Puntos Suspensivos en papel

Casi mil páginas, muchas fotos y muchas entradas en los casi diecinueve años del blog. Me encanta el detalle de diseño con los tres puntos en la banda, con uno diferente de color rojo en cada volumen.

Puntos Suspensivos 2007 - 2025

Ya están en camino tres volúmenes con casi mil páginas en total con las entradas de este blog del 2007 al 2025. Todo mucho más rápido de lo que me pensaba. 

Libros

 

Write a book: tick

Yesterday I finished the book I have been slowly writing for the last year or so and now I just have to wait a couple of weeks until the (very) few printed copies that I have ordered are delivered. This is a book strictly for my family, however I want to share a couple of insights.

First off, memories, like love, die if you don´t take care of them. Nothing lasts forever.

Did everything really take place as we remember it? What makes it into such a book? And for the same token, what does not make it into such a book?

Which are the landmarks of our existence? Extraordinary events? Routine ones which are quickly forgotten although they make up for the bulk of our time? Or maybe just the people who surround us?

Well, I don´t have the answers. On the other hand, I do now have a book with 350 pages full of things that came to my mind which I thought were worth writing down for my children. And the feeling I could have written more and with more details. So maybe all I got round to do is writing the first part of a bigger book, maybe one to be completed in fifteen or twenty years if I am still around.

And Happy New Year!

Microsot Word vs LibreOffice Writer

 

I started writing a book and chose to do it using LibreOffice Writer. Today I was exploring whether to change to Word, since now I happen to have a Microsoft365 licence (for other reasons). Very disappointed to see that in Word I cannot display my document in book format (ie left page showing on the left and right page on the right as you would expect it and how it is shown in Writer). The side by side option in Word just does not cut it.

Sorry Microsoft, but do better, this is very disappointing. And even if the option exists in some obscure setting somewhere, not good enough.

One cheer for open source software.

Edit: Found this query from 12 years ago (!). Not good.

Libros en 2020

Paraíso

Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso
Bajo la especie de una biblioteca.

I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

"Poema de los Dones" / "Poem of the Gifts"

Once upon a time...

Automate the boring stuff with Python

A few weeks ago I found out that Al Sweigart is preparing a new book. I decided to send him an email to ask for a draft version and, surprise, surprise, he did send it to me! Unfortunately I have not had as much spare time as I thought I would, but I have finally started reading some chapters. Looks like I will have to wait till March for the paper version though.

Something I've been wanting to do for some time was a word cloud of my blog posts. But downloading 700 posts manually was never in my head (well, almost never). Enter Al´s book and python. Following some simple instructions from the Web Scraping chapter, I have written a fifty-line program that automatically downloads every post from my blog into a single text file. From there to the chart below there is a very small step.