Gibraltar airport (LXGB) is such a nice place to practice take-offs and landings due to the nature of its runway (just above the water) and the “Rock”, a big monolithic limestone located right next to it.
First landing in FlighGear
Yes! Finally! I did it! XD After almost a month learning the basics being able to take off, it was time to have the first landing. In this case I broke the front landing gear, but hey, nobody died =P
¿Por qué es tan lenta la conexión por fibra óptica en Australia?, en SBS Radio
A través de la periodista Rocío Otoya, Carmenza Jiménez y yo hemos hablado hoy sobre la polémica respecto a la conexión de fibra óptica en Australia. En la entrevista realizada en la edición en Español de la australiana SBS Radio explico brevemente y por encima de qué trata todo esto. Para ver más del programa haz […]
First full landing in FlightGear
After the updated a couple of days ago of my first landing, this was the logic continuation. First “landing no breaking the landing gear”. Yeah, not breaking anything is a plus!
How to send a message to Google
Why is so hard to contact Google? Well, I’m sure I’m not the first one trying to communicate something with Google, as when you dig in the help pages you only get infinite levels of FAQ sections where you can’t actually write anything to them. I had some special problems with my Gmail account, so […]
Toy, Yello’s last album
My impression of the new album, Toy The await was long, but finally arrived. The new album of Yello, Toy, is impressive, exceeding my personal expectations about an album of this kind of music that is released nowadays. By far, my favourite song is Frautonium, and it’s because it uses a […]
¿Son los escépticos unos cabezones?
¿Escéptico de mente cerrada? Si te consideras escéptico te habrá pasado. Seguro que te han llamado obstinado, stubborn o se han quejado de lo cerrada que es tu mente al discutir. Digo yo, ¿no son los escépticos precisamente los que más rápido aceptan los cambios? Me explico. Como escéptico me considero una persona que, a […]
El traje nuevo del emperador [Resumen]
El traje nuevo del emperador como cuento, junto al “Aún aprendo” de Goya y otros, es uno de mis referentes intelectuales en cuanto a cómo afrontar la vida. No siendo fan de los libros de autoayuda, me gusta recostarme al abrigo de las ideas que ciertas obras evocan, es mi modo de autoayudarme, pues. En […]
‘Quixote & México’ vs ‘Quijote & Méjico’
Navegando por Internet he encontrado algunos interesantes debates sobre la pronunciación de la x en el español, donde sobresalen términos como ‘Don Quixote‘ o ‘México‘, los cuales se deben pronunciar como si tuviese una J, esto es, como ‘Don Quijote‘ o ‘Méjico‘. Aunque aquí tenemos la primera diferencia porque, en escritos contemporáneos, encontramos ‘Don Quijote‘ […]
The myth of water intake per day
The health myth that just won’t go away Yes, is just a myth. No, there’s no scientific evidence that we need to drink 8 glasses of water per day. Like E. Carroll says, “Most of this quantity is contained in prepared foods.. Water is present in fruits and vegetables. It’s in juice, it’s in […]
The Bechdel-Wallace test
The rules now known as the Bechdel-Wallace test first appeared in 1985 in Alison Bechdel’s comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For. In a strip titled “The Rule“, two women, who resemble the future characters Mo and Ginger, discuss seeing a film and the black woman explains that she only goes to a movie […]
Country detection via PHP
Imagine a example.com with some example.com/es, example.com/fr with content related to each country. One solution is a javascript-based country detector that could ask the visitor to change the current site to the most appropriate one regarding to the visitors origin. The problem with this solution is that the user needs to load the content twice, and […]
Basic flexbox structure
Flexbox! That thing, everyone talks about that but anyone actually knows how to handle it =P Well, I’m not the most expert in flexbox, but I have some experience dealing with it. As usual, I’m not going to give a big explanation about this, but instead I’m leaving here a piece of code ready to […]