Categoría: English
Posts written in English.
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World Book Club: Madrid
Escuchad esta interesante tertulia (en inglés, pero con algunos preciosos acentos españoles) sobre el estado actual de la literatura de ficción compuesta por mujeres, femenina y feminista.
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Pues ya que preguntabas…
A veces alguien hace una pregunta sin querer una respuesta sincera. Y yo no soy el típico que va repartiéndolas… normalmente.
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Let’s go picking nits in… Google Reader
Did you notice the flurry of new features in Google Reader? Following (as in Twitter), liking (à la FriendFeed), people searching (Facebook-ish?), several Mark as read options grouped in a mildly confusing button+drop down menu combined control, a new Send to tool that only appears after having visited the appropriately well hidden last settings’ tab…
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Tumbling across the friendly pipes
This connected day and age has brought forth the end of isolation. Publishing one’s own essays, news, rants, photos and the like is essentially free-as-in-beer; the scarcity part of the equation has shifted to attention. Scattering these tiny shards of the self all around the intertubes only compounds to the problem: what’s one to do,…
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A sad partnership
Today I was truly saddened to find this ad on Wired Magazine: So saddened, in fact, that I set out to write this letter to Wired to make my disgust public: Dear sirs: As a long time reader of your online magazine, I have recently noticed you are inserting Scientology adverts in your pages. While…
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Campanadas en Twitter
Dong tweet brucknerite Dong about 5 seconds ago from mobile web dong tweet brucknerite dong about 5 seconds ago from mobile web dong tweet … dong tweet dong tweet dong tweet dong tweet (Una hora después) etcétera tweet
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An API is an API
Long time no see! It’s been a while since my last posting in the Shakespeare language. Perhaps my good friend OsQar will forgive me, though; this is not Middle English —just an international English. Fit and understandable for non-native speakers, laughable for oxfordians & cantabridgians alike. So there. And without more ado… An API Metaphor…
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Pipes vs Spreadsheets: a showdown
It’s time to get techie again! As you may have noticed, I’ve recently added a new item to my sidebar content called Puede que esté en… (that’s Spanish for I might be at…, for my few Spanish-impaired readers). The location displayed below, a link to Google Maps, is an approximate rendering of my current whereabouts,…