Archive for the ‘Common life’ category

20120114 Friday the 13th / Saturday the 14th

Call me whatever you want to call me, but whenever I hear “Friday the 13th”, I immediately think of the image above.

20101123 The (Spanish) guide to working in London

I’ve been asked about this topic so many times that I’ve finally decided to write a post so that I can forward people to it next time I’m asked about it. Please skip it if you’re not Spanish or interested on working in London :-) ~~~

20100425 Wine vouchers

Picture this: you bought an external hard disk drive* from Amazon. The delivery day arrives and there, you got the box. You promptly open it, anxiously looking forward to connecting it to your computer (a Mac Mini in this case; not that it is relevant, but just in case you’re an information junkie). And once [...]

20090926 Sky spam

I have pretty much reduced my physical communications (i.e. letters) to nothing. My bank doesn’t send me extracts of the operations that I am already aware of –because I check them online. My phone company doesn’t send me a physical invoice. Same for the internet provider. Except there are still companies like Sky who keep [...]

20090615 #happymonday

Are your friends always angry and complaining about everything in their twitter feeds? And what about you? How long since you last tweeted about something nice? Now it’s the time to do something about that! Just post something positive. It doesn’t have to be impressively original, it can be something as simple as I ate [...]