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Add key shortcuts to Evernote web with this extension

If you are an Evernote’s web interface user and you are anything like me, you’ve probably felt the pain and frustration of not being able to move around with your keyboard when using the service. Now you can increase your productivity with this new Chrome Extension that adds shortcuts to most common functionality. I’m a Linux user, and even though there are unofficial Evernote applications like Everpad, there is no official application, so I always end up using the web […]


Cinder’s API Races

Openstack‘s Block Storage project Cinder intends to allow High Availability Active-Active node configurations in the next Liberty Cycle, and for that there are a number of changes that need to happen. One of those changes is making state changes (changes in status field) atomic inside Cinder, and for that there are different solutions, this code tries to provide some insight into these solutions in an empirical way. What’s the problem? Right now Cinder has sections where status is checked for […]


Euler Project is down :’-(

  I don’t know how could I have missed this, as I don’t recall reading this news anywhere, but I only found out today when I tried to access the website and this message popped out. So, the sad news is that Project Euler’s website has been down since the 15th of June and there is no information on when it will back up. I certainly hope they can get it back up soon. Here’s a Wikipedia link on Project Euler if you need to […]


W8’s BSoD has an emoticon, are you kidding me? 1

  For the past 2 days I’ve been playing around with Android Studio, and I don’t know what’s been more frustrating, the fact that it crashes my Windows 8.1 every now and then or that Windows 8’s Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) has an emoticon. I would like to know who first thought of the idea of including a sad emoticon in this screen, and what train of thought led him to believe that it was, in fact, a good idea. […]

W8 BSOD

Hello world!

My name is Gorka Eguileor and I welcome you to my new Blog. After a long absence from blogging I have decided to come back once again, and instead of continuing where I left off with my previous blog I started a new one to mark the beginning of a new stage in my life. These post will most likely be just ramblings about everything and nothing. But don’t worry, I’m not one to go on and on about things, […]