Gijon – Covadonga, by bike

Yesterday we did this route with our bikes. 11 riders with a lot of energy from Gijón to Covadonga, doing it with a mixed route with a lot of tracks and local roads. It was a pleasant day with a lot of anecdotes. I hope to repeat it next year.

Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms

Some reading for my summer time: Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms There are interesting details that helped me to understand the position of Microsoft in this area and the evolution Business Objects is taking. Open source solutions as Pentaho and Jaspersoft are mentioned but not ranked becuase they do not reach the minimum … Read more

Targeted Risk Assessment (TAR)

Targeted Risk Assessment (TAR), that offers an integrated tool that helps on: Worker Exposure, Consumer Exposure, Environmental Exposure. I have downloaded the first one (Worker Exposure), it’s an Excel spreadsheet!! It allows the user to calculate predictions for inhalatory and dermal exposure (Tier 1 level) for the benefit of performing Chemical Safety Assessments. It’s very … Read more

10 years working

The third of July 2000 I started my first formal job. Ten years later, I was remembering all different things I was doing during this time. The result? this picture. For sure this picture is too simple, but I can remember how difficult was to jump from one black point to the other. The other … Read more

ECETOC, European Centre for Ecotoxicology and toxicology of chemicals

Original information http://www.ecetoc.org/overview What is ECETOC?ECETOC is a scientific, non-profit making, non-commercial trade association with a mission to act as an independent, credible, peer-reviewed technical resource to all concerned with the identification of research needs and provision of scientific rationale for the assessment of health effects and environmental impact, and thereby to justify industry’s licence … Read more

Out of the office messages

These messages uses to contain different data: when they will return, mobile numbers… Some of them include the point of contacts you need in case you need to perform some activity related to the person you have sent the e-mail. You can spend a year trying to understand the way that some teams really work, … Read more