My faith in humanity knows no bounds

In my humble opinion this video sums up how modern civilization works. On a sidenote Nintendo revealed yesterday a video with some game footage for their upcoming Wii console. It got me horny and thinking that why on earth would

One day you are a top rated consultancy…

… and the next you are a forgotten scrap inside the guts of a DNS machine somewhere in the backlot of a redneck landfill. What am I talking about? Back in 2000 I started working for what back then was

Forget all those teambuilding techniques

At the office we just kicked off the first amateur cooking contest. Each edition an ingredient will be chosen ala Iron Chef and all the dishes have to be prepared with that special something. And a lot of love, of

When hackers became pirates…

Or “how can localization fuck it up”. Try to accessing the Blogger’s Help site. Everything looks normal, right? Specially if you use a computer whose default language is set to English. Now, try to set that default language to Spanish.

I’ll correct you, rather than answer your questions

Gregor Hohpe is an engineer at Google that was lucky (or deserveful) enough to get invited to a workshop by Tim O’Reilly, along with people like Bill Scott, Jeniffer Tidwill, Cal Henderson, John Musser and Martin Fowler. The theme of

Professional Procrastinator

In the age of instant messaging, photo-sharing, mobblogging, ego-wanking and such procrastination has become such an easy thing to do. Before this time trying to unfocus your tasks into useless yet fulfilling activities meant an actual effort. Nowadays you just