Word ladder graphics (3 letters)

Word ladder is a game where, given two words, the player should find the shorter way to go from one word to the other changing only one letter at a time, always using valid words.

For example: from tap to bat: tap -> cap -> cat -> bat

In the last London Python Code Dojo […]

Chocolate and your sex life

Some years ago I went to a standup comedy/sex class (The Sexual Misery) of Wolfgang Weinberger (you could follow him in Ents24). I signed up there for his weekly newsletter where he answers questions from people.

I really like that week question and answer: Question: Can chocolate ruin your sex life?

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TED talk: how to buy happiness

One of this talks that when you finish watching you really want to share, scream, Tweet!:

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Power off a USB device

I wanted to power off a USB device. Searching in Google for “power off usb” returns different results but I didn’t succeed in any of the suggestions (Linux version 3.2.0).

I asked on the linux-usb mailing list (question, see one of the relevant answers (from Alan Stern). In short: not possible. When using a USB […]

Wood Green to Farringdon travel duration

Every working day (except holidays) I go to work. So I leave home and walk to my local tube station: Wood Green. Then I get a train to Kings Cross where I change the train to Farringdon.

Some days, if Piccadilly Line has delays, I change in Finsbury Park. For some weeks, 1 or 2 […]

Petronas tower: ticketing system

As I said before, I went to Malaysia. Beside going to the Endau-Rompin jungle I also went, of course, to the Petronas Tower (Kuala Lumpur).

The procedure to get tickets in the Petronas Tower is to go there in the morning and buy tickets for the same day. They only sell tickets for the same […]

Google searches

Some time ago I spent a little bit of time searching in Google to know how many Google queries / searches I could do, using some automatic way like a script. Just to know what is the limit of queries that they expect from one user.

I didn’t find an answer. I found some Google […]

Endau-Rompin jungle and leeches

A few weeks ago I went to Malaysia. My longest holidays ever, first time in Asia.

At one point I didn’t know if I would go to Singapore or to Endau-Rompin jungle. Singapore was easier for me (less adventurous) but I really wanted to have a taste of 2 nights in the jungle. At the […]

Cukey

Vaig veure la paraula «Cukey» en algun lloc, i m’agrada. Urbandictionary diu: “”” A combination of cute and geeky. Used in the iCarly episode: iSaved Your Life:

girl: “You’re cukey” computer guy: “What’s that?” girl: “A combination of cute, and geeky!” “”” To contact me: cukey@pina.cat

Screensaver for KDE using Python and Pygame

At Mendeley we have already done two hackdays. That’s a quite interesting event: during a period of time (the first one was on Friday until late night or overnight, second one Saturday and Sunday) we do whatever we want to do, it only needs to be a bit related to Mendeley.

On the last hack […]