life

He's Welcome in Pakistan

I would have thought that three years after the start of the war, Iraq would be yet another forgotten war, as it tends to happen when murder, bombings, famine …

Network troubles get worse

I hope to be back to normal in a week or so. Right. A week later, my connectivity issues have gotten so much worse… Yesterday, I was trying to do some …

Moving

For the last two weeks I’ve been in the painful process of moving to a new flat. Actually, it’s not so new, as it was where we lived when I was born …

Katrina and flood control

Emperor Palpatine says I’m silly because I blame dubya for a massive hurricane basically destroying a major US city. Well, no, and don’t put words …

New Orlean's shame

This is self-explanatory. When I saw the images of what’s going on in New Orleans, the first thing I thought is that if the news had been talking about …

Go on diet?

During our week around the Pyrenees, our meals consisted on dehydrated pasta, rice and soups, along with the little sandwich bread we could carry, and little …

A haircut with unforeseen consequences

I got slightly fed up of my long hair and asked my mercyless sister to do something about it. The idea was to have it short everywhere except on the back, but …

Finally gone

A few hours ago my mother told me my grandfather wouldn’t last much more, and it seems a few minutes later, his heart finally ceased beating. The news …