Monthly Archives: July 2007
Trojanfonica?
Yesterday I received an odd phone call from Telefonica, my ADSL provider. They offer me a new free (as in free beer) service: if I have a breakdown in my computers, they kindly repair it. Awesome, isn’t it? What’s the … Continue reading
Happy birthday, happy Thinkpad!
There is a nice post at The Register about the 15 years of Thinkpad laptops. Since I bought my R51 three years ago (I saw very nice technical details and it has not f*ck*ng Windows keys), I loved these machines … Continue reading
New times in the clustering world
We read in the latest weeks two interesting news. The happy new comes, again, from Sun Microsystems: they unveiled their new architecture Constellation. They hope to go through the 2-petaflops barrier. The first experience with this new platform will be … Continue reading
Dreams on (light) rails
Last week I attended to a summer course of the UIMP entitled “Metropolitan mobility and zoning. Light rail application and another transit systems to Galicia”. It was a very interesting time. We could discuss about how the new transit systems … Continue reading
40 years without John
Last July, 17th was the 40 anniversary of the death of John Coltrane. It has been written millions of words about one of the five great jazzmen in the history (the numer one for me). But they are not enough … Continue reading
La Coruña outer port
Some weeks ago a group of students of my Civil Engineers School went to the port of La Coruña to see the works of the new installation for bulk cargo, known as La Medusa(The Jellyfish). After it, we went to … Continue reading
A shot through the heart of democrats
Ten years ago, the assassins of terrorist group ETA kidnapped a natural councillor of the little town of Ermua. They threatened to kill him if Spanish government didn’t give in their demands. Finally, that group of f*ck*ng cowards shot through … Continue reading
Love the rain
Today when I went off the train in the evening, it began to rain. I had 1 km. down to home, so I put my headphones and shooke off the glasses. The water drops run on my face, but I … Continue reading
L'Albatros
Souvent, pour s’amuser, les hommes d’équipage Prennent des albatros, vastes oiseaux des mers, Qui suivent, indolents compagnons de voyage, Le navire glissant sur les gouffres amers. À peine les ont-ils déposés sur les planches, Que ces rois de l’azur, maladroits … Continue reading
Hate the sun
Today began the Summer for me. Since the morning to the sunset, grey clouds opened to the sun, then they went away. I’ll be hidden underground until I can feel again the rain drops in my face, in October.