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First impressions of Ping

Posted on September 6, 2010 by hds

iTunes now includes this social network (supposedly) thingy called Ping. I must say, it’s algorithms have a long way to go. Now I’m assuming they know what music I have in my library, on both my computers with iTunes on … Continue reading →

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Tesina, again

Posted on September 3, 2010 by hds

Just a quick note to say that yes, I know I’ve not posted much here recently. I’m currently writing my masters thesis dissertation for the masters in Multimedia that I finished in July (well I finished the classes in July). … Continue reading →

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Festa Major de Gràcia – wrap up

Posted on August 25, 2010 by hds

Well, the Festa Major de Gràcia is over for another year. For the first this year I participated in setting up the decorations in my street Carrer Progrés. I went along and had a fantastic time, I’ve met loads of … Continue reading →

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Off to Lappeenranta and back to Helsinki

Posted on August 18, 2010 by hds

I’ve just uploaded the second set of images from Andrea and my trip to Finland. We went up to Lappeenranta for some relaxing time by the lake before one more night in Helsinki. The photos are up in Lappeenranta and … Continue reading →

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Carrer Progrés

Posted on August 17, 2010 by hds

Versió del imatge més gran / Larger version of the image (5 MB)

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Back to the ’90s: Andrea and Pepe dancing

Posted on August 10, 2010 by hds

As a nice little throwback to decades gone by (I’m feeling older with every word of this sentence), here’s an animated GIF of Andrea dancing with Pepe in Bar Loose in Helsinki.

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Three years

Posted on August 9, 2010 by hds

Yesterday marked three years since I arrived in Barcelona, with a single suitcase (okay two suitcases between two people) and a very rudimentary knowledge of spanish. Nowadays I speak very little english here and have way too much stuff packed … Continue reading →

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Architecture in Helsinki

Posted on August 1, 2010 by hds

How could I resist starting with that truly awful gag. Got back from my trip to Finland with Andrea (and Pepe of course) on Friday night. Andrea is already back in Granada having left with her sister and family on … Continue reading →

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New user interface

Posted on July 22, 2010 by hds

You’d just say: “Machine god! I beseech thee, change my /etc/hosts files so that iTunes works the way I want.” The trick is that the computer does what you mean, not what you say. Which is basically the bit that … Continue reading →

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Just imagine

Posted on July 21, 2010 by hds

If you live in Australia or the US or somewhere else equally monolingual, imagine this. You’ve just presented your PhD defence and one od the tribunal members begins speaking to you in a language you don’t speak, oh sure it’s … Continue reading →

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