It just dawned on me that we won’t be going to Chixculub in the Yucatán Peninsula any time soon because we have, like, five minutes before our visa ends and we have to chop chop it over the Guatemala border. Well, there probably isn’t much to see anyway – maybe a plaque or something saying how this town was the centre of [...]

We’re passing by Berkeley, the home of BOINC, but we don’t have time to stop and check it out. No real loss, eh? Probably nothing to see beyond some little office and a bank of servers. I mean, the real thing is that BOINC is a network that spans the world connecting ordinary computers and putting them at the service [...]
One year on the road (at least) and one more to go (at least)… So, with pleasure, I’d like to introduce you all to the Arsenal Squat of London, still going strong along with the CheezFactory Squat that was (is, will be…) our home for so long. Remember that, in this age of plenty, many people do not live comfortable [...]
Driving through Siberia, we often wondered how animals survive through the winter (see here). For us, at the time, it was a kind of happy question because it was summer time and we didn’t have to find out the answer the hard way or anything.

