Archive for the ‘Common life’ category

20090615 Coding nightmares

Upon reading the title, I think I’m right in assuming you probably thought I was going to write about a set of bad practices, or a series of horrible things one could find when refactoring code written by someone else. None of that, this time I’m referring to real, literally speaking, nightmares. I think it [...]

20071219 Pages from España

As if it wasn’t enough to have to avoid not saying terms in English while speaking to Spanish people, Google mixes up everything for me to add to the confusion! I guess that’s the result of it autodetecting my browser’s language plus redirecting to google.es because I’m using an spanish ip (obviously, due to the [...]

20070108 Hello again!

Sorry about the lack of posts, I’ve just been acting as an english tourist on holidays, that is: enjoying the glorious sunny weather which Ricardo writes about; I’ve been having delicious reading sessions on the sun, open air, almost every day! visiting well known places but looking at them with different eyes picking up my [...]

20061211 Hidden London: East & East Center

Somehow inspired by a question in domestika’s forum (I’m going to London, any place to visit, out of the normal?) and also by all the thousands of spaniards taking normal boring pictures of Big Ben and Trafalgar Square these past days (which were Bank Holidays in Spain, hence the big amount of Spanish tourists here), [...]

20061108 Liverpool Street mob con

I don’t know why but I always miss these things. This time it happened one week ago and I get to know now :-( Anyway, there you have this supercool video of a mob con recorded in one of my favourite train/tube stations, Liverpool Street Station. Grrroooooooovy!