Back in London

August 13th, 2008

After a couple of very intense weeks, I’m back in London! A quick summary of what I’ve been up to:

First week: attended EGC2008

  • Played in the main tournament: won 5 out of 5 games (yay!)
  • Played the pair go tournament: we had fun :)
  • Played agains pros in simulataneous games: won against 9p with 9 handicap
  • Played a lot of friendly games, including rengo!
Second week: attended an event in Zurich, stayed there for the weekend
  • Monday: travelling day: fly back from Stockholm to London, and fly from London to Zurich.
  • Tuesday and Wednesday: meetings and more meetings in Zurich
  • Thursday: sailing in the lake
  • Friday: tour of Zurich’s office
  • Weekend: sightseeing in Zurich
This week I’m working hard  on catching up, but I’m way behind on email (please, be patient!)

It’s raining cats and dogs!

July 9th, 2008

“Its raining cats and dogs” is one of my favourites English idioms. I haven’t heard it so many times, but non-English speakers are prone to remember it quite well :D .  Native speakers use “It’s pouring down” or just “It’s pouring!” most of the time, but it’s just not as funny, right?

Nobody I’ve asked knows where it comes from and I still haven’t found an answer (see phrases.org.uk).

By the way, it means raining a lot and it seems it’s raining more today than the whole month of June!

And they call this summer….

Siesta day!

June 25th, 2008

http://www.siestaawareness.org/

Origami duck

April 10th, 2008

Such a long time… it’s easy to just, well, keep not posting, but I want to do it. So here I am :)

One of the latest things I’m doing at home is learning origami, encouraged by my friend Gregorio. This is my first creation, a duck!

Origami duck
Origami duck

And here is the video that teaches how to do it:

History of war explained with food

February 29th, 2008

Seen in John Battelle’s Searchblog

I love Fridays…

January 25th, 2008

Strawberries and chocolate crepe
Crepe bar all Fridays…

The new bubble

December 5th, 2007

This video is circulating in many blogs and I wanted to help a little bit ;)

Seen in John Batelle’s blog and Kirai.NET

Enjoy!

Flight Of The Conchords – The Humans Are Dead

November 30th, 2007

It is the first time I hear of Flight of the Conchords, but they are good!

Just watch the video…

Busy weekend

November 24th, 2007

http://barcamp.org/BarCampLondon3

But a funny one ;)

I’m joining Google!

October 21st, 2007

I finally got the offer! In fact, I ended up with two different offers: one for the Zurich office and another one for the London office. Both for the same position: Software Engineer in Test.

It’s a looooong story, but with a happy ending :)

Which one did I take? The London one! Same position, same team, but this time as a fulltime Googler, not an intern.

I can’t wait to start tomorrow!!