Monthly Archives: January 2008
Beyond Civil Engineering
Via Ingeniería en la Red, I discovered a great collection of books online (in Spanish) about technical, historical, human aspects of Civil Engineering. These books are published by the ESTEYCO Foundation. ESTEYCO is Javier Rui-Wamba‘s consulting, one of the greatest … Continue reading
Ill comes again
After two years locked into the fridge, I’m a member of GPUL‘s board again. Last Thursday Emilio J. was re-elected as the president of the Coruña Linux Users Group, and I entered in his board with a symbolic position: I … Continue reading
Death on their top
The top of the world: last Jan, 11th Edmund Hillary died 88 years old. Everest he conquered is 88 Hm. high. The top of the mind: last Jan, 17th Bobby Fischer died 64 years old. The chessboard he owned has … Continue reading
Orthogonals
Today I wasn’t able to teach a child (12 years old) how to draw the altitude of a triangle. She could learn it. But she didn’t want do it. She preferred going away to talk with her friends about boys
Free/OpenFlames
The beginning was this interview to RMS at BSDTalk. He said: “I am unhappy with the various distributions of BSD, because all of them include, in their installation systems, the ports system, they all include some non-free programs. And as … Continue reading
Thunder (very long distance) road
It was by coincidence. Today I had a nice dinner with my friends of the Civil Engineers School Raquel, Olga, the two Silvias, and Nacho (Silvia’s boyfriend) who is an Industrial Engineer. We didn’t meet all at the same time … Continue reading
Risky practices ;-)
xkcd comic strip: “Responsible behavior” (under CC Attribution-Non commercial 2.5)
Black and white keys
Black. Oscar Peterson passed away a week ago. Virtuosity and legend of piano remain. White. Eldar Djangirov, a new l’enfant terrible. My friend Javi Calvo gave me his first album “Eldar” (2005) backed by Michael Brecker. Eldar is an Oscar … Continue reading