Category: Ramblings

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 the workshop was “Web 2.0 Patterns”, and one of the objectives of it was to…

In the age of instant messaging, photo-sharing, mobblogging, ego-wanking and such procrastination has become such an easy thing to do. Before this time trying to unfocus your tasks into useless yet fulfilling activities meant an actual effort. Nowadays you just have to press a keyboard shortcut, access that bookmark of yours or trigger a complex…