From an off-the-record report of a departmental seminar somewhere in the UK.
Bar Genes, Guinardó, Barcelona
Posted: October 18th 2007 10:46. Last modified: October 18th 2007 11:03
I’ve always kind of wondered whether this is kind of tribute to blue jeans/bleu de Gênes, but I’ve never had the courage to ask, mainly because if I’m wrong they’re going to think I’m fucking crazy.
Faultless translations for free
Posted: October 18th 2004 14:33.
Also via Margaret Marks, a machine that does perfect translations in a number of European languages.
Storable.pm host?
Posted: July 27th 2004 11:45.
For a client I need a shared hosting solution with storable.pm installed. WebFusion/HostEurope/Pipex won’t do it. Any ideas?
(Update: thanks for a couple of suggestions, but I’ve decided to dive into PHP.)
WP plugin allows comment spammers to pay for their contribution
Posted: July 26th 2004 23:23.
From Kitten. There’s lots of good stuff coming out of the WordPress community, but not what quite a lot of people seem to have been requesting for a while: a functional multi-author system. At the moment WP trumpets its various user levels but no mention is made of the fact that same-level users can all [...]
Fry your system
Posted: July 26th 2004 10:38.
Toast oven => PC. There’s loads more good stuff on GeekDIY.com.
Anti-social networks
Posted: July 18th 2004 21:30.
Seriously, if I write this blog in Portuguese, will someone invite me onto Orkut? Or am I better off just heading down the Brazilian bar down the street? All these do-good schemes always end up in trouble - just check the story of rioting at the Forum over in Lorna’s Shorts.
Unipeak nicked my ad revenues
Posted: July 13th 2004 22:54.
This is interesting. Unipeak reproduces my site (your site) dynamically on theirs, as it were, turns off my ads, and turns on theirs. The site is presented as a tool to help among others the poor old Chinese, but the fact that my material ends up being cached by Google as if it were theirs [...]
Some advice for mayor Clos
Posted: July 13th 2004 21:53.
For reasons that are unclear to me, the burlesque leader who ruled Dublin during carnival used to be known as Mayor of the Bull Ring. Barcelona’s Mayor Clos is so damn serious that he wants to close our bull-ring, but the chances that he’ll stop making a fool of himself the rest of the time [...]
1,300,925,111,156,286,160,896 ways of spelling Viagra
Posted: July 11th 2004 21:45.
Sez Rob (via Memepool). There’s a generation-by-generation analysis of the techniques buried somewhere around here, but it has got slightly less amusing recently: early last month I was getting up to 200/hr - not good, even if they do go straight to trash - and, though that problem has been killed, new contact emails receive [...]
Local government: e-gnoramuses
Posted: May 26th 2004 12:20. Last modified: September 17th 2008 16:34
I reckon that most of the money invested by local and regional government in providing e-services, ranging from bog-standard pages for rural councils to the more ambitious attempts seen here in Barcelona, was wasted. This is because most projects served either as a means to funnel money to new media businesses set up by the [...]
Movable Type to WordPress
Posted: May 16th 2004 10:25.
There’s a guide here. Looks pretty clunky to me and dynamic generation of pages just shunts the MT rebuild issue down the row. Textpattern looks interesting in a hippy kind of way, but I may have to start sending postcards again…
Social netrics
Posted: April 11th 2004 15:30.
Kaleboel figures for insignificant reasons in an academic paper by Fernando Tricas-García and Juan Julián Merelo-Guervós. The Spanish-speaking Blogosphere: Towards the Powerlaw? (PDF) introduces a spider-based tool developed by the authors, the Blogómetro, and includes the following interesting comment:
Subservient chicken
Posted: April 10th 2004 11:41.
Yet another triumph for capitalism: try out show me your ass and spit at me on Burger King’s Subservient Chicken.
Via Language Log.
Pain-to-pain
Posted: April 8th 2004 20:29.
WiFi-SM (via wondering) sounds good:
I’ve been using WiFi-SM for one month and it’s amazing ! When somebody suffers on earth, not only I know it, but I can also feel a little bit of his/her pain. I don’t feel guilty anymore and I can enjoy life without limitation. I love WiFi-SM
Here’s the blurb:
Dear me, yet another evil car driver!
Posted: April 2nd 2004 13:25.
Den mailed to point out a site run by a Barcelona taxi driver, Francisco Dugo aka Taxi Tupi, with a webcam and lots of lovely photos. How public-spirited!
Wahey, Google by phone!
Posted: March 26th 2004 15:32. Last modified: November 16th 2004 19:19
Here. Now all I need to do is stop the cat vomiting on the kitchen table.
tunisian textiles
Posted: March 20th 2004 09:48.
This is the kind of news that must break the hearts of the beards who want to establish little, backward Islamic fiefdoms:
Survey shows that either 20.2 or 5.5% of Spaniards don’t know what email is
Posted: February 28th 2004 11:53. Last modified: March 15th 2009 19:54
The headline figure this morning is 20%, but the survey (.doc) asks the question twice and the other answer is different. First there’s question 3:
I’m going to read you a list of apparatus and new technologies that are being used more and more frequently in Spain. Tell me, please, of each one whether you have [...]
On this day
Barcelona
- July 5 1522 Solemnes rogativas para el feliz viage del rey D. Cárlos I que venia de Alemania, á donde fue para tomar posesion del imperio.
- July 5 1844
I am delighted with Barcelona. It is a beautiful city, especially the new part, with a mixture of Spanish, French, and Italian character. The climate is soft and voluptuous, the heats being tempered by the sea breezes. Instead of the naked desert which surrounds Madrid, we have here, between the ...
- July 5 1848
En la iglesia de la Trinidad, hoy parroquia de San Jaime, se celebra una solemne funcion en honor del
beato Miguel de los Santos que habia pertenecido á la órden trinitaria, y cuya imágen se venera en un altar de dicha iglesia. La concurrencia no es reducida, y de las tres partes las dos... - July 5 1899
SPANISH MOBS STILL ACTIVE.; Further Disturbances at Alicante, Valencia, and Barcelona.
- July 5 1909
MORE BOMBS IN BARCELONA.; One Explodes in Cafe, Another Found at Circus Wrecks a Van.
Palafrugell and thereabouts
- Sorry, nothing doing today.
The peepul's choice
- Windows Vista: Error en el servicio Servicio de perfil de usuario al iniciar sesion. No se puede cargar el perfil de usuario
- Jaws is not a feminist shero
- Voter registration campaign for EU elections in June
- Outsourcing in the Spanish military
- Follow la quiniela live with PHP data import to Excel
- Ice cream van music from New York
- Testing redesign
- Portuguese Prime Minister corruption charges
- Venus de Milo tribute in Villanueva y Geltrú
- When the Japanese ruled Spain
- Windows Vista: Error en el servicio Servicio de perfil de usuario al iniciar sesion. No se puede cargar el perfil de usuario
- New Abramovich yacht pictures
- Some more sun goddesses
- Sagrada Familia mural
- Bin Laden caganer
- Traductor castellano-andaluz
- Forum auction not to include mayor Clos
- Jaws is not a feminist shero
- Smoking Mary: herbal fumes and disease prevention
- Looking for Chelsea boss Abramovich’s new super-yacht?
