I just had a “Wow!” moment while chatting with a friend who make the comment “Isn’t technology amazing?”, or something similar. So I evaluated what technology was doing for me at that instant. I was, simultaneously:

Chatting with a friend over Google Talk using a Jabber-compatible client (iChat)
Viewing the screen of a coworker on [...]

Greetings! I am the Normal Typeface, and I will be telling the events of this post in the third person.
Hi! I’m Italics, Normal’s slightly inebriated cousin. Although I’m originally from Italy, as my name suggests, I’m not actually from Pisa, although I love the tower they have there. I will be representing Erik’s internal thought [...]

I had a Twitter Moment this afternoon. It was communication that would not have taken place on any other communication platform, but Twitter made it work. For several months now, I’ve been following the Bad Astronomy blog. I visited it several years go when investigating the prime “skeptic” websites (Bad Astronomy has [...]

Ever since learning about their existence, I have been looking to spot some anticrepuscular rays. Every sunset and sunrise I’ve seen in the last few years, I have looked to the opposite horizon, but not until this month have I witnessed the phenomenon first hand.
Anticrepuscular rays are visible sun rays that converge on the [...]

During my recent trip to Extremadura, I took walks in the evening right around the 9:30ish sunset almost every day. For most of these walks, my eyes were glued to the absolutely stunning skies. Coming from the north of Spain, visiting relatively flat, relatively treeless, relatively small housing in Extremadura reminds me [...]

In the bathroom where I shower, we have a glass shower stall. After about a week of use, it gets little dots over it and must be cleaned. These are calcium deposits from the water that remain when the droplets dry.
When I was a kid, I always thought it strange that my grandparents [...]

Yesterday, as I was walking along a street watching my iPhone in amazement as the little blue dot representing my location moved ever so slightly towards the intersection I was approaching, four clothing stores were marked with flags after entering the word “clothing” into the map search. And, with my mind raised on hours [...]

The other day, someone found my blog from google.bg. Rather than think, “Oh, that’s Bulgarian Google. I know someone who is moving to Bulgaria,” the first thought that I had was, “Hey, lowercase ‘bg’ has a rotational ambigram equivalent!” For those of you that are not typeface junkies and haven’t read Angels and [...]

You may have noticed some weirdness on this blog this week. On Monday evening, some of my coworkers, for solid business reasons, had to reinstall the server this blog runs on. They backed up the database, reinstalled the operating system, restored the database, and brought the blog back up. The only real [...]

On July 14, 2008, three days after the official international launch date, I purchased an iPhone 3G.
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I went to check the iphone.movistar.es page to find the local dealers in Bilbao and Santander that were selling iPhones to call them up and check if they had any available. But [...]