Disclaimer: I’m user of Skype, Google Talk and Windows Live Messenger. If there are other IM clients which implement this as it should be, feel free to comment. Most people don’t know how to use their IM clients. I’m serious, they are totally clueless about things like “status message” or “display name”. Maybe it’s because we, [...]

Disclaimer: this post is one of those rants I’ve always wanted to write somewhere. Feel free to skip it :P In the last decade, we’ve seen a few software ecosystem paradigms getting popular in the software industry. Possibly, there is not direct relation with politics. But somehow, I always come to the same ideas. No model at [...]

Posiblemente muchos de vosotros, si teneis cuenta en tuenti, habreis acabado hasta la coronilla de esos “eventos” que no son más que los viejos emails en cadena de principios de 2000 al paradigma de la web 2.0. Por ello, pensé que sería interesante sugerir al equipo de tuenti que desarrollasen opciones de configuración para poder [...]

Hi there! During the last few weeks I’ve been working on a personal project to improve my regular expression skills. The project consisted on parsing a forum and generating an RSS feed. It sounds that simple, but from first revision to the current one (Rev: 73), there have been a lot of changes involved. I [...]

Today, I opened Windows Live Hotmail website and this message appeared after I logged in: They moved the huge banner ad to the right side giving more space to the user. Although this was not a problem for me at home (I use AdBlock and NoScript), it was when I open Hotmail in public computers. Congratulations! They [...]

One of the most interesting topics I have learned in university has been membrane computing. This is a relatively new computational model (1998). Its objective is finding a new model based on the mechanisms of the cells to process information. Lectures of biologically-inspired computational models with professor Mario Pérez are worth of ...

Today, I fired up Windows Media Player to listen to some of the greatest hits from Lou Reed and this box suddenly appeared. I am not going to make any comments. The only reason I think this happened was I logged in this machine last night using Remote Desktop Connection… but I can’t find the [...]

Night before, I was testing a router’s software front-end just for fun: Scientific-Atlanta EPR2320R2. Scientific-Atlanta routers are almost toy routers. They lack of usability, good coding (in the client side) and they are damn slow. That was the reason which make me to type directly the url to Wireless > Access Control in the address ...

When we look back on the desktop software era, I think we’ll marvel at the inconveniences people put up with, just as we marvel now at what early car owners put up with. For the first twenty or thirty years, you had to be a car expert to own a car. But cars were such [...]