Day archive for February 19th, 2007

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“46% of software on Spanish PCs is pirated”

Posted: February 19th 2007 14:18.

I wonder if this isn’t an under-estimate–everyone I know in Barcelona who takes the government-subsidised software skills courses does so not because they expect to learn anything useful from the course leader but because they know they will receive a pirate copy of the software involved, be it Photoshop, Cubase or whatever.


Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog

Intercultural contact roundup

Posted: February 19th 2007 12:54.

Does the principle that “If it’s too important to you, then you’ll mess it up” mean that enthusiastic believers should be advised to refrain from Bible translation? If not, would it be cool to have them translate your wife’s diary? Since when have Irishmen taken beatings from mullet?


Categories: Languages, Les bourgeois, Splog

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My 5% bookstore - new stuff



Spanish history

Modern Spanish fiction

Spanish classics

On this day

Barcelona

  • March 19 1840 Se coloca la primera piedra para formar la plaza del mercado de la Bocaría en el terreno que fue iglesia de S. José.

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 19 de març de 1918 lectures, família
  • 19 de març de 1919 La meva germana Rosa m’escriu dient que han arribat les orenetes. Ara, al mas –penso– la simfonia primaveral deu ésser completa: les granotes, els grills, el mussol que cova al teulat, a redós de la xemeneia, el cucut, el xisclar voleiadís de les orenetes…

Catholic hagiography

The peepul's choice

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