If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’m working on the presentation for Sticky Websites next Monday. In order to do a final review at work before sending it off, I need to download Microsoft’s PPT 2007 viewer for my PC at work, so I went [...]
Posted on September 10th, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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Katia went to Paris to see an interior design exhibition, so I was left to fend off for myself in London for the weekend. I had planned to finish the Sticky Websites presentation, which I did on Saturday morning, but then what…
Rave, of course! Alex had got the tickets on the net, which was very [...]
Posted on September 9th, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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Apple is announcing something tomorrow. That much is clear, but not a lot more.
According to this report from Spanish daily El PaĆs, it’s an annoucement in London and features a DAB radio-receiving iPod, a new version of iTunes with a completely revamped user interface -if they’re asking for votes, I vote for this one, please. [...]
Posted on September 4th, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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It used to be, when I worked there, that I sometimes thought about Nokia and its interesting relationship with the media.
I’ve always maintained that, at the core, the only reason behind the success of the behemoth was the sheer number of people willing to work there for a very low salary, out of misplaced Finnish [...]
Posted on September 4th, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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For a few days, the XP desktop in the living room -the one we use to watch movies, play music and get remote access from outside the house- had been misbehaving. I thought it was the usual been on for too long syndrome, but as the machine has to be always on, I did the [...]
Posted on September 3rd, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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Yesterday, Saturday the 1st of September was Katia’s 28th. Celebrations started in earnest on the night of the Friday. I cooked a nice dinner of Cod with a continental style sauce and fresh oriental mushrooms, served on a flat monster mushroom and spiced tomato bed and crowned by asparagus-like shooting broccoli stems. Contemporary cooking [...]
Posted on September 2nd, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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