tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92116992012-01-29T19:45:05.842+01:00What the bandarlog thinks today the jungle will think tomorrow (The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling)Diego Pinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541446834114326948noreply@blogger.comBlogger1531100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211699.post-78327965592756223602011-12-06T00:46:00.005+01:002011-12-06T00:56:48.344+01:00

Tras varios meses, y algún que otro parón, terminé hace unas semanas la lectura de "La vuelta al mundo de un novelista" de Blasco Ibañez. Del tercer libro (según la edición de Alianza), me quedo con este texto sobre el fugaz progreso económico de la ciudad de Bombay. Resulta inquietante pensar que un texto que tiene casi 100 años pueda sonar tan actual. La vida es una canción con estribillo."

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Sigo leyendo 'La vuelta al mundo de un novelista'. En su visita por tierras indonesias, Blasco habla del pueblo malayo, magníficos navegantes que surcaron las aguas del Pacífico antes de la llegada de los portugueses. Blasco los llama los fenicios de Asia.El escritor valenciano da cuenta de un estado de locura homicida propia de la cultura malaya, el amok. Cuando un malayo se siente ofendido,

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Con total naturalidad, y después de más de un año de inactividad, vuelvo a escribir en este abandonado blog. Dedicaré esta entrada a Servando que tan insistosamente me ha recordado durante todo este tiempo retomar mi actividad bloguera.Estos días estoy leyendo el libro "La vuelta al mundo de un novelista" del escritor valenciano Blasco Ibañez. Blasco, más conocido por ser el autor de novelas como

Diego Pinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541446834114326948noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211699.post-18716553554848074342010-03-14T11:49:00.002+01:002010-03-14T12:44:00.086+01:00

Hace un par de meses me agencié una PS3, aprovechando la bajada de precio, con la intención de aparte de jugar a juegos de PS3, por supuesto, tener un centro multimedia conectado a la televisión desde el que reproducir música, fotos y alguna que otra película.La PS3 permite acceder a contenidos multimedia a través de servidores DLNA. Por ejemplo, si deseas reproducir una película que tienes

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El tren bala japonés, o shinkansen, es uno de los más rápidos del planeta, pudiendo alcanzar velocidades superiores a los 300 kmph. Además, los estándares de nivel de ruido en Japón para transporte ferroviario son uno de los más estrictos del mundo.La parte que une un tren eléctrico a su fuente de energía, el cableado eléctrico que conduce el tren, se conoce como pantógrafo. A velocidades en

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En Asia los jóvenes dedican cada vez más un mayor número de horas a los juegos on-line. Cyberg cafés plagados de ordenadores, donde además de navegar y charlar, los jóvenes asiáticos, en especial en China y en Corea del Sur, se reunen para matar dragones en el mundo virtual de World of Warcraft son cada vez más habituales. En ambos países, se han llegado a dar casos de karoushi (過労死, ), término

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Today starts the celebrations for Chinese New Year (a.k.a Lunar New Year), which this year coincides with the Carnival celebrations as well as San Valentines Day. Since the date for CNY depends on the phases of the moon, dates vary from one year to another.This year is the year of the tiger. Here are some traits that characterize this Chinese zodiac sign:"The Tiger (associated with good fortune,

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En la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, tras la primera y segunda guerra del opio, surgió un flujo de emigración china a Suramérica, forzada por los colonos ingleses. Muchos de estos chinos, provenientes en su mayor parte de las provincias del sur, especialmente Guandong, terminaron por instalarse en el Caribe, Centroamérica, y también por Norteamérica, principalmente Vancouver, donde el 30% de la

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Tras muchas interrupciones por fin he terminado de leer "Samurai William" de Giles Milton.El libro cuenta la vida de William Adams, el primer inglés en llegar a Japón exactamente en el año 1600. El también escritor inglés James Clavell, se inspiró en el personaje histórico de William Adams para su conocida novela Shougun.William Adams fué un navegante inglés nacido en la ciudad de Gillingham,

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Last week I attended Scott McCloud talk at Viñetas desde o Atlántico, a comic convention organized by A Coruña city council, and perhaps one of the most prestigous comic conventions in Spain.Scott McCloud is a well-known comic artist, he became very popular at the beginning of the nineties thanks to his comic "Understanding comics: The invisible art", a comic-book about the language of comics.

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Ayer fué un día especial por dos razones. El navegador Firefox alcanzó los mil millones de descargas, y no sé si casualidad o causalidad, David Winton, director del documental "Code Rush" (juego de palabras entre fiebre del oro y darse prisa por codificar un programa), ha publicado su film bajo licencia Creative Commons.Marc Andreessen creó el navegador Netscape a partir de su navegador Mosaic,

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Es sencillamente maravilloso poder relatar lo acontecido hace unas horas a más de 10.000 kilómetros de distancia desde el sillón de mi casa. Es sencillamente maravilloso poder consultar diversas fuentes de información, con distintos puntos de vista, y formar una opinión. Es sencillamente maravilloso expresar la mía propia. Y eso es sencillamente lo que aún hoy, 20 años después, se les sigue

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Hoy se cumple el 20 aniversario de la masacre de Tiananmen, la represión violenta del mayor movimiento pro-democracia que ha conocido China, quizás, en toda su historia. Lo cierto es que cuanto más leo y profundizo sobre la revuelta estudiantil, los matices y detalles van deformando poco a poco mi opinión, como en casi todas la cosas. Sin embargo hay una verdad irrefutable en todo esto: la vida

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Two weeks ago me and Adrián went to a Jean Michel Jarre concert in London. One of the long-time awaiting things of the night was the performance of Jarre playing his laser harp.A laser harp consists of seven beams of light, each for a natural tone. When a beam is blocked a sound is played, as simple as it is. Well, there are more details about it but that's basically how it works.Honestly,

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I don't often talk about job here. Perhaps it's because, for one reason or another, I don't like to mix work with personal life, although I think that's not exactly the reason, as I have talked about job occasionally in the past: "Programa de becas ICEX" (in Spanish).After coming back from HK, I joined a software company near my hometown called Igalia. Igalia is a software company specialized on

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Hay un dicho muy popular en China que dice "Vivir en Hangzhou, casarse en Suzhou, comer en Guangzhou y morir en Liuzhou".De las grandes variedades de cocina que existen en China, la cocina cantonesa es considerada una de las más exquisitas. Una de las especialidades características de este tipo de cocina son los dim sum (點心, literalmente "tocar el corazón"), o empanadillas chinas como se las

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If everything goes OK today at 20:00 (GMT +1) I should be standing at Wembley Arena in London ready to enjoy Jean Miche Jarre in concert.Sorry if it seems a bit boasting, it's not my intention, it's just that I feel tremendously lucky for having the chance of seeing Jean Michel Jarre live, at least once in my life.It all started a few months ago while listening to last.fm. At that time I got

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Probablemente los viejos gamers recordarán la sección Big in Japan de la revista Hobby Consolas, donde el redactor conocido como The Elf nos traía a lo largo de dos páginas las últimas novedades en el país del Sol Naciente.Originalmente esta expresión se utilizaba de manera despectiva para designar a grupos de rock/pop de escasa popularidad en sus países de origen, pero de cierto éxito en Japón.

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A pie de un video de Flapy: "Videos gastronómicos en Hong Kong", donde se ve una San Miguel Pale Pilsen, me vino a la cabeza la historia de la San Miguel, que quizais muchos ya conozcais.Originalmente San Miguel era una destilería filipina, fundada en el siglo XIX por un español en la ciudad de Manila, concretamente en el barrio de San Miguel, aprovechando una pequeña destilería local fundada

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Así se llama la última obra de Guy Delisle sobre su experiencia de 14 meses viviendo en Myanmar, país antiguamente conocido como Birmania.Guy Delisle es una animador canadiense y autor de comic-books (o novelas gráficas, como suelen decir los no habituales lectores de cómics para referirse a éstos cuando son buenos), que se dió a conocer mundialmente por su cómic Pyongyang, donde relata su

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En 2006 el historietista de cómics Guy Delisle se encontraba viviendo en Rangún (Myanmar), acompañando a su mujer, miembro de Médicos Sin Fronteras Francia (M.S.F) , en misión humanitaria. Fué también el año del brote de gripe aviar en el Sureste de China. El pánico que había generado la irrupción del SARS, también conocido como Síndrome Respiratorio Agudo Severo o neumonía asiática, en 2003 en

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Today I came up, via twitter, with an article on the Wall Street Journal about blogging in America: "America's Newest Profession: Bloggers for Hire". Among nearly 20 million bloggers in the US, 1.7 million out of them manage to get some income from their blog, and nearly 500.000 manage to make a living out of their blogs or blogging for others.The article is worth reading revealing some

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I just returned from Madrid, where I spent part of my Easter holidays visiting friends.The idea was meeting Victoria in Madrid, who was coming from HK to visit Spain and Paris for two weeks. Going two Madrid just for two days sounded like a crazy idea in the beginning. I thought a flight ticket for those days, right in the middle of the holidays, would be a bit overpriced, but fortunately it was

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Maybe some of you have heard of or watched a TV program where a couple consisted of a dancer and a famous person or celebrity show their abilities at dancing in front of the audience. Here in Spain it's called "Mira quien baila", but it most widely known as "Dancing with the stars".Today listening to the latest BBC podcast from Digital Planet. I had the chance of listening an interview with Steve

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Hoy me he topado de casualidad con este video de agencia EFE al entrar en YouTube, y me he acordado de los Hong Kong Sevens, un torneo de rugby 7 (escuadras de siete por equipo) que se celebra todos los años en Hong Kong a finales de Marzo.El torneo dura un fin de semana, y vienen equipos de todas partes del mundo. Lo mejor es el ambiente, miles de fans toman las calles tiñéndolas de color y

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Having lived part of my life in Ireland (ok, it was just a few months, never mind...), celebrating St.Patrick's day is a kind of obligation to me. By the way, St.Patrick was the one who introduced Christianity into Ireland, at the time when Christianity and Catholicism were both the same thing. Nowadays, Irish people care less about the religious meaning of this fest and St.Patrick has turned

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At the end of February I visited London. Finally I could upload the pics to Facebok. It's a shame the plugin for uploading pics is still not working in Linux (at least in Ubuntu Hardy, or maybe it's something I'm doing wrong). Actually, I went there for a conference (more about it here: Back from Software Craftsmanship 2009), but I stayed there till the end of the week.I finally couldn't visited

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Next Thursday I will be attending a software conference in London: Software Craftsmanship, hold at the BBC Media Center.It's a conference about Agile methodologies and test-driven development I know, buzz words. In case you want to know more about it, please check the following links:Software Craftsmanship, a conference all about building it right.Software Craftsmanship: The New

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Since a few months ago I wanted to write something about Rebecca MacKinnon and Global Voices, but because of one thing or another I never find a gap to do it... Rebecca MacKinnon is a well-known journalist with an extensive background in Asia. Although she was born in America, she spent almost all her childhood traveling across Asia, due mainly to her parents academic research (her father was a

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On a previous post, Medicine, no fakes, I reviewed the poisoned milk scandal that shocked China last summer. With that post (in Spanish) I wanted to highlight the lack of regulation in mainland China as well as the low requiring standard that population demands on goods and products. At the same time, I took the chance to make a sour critic to the vast majority of the Western media that covered

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Buscando información acerca del Club 71 para un post anterior sobre Hollywood Road, la calle donde vivía en Hong Kong, encontré esta curiosa entrada sobre este concurrido pub: “When Club 64, the counter-culture nerve centre of Lan Kwai Fong whose name recalled 4 June 1989, the date of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, was forced to close, some of the owners relocated to this quiet alley

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The weekend is over, so as our Chinese New Year celebration on Saturday. As I stated on my previous post (in Spanish), for this year me and my friend Ada, a hongkonger living here, decided to arrange a CNY dinner gathering together friends from the Chinese community and other local friends. We ended up being a big bunch of people, I think around 18 in total, enough to fill two medium size round

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Se acerca el año nuevo chino. Como ya muchos sabreis, el calendario original chino es lunar. Las festividades tradicionales chinas también se rigen por el calendario lunar. Así, algunas fiestas populares como Moon Festival (o Mid-Autumn Festival, 中秋節), el cumpleaños de Buda o el día de los enamorados chino (el 7 día del 7 mes lunar), varían de fecha cada año en el calendario gregoriano, es decir,

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Se va expandiendo la ola web 2.0 y esta semana parece que se ha vuelto todo el mundo loco con Spotify.Básicamente, Spotify es un catálogo de música on-line enorme. La aplicación cliente es una aplicación de escritorio clásica, disponible para Windows, Mac y Linux (a través de wine).La verdad no sé cómo funciona. Parece que, según leo en el artículo de Wikipedia, la transferencia de archivos se

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Hace poquito una amiga me preguntaba cómo hacen los chinos para escribir en un ordenador. Si bien no era la primera vez que me hacían esa pregunta. Quizás pueda parecer confuso, pero parándose a pensar todo idioma existe fundamentalmente en su expresión oral, la escritura es algo adicional, una herramienta que permite entre otras cosas, perpetuar las ideas que transmite el lenguaje en el tiempo

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Happy 2009 to you all! I know I may be a little bit late, but I didn't want to miss the chance of congratulating you a very much happy new year.I don't know why but 2009 seems exciting to me, I got the special feeling that remarkable things are going to happen this year. Same as my personal bet on La Casa Azul single "La revolucion sexual" at the end of 2007 when I predict it would become a

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Hollywood Road is a central street in Hong Kong, located at the Soho neighbourhood in Central area. Reaching upwards from Queen's Road West to the top part of Lan Kwai Fong, Hong Kong's most famous leisure area, Hollywood Road is full of antique & art shops, some the most popular pubs and discos: exclusive Dragon-I, and Alfonso's favourite Homebase...and even you could find on your way one of the

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Chalga, voz búlgara para designar un instrumento musical. La palabra proviene originalmente de chalgadzhia, vocablo que se utiliza para designar a aquella persona capaz de tocar una melodía en virtualmente cualquier instrumento musical, aunque imprimiéndole su propio ritmo.Por extensión, la chalga pasó a referirse a la música folk búlgara, cargada de ritmos orientales, debido principalmente a

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Todo debía salir según lo planificado, nada podía fallar. El plan era bien fácil: levantarse temprano por la mañana, antes de que salga el sol, empaquetarse los macutos a la espalda y dirigirse a la estación de autobuses. Nuestro autobús partía a las 7:30.El día anterior, indagamos en aquella ajena estación de autobús búlgara, con sus indescifrables carteles escritos en un correctísimo cirílico,

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Today we are leaving Belgrade. We left Sofia last Monday, heading for Serbia. It was a big mess to get here indeed, after the bus driver passed through Belgrade and forgot to leave us until we asked him where he should stop. After some arguing, he dropped us off in the middle of a road, having to walk back to Belgrade ourselves. I'll get back to this story on a yet-to-come post.Belgrade has

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Finally, me and Servando got to Sofia last Wednesday really earlier in the morning. Once again, our flight arrived before the expected arrival time, so far so good! Lili kindly came to the airport to pick us. It was very gently from her, because although we got some little information on how to get to the town by taxi (we were warned several times to stay away from the bad taxis, I mean, those

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So, we got to Rome on Sunday evening. For the first time in my life, we arrived earlier, 30 minutes before the estimated arrival time. I usually get on time, other times my flight is delayed but never arrived earlier and with such a difference.I still haven't made the switch in my mind, and understand that I am on holidays. I wake up at 7:00 AM everyday, as I do everyday, which is kind of

Diego Pinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541446834114326948noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211699.post-85695440373633361242008-10-09T23:20:00.004+02:002008-10-10T00:32:43.870+02:00

Have you ever used that application from Facebook, for pinning on a world-map the places where you have lived in or visited? If you are hardcore Facebook user, most likely you know what I am talking about...Besides it's one of the most useful Facebook widgets in my opinion (stop throwing sheeps guys, I do support him) I have to admit a find this application a little bit funny, and I tell you why

Diego Pinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541446834114326948noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211699.post-22243582156856923082008-10-06T22:13:00.003+02:002008-10-06T23:25:43.656+02:00

"Young & Restless in China" is a documentary from PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) ) about the life of 9 youngsters and their efforts to strive in blooming mainland China.The documentary spans over 4 years, starting from 2004, when viewers are given a brief introduction to all the characters: who are they, what's their background and what they expect for their future. Two years later the

Diego Pinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541446834114326948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211699.post-78655612097793611012008-09-27T15:46:00.004+02:002008-09-27T16:32:54.622+02:00

Menudo pollo se ha montado en China con el escándalo de la leche. En España, los medios de información estatales se hicieron eco de la noticia dando la voz de alarma. Como es sabido, las malas noticias siempre se esparcen rápido y en poco menos de una semana la Unión Europea ha comenzado a vetar la importación de productos chinos que pudieran contener lácteos.Como siempre que ocurre un escándalo

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Go Movies! is my last gadget for iGoogle.It lets you search for cinema theathers nearby your town, and see what is showing. It is a convenient way to keep up-to-date about premieres, timetables, etc.Basically, all data is retrieved from Google Movies service. Due to some technical bugs, UTF-8 characters (like Japanese, Chinese, etc) are not correctly handle. In addition, it is important to notice

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As many of you may know, I work in an IT company called Igalia. Igalia's business model is based in free & open-source software, with and strong presence in the Gnome and Maemo communities.Since I started working there I got accustomed to use blogs almost everyday. We use them as internal communication tool, to keep track of our daily work, etc. We also use wikis to communicate with the outside

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He aprovechado estos días de obligado reposo para ver algunas de las películas pendientes que había adquirido en Hong Kong, y vuelto a ver otras pocas, de esas que merecen una segunda (y tercera, y cuarta...) visualización. Una de ellas era The Killing Fields (Los gritos del silencio). El film relata el encuentro y desencuentro del reportero, Sidney Schanberg, y su intérprete, Dith Pran,

Diego Pinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541446834114326948noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211699.post-68148353756983573172008-07-09T17:53:00.007+02:002008-07-10T00:37:27.814+02:00

El lenguaje del cine suele adoptar distintas formas para contar historias. De entre muchas de ellas, una muy frecuente en el cine asiático es la de expresar las relaciones y los sentimientos entre las personas a través de la cocina.Una de mis películas favoritas, del cine en general, pertenece a este peculiar género. Se trata de Tampopo del director japonés Juzo Itami, fallecido prematuramente

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One of the most memorable homemade videos I remember from YouTube is this one of a guy dancing across different places in the world. The guy always stands on the same spot while the background flickers from one place to another, together with the music, makes the whole thing really great.This guy is Matt Harding. I do not know the details, but it seems all started as a joke while travelling

Diego Pinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541446834114326948noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211699.post-13059689805824738132008-06-22T00:16:00.002+02:002008-06-22T01:15:53.050+02:00

Tengo que reconocer que, salvo cuando se trata de hacer tortillas, siempre he sido un 0 a la izquierda cocinando.El otro día, al igual que mujer encinta, me vino un antojo: katsudon. El katsudon, o katsudonburi, es un plato japonés típico que se compone de filete de cerdo empanado y rebozado en huevo sobre una base de arroz. En la cocina japonesa, existen multitud de platos que consisten en una

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Ayer me estaba poniendo al tanto de lo que parece ser el cambio de paradigma en el intercambio de archivos a través de internet ¿para que bajarme un archivo cuando puedo reproducirlo directamente desde el servidor? Supongo que el exito de YouTube, y los cientos de clones que le ha salido, han contribuido a este cambio. Tiene sus puntos positivos: no necesidad de esperar, ahorro de disco duro, y

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La última edición de dutifrí, el programa de viajes de Javier Sardá, ha estado dedicado a Vietnam. Desgraciadamente lo de pernoctar se terminó con mi época de estudiante, sobre todo de domingo a lunes... Decidí entonces apostar todas mis cartas a YouTube! y la jugada me salió redonda.Directo desde Ho Chi Minh, la antigua Saigón, el programa se centra en su primera media hora en la guerra de

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Today's El Pais newspaper feature, on its supplement Cyberpais, an interview with Amir Najjari and Bernardino Todolí, founders of manga and japanese young culture website Export-manga.It's not the first time I talk about Export Manga on the blog, but to summarize a bit, the story goes like this: Amir, who is a good friend of mine, decided finally to move to Japan, despite not been quite sure of

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Today I went back to do some Google Gadget hacking for Amarok Atom Syndication.Amarok Atom Syndication Reader is fine for knowing what I have been recently playing on my Amarok, but enlarging the list does not make it look neat, so in the end, I am just showing the latest 7 entries of my play-list.I wanted to have a look of what I have been recently playing with a glimpse of an eye. So, I thought

Diego Pinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541446834114326948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211699.post-36318374384619592352008-05-11T22:21:00.008+02:002008-05-14T23:52:40.293+02:00

So, finally the so-longed Android Developer Challenge results come up and unfortunately I failed :P. It was not a big surprise for me honestly, since I never expected to win. Being active on the forums and chat channels for the last couple of months were sufficient for me to know the bar will be too high to get qualified for the next round (and win the 25,000 USD btw)However, I got fun developing

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Finally, after a couple of weeks of hard work I managed to tune up Amarok Atom Syndication and release a new version (V0.2.0).Amarok Atom Syndication lets you share your music taste with your friends by syndicating (Atom file format) the music you are currently listening to the net.It uses Google Page Creator to store Atom files.In combination with a web aggregator you can consume, later on, this

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April has gone away without no post, and that breaks my custom of posting something at least once a month. Well, I could always do the tricky thing of re-arranging the date, but well, this time I prefer to be fair, shame on me!It seems that some of my fans were starting to get sick of this thing of the Tibetant conspirancy on the post before (it has been on top quite a long time, hehehe), and

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Leo hoy en El País un interesante artículo de opinión de Xulio Ríos, director del Instituto Galego de Análise e Documentación y también estrecho colaborador de Casa-Asia, sobre las recientes revueltas en el Tíbet.Por una parte, Ríos destaca la estricta rigidez del discurso político del Partido Comunista Chino como elemento erosionador de la crisis.Ese inmovilismo es la clave que ha conducido

Diego Pinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541446834114326948noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211699.post-81911088889030151902008-03-04T22:28:00.005+01:002008-03-04T23:27:47.424+01:00

Acabamos de entrar en Marzo, y ya hace un par de semanas ha florecido el cerezo. En la calle donde vivo, justo a la salida de mi portal, hay un par de ellos.Frente a la monotoneidad de los días, que se suceden uno detrás de otro, las flores de las cerdeiras me han traído, instantáneamente, bellos recuerdos. Recuerdos de que hay algo más que los días, algo más, más allá a lo lejos. Y que incluso

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Hoy es un día especial, 29 de Febrero, un día que sólo ocurre una vez cada cuatro años. Ante tal ocasión, no iba a dejar escapar la oportunidad de actualizar este blog en día tan señalado. Y debo darme prisa porque sólo me queda 1 hora y media aproximadamente...Pues sí, yo siempre había pensado que el día extra de los años bisiestos se debía a una diferencia entre la duración de un día normal y

Diego Pinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541446834114326948noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211699.post-67659264090317408002008-02-16T13:20:00.002+01:002008-02-16T13:48:48.135+01:00

Today I got news from Amir, I didnt know about him since ages, well actually since New Years Eve...Amir is now living in Japan. I posted about his leaving-away on Gambatte!, although in Spanish. Amir has been always fond of Japan, same as me but I think I cannot compare. On April 2007 he decided to move to Japan prompted by the chance of training with one of the best Aikidou sensei in the world,

Diego Pinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541446834114326948noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211699.post-25149618983869681722008-01-20T18:45:00.000+01:002008-01-20T21:53:01.765+01:00

Alguien dijo que "En la era de la información lo importante no es tener la información sino saber cómo localizarla"Ayer, me preguntaba mi hermano Fran si tenía algún libro sobre economía japonesa. En el primer momento, lo único que se me vino a la cabeza fue "Historia breve de Japón" de Mikiso Hane editado en España por Alianza Editorial, un ensayo con pinta de tostón que sigue olvidado en mi

Diego Pinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541446834114326948noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211699.post-79246600857540466432008-01-14T23:22:00.000+01:002008-01-14T23:47:54.478+01:00

This is a rather old trick, many of you may know it, but today I came up with this at work, and showed it to some of my workmates. Interestingly enough, I learned this trick myself from my workmate Quique.Using gmail, it is possible for the sender to send an already labeled email. For example, let's guess that I saw an interesting job offer and I though of my friend John who maybe interested. I

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La Casa Azul es el alter-ego del artista pop catalán Guille Milkiway. La verdad, no conocía el grupo hasta ahora, pero por lo que he leído en foros y blogs, su anterior disco, editado hace 4 años, tuvo muy buenas críticas dentro de la escena pop independiente.Su nuevo single, La revolución sexual, editado hace apenas 2 meses, se está empezando a expandir como la pólvora, y sin obviar los nuevos

Diego Pinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541446834114326948noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211699.post-30374083199273838652007-12-18T21:35:00.000+01:002007-12-18T22:28:33.604+01:00

Esta foto, tomada en algún lugar de Taipei en la segunda quincena de Octubre de 2006, resume a la perfección el arte de "no hacer nada".Cuando una imagen vale más que mil palabrasNo sólo el trabajador no está haciendo nada, sino que, además, está pretendiendo hacer algo. Ya se sabe que en la filosofía china conceptos aparentemente antagonicos pueden llegar a conciliarse en el seno del yin y el

Diego Pinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541446834114326948noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211699.post-22227719356707515752007-11-30T17:05:00.000+01:002007-12-01T18:20:30.708+01:00

It has been a long time since the last entry...As many of you know, I just have spent almost 20 days in Hong Kong, since November 2nd till 20th. I went there for holidays, I had to consume those days-off before the year ended, and I thought it was not better place to go other than Hong Kong, xD.Top of all, I was really longing to see again all my former acquaintances and friends there...and

Diego Pinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541446834114326948noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211699.post-40814379237637172912007-10-20T16:02:00.000+02:002007-10-20T18:19:31.150+02:00

El pasado miércoles 17 de Octubre el Club Faro de Vigo, ubicado en el paraninfo de la Unversidad de Vigo, tuvo como ilustre invitado a Eugenio Bregolat, actual embajador de España en Andorra.La carrera diplomática de Bregolat, de quién ya hablé en un post anterior (Vivir en tiempos interesantes), se remonta a comienzos de los años 70. A lo largo de todo este tiempo Bregolat ha sido embajador en

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This is an example post to blogger using Apache AbderaMore info:Getting to know the Atom Publishing Protocol, Part 1 by James SnellGetting to know the Atom Publishing Protocol, Part 2 by James SnellGetting to know the Atom Publishing Protocol, Part 3 by James Snell

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Estaba viendo un video de Chris Anderson, autor de la teoría de la larga cola (the long tail), en el que hablaba de la cada vez más imperceptible división entre los medios profesionales y los aficionados. En ese sentido, Chris recordaba la necesidad de los profesionales de la información de tener que pertenecer a un grupo editorial, necesidad de acreditarse para cubrir un evento, etc. En ese

Diego Pinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14541446834114326948noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9211699.post-33690152479924527252007-10-03T22:09:00.000+02:002007-10-03T22:27:46.979+02:00

Ultimamente por las mañanas, de camino al trabajo, sintonizo Europa FM. Es el horario de los matinales, distendidos, que nos ponen al corriente de la actualidad al tiempo que nos amenizan con espacios de humor.En Europa FM, de 6:00 a 10:00 de la mañana hacen el espacio Ya te digo con José Miguel Cruz y Rosa Rosado. Dentro del programa, a eso de las 8:10, toca la sección "Díselo a la cara". Es la

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Here is Amarok Atom Syndication best friend: Amarok Atom Syndication Reader!!!Last week I saw on a blog a Last.fm gadget for showing what last songs have you recently played on Last.fm. I use a RSS Reader widget from Blogger to do that with my syndicated Amarok track list, but I was not totally happy.Google implements a policy on Google Reader for only refreshing caches every hour, the same

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Via thursday night, me encuentro esta divertida charla: "How to succeed writing Mac software" ( or how to make a zillion dollars and do not lose your soul) de Wil Shipley, fundador de OmniGroup . En teoría la presentación versa sobre cómo y por qué escribir software para Mac, pero es más bien una especie de hoja de ruta del emprendedor. Recomendable tanto si estais en el mundo del sw como sino.

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Introducing Amarok Atom SyndicationApart from the new look&feel of my blog, maybe some of yoy have noticed a new widget on the right-side panel which shows the recent tracks played on my computer. It seems there's nothing new there, a similar widget exists from Last.fm for example...The thing is that couple of months ago I got one of those crazy ideas which sometimes come to my mind (and most

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Supongamos que tuviese un amigo, que ese amigo fuera malayo y que se llamase King...Dios mio, que no se me entienda mal, necesito compartir esto y saber si el mundo esta loco o, por el contrario, soy yo el que se ha vuelto loco. Resulta que acabo de hablar con mi amigo King por teléfono y me ha contado lo siguiente:Hace un par de meses King pujó por un álbum de Sailor Moon en ebay para su amigo

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Hace un par de meses me pasé por Santiago para hacerle una visitilla a Diego. Mientras charlábamos y tomábamos algo en el acogedor salón de su casa, mis ojos advirtieron un singular objeto relacionado con Oriente en una de sus estanterías. Era un libro, en su lomo ponía Pyongyang.- "Pyongyang...es la capital de Corea del Norte".- "Sí, es un cómic de un cuñao que pasa una temporada en Pyongyang.

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Durante todo este verano, la última página de El País ha venido publicando una nueva sección titulada Consagrados y Novatos, en la que se una figura veterana y otra primeriza contrastan sus impresiones.Para el pasado número del 23 de Agosto, el periódico ha reunido a Eugenio Bregolat, actual embajador de Andorra, y a Yera Ortiz de Urbina, actualmente destinada en la oficina consular de Bagdad.

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Sigo con mi regla no escrita de postear al menos una vez al mes. Ójala fueran más veces, pero menos es nada. Gracias a Jano por preocuparte. Mucho te debes aburrir en el curro...xD.Mañana comienzan mis esperadas vacaciones. Por fin! Estaré ausente una semana, no mucho tiempo, pero como sé que será muy improbable que escriba algo a mi regreso, prefiero hacerlo ahora.Desde julio pocas novedades. En

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There's is a song which continuously beats in my mind at the start of every week. I know there are many songs talking about blue Mondays...but the funny thing with this song is that I have never actually heard it. My friend, and former Dublin flatmate, Dan, hummed it for me once when he once told me about DJ Shadow. We were both excited talking about Australian unique band The Avalanches, and he

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Against all odds, Spanish mass-media has barely covered the events of the 10th handover anniversary. To make things even worse, official visit of Spanish King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia to mainland China have eclipsed all news from Asia. For instance, on Friday's evening as I was stick to my TV set to see if I could catch any information about the 10th anniversary, the most remarkable new which

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El próximo domingo 1 de Julio se cumplen 10 años desde la transferencia de soberanía de Hong Kong a la República Popular China.Recuerdo que aquel año estaba yo en 1º de carrera. Los estudiantes de derecho, con los que compartiamos edificio, barajaban la posibilidad de irse a Hong Kong como viaje de ecuador. Me pareció increible la idea de poder viajar a Hong Kong, pero claro, debía de ser

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La noticia ya tiene varios meses, pero me apetecia comprobarlo in situ.http://www.shanghaiist.com/archives/2007/04/03/china_and_hong.phpPues si, es verdad. Usando el servidor mundial de mapas de Google, China permanece oculta, mientras que si se usa el servidor chino de Google, Hong Kong permanece oculto (y el resto del mundo tambien dicho sea de paso).Hong Kong visto desde el servidor mundial

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El primero, el legislativo; el segundo, el ejecutivo y el tercero, el judicial. Tras este último, los medios de comunicación, el cuarto poder. Así lo definió en el siglo XVIII el escritor y político Edmund Burke por la capacidad de estos para, no sólo reflejar la opinión pública, sino también para crearla.El advenimiento de las tecnologías de la información e internet, ha abaratado enormemente

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Desde que he empezado a trabajar en Igalia he estado lidiando con php, de nuevo otra vez, y mas en concreto con el CMS Typo3. Un CMS (Content-Management-System) es un software que en teoria nos facilita la creacion y administracion de un sitio web. Y digo en teoria porque Typo3 no es precisamente sencillo, aunque eso si, tiene pinta de ser muy potente.Since I started working at Igalia I have been

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"Cuando el eje de la tierra se haya inclinado totalmente todas las brújulas apuntarán a Japón"Y por fin te llegó ese día, ese que llevabas largo tiempo esperando, incluso mucho antes de saber que te ibas.El pasado 26 de Abril, un buen amigo mío, Amir, dejó lo poco que aquí le ataba y partió rumbo a Oriente. En los 50 la gente hacia las Américas, después Europa: Suiza, Alemania, Francia. Hoy los

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I tried taking pictures, but they were so mediocre. I guess every girl goes through a photography phase. You know, horses... taking dumb pictures of your feetCharlotte, Lost in TranslationPS: This is the laziest thing I have ever done in my life...

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It seems all-powerful Google is embracing and extending the Internet these days. There is not little space on the Internet Google do not have a business plan for it.First was Flickr (I always get confused writing it) and now is Picasa Web Albums. I love Flickr, they have increased the space quota for its users up to 2GB, a big stake to be honest. They also have increased the amount of MB a user

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不出戶知天下 不窺牖見天道。 其出彌遠其知彌少。 是以聖人不行而知 不見而明不為而成************************************** Without going outside his door,one understands (all that takes place) under the sky;without looking out from his window,one sees the Tao of Heaven.The farther that one goes out (from himself),the less he knows.Therefore the sages got their knowledge without travelling;gave their (right) names to things without

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My brother Fran passes me a link of a new rock band. Nothing new there, but this time is not just another rock band...Their name is Pepino and it is formed by just two members: Karawapo, from Spain, and Ai from Japan. Currently located in Japan, they have started to gain some ground in the scene very recently so their popularity is increasing. The interesting thing with them is that their songs

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Come back home after 15 months of living abroad can be very tough. I never expected to find myself as I was a month ago, now I am getting along with everything here again...I guess one changes smoothly without even notice it, step by step, little by little. One day, all in a sudden, you find yourself back. You are not the same although everything around you remains mostly the same. You had

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"Porque el amor de por sí no es lo bastante complicado"Today is 14th February, that means Saint Valentine's Day. It is also my dear friend Agustín's birthday. It is the good thing of having been born on such special day, nobody forgives your birthday.I know everybody speaks bullshit about how commercial this event is and stuff, but let's to be honest about this, girls particularly love it!!! (I

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Today post at Kirainet.com talks about horrendous buildings in Japan, with an special mention to Hong Kong which according to Kirai's opinion has the ugliests buildings in the world. Well, I know most of the few who read this blog may live in one of those buildings...To be honest I was really struck when I got to Hong Kong and started to search for an apartment. But people's mind change fast and

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Dave Sifry is the CEO of Technoratti, a blog search company regarded as one of the flagships of the Web 2.0 movement.From 24th till 28th of January World Economic Forum has been held in Davos. Several topics have been on the prowl, and one of them has been Web 2.0, of course. Therefore, the most important world-wide IT CEOs have attended the meeting.On this interview Dave Sifry is being asked for

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I like Gorillaz very much and also like Hong Kong very much. This is what happen when they meet each other. Lovely vc, best music!! really touching...

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Jesssus!!! I cannot believe it. I found it! at least! and it was pretty amazing how I did it indeed. But first let me tell you the story behing this picture.De izquierda a derecha: Juan, Alfonso, Clara, Ivan, Fernando, Diego (yo), María VeraSo here we are...This picture was taking on our first days in Hong Kong. If I am not wrong I think it was taken around 9th October 2005, more than a year ago.

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Now that I am here in Spain it is going to be my goal to bring you all a glance of how Spain is like, so you can have a better understanding of this country, how we think, etc so in the end, I hope you can also have a better understanding of my behaviour, my character or any other Spaniard you may know.What I am going to talk today I found it on a friend's blog, macada.net (I also posted a

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Searching for something today on my computer I found something interesting. I don't know what's the reason I kept this at that moment, but I felt longing when I took a look at it again.It happened on a 12th of July almost two years ago. I remember I couldn't sleep that night, too much pressure on me, all my future depended on whether I were on that list or not. On the next morning, when I went on

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Hey! It seems I am updating this blog more than ever...I read once somewhere "In this world there are two kind of persons: those who live a live and those who keep their blog updated". That's interesting...If you don't update your blog that means your life is plenty of wonderful experiences you don't even have time to put them down in writting or simply it means your life is so boring that nobody

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So you thought I would never update this site. You're wrong! nevertheless I did not start this blog just for relating my adventures in Hong Kong one year ago. This is more like a way for being in contact with those who know me and, from time to time, rather to say very seldom, wander about how I am doing (I have seen no comments on the last three posts). Thanks to this blog, I am always just

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Antes de venir para aquí, todo el mundo me recomendaba que no me fuese de Asia sin haber visitado Camboya. Cada vez que le preguntaba a alguien: "¿Qué es lo que más te ha gustado de Asia?", Camboya siempre figuraba en la respuesta. Desde entonces, tenía la espinita de Camboya clavada y a principios de Diciembre decidí quitarmela, junto con Filipinas y Malasia, pero eso ya es otra historia.Cómo

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