Ok, this is officially not something to blog about. Especially if you want to keep your girlfriend and go on being one of those rare Slashdot readers that actually have one. But Alvaro just gave me a little something he and Lidia brought me from their last trip to Las Vegas. Isn’t it great? ;) [...]

As it was anounced some time ago, Cherokee 0.8 will once again have a native Windows binary. We’ve been having a lot of requests because our Windows users haven’t had the chance to taste Cherokee-Admin since it was born. Beware that the Windows build has to be taken with a grain of salt under Windows. [...]

It is rare for me to post something not related to computers. Some could say it is rare for me to post. Period. But lets just stick to the first sentence or I might very well get lost before I even finish talking of what I wanted to tell you about in the first place. [...]

Last week was a bit slow, and this one doesn’t seem as if it is going to get any better. This week we’ll have some hollidays (from Thursday and through the weekend), so maybe something interesting will come up. In the meantime I’ll share this little flash game I stumbled upon the other day. Nothing [...]

If you’ve made it this far, you are already half way there. This step is the most time consuming of all, so if you make it through the end you are as good as finished ;) This binding technique will be sewing through the fold, where the signatures of the book are folded and stitched [...]

This has nothing to do with computers, but as a Hard-Scifi lover I had to say something about it. I’ve just read that Arthur C. Clarke passed away today at the age of 90. If you’ve read him (who hasn’t?) you’ll know why this saddens me. If not, here is some information about him and [...]

Before we start sewing everything together, we’re going to need several holes in each booklet to pass the thread through the folds. Instead of sewing directly and piercing each one on the fly with the needle -which, by the way, is hard unless you’re from planet Krypton-, we’re going to prepare each booklet beforehand so [...]

Not much to say here. Once you’ve reached this step you should already have everything printed in a pile of 5-page subgroups correctly arranged for folding. You only need to be careful when selecting the pages that should go in each booklet. I do the folding manually. Just take the pages, align them properly so [...]

This involves the process of arranging the pages into several booklets and printing them. This might seem stupid, but printing a book is sometimes trivial and sometimes a lot trickier than it looks. You need to print 2 pages in each side of the sheet, and arrange them in a way that results in properly [...]

This isn’t going to be a technical post for once. Besides computers I do have more mundane hobbies you know. A couple of years back I started bookbinding as a remedy for a particularly stressful month. Manual tasks always seem to have a relaxing effect on me, so it seemed as good choice as any. [...]