Some really wonderful geek gifts: 1.- Ant Works The Ant Works concept was developed by NASA back in the heyday of the US space programme. Their idea was to take a colony of ants into space so the astronauts could study the insects’ behaviour in zero gravity. Why, we hear you ask? Well, we guess [...]
June 11, 2006
Get a backup of your mobile data and get instant online access to your mobile’s contacts and calendar with ZYB ZYB is a free service that allows you to make a backup of your mobile data, allowing you to replace easily your contacts when you loose your mobile phone. The use is really simple, you [...]
June 11, 2006
This morning I wake up soon and went to the “Feria del Libro de Madrid”. I bought “Leyendas“, a recopilation of short fantasy stories that includes a short story by George R. R. Martin. “Muerte de la Luz” by George R. R. Martin. Gigamesh nº 40, special George R. R. Martin Gigamesh nº 43 As [...]
June 10, 2006
Cuándo todos los héroes de tu infancia caen y los ves como lo que son (personas normales, que se equivocan, y mucho), entonces te haces adulto. Y adulto no significa más capaz para nada, significa realista, significa que has perdido gran parte de ilusión y ahora te das cuenta de verdad de cómo es la [...]
June 10, 2006
Kirai talks about Software development in Spain and compares it to Software development in California or Japan. I totally agree with what he writes and that reminds my last work in the New Technologies department at the AEAT. The biggest problem in that work was our boss, a mathematician that use to read neural networks, [...]
June 10, 2006
Via Microsiervos I found a job position for ASP and SQL Server programmers where explicit says: The last line says “Freaks, do not apply”.
June 9, 2006
Web 2.0 and Google are showing nowadays our “distributed future”. Now you don’t have a photoalbum with photographies in paper, neither have a software photoalbum in your computer, you use Flickr to store and share your photos and, even, you add tags to those photos in order to accomplish the future Semantic Web. With Writely [...]
June 6, 2006
June 2, 2006
Do you use Firefox? (if not, think in start using it). Do you hate those annoying Flash animations all around some web pages? I really hate websites where 4, 5 or even more Flash animations are playing at the same time, making your CPU going crazy. FlashBlock is the solution to your problems. FlashBlock is [...]
May 26, 2006
Some films based on Science Fiction classic novels (or short stories) that were released as general films (not SF freak-oriented films or B series). The list is not definitive, I will actualize its contents. Brian W. Aldiss Frankestein Unbound Artificial Intelligence Isaac Asimov: Bicentennial Man I, Robot Ray Bradbury: It came from Outer Space The [...]
2012 JoSeK.
June 17, 2006
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