several times I read in some newspapers that it is the 1st city in life quality. The city was nice, but it didn’t surprise me. I didn’t know why they say it is the best city in the world. I came back to… Read More »