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Month: September 2006

  • Fundamentos Web: Here we come

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    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 ‘smallish’ place such as Oviedo, but, at the same time, fitting, knowing how chaotic and…

  • White night, white lights

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    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 those people who spend all the night out on the streets, with their lives illuminated…

  • Superpowered camera solves America’s obesity dilemma

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    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 to become. Their efforts to fix this are countless, but some of them are worth…

  • Geocoding makes me feel funny

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    gorriti
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    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 every other night, but inside my brain. Endless possibilities. What it is more important though…

  • My faith in humanity knows no bounds

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    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 where you can find your decks of HS here | Elitist Gaming. It got me horny and thinking that why on earth would anyone ruin such…

  • One day you are a top rated consultancy…

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    … 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 a top notch internet consultancy. One of the big guns, full of bright kids with…

  • Forget all those teambuilding techniques

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    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 course. Today’s entry is a dish of red peppers stuffed with cod on top of…

  • This website is fueled by the power of nostalgia

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    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 worth a year or so of posting, but they are incomplete since in an attack…

  • When hackers became pirates…

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    gorriti
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    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. If you don’t know Spanish, don’t worry if it doesn’t make much sense. Now, if…