Monthly Archives: September 2006

Fundamentos Web: Here we come

Next tuesday October 3rd the largest web-oriented conference in Spain will begin. It will be the second edition of Fundamentos Web, after last year’s apparently successful start. It is weird that an event as big as this happens in a

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Fundamentos Web: Here we come

Next tuesday October 3rd the largest web-oriented conference in Spain will begin. It will be the second edition of Fundamentos Web, after last year’s apparently successful start. It is weird that an event as big as this happens in a

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White night, white lights

Tonight is the first white night for Madrid. The name comes from those nights that aren’t nights. Either up north or down south during summer and winter respectively if you go far enough light floods Earth 24/7. Or, alternatively, from

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White night, white lights

Tonight is the first white night for Madrid. The name comes from those nights that aren’t nights. Either up north or down south during summer and winter respectively if you go far enough light floods Earth 24/7. Or, alternatively, from

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Superpowered camera solves America’s obesity dilemma

For the last 10 years the US of A have been trying to get rid of their expanding waistline. Sadly, Homer is not anymore a role model for their youth: now is the necessary evil to remind them what not

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Superpowered camera solves America’s obesity dilemma

For the last 10 years the US of A have been trying to get rid of their expanding waistline. Sadly, Homer is not anymore a role model for their youth: now is the necessary evil to remind them what not

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Geocoding makes me feel funny

Seriously folks: Have you really sat down for 10 minutes and gave geocoding a serious thought? I did, and I got all dizzy after 30 seconds. It was like that bittorrent of pr0n my computer at home gets for me

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Geocoding makes me feel funny

Seriously folks: Have you really sat down for 10 minutes and gave geocoding a serious thought? I did, and I got all dizzy after 30 seconds. It was like that bittorrent of pr0n my computer at home gets for me

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My faith in humanity knows no bounds

In my humble opinion this video sums up how modern civilization works. On a sidenote Nintendo revealed yesterday a video with some game footage for their upcoming Wii console. It got me horny and thinking that why on earth would

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My faith in humanity knows no bounds

In my humble opinion this video sums up how modern civilization works. On a sidenote Nintendo revealed yesterday a video with some game footage for their upcoming Wii console. It got me horny and thinking that why on earth would

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One day you are a top rated consultancy…

… and the next you are a forgotten scrap inside the guts of a DNS machine somewhere in the backlot of a redneck landfill. What am I talking about? Back in 2000 I started working for what back then was

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One day you are a top rated consultancy…

… and the next you are a forgotten scrap inside the guts of a DNS machine somewhere in the backlot of a redneck landfill. What am I talking about? Back in 2000 I started working for what back then was

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Forget all those teambuilding techniques

At the office we just kicked off the first amateur cooking contest. Each edition an ingredient will be chosen ala Iron Chef and all the dishes have to be prepared with that special something. And a lot of love, of

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Forget all those teambuilding techniques

At the office we just kicked off the first amateur cooking contest. Each edition an ingredient will be chosen ala Iron Chef and all the dishes have to be prepared with that special something. And a lot of love, of

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This website is fueled by the power of nostalgia

The other day while trying to import ye olde posts archive from Blogger, in the midst of the failure of such process, a copy of the whole she-bang managed to crawl into the depths of the webserver. Those posts are

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This website is fueled by the power of nostalgia

The other day while trying to import ye olde posts archive from Blogger, in the midst of the failure of such process, a copy of the whole she-bang managed to crawl into the depths of the webserver. Those posts are

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When hackers became pirates…

Or “how can localization fuck it up”. Try to accessing the Blogger’s Help site. Everything looks normal, right? Specially if you use a computer whose default language is set to English. Now, try to set that default language to Spanish.

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When hackers became pirates…

Or “how can localization fuck it up”. Try to accessing the Blogger’s Help site. Everything looks normal, right? Specially if you use a computer whose default language is set to English. Now, try to set that default language to Spanish.

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I’ll correct you, rather than answer your questions

Gregor Hohpe is an engineer at Google that was lucky (or deserveful) enough to get invited to a workshop by Tim O’Reilly, along with people like Bill Scott, Jeniffer Tidwill, Cal Henderson, John Musser and Martin Fowler. The theme of

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I’ll correct you, rather than answer your questions

Gregor Hohpe is an engineer at Google that was lucky (or deserveful) enough to get invited to a workshop by Tim O’Reilly, along with people like Bill Scott, Jeniffer Tidwill, Cal Henderson, John Musser and Martin Fowler. The theme of

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