Doctors let paranoid man go – hours later, he kills in El Ejido

Rather a shocking story from the Poniente Hospital de Almeria– it seems that a group of “subsaharians” brought in a friend who seemed to be suffering from convulsions and hallucinations, a 25 year old man with initials K.K. It seems that over the last few days his behaviour had been going downhill, having got into several fights, until he reached a point where he was forcibly taken to hospital by his friends concerned at his Continue reading Doctors let paranoid man go – hours later, he kills in El Ejido

First pesetas, now they’re accepting civil war pesetas

You may have heard that a number of businesses have started accepting pesetas in their shops, the idea being to attract those customers who have a bunch of the old coinage still stashed away but not enough to make the trip to Madrid to change it for Euros. The idea seemed to start with a bar in Zaragoza, and was quickly taken up by a number of shops across the land, cumulating with the Almeria Continue reading First pesetas, now they’re accepting civil war pesetas

Google Docs Design Flaw May Fool You Into Making Your Docs Editable by Anyone

While I assume that the number of people using Google Docs in Almeria can probably be counted on one hand (prove me wrong people!), there’s an interesting article from wired.com on the security settings: Wired.com has discovered a design flaw in the web app’s user interface that could lead users to mistakenly open up their docs to editing by anybody on the internet. Funny thing is, we found out about it the hard way. A Continue reading Google Docs Design Flaw May Fool You Into Making Your Docs Editable by Anyone