I don’t know why, but I subscribed to the weather forecast of some European cities where some friends live. It seems like looking at these, I magically connect with their moods. Today is a great sunny day in Barcelona, but it’s an even sunnier day in Alicante, so my family is probably enjoying a nice… Read More »
Sometimes I feel playing Go is like speaking Esperanto, in social terms… Some years ago I read some kind of web page regarding language learning. It had a list of different languages, with the pros and cons of learning each one. For example, English is a widely used language, being the facto standard as the… Read More »
Since the beginning of the year, the population of books at home has increased enormously. I’ve decided to read more technical books, therefore I need more space for them. A new bookshelf, for example. This morning I tried to put up a bookshelf in the living-room, but firstly I discovered that the wall was too… Read More »
Sometimes one of your friends get connected to Internet. Suddenly, he/she discovers those stupid emails (almost spam) with a funny text, and decide to send them to everybody… and your email address starts to appear in the CC of all those stupids emails… until you directly tell your friend off. But now, it could be… Read More »
This weekend I’ve been playing Go for full-time, in the Barcelona’s Go Tournament. The venue was really close to home, only 3 minutes walking, and maybe this is the reason that I had a good tournament. Finally my score was 4 wins from 5 rounds, but the best thing is that I think I’ve played… Read More »
The Barcelona Go Tournament is arriving! This weekend I’m going to participate in the XXV Barcelona Go Tournament. I’m really excited… I’ve been looking forward to this event for months. It’s a wide collection of feelings: fun, nervous, fight!, laughs, hugs, jokes, brain power… A large quantity of people come from different parts of Spain… Read More »
To finish with this puzzles row, here is an elegant one. Alberto (my flatmate) set me, and I spent some minutes until I sorted it out: There are two cities in the desert. The inhabitants of the first city always tell the truth. The inhabitants of the second city always lie. You have arrived to… Read More »
Yesterday my flatmate was complaining about my previous post. He read it, and he found the solution quite quickly… he asked for a real challenge. Then we started to comment logical problems throughout the supper. And now, I’ve prepared a big one. “The bear in the window” I was a bit bored at home, so… Read More »
Monday morning. I’ve just arrived at the office, and I see my first task to do: fix a bug in a calendar from one of our websites. Actually there are 2 calendars, and one calculation to show the difference in days between the two dates. Somebody discovered a weird behaviour when you select a range… Read More »
On the last weekend I was helping in the course of the Spanish Go Championship Finals. I went to note down the games played by the 8 candidates in my laptop. But luckily I discovered an open WiFi net, therefore I decided to broadcast in live the games, on KGS (a Go server). I was… Read More »