When I was a teenager, I liked astronomy. I used to go outside the city, with some friends, to see the night sky. We carried some stuff (small telescopes, cameras, binoculars, etc) in the car’s trunk, we wore a lot of clothes to avoid the cold in the winter nights, and we enjoyed focusing the… Read More »
It may be true… everybody I know has one copy at home: “with an estimated 175 million copies distributed in 2006, the IKEA catalogue is thought to have surpassed the Bible as the most published printed work in the world” …read in the Information Aesthetics blog.
The other day I met up with some friends to play a lot of different games, except Go (because we are all Go players and one of them wanted to do something different). Here you can see myself, teaching how to play Hex to César (the strongest Go player in Spain). Hex is a board… Read More »
A few moths ago Barcelona’s city council signed a new law for (against) the bicycles. In the last years a lot of people has started to use the bike here, despite the lack of bike paths. Therefore the city council decided to write laws to maintain the order. But Barcelona is not like most of… Read More »
In the last few months I’ve played some games of Diplomacy on an online server called phpDiplomacy. You can reach me out there as “liopic“. Diplomacy is a strategic board game that represent the position of European powers before the World War I. You start leading one of the seven powers, moving a really small… Read More »
KISS : Keep It Simple and Stupid Sometimes I forget this principle. The other day was one of such days. I was trying to solve a problem at TopCoder (a website that runs computer programming contests)… The statement was something like “given n males and m females, sit them down in a circular table, in… Read More »
“Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you’re a consultant.” – Scott Adams (the author of Dilbert)
This page was part of my last project which I developed in my company: Buff catalog. And this page was part of the website of our client’s competitor in China, recently published: KranGear catalog. The funny thing is that their javascript files even include MY comments, in Spanish. The idea was to use a thermometer… Read More »
Post #200, and time of changes. – I’m unemployed now. Eventually I finish my last day in my company. It was somehow a sad day, with lots of “goodbye”, “good luck”, and such… but all my coworkers collect some money and gave me a 200eur voucher for buying a camera! I’ve learned a lot during… Read More »
Finally, this year’s Spanish Open is coming. Next weekend, more than 60 people from the whole Europe will play Go in the University of Alicante. I’m really excited… eager for hitting the first stone on the board. This event is special for me. It’s the first tournament held in my homeland, and in the University… Read More »