| I currently work within a 5 minutes walk from Hyde Park, which -contrary to what one would expect- is not my favorite lunch spot. Very few people have heard of Mount Street gardens, an authentic paradise in the heart of the city. This quiet place (initially a burial ground) is sheltered between red-brick buildings, making it nicely warmer during winter. Curiously enough, the gardens can be seen for a few seconds in a Woody Allen production. |  |
Add comment May 31st, 2006
| Cris and Oscar got married on March 25th, 2006. One of the best parts of the wedding was, with no doubt, the soundtrack. Although we knew both the bride and groom are geeks, we were not expecting to hear tunes from Kill Bill during the banquet…
Hurray for the married couple! |
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Add comment May 30th, 2006
The heterotic string consists of a closed string that has two types of vibrations, clockwise and counterclockwise, which are treated differently. The clockwise vibrations live in a ten-dimensional space. The counterclockwise live in a 26-dimensional space, of which 16 dimensions have been compactified. (We recall that in Kaluza’s original five-dimensional, the fifth dimension was compactified by being wrapped up into a circle.)
[Michio Kaku on the structure of Universe]
Add comment May 28th, 2006
Not only have you been lucky enough to be attached since time immemorial to a favoured evolutionary line, but you have also been extremely – make that miraculously – fortunate in your personal ancestry. Consider the fact that for 3.8 billion years, a period of time older than the Earth’s mountains and rivers and oceans, every one of your forebears on both sides has been attractive enough to find a mate, healthy enough to reproduce, and sufficiently blessed by fate and circumstances to live long enough to do so. Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stuck fast, untimely wounded or otherwise deflected from its life’s quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result – eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly – in you.
[Bill Bryson]
Add comment May 21st, 2006
What do you gain by knowing my name?
I have a new one every night,
and following the voice of instinct
I launch out into a hunt…
I imagine, doll, that a man
-more than that: a sincere lover-
who dares to lose his respect for me.
don’t you want to try?
I gave the barman a thousand as a tip,
I drained the beer in one gulp,
Guessed right whoever named this bar
“the temple of thrill”.
Worse for the Sun that sets at seven
in a cradle of sea and snores,
while I myself
lift up the skirt of the Moon.
[Peor para el sol - Joaquín Sabina]
Add comment May 20th, 2006
The Java programming language is famous for being too efficient. Even the most complex programs written in Java, like Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Windows ME, can run with only 640 bytes of RAM, at near instantaneous speed. And because Java is platform independent, this speed is achieved regardless of the machine it’s running on. For instance, Java 1.2 can compute an infinite loop in as little as 1.2 minutes—hence the name. As such, it is very seldom used in the corporate world, which values slow, bloated breasts that requires constant upgrades. It is therefore used primarily by university students to create illegal file sharing software, like Microsoft Outlook. In the late eighteenth century, there were some thousand riots because of Java. The reason for the riots was the bad generics implementation, causing Java to become open source. The efficiency is achieved by the use of bytecodes, though actual speed depends on how much code byting your processor can do. This is also the reason why sharks are better Java programmers.
[from Uncyclopedia]
1 comment May 19th, 2006
| Spring is currently one of the trendiest buzzwords in the programming arena. A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend a seminar by its creator, Rod Johnson, which was mainly focused on the upcoming version of this framework. Although the chat was full of marketoid jargon, including countless acronyms such as AOP, IoC and J2EE, it was nice to see Rod face to face and absorb some of his interesting ideas. |  |
Add comment May 18th, 2006
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Q: Why do firemen wear red suspenders? A: To conform with departmental regulations concerning uniform dress. |
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