FlickrBlog has reminded me that today is Earth Day, with a post including a precious quote: “May there only be peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life.” United Nations Secretary-General U… Read More »
If you have read the previous post (an introduction for what a calendar is), you might’ve thought our current calendar is good enough. Maybe. It’s quite good adjusting our year to the real Earth-Sun revolution. But it’s a bad tool, in usability terms. Let me show you a couple of examples… – On which day… Read More »
Of course, it’s not. One year ago, I was speaking with a funny google engineer (while I was visiting in Zurich) who commented about the idea of creating days with 28 hours. That reminded me of an old article I read some years ago in an astronomy magazine about our calendar, and the problems it… Read More »
This evening I was speaking with my cousin, and one of her comments reminded me of an interesting video about visual perception, that I saw sometime ago. It was hard to find again, but finally here it is… The TASK: Look at the video, there are some people playing with basket balls… you must COUNT… Read More »
Due to the depressing previous post, I thought I had to do justice to the book, avoiding some comments about my career, and focusing on a good review of the book. The book starts with the DRY principle (Don’t Repeat Yourself), and the authors remind this among the pages. The idea is trying to avoid… Read More »
I’ve finished the reading of a brilliant book: “The Pragmatic Programmer“. It’s a collection of really wise tips to help you becoming a better professional. I already follow some of their recommendations, but most of them were new for me. All were really useful, and I could’ve figured out some of them. And this is… Read More »
In my parents’ garden there are two lemon trees. One of them produces an incredible quantity of lemons, big and soft. But the other one gives less lemons, and they have a really thick skin, therefore are not really useful… at least this is just what my grandfather says every time that he sees the… Read More »
I’ve just come back home after spending a weekend in Dublin. Jordi suggested me to go there to enjoy some games with the Irish, and take place in the Irish Go Open, and eventually I went and had a nice time playing. I was really lucky on the board, getting a full score (5 wins… Read More »
This weekend I’ll be playing in the Irish Go Open. I hope the weather will be good enough to have a walk between tournament rounds, and do some sightseeing. At the moment, I’m sharpening my tesujis, to fight with style against my red-haired opponents. Unluckily I don’t like beer (due to a weird genetic mutation),… Read More »
Sometimes I’d like to have technical books in “smurf-size” format. In the last months I’ve been reading some interesting books, but the reading experience was handicapped due to their uncomfortable format. Why do technical books have to be so big? It’s quite impossible to carry them and read on bus, or even in bed. It’s… Read More »