tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91156446058333841382024-03-13T21:16:17.380+01:00X de XavierUnos y ceros. A veces, en el orden adecuado.-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-17432009706251968372009-09-16T06:27:00.002+01:002009-09-16T06:34:27.793+01:00Smarter Work: Why Social Networks Matter<a href="http://sachachua.com/wp/2009/09/15/brainstorming-around-smart-work/">Sacha Chua rocks, as usual</a><br /><br /><div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_2004030"><a style="font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/sachac/smarter-work-why-social-networks-matter" title="Smarter Work: Why Social Networks Matter">Smarter Work: Why Social Networks Matter</a><object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=20090915-smartwork-090915222031-phpapp01&stripped_title=smarter-work-why-social-networks-matter"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=20090915-smartwork-090915222031-phpapp01&stripped_title=smarter-work-why-social-networks-matter" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">documents</a> from <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/sachac">Sacha Chua</a>.</div></div>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-62569797366992529532009-01-05T08:41:00.003+01:002009-01-05T08:47:16.295+01:002009 User's guide. First draft<div style="padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/xverges/3170137182/" title="2009 User's guide. First draft"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1061/3170137182_d14d93cfc5.jpg" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 400px;" alt="" /></a><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:78%;" ><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/xverges/3170137182/">2009 User's guide. First draft</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/xverges/">-Xv</a>.</span></div><p>A first draft of my 2009 resolutions/guidelines. Inspired by <a href="http://sachachua.com/wp/2008/12/24/sketches-2008-highlights/">Sacha Chua</a>.<br /></p><p><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >make eyes shine, awe, patience, focus, simplify<br />start early, meditation, run, food, quit<br />play, listen, notes, realistic drawing, hack</span><br /></p>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-42380732407717356282008-11-25T13:57:00.007+01:002008-11-25T15:01:59.067+01:00Tweets my friends like<a href="http://twitter.com/home">Twitter</a> lets you mark as favorites the tweets you like. Some people doesn't care about this, but others do add stars to tweets that are fun, enlightening, or both. I wanted to be aware of what my twitter friends mark as favorite, and after no obvious google hit, <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/">Yahoo! Pipes</a> came <a href="http://xdexavier.blogspot.com/2007/12/tag-decorated-feeds.html">again</a> to the rescue.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T679aggANRU/SSv7PoRMxAI/AAAAAAAAAKw/7XdxbhXprco/s1600-h/twitterFavorites.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 398px; height: 312px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_T679aggANRU/SSv7PoRMxAI/AAAAAAAAAKw/7XdxbhXprco/s400/twitterFavorites.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272584034693465090" border="0" /></a><br />The pipe creates a feed with the tweets that some one's contacts have marked as a favorite. Keep in mind that it only works for the up to 36 contacts that are shown in a user's page, since I did not want to get into the authentication issues required to get a full list of contacts. If you want, you can add additional users, that don't need to be your contacts.<br /><br />Customize it with your accounts and grab it at <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/xverges/friendsfavs">http://pipes.yahoo.com/xverges/friendsfavs</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Credits:</span> <a href="http://microformats.org/">Microformat</a>-scrapping the page is the only way I that found to get access to a list of contacts without authentication. I used Duane Cato's <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/duanecato/microformat_extract">Microformats contacts extractor</a> as a starting point, and just copied how he uses <a href="http://microformatique.com/optimus/">http://microformatique.com/optimus/</a> to grab the info that twitter kindly puts in <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard">hCard</a>s.-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-63266116023371594852008-10-09T06:12:00.002+01:002008-10-09T07:20:06.301+01:00Passion for the craft<a href="http://rtpscrolls.blogspot.com/">Denilson Nastacio</a>'s <a href="http://rtpscrolls.blogspot.com/2008/09/passion-for-business-or-for-craft.html">unsolicited advice to executive teams</a>:<br /><blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;">promote a passion for the craft rather than demanding a passion for the business. That is empowerment over chastisement. People who understand their craft are more likely to be enthusiastic about it, when people discover they can learn something new and become good at it, they are inspired; with any luck, even passionate.<br /><br />When people are enthusiastic about what they do, and that boundless enthusiasm is backed by technique rather than unchecked madness, customers tend to love it too. And when that feeling of elation comes out of succeeding at a task or beating a competitor, chalk one up to a job well planed and well done, not for passion for the business.</span></blockquote><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://headrush.typepad.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://headrush.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/06/buythis.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Graphic from <a href="http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/">Creating Passionate Users</a></span><br /></div><br />My own unsolicited advice? Read Denilson's <a href="http://rtpscrolls.blogspot.com/2008/09/passion-for-business-or-for-craft.html">full post</a>, keep in mind his story about that goalkeeper's career, and enjoy being passionate (about something you can understand and can take away with you wherever you go).<br /><br />Mmmm, I'm now scheduling a meeting with myself to review my latest career decisions. (Hi, M-the-sweet-hurricane! My being green with envy about your passion and focus on working on a radical career change also have lots to do with this meeting :-)-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-85141631328936776072008-08-09T00:37:00.003+01:002008-08-09T01:06:33.791+01:00Verbose business cards<a href="http://twitter.com/kellypuffs/statuses/881734310">Learned</a> from <a href="http://kellypuffs.wordpress.com/">Kellypuffs</a> that linkedin users can get <a href="http://www.moo.com/linkedin/">50 free MOO cards</a>. Enter <a href="http://mrfeinberg.com/">Jonathan Feinberg</a>'s <a href="http://wordle.net/">Wordle</a> (and a bit of javascript).<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/70148893@N00/2745494200/" title="Wordle for business cards by -Xv, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/2745494200_71cfeb96ae.jpg" height="270" width="500" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/70148893@N00/2744656971/" title="Wordle for business cards by -Xv, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3082/2744656971_090fdffb5d.jpg" height="241" width="500" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/70148893@N00/2744657495/" title="Wordle for business cards by -Xv, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/2744657495_db55594008.jpg" height="296" width="500" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/70148893@N00/2744657227/" title="Wordle for business cards by -Xv, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3056/2744657227_13d314e37f.jpg" height="297" width="500" /></a>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-19124637713105336942008-07-10T23:12:00.004+01:002008-07-10T23:38:40.104+01:00Another reason to want a DS......and another reason why <a href="http://sachachua.com/wp/">Sacha Chua</a> rocks: <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sachac/how-to-sketch-with-the-nintendo-ds/">How to sketch with the Nintendo DS</a><br /><div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_412314"><object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=sketching-1211041949495411-8"/><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=sketching-1211041949495411-8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/?src=embed"><img src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/logo_embd.png" style="border:0px none;margin-bottom:-5px" alt="SlideShare"/></a> | <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sachac/how-to-sketch-with-the-nintendo-ds?src=embed" title="View How to sketch with the Nintendo DS on SlideShare">View</a> | <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/upload?src=embed">Upload your own</a></div></div><br /><br />And while you are at slideshare, check Sacha's <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sachac/web20work-in-pursuit-of-passion">Web2.0@work: In Pursuit Of Passion</a>:<br /><div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_412658"><object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=inpursuitofpassion-1211066352609558-9"/><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=inpursuitofpassion-1211066352609558-9" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/?src=embed"><img src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/logo_embd.png" style="border:0px none;margin-bottom:-5px" alt="SlideShare"/></a> | <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/sachac/web20work-in-pursuit-of-passion?src=embed" title="View Web2.0@work: In Pursuit Of Passion on SlideShare">View</a> | <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/upload?src=embed">Upload your own</a></div></div><br />I liked the "<span style="font-style:italic;">Cynicism (...) directly affects the bottom line</span>" quote from <a href="http://www.howsmatter.com/thebook/">Dov Seidman's <span style="font-style:italic;">How</span></a>. And, for that matter, falling into cynicism also makes work suck.-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-35635755022325626262008-05-29T07:15:00.003+01:002008-05-29T07:20:12.326+01:00Milers de blocs a les escoles<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://blocs.xtec.cat/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; " src="http://blocs.xtec.cat/wp-content/themes/home/css/img/fonsLogo2.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Via <a href="http://janquim.blogspot.com/2008/05/professors-que-innoven.html">janquim</a>, aprenc que a <a href="http://blocs.xtec.cat/">http://blocs.xtec.cat/</a> hi ha més de 11.000 blocs d'escoles, d'accéss lliure i privat. La <span style="font-style: italic;">meva</span> escola en té un!</div>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-16626972380992618282007-12-30T14:03:00.000+01:002007-12-30T14:55:55.888+01:00Tag-decorated feeds<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_T679aggANRU/R3eXdF14IMI/AAAAAAAAADE/wM8nnW6DIYo/s1600-h/tagged-feed.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_T679aggANRU/R3eXdF14IMI/AAAAAAAAADE/wM8nnW6DIYo/s320/tagged-feed.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149751224961605826" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://xdexavier.blogspot.com/2006/11/arriba-los-tags.html">Tags should be a good cue to tell us if a blog post should be read or skipped</a>. I find puzzling that most (all?) feed readers just ignore tags. Surprisingly enough, I could not find any feed decorator.<br /><br /><a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/">Yahoo! Pipes</a> to the rescue: after some <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">copy'n'paste</span>, a pipe that decorates feeds appending to every post title its categories (for atom and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">rss</span> 2 feeds), and also adds the tags to the top of the post: <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/xverges/tagsintitle">http://pipes.yahoo.com/xverges/tagsintitle</a><br /><br />This one does the same, but also adds the results from Yahoo! Term Extraction to the top of the post. I just cooked it, so I am not really sure if the list of terms is a useful addition: <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/xverges/tagsandtermextraction">http://pipes.yahoo.com/xverges/tagsandtermextraction</a><br /><br />Annoying side effects: the feed name, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">url</span> and description become those of the pipe, so a bit of manual work is required after subscribing to a feed. I hope <a href="http://discuss.pipes.yahoo.com/Message_Boards_for_Pipes/threadview?m=te&bn=pip-DeveloperHelp&tid=1131&mid=1131&tof=3&frt=2#1131">they fix it...</a>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-64785405930840091212007-05-15T20:53:00.000+01:002007-05-15T19:56:36.345+01:00Disappointed by "The No Asshole Rule"<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1847440002?ie=UTF8&tag=xdexavie-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1847440002"><br /><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/11K2YXPJH9L._AA_.jpg" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" /></a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=xdexavie-21&l=as2&o=2&a=1847440002" alt="" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" border="0" height="1" width="1" /><br />Not that I'm disappointed by the concept of having zero-tolerance attitude towards assholes, but by <a href="http://bobsutton.typepad.com/">Bob Sutton</a>'s book on it: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1847440002?ie=UTF8&tag=xdexavie-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1847440002">The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilised Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=xdexavie-21&l=as2&o=2&a=1847440002" alt="" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" border="0" height="1" width="1" />. The back cover promised <span style="font-style: italic;">hilarious examples</span> in <span style="font-style: italic;">a funny, defiant little book</span>. An enjoyable <a href="http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/10/you_have_to_lov.html">review by Guy Kawasaki</a> and lots of good ratings in Amazon also made it look like a good read. And I have this dear friend working at Jerk Avenue, and I sort of hoped getting something for her. But the book, aside from making me take a little time to reflect a bit about my own episodes as an asshole [1][2], was just boring.<br /><br />Maybe the problem is that before the first page I was already in agreement with the author, and I did not need the additional 170 pages. Or that I'm lucky enough of not having had to deal with assholes at work in quite a while. Or that I'm not involved in hiring any team. Or that I'm not a certified asshole.<br /><br />Bob Sutton has done a very nice service making explicit the No Asshole Rule [3] and bringing focus to it. But I just did not need that many asshole stories and that much evidence about its virtues.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">[1] A surprising book in improving my self asshole-ness awareness was </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0141030062?ie=UTF8&tag=xdexavie-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0141030062">Leadership and Self-deception: Getting Out of the Box</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=xdexavie-21&l=as2&o=2&a=0141030062" alt="" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" border="0" height="1" width="1" /> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="http://w3.ibm.com/education/protect/CGRedirectorServlet.wss?request_name=services_BooksAction&bkid=1908">link for IBMers</a>)</span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >. </span><span style="font-size:85%;">I'm pasting a comment I made on <a href="http://rooreynolds.com/2006/12/04/reading-list/">Roo Reynolds blog</a>, who said about it, </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >"it made me think about the nature of selfishness. Not every book does that":</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><blockquote style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Your minimalist recommendation has made me read Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box . Thanks for that. I liked the storytelling approach, and, as "advertised" by you, it is really making me think. A lot.<br /><br />My 2c for anyone else feeling tempted by the book: it is a book for anyone dealing with humans, no matter if the leadership stuff has any appeal to you.</span></blockquote><span style="font-size:85%;">[2] All this writing about my asshole-ness may convey the impression that I'm a jerk. My mum and I think that I'm quite nice. But the asshole path is always there...<br />[3] If you want the No Asshole Rule enforced, you can <a href="http://kellypuffs.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/vote-for-kellypuffs/">vote for Kellypuffs</a> if you ever find that she is running for some election.</span>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-41763351587962417962007-04-27T13:52:00.000+01:002007-04-27T14:11:55.926+01:00Evangelizing and toilets<span class="q"><blockquote>One of Google's little secrets that has helped us to inspire our developers to write well-tested code: <span style="font-weight: bold;">we write flyers </span>about (testing techniques) <span style="font-weight: bold;">and then regularly plaster the bathrooms all over Google with each</span> episode, almost 500 stalls worldwide.<br /><br />We've received a lot of feedback about it. Some favorable ("This is great because I'm always forgetting to bring my copy of Linux Nerd 2000 to the bathroom!") and some not ("I'm trying to use the bathroom, can you folks please just LEAVE ME ALONE?")</blockquote>Stumbled upon this evangelizing technique in </span><a href="http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2007/01/introducing-testing-on-toilet.html">Introducing "Testing on the Toilet"</a>, while googling trying to decide which JavaScript unit testing framework use (yeah, shame on me, I've been doing lots of JavaScript lately without doing Test Driven Development).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://googletesting.blogspot.com/" title="Debugging sucks. Testing rocks"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/5468/1836/1600/z/275811/gse_multipart55189.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>They not only use a surprising evangelizing technique, but also have a great banner and motto for their blog: "<span style="font-style: italic;">Debugging sucks. Testing Rocks.</span>"-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-58852045491354846812007-04-01T17:15:00.000+01:002007-04-01T16:17:04.859+01:00Eduqueu les Criatures (tots dos)Ensopego amb el programa de Catalunya Radio <a href="http://www.catradio.cat/pcatradio/crItem.jsp?seccio=programa&idint=938">Eduqueu les Criatures</a>, de Carles Capdevila: interessant i divertit. Una de les falques és "<span style="font-style: italic;">un pare... i cap teoria</span>".<br /><br />Hi he anat a parar a partir d'<a href="http://colometa.blogspot.com/2007/02/eduqueu-les-criatures.html">un post</a> a <a href="http://colometa.blogspot.com/">La Colometa</a>, un blog d'un pare que parla de la relació amb la seva filla i de custodia compartida SENSE FER SERVIR MAJÚSCULES CRIDANERES, ni caricatures i simplificacions grolleres, que malauradament, són coses que no és molt estrany trobar quan es parla, a favor o en contra, de custodia compartida. També a La Colometa m'envien cap a <a href="http://conigualdad.blogspot.com/">Con Igualdad</a>, amb un bon recull de premsa sobre la coparentalitat.<br /><br />És agradable i esperançador veure que la coparentalitat després del divorci s'explica, no com una <a href="http://conigualdad.blogspot.com/2007/01/el-fracaso-de-tarragona.html#comment-9128091389016639617">guerra de sexes que omple de vergonya (i por!)</a>, sino com una manera d'organitzar-se que granteix temps de qualitat per a nens, mares, pares, avis...<br /><br />Com <a href="http://www.avui.cat/avui/diari/07/feb/21/334006.htm">escriu en Carles Capdevila</a> amb mal regust a la boca després del <a href="http://www.catradio.cat/reproductor/audio.htm?ID=88486">debat sobre custodia compartida que m'ha portat a conèixer el seu programa</a>, "<span style="font-style: italic;">el feminisme necessita aliar-se amb aquests homes avançats que si obtinguessin la custòdia afavoririen la conciliació laboral i familiar d'ella. Que no li convé tenir-los frustrats, pringats, maltractats. Però em diu el lector que cert feminisme els posa bastons a les rodes, prefereix mantenir un sistema que, per ser antiquat, els dóna a elles la paella pel mànec en cas de divorci</span>". Per sort, hi ha <a href="http://pages.citebite.com/l1r4v7o3j1klw">un sector del feminisme que ho entén molt bé</a>.-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-82676315356067478282007-02-14T12:49:00.000+01:002007-02-14T12:54:35.081+01:00Shouting "fire" in a crowded place<a href="http://epredator.blogspot.com/">Ian Hughes</a>, on a comment to a post by <a href="http://andypiper.wordpress.com/2007/02/12/end-of-messages">Andy Piper announcing a blogging break</a>:<br /><blockquote>“I am stopping blogging” is the Web 2.0 of shouting “fire” in a crowded place.</blockquote>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-49542209446391757692007-02-12T23:20:00.000+01:002007-02-12T23:00:56.131+01:00e-ink<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.learningcenter.sony.us/assets/itpd/reader/reader_features.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.learningcenter.sony.us/assets/itpd/reader/images/features_carry.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Jeff Berg [1], in his IBM intranet blog [2], commented days ago on having used a <a href="http://www.learningcenter.sony.us/assets/itpd/reader/reader_features.html">Sony Reader</a>: <span style="font-style: italic;">'astounded at how much it looked like paper'</span>. Like a book, it is not back-lit: comfortable to read for long periods, but requiring external light.<br /><br />It was the first time that I heard about Sony Reader, but now both my back and my brain would love to own this gadget.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">[1]</span> I don't know how to link to Jeff. Here you have a link to his<a href="http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0764577689,descCd-authorInfo.html"> <span style="font-style: italic;">Beginning ActionScript 2.0</span></a> book and to <a href="http://memoryprojector.com/suntimes/">his wondeful video of a Chicago building being teared down</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">[2]</span> Jeff's "Fight For The User" blog is, by far, the most visually interesting in our intranet. And it's not just pretty: lots of good posts on usability and information design. He does indeed fight for the user.-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-43586755663520315062007-01-19T16:42:00.000+01:002007-01-19T16:47:40.316+01:00Analogies and Connections<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://rtpscrolls.blogspot.com/"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bellsouthpwp.net/n/a/nastacio/rtpscrolls.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://rtpscrolls.blogspot.com/2006/10/welcome-to-rtp-scrolls.html">The RTP Scrolls</a> is a place where Denilson Nastacio and his readers <span style="font-style: italic;">have some fun drawing analogies from unexpected sources, borrowing examples from Mother Nature, mathematics, physics, biology, politics and on occasion, metaphysics</span>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke_%28science_historian%29"><img style="cursor: pointer; float: left;" src="http://clickcaster.com/profile/thumbnail/4492" alt="" border="0" /></a>Denilson's unexpected jumping often makes me think about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke_%28science_historian%29">James Burke</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_%28TV_series%29">Connections (<span style="font-style: italic;">an alternative view of change</span>)</a> , one my my favourite TV shows ever (that I haven't had the chance to watch it in 20?! years). The great news for me is that, while googling to write this post, I have learned that I'll be able to <a href="http://clickcaster.com/users/jamesburke">watch some of the episodes</a>.<br /><br />Enjoy!-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-5433343381861036062006-12-06T11:55:00.000+01:002006-12-06T14:05:52.301+01:00dW chats: Grady Booch on the latest Rational tools releaseAnother developerWorks chat that looks very interesting: <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/chat/booch.html">Grady Booch answers your questions about this week's Rational tools release</a>. On Thursday December 7th, at <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=12&day=7&amp;amp;amp;year=2006&hour=16&min=30&sec=0&p1=179">4:30 pm his time or 10:30 pm my time</a>.<br /><br />I did not learn about this <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/gradybooch?entry=empowering_the_a_in_soa">from Booch's blog itself</a>, but from a comment by <a href="http://www.rodenas.org/blog/">Ferran Rodenas</a> to a <a href="http://kellypuffs.wordpress.com/2006/12/05/rational-software-delivery-platform-v70-released/#comments">post in Kelly Drahzal's blog</a>. The interesting bit about this is that Ferran works for "la Caixa", a very important ibm client, and it is a very good thing for me and some team mates to be able to read his posts and keep track of his blogroll. Or explore <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/frodenas">his linkedin profile</a> and our common connections. The openess that blogs and social software have brought rocks!-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-88387552793187109162006-11-21T15:13:00.000+01:002007-01-02T12:07:20.401+01:00Comments/Sorolls/Noises/Ruidos<a href="http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?enc_user=8XyOShEAAAAV509Ba5Eoa75KxG5ApxfekdEasx1kiYTQavV7mdW13Q"> Posts in Google Groups</a><br /><br />A javascript-based box from <a href="http://www.cocomment.com/">coComment</a> should show <a href="http://www.cocomment.com/comments/XavierVerges">my comments here and everywhere</a>, unless<br /><ul><li><span style="font-size:85%;">you are viewing this in your rss reader (if you see the box, run fast to get a secure reader!)</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">you have javascript disabled</span></li><li><span style="font-size:85%;">something is broken</span><br /></li></ul><br /><br /><!-- START COCOMMENT.COM BOX --><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.cocomment.com/mybox-js/XavierVerges/1"></script><br /><style type="text/css"><br />#cocomment-box{ border:1px solid #DDDDDD; padding:2px; margin:1px;} #cocomment-box div{ margin:0;} #cocomment-box .boxhead{ background-color:white;} #cocomment-box .boxheading{ color:#0D497B; font-size:small;} #cocomment-box .entry{ padding:5px; font-size:x-small; background-color:#DBE8FF; border-bottom: 1px dashed #CCCCCC;} #cocomment-box .title{ padding:5px; margin-bottom:3px; background-color:white;} #cocomment-box .article{ color:#0D497B; } #cocomment-box .author{ color:#0D497B;} #cocomment-box .author-alias{ display:none;}#cocomment-box .comment{ color:black;} #cocomment-box .boxfooter{ font-size:x-small;}</style><br /><!-- END COCOMMENT.COM BOX --><br /><script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client = "pub-6949511135225482"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 15; google_ad_format = "468x15_0ads_al_s"; google_ad_channel = ""; </script><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js/xvugly"></script>-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115644605833384138.post-12299252247845556002006-11-14T13:47:00.001+01:002011-04-04T12:34:33.190+01:00¿Quién? ¿Qué? ¿Por qué? ¿Cómo?<span style="font-weight: bold;"><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div>¿Quién?</span><br />Xavier Vergés Farreró, cosecha de 1965, barcelonés, honrado padre de familia, ingeniero, ciclista... Según algunas opiniones y miradas, tirando a raro. Según mi madre, muy majo.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">¿Qué?<br /></span>Desarrollo de software (metodologías ágiles, python, javascript...), seguridad y privacidad, Barcelona en un mundo plano y <a href="http://www.creativeclass.org/acrobat/TheWorldIsSpiky.pdf">puntiagudo</a>, <a href="http://www.movilizacioneducativa.net/">la movilización educativa</a>, mi desintoxicación de la red, esto y lo otro.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">¿Por qué?</span><br />Porque quiero aparecer en <a title="no oficial" href="http://torrez.us/archives/2005/08/29/387">las listas</a> <a title="por tag" href="http://domino.research.ibm.com/ibmcom/planetibm.nsf/pages/bytag.html">de blogs</a> <a title="por nombre" href="http://www.ibm.com/blogs/zz/en/index.html">de IBM</a> al lado de gente tan lista como <a href="http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/">Sam Ruby</a> o <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/gradybooch">Grady Booch</a>, a ver si se me pega alguna cosa. Porque <a href="http://www.ganyet.com/">Josep M. Ganyet</a> me riñó y me dijo que soy un antiguo y nada 2.0 si sólo escribo en la intranet. Porque, como dice <a href="http://readthisblog.net/">David Singer</a> (también muy listo y en las listas de blogs de IBM,), todo el mundo se merece mi opinión.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">¿Cómo?<br /></span>En mi mejor Spanglish, Catalanglish o, directemente, en inglés.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><blockquote><a href="http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/05/16/Disclaim-This">Disclaimer</a>: <a href="http://readthisblog.net/">IBM has its opinions and plans; I have mine. Any resemblance between the two is coincidental.</a></blockquote></span><br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4298/1112749585673020/400/703879/barcode.png" border="0" alt="" />-Xvhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12954073038736466058noreply@blogger.com2