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Get your EBOX?

jaime — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:31:20 +0000

If you are in touch with the free software world, you may know there is a proyect developed by Warp Networks, called eBox Platform.

So imagine my face when I read last weekend: Get your EBOX. It basically says Asus will call EBOX one of his cheap computers.

I hope it’s only rumours and Warp people can solve this problem. I wish them best luck from here.

Goodbye Facebook

jaime — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:00:34 +0000

Beyond Juslibol

jaime — Sat, 24 May 2008 18:35:01 +0000

In the previous post I was writing about old Macintosh computers. Well, one of the things you could do with them was playing Beyond Juslibol.

One of the best games ever. It was basically the reason why I finally studied Industrial Engineering at CPS. I managed to finish the game before starting my career, so I already knew some of the teachers and several tricks to pass the subjects

By the way, it was completely programmed by industrial engineering students. At that time you couldn’t study computer engineering at CPS. And, as you can appreciate, industrials program better

Old times

jaime — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:48:28 +0000

Oh my! I can’t describe how I feel remembering System 6 times.

System 6 was one of the OS you could run in a Macintosh Plus or in a Macintosh SE. Well, you actually *can* if you have one. In my case I own four of this cute little things (three SE’s and one Plus).

Upgraded Google’s language tools

jaime — Sun, 11 May 2008 07:56:58 +0000

Now it’s possible to choose separately between which languages we want to translate texts or web pages. So, for example we can translate directly from German to Spanish:

RedIRIS Workgroups

jaime — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:19:25 +0000

I’ve past the last two days in Valencia, attending RedIRIS Workgroups. Eduardo Fiat and I were presenting once again our beloved Brutalix. We’ve had a good time there, hanging out with our colleagues at SICUZ, and meeting lots of great people.

Getting things done

jaime — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:34:26 +0000

The same way lots of people did, I wrote down some things I wanted to accomplish before the end of 2008. Namely:

Finish last subjects (6): I’ve already written 2 exams and I think I’ve past them but we’ll see.
Find a nice Final Project and write it: Not even started.
Find a job: I’m working now for SICUZ (computer service at my university), but I meant a “real” job.
Read more frequently, it doesn’t matter the language (Spanish or English). I’ve almost finished The Fugitive Game, by Jonathan Littman.
Do sports. Only two days of skiing during Christmas break and some surfing for sure next summer, but I need something else during the year. Swimming or fitness perhaps? (Bencer, Isaac, Soraya?)
Travel a lot. I’ve to go to Germany to pass ITV (compulsory car check). Yes, my car is German (thanks, Uli)
Meet my friends more often. Trying to, but not during examination time.
Join free projects. Nowadays, only Brutalix and trying Open Street Map.
Learn German. I’ll try to take some language courses.
Revise my knowledge in geography.
Use my bike more often (instead of bus/car). Already doing. I had some problem with my lungs (due to my trip to Venezuela) but I’m pretty ok now and go everywhere by bike.

New gotchi on the block

jaime — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:16:20 +0000

I just created my hackergotchi.

Crowded desk

jaime — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:23:25 +0000

There is no better way to start a blog than showing where I’ll normally post from. This is my desk. On it, Asus EEE and a 19 inches HP monitor.