These days I’ve seen the word Barcelona incorrectly abreviated, and I want to write the different ways catalan and spanish people use abreviations of the name Barcelona. The first time I saw it was in an e-mail that one client sent to me, but the second (and more bleeding!) one was in the t-shirts of Skype crew at the Mobile World Congress 2011.

So, these are the common abbreviations for Barcelona:

• Barna: it refers to the city of Barcelona.
• BCN: it also refers to the city of Barcelona, commonly used in really short representations of the city, more as a code than as an abbreviation. For example, referring to the Barcelona – El Prat airport (BCN airport). See this baggage sticker as an example.
• Barça: it refers to one of the football (in the sense of soccer) teams of the city, Fútbol Club Barcelona. And is written using a c-cedilla (c trencada in catalan). In the “offending” cases that I saw, they had written Barca, using a common “c”, which is wrong. Barca, in both catalan and spanish means boat. Quite funny!

To be honest, the Skype guy I spoke with told me that they were aware of the “boat” thing, and that it was an error from the PR guys. :D Even Google gets it wrong!

Matt D, parla de Douglas Adams dient: “The writer Douglas Adams observed how technology that existed when we were born seems normal, anything that is developed before we turn 35 is exciting, and whatever comes after that is treated with suspicion.” L’escriptor Douglas Adams va observar com la tecnologia que existia quan vem néixer ens sembla normal, qualsevol cosa apareguda abans que fem 35 anys és emocionant, i qualsevol cosa que ve després ho prenem amb sospites.

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” Un error comú que comet la gent quan intenta dissenyar alguna cosa a prova de tontos és subestimar la ingenuitat dels tontos absoluts.

“Interceptor de trucades de mòbils”  XD

“Com fer funcionar una tele a piles” juas juas juas

El cas és que el Jaume (SPiTe “pa los amigos”) ha estat mirant, i ha trobat el següent article al lloc web de Microsoft:

Error message that you may receive when you save or move documents in Windows XP: “Delayed Write Failed”

En poques paraules, si compleixes les condicions i tens activada la caché de disc (recomanable per millorar el rendiment), pots trobar-te que si mous quantitats grans de dades les escriptures a disc comencin a fallar!!!

Realment no ho he trobat mai excepte en aquest cas, i la configuració era diferent de la que posa a l’article (els discs eren SATA, un d’ells de molt alta velocitat i dos més de menor velocitat), però el cas és que no crec que sigui molt normal que un sistema com aquest toleri aquest tipus d’errors.

La solució… Doncs és que no passa!