This is quite nice. Despite some gloomy forecasts for LaTeX (along the lines “new kids just want power point and word”, ref. coming soon), wikipedia has been using it as the basis for its mathematical language. Now, along comes the powerfull google...

Time Out’s list of the 50 greatest animated films, curated by Terry Gilliam, shows a large number of films from Studio Ghibli, including the top film! These are good times fo Ghibli, at least in Spain: Ponyo on the cliff was broadly played during the...

A quick look back to some groups that got bunched into the “Nuevo Rock Americano”, at least in Spain. They had some things in common, at least the ones at the top of  the list… but others were clearly misplaced (The Cramps). A highlight of this...

It turns out one of the best features of the Microsoft Vista OS is its intense checking on itself. Performance is carefully monitored. Of course, this results in lower performance… Anyway, here is a summary of things I have learned trying to calm down...

Here is what, for many, is a weak point in wikipedia: the sources. What is accepted as “true”. Here is a list of claims that may have been challenged in wikipedia, or not. See how many you get right! About the katakana Japanese syllabary:  in a...