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 [...]

20091021 BAA sells Gatwick. So what?

BAA has been forced to sell Gatwick airport because of the so-called monopoly of BAA over London’s main airports. All right, I’ll tell you a secret (only if you promise not to tell anyone else): I don’t think that’s going to change anything. The monopoly term doesn’t mean anything to airport customers, unless you make [...]

20090724 And now… what?

If you paid close attention to every single word I placed on the latest demo sources releases, you may have probably noticed that there was something like a count down at the end of each one of them. Some people were placing high hopes on that, specially since the biggest party in Spain (euskal) was [...]

20090529 DVCS are very cool, but…

I have taken a look at both git and mercurial. I even went as far as creating several git repositories for syncing stuff across three computers and testing how it would work. It went quite well, considering there was a huge amount of data involved (for example, my music repository, which consists in lots of [...]