Tonight: Franz Ferdinand. Available in Spotify

New Franz Ferdinand album is already available in Spotify. Listen to Tonight in Spotify!

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January 31, 2009 – 6:51 pm | By David Poblador | Posted in just for fun, music, spotify | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

Little Big Planet Soundtrack (Spotify)

I made a quick compilation of Little Big Planet sound tracks for Spotify users. By the way, I still have 8 3 Spotify invitations left. Just drop a comment to get one. Update: I’ve run out of invitations. Will keep you updated if I get more.

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January 30, 2009 – 10:10 pm | By David Poblador | Posted in just for fun | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (28)

Google Treasure Hunt: Network Question

The network question was by far the easiest one in GTH 2008 contest. Sample question: Below is a diagram of a computer network. The nodes are hosts on the network, and the lines between them are links. A packet is sent out from host N with a destination of 201.107.56.70. Which nodes does the packet …

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November 5, 2008 – 12:20 am | By David Poblador | Posted in just for fun | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Google Treasure Winners announced (and I’m among them)

Google Treasure Hunt winners abound from Official Google Blog.

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October 22, 2008 – 9:30 am | By David Poblador | Posted in just for fun | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

Learn Catalan: Why not? / Aprendre català: Per què no?

Vocalic sounds Let’s start learning different vocaling sounds. In written language, we use 5 different vowels (a e i o u), however, in spoken language we use 8 different vocalic sounds (a ɛ e i ɔ o u ə). A /a/ Written as A Like English “father” Examples: català, casa E oberta /ɛ/ Written as …

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October 8, 2008 – 7:17 am | By David Poblador | Posted in catalan course | Tagged , , | Comments (1)