20111111 So… what do we do now with the old Flash content?

News about the imminent Flash demise are popping out everywhere you look at. The recent cancellation of Flash mobile is just a warning of what is to come. And the question that immediately came to my mind was: what with all the legacy content? There’s a huge amount of stuff which has been programmed for [...]

20101117 Fair trade hardware

We’re subjected to non-stop advertising everywhere we go: It’s less than x days for Christmas! Buy now or regret later! Or maybe we’re already salivating at the thought of new shiny gadgets for Christmas. The Kinect, which was recently hacked? Or maybe a new phone? Or… It’s amazing that even in these times of gloom [...]

20100630 “Sorry, technical discussion”

It happened to me several times while at OFFF past week: I was in a conversation with people whom I had just met moments before and the conversation derived into “technical” matters, which is to say mild-core development topics like CSS or HTML5. And then someone looked at me with a mix of pity and [...]

20100604 Made in China

A bit less than a month ago the thought irrupted violently into my mind: where do all these things come from? I meant the electronic devices such as computers, cellphones, speakers, earphones, etc, etc. I took a look; most of them had been made in China. They could have been assembled or designed elsewhere in [...]

20100602 I deleted my Facebook account

I just read that past Monday was “Quit Facebook Day“. Bad timing guys, it was Bank Holiday here in the UK, and I’m pretty sure people spend more time browsing Facebook while they are in the office that when they are holidaying. So come the first of June, and no one remembers about promises for [...]