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 [...]

20100408 On executable music compos

As I wrote before, there were a couple of thoughts I had regarding the executable music compo at Breakpoint, although as a matter of fact, these thoughts can easily apply to any competition which introduces the “executable” bit into the rules. I’ll go straight to the point: What are we judging in these compos? Are [...]

20091108 Web archaeology

If you ask me if there is anything that fascinates me as much as computers do, it definitely is Archaeology. Being able to go somewhere, dig up a few layers of soil and then elaborate a list of facts about the habits of whoever used to inhabit that place seems to me almost magical. If [...]