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I tried a new restaurant for lunch today to expand the current set of choices. (not everything on there is good) It is called green&wich, located at C/Villaroel and Gran Via, they don’t seem to have a website yet. The location is nice, the space is open to the busy street, the design is minimal and the chairs and tables are a bit wobbly. They have two menus. I went for the 7.90 one, which gives you a salad, a sandwich, drink and a coffee. I had a rocket, tomato and parmesan salad, which was soggy but still had hard stems in it. A pretty awful combination. The “asia” sandwich was ok, but not much better than the packaged ones you get in the supermarket. Barcelona really does need a Pret-A-Manger to show the locals what fresh a sandwich looks like. I had a cortado for coffee, which still contained coffee powder. ...

As I recently started learning Python one of the things I noticed which I didn’t like is the class syntax. So I wrote some minimal hello world programs in the languages I recently used to show the difference: C++ hello.cc #include <iostream> class Hello { private: char *value; public: Hello(char *newvalue) { value = newvalue; } void hello() { std::cout << this->value; } }; int main() { Hello hello("hello\n"); hello.hello(); } I like the C++ syntax, it is the language which introduced me to OOP and it clearly states what bits are what without too wordy syntax. ...

I just returned from the Barcelona phpconference.es . It was a small on day conference, with just a few talks and not many big names. It was also really cheap at 20€. The organization was very good, especially for Spain. It was held at citilab in Cornellà Centre, which is at the very end of one of the metro lines. There were two rooms with parallel talks. The talks were all in english, which was a change from the last PHP conference. Wifi was available everywhere and there were free drinks and food. ...

This are the music podcasts I am listening too at the moment. It is mostly techno, but also house and some dub. And whatever last.fm thinks I would enjoy. dailysession http://dailysession.com/?feed=podcast DE:BUG POD - a netaudio podcast http://www.de-bug.de/pod/wp-rss2.php electro house & house & techno mix http://djbene.podspot.de/rss Galaktika Records Podcast: Minimal, Electro and House hottests tunes! http://www.galaktikarecords.com/podcast.xml Ibiza Voice Music Box http://www.ibiza-voice.com/music/rss_podcast.php Last.fm free recommended downloads for cdamian’s http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/user/cdamian/podcast.xml Minimal(maximal) Techno DJ mixes by Louis de Bourbon http://www.graphicjuice.co.uk/podcast/podcast.xml MinimalNet http://www.minimalnet.org/feed Minus Podcast: http://m-nus.com/podcast.xml NetAudio Russia http://www.netaudio.ru/feed Resident Advisor podcast http://www.residentadvisor.net/xml/podcast.xml Starfrosch - Free MP3 Download - Acid http://starfrosch.ch/download_music/acid/feed Starfrosch - Free MP3 Download - Breaks http://starfrosch.ch/download_music/breaks/feed Starfrosch - Free MP3 Download - DJ-Mix http://starfrosch.ch/download_music/dj_mix/feed Starfrosch - Free MP3 Download - Drum and Bass http://starfrosch.chdownload_music/drum_and_bass/feed Starfrosch - Free MP3 Download - Dub http://starfrosch.ch/download_music/dub/feed Starfrosch - Free MP3 Download - Electronic http://starfrosch.ch/download_music/electronic/feed Starfrosch - Free MP3 Download - House http://starfrosch.ch/download_music/house/feed Starfrosch - Free MP3 Download - Minimal http://starfrosch.ch/download_music/minimal/feed Starfrosch - Free MP3 Download - Techno http://starfrosch.ch/download_music/techno/feed the fabric podcast http://feeds.fabriclondon.com/fabricpodcast I would upload the OPML file, but blogger.com doesn’t allow attachments.

Recently I was affected by the Steve Job Reality Distortion Field. After watching the demonstration of the iPhone developer kit and the iPhone in general I wanted one too. I thought I get myself a nice Apple Power Book or maybe an Air plus the iPhone and start developing. As it is also very much UNIX based I could still go to the command line if I want too and most of the tools I use every day are available on Max OS X and work very well. ...