Monthly Archives: December 2005
Jazz in Coruña: 25 years of Jazz Filloa
I read in online edition of La Voz de Galicia next December, 29th the Jazz Filloa Cafe will be 25 years old. Jazz Filloa is the mythical pub in Coruña. Their founders Antonio Rodríguez and Alberto Mella are pioneers of … Continue reading
Christmas urban prayer
Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech You, for that man that sleep in the street, to be the warmth of his heart stronger than winter cold, for that prostitute that lives in the dangerous night, remember her nobody … Continue reading
Hard & free
I read in Barrapunto the release of Cube Revolutions, IEArobotics Juan González’s worm-shaped robot. Every documentation about soft and hardware designs are freely downladable (soft under GPL, doc under CC). You can download funny videos of Cube Revolutions too . … Continue reading
50 years horizon of Spanish renewable energies
Greenpeace Spain has published an exhaustive outlook on the future of renewable energies in our country. The report was developed by the prestigious Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica (part of Industrial Engineers School) of Universidad Pontificia Comillas. You can download the … Continue reading
Past to future: Tim Berners-Lee’s blog
Via Slashdot, we know we must welcome to the blogsphere to Tim Berners-Lee, the Wide World Web first developer. We can read in his first post at MIT’s Descentraliced Information Group Tim explains briefly about his ideas fifteen years ago: … Continue reading
dgn rules, dwg and dxf suck
Engeneers near free software desire a powerful CAD program to their GNU/Linux stations, and, when they read news like this in slashdot about little steps to open source by Autodesk they immediately think it’s possible in nearly future. Projects like … Continue reading
No Xmas party
Since before I began to teach to my children in Portiño, every year volunteers planned a party with parents and children, before Christmas. This year we hadn’t enogh volunteers, so there was no party
50-alive and kicking!
We can read at solidaridad.net about the article published in the Sunday Times uncovering the statistics that points around 50 babies survive to abort in one year in England, they often die off the womb. They relate too histories of … Continue reading
Trusted?
SecurityFocus has published an interesting article about what software we trust in. Columnist Jason Miller express some thinkings about both points of view of programmers and users, focusing in open and closed source developing models. I discovered kernel patches are … Continue reading
Professor goes to Heaven
It happen some days ago, but I didn’t heard about it because I was ill when it happened. My first professor in the Civil Engeneering School, Mr. Juan Ignacio Vázquez Peña, has died because cancer. I shan’t never forget my … Continue reading