De casualidad ayer estuve escuchando el último álbum de Rozalén, «El abrazo». Y una de las canciones que forman parte de él es «Tres días en Cartagena», a dúo con Carlos Vives. Tengo que reconocer que me encanta cuando de pronto aparecen, a la vez sin venir a cuento y de una forma totalmente natural, unos versos de...

On our way to Denmark, we made a short stop in Amsterdam. My plan was to spend some time on Saturday and Sunday capturing airplanes, but the Dutch weather decided otherwise.

“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” Alexander Smith Christmas starts as a day in a child’s life that is magical, and as time carries on, one finds all the magic to be fabricated. Santa, the elves, the North Pole, wanting gifts and such - It all leads to a time that I personally did not care about...

Getting a lukewarm, weak, milky coffee this morning. Seagull was unimpressed by the washed out surf, crap coffee and no chippies It is Boxing Day morning here in Australia. Our Boambee Bay apartment has a mild undertone of prawns and the loudly raucous birds ouside are letting us know the sun is already blazing....

Sometimes you need to make a change to an SQLite table which is not possible with a simple ALTER command. For example, today I realized that email_verifications table in my DB references users with a foreign key, but does not have ON DELETE CASCADE (I simply forgot to put it in). This makes it impossible to delete a...

We need to separate two things to make better decisions: the person who offers us something and the offer itself. Before agreeing with the person (be it a sales manager, leader or friend), we can ask ourselves, “Do I like this person more than I expected?” If yes, we can separate the offer and the person. This...

I finally finished Mistborn. As I talked about in my rant back in October, I knew I was going to have a very hard time getting through it because so much of it was just bad. And I was right. It’s the end of December right now, and I just finished the book. I will say that I did finally get into the book towards the...