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 [...]

20070316 CDmon rules!

It has taken longer than it should have done, but at last I can say that my domain (soledadpenades.com) is registered and managed in a good place – that is: CDmon! I registered it for the first time around seven years ago. By that time, I hardly knew anything about domain registrars and so just [...]

20070204 British Airways do not like Spanish names

Or that it seems. I tried to enter my full name (which makes up to the big figure of four words) and the system decided it was too much for it. No more than 29 characters are allowed when specifying the full passengers’ names. It shouldn’t be much of a problem if it wasn’t by [...]

20060525 Be careful with language packs…

I was just installing an spanish language pack for some Open Source product we use, and I decided to take a look at the constants before installing: “Cagando… por favor, espere” Ask anyone which understands spanish. I’m still laughing! =)) Next time you get some translation packs, try to get someone which speaks that language [...]

20051005 How not to do error messages

I am currently proof-reading a software which I haven’t written (which is very funny as I am not native english speaker, but my english is better than the one of the guys which wrote this software). And my question is: why the hell did they add an exclamation mark in each error message? For a [...]