ISO weird standard
I’ve never guessed there is an ISO standard code for “this thing”… Have a look at the International Standard ISO 5218 I’m a 1. Any 2 around here?
Category Archives: Thoughts
Time to summarize this year
The 3 best things of this year 2006: – (Re)Discovering the bike: The perfect vehicle for the city. The ecological concepts: do you know it consumes only 0.1 litres per 100km (in petrol car consumption equivalence), and its fuel is biodegradable? The feeling of a free spirit riding a bike. – My trip to Zürich:… Read More »
Creativity tracks
Some days ago I was thinking about a better way to value my vocabulary. Months ago I programmed a small word counter, but it was too simple and boring. I wanted to create something more interesting, more visual, like to show when and where I have written the most creative words. How to measure creativity?… Read More »
Web versions (1.0 vs 2.0 vs …)
Some weeks ago I found in my room of my parents’ house a book about programming Java, mainly focused on applets. Applets are small pieces of software which can be included as a part of a web page. It’s funny, plus interesting, to read the introduction of this book (written 9 years ago, when web… Read More »
Sometimes “random” is the best choice
…as nature does. Create something from random numbers. Here are a couple of examples, from a Sunday morning programming session (plus 1 extra hour from the daylight savings change): – Random bubbles – Random trees Each time you reload the page, a new drawing appears. To see them correctly, you need Firefox or Opera, because… Read More »
Thoughts about Icons on User Interfaces
What do you understand from this picture? It’s the switch of my bathroom heater. It has 4 positions: 0, fan, 1 and 2. It’s easy, isn’t it? Even though, last week I had to open it to try to repair it, and I discovered that one of the two small radiators, it has inside, was… Read More »
Half glass
Some people say the glass is half-full. Other people say the glass is half-empty. An engineer says the glass is double the needed size.
A moment where everything changes
It’s just a point in the time line. A sigh, the past disappears and the future emerges. You are having a cup of tea and suddenly you realize that you’ve already decided to change your life. In fact you can not decide to change, but the change arrives to you. Can you really decide something,… Read More »
Boys and girls on Internet
This week I’ve read some texts about men and women on Internet. To start with, “most bloggers are women“. “According to a survey of more than 4 million blogs by Perseus Development, 56% were created by women. More bad news for the boys: men are more likely than women to abandon their blog once it’s… Read More »
The next step
It is a nice picture, isn’t it?