Author Archives: matallo

Carlos Matallín is a geek and blogger.

Jack keane: Al rescate del Imperio Británico

I know that I’ve been kind of missing for some time but I have had some issues that kept me away from the computer. Don’t worry, you will be informed soon
One of the pending tasks I had remaining was the review of Jack keane: Al rescate del Imperio Británico, a video game that […]

Freak Pride Day

This is one of the posts I wanted to recover from the blog-o-rest, so I re-publish it on the occasion of the Freak Pride Day.
Because there is Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, May Day, Women’s, Gay Pride Day… We come up with a campaign so that Freak People (We are currently a legion) Rights were recognized.
Because […]

The people has spoken

Finally the voice of the people has been heard and our next representative has been elected. Many people think that the polls weren’t as fair as they would like; anyway the final outcome was as expected. Personally I liked others more than the winner, but I’m happy as far as it is the best result […]

Thoughts on elections

The second and last politic debate for the upcoming elections was due last Monday. Surely it will help the people who haven’t taken their final decission yet - like me - to clear their doubts about the candidates.

The two candidates
As we could see last week in the previous debate the scenario is very balanced. My […]

Barcelona - Valencia, goals and blogs

Despite it would seem we the bloggers spend all day long in front of our computers and don’t like sports at all, we do. But one thing’s for sure, we’d rather watching it than practicing it and on top of that if you have an invitation to a football match where you will be able […]

Should I still wait?

Those who follow me on twitter or talk to me with Gtalk will know that I want to buy a new laptop and surely it will have an Apple logo in its cover. As it will replace my current desktop computer and become my main tool of work I need it to be a powerful […]

Saint Ballantine’s

People who have a girlfriend celebrate Saint Valentine’s, others (like me) celebrate Saint Ballantine’s. Chin, chin.

The new fridge for the penguin

This weekend I’ve been moving A penguin in my fridge from Dreamhost to 1&1 servers. The site has been down for a while and then I did some minor tweaks to the theme, like removing the annoying advertising block from the sidebar. In addition it was a totally pain-in-the-ass to migrate the database because it […]

Iconographic Magazine premiere

Great news for the Valencian and Spanish design scene. A group of very talented and young designers will launch today the new magazine about graphic design and typography, Iconographic Magazine.
This event will take place at 19:30 in the MUVIM, Valencia where some issues will be released and a special cocktail party with renowned guests will […]

The Equilibrium

John Gruber, the author of Daring Fireball and half of The Talk Show, has recently written an article titled this way “Some of the Tweets All of the Time vs. All of the Tweets Some of the Time“. It deals with the reliability of the twitter infrastructure and the fact that some (if not […]