[ Fer-Martin ] (Re)invent your life every day

From Carlos Morales

“Sometimes, boyfriends forget to behave like the best friends they are, and they miss the most wonderful side of their girlfriend…”

Fer Martin

Hey guys,

As I’m going to live in Japan in April, I decided to sell my computer science and economics books on the internet here before going. I love books and I have been quite addicted to them since my first year of university, but I had to draw the line somewhere. They are almost new and I’m just selling them cos it is too expensive to send them by mail to Japan.

I will publish the whole list soon in case you are interested, but there are really lots of very interesting books you might want. I don’t mind selling them directly to you, and I won’t be looking for a huge profit neither.

The First one I’m selling is El Proceso Unificado de Desarrollo del Software, the software engineering basic written by the fathers of UML (Jacobson, Booch, Rumbaugh). It gives you a very good view about the development process centered in use cases and architecture modelling. I’m starting the bid in 5 €!!!!, and the book is valued in more than 30€. Good Luck!!

Ready for the Pillow War in Las Palmas this Sunday?

Update links:

Pillow war in Palermo (Spanish)
Nice Pillow at Caffepress (War, what is it good for? Throw Pillow!)
Event in Eventful (Following Joi Ito’s recommendation)
THE REAL COUNTDOWN FOR THE PILLOW WAR!!!

Hi everyone,

I remember when I used to play with my commodore 64 when I was little. I remember doing my first programs, first with Logo and later with Basic. I wasn’t taller than a table but I could do a silly trivial program or even wrote an skiing game. I remember the first times I had the opportunity to sit down with a PC and write down on a notebook all DOS commands to play with that green and black screen.

I started in this geek world when I was about 7 years old and none of my friends at that time had access to technology like that -or weren’t interested- and I really had to beg my parents -or aunt, or neighbours!- once and again to spend some time playing with the computer. Things have changed soo much these days, and now virtually all children get access to this technology by default.

Thanks to Manu, I discovered this video of a 2 years old playing happily with Flickr and using the laptop faster than my mum does currently

New generations are coming fast and with lots of resources that are part of their daily life. For instance 15 years ago, I had to go to the library to photocopy some article, then come home, read it, underline the important parts, open Microsoft Works and start typing for hours to get the assignment done for class. Now it takes them about 1 minute to find it in Wikipedia and copy+paste it into Word… No Science Fiction here, but it would have looked that way then, wouldn’t it?

Hi guys!

I recently found another web 2.0 application that it may seem quite silly in the beggining… but it’s worth a try. What is Twitter? Well, Twitter is a new site that provides real-time blogging with really short posts and a strong social network. It’s like a live diary for you to share with the world, or just with your friends.

Is it a new idea? Absolutely not. It doesn’t have any new technology at all. I think this website can be cloned in less than 24h with ruby on rails, excluding the CTO-side of the project to handle so many requests as they do. Then we need to find what makes this site special enough to be mentioned here.

Ok, if it’s not the technology, what makes Twitter so good? The social side of Twitter is very interesting. I have found really important people in there (Bill Clinton (Former US President), Joi Ito (THE internet man in Japan), Steve Jobs (Apple’s president) or even the guys from Adaptive Path (the fathers of AJAX…). In Spain, we have mini.d, fernand0 (Barrapunto) or even kirai blogging real-time. We love to know what people like that are doing, and so there is people always wondering what they would be up to. A Famous People Big’s Brother!!

I think blogs like Joi Ito, or even Martin Varsavsky (FON founder) are really popular because they give us a dream to look at. They live a life of private jets, talking with the most interesting people every day and always keeping positive and happy. Their blogs are a streamline of their lifes and this makes other people -who admire them- really have a motivation to do more things.

I set up an experiment in this blog, I’m going to post real-time bits of my life on the right-hand sidebar. Named Geekly as “Fer’s Core Dump”, I will try to keep you posted more often there. I’ve seen people posting just about their life, but I think it’s much better to share about things you like, music you just found or even spreading a bit of gossip from time to time

Now it’s your turn! What is the Twitter effect for you? Do you have any interesting use for Twitter? Do you think it’s just a waste of time? Are you going to tweet soon?

Written with the collaboration of Sprocket (testblog). Thanks!

Hey guys, I just received an email from a friend. He is looking for a Venture Capitalist to start his own company, apparently on software development. Would you give these guys some bucks from your pocket…?

Can you guess who are these guys?

This Bugatti Veyron can accelerate to 400km/h in less than 8 seconds, absolutely amazing! If you are interested, and willing to pay only 1,127,210€, we can make a deal cos i’m selling mine… almost new

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