Wrong Side of Life

22: Planet Arrakis, known as Dune

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 22:00:00 +0100

Sana and Jaime talk about the recent premiere of Dune (part 1) and the original book. Jaime was interested in knowing Sana's opinion as this was her first exposure to the Dune world. They get into a discussion of the different themes of the book, how they got translated to the silver screen and how dense the book and movie where.

21: Macbooks to the MAX

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 21:00:00 +0100

Sana and Jaime comment the latest Apple event this October, where the new Macbook Pros are introduced, alongside the new CPUs M1 Pro and M1 Max. They also talk about other products like the new AirPods, and follow up from previous chapters like the Apple Watch and questions from Sana now that she's "on the dark side"

20: Toledo, Spain

Sun, 03 Oct 2021 19:00:00 +0100

Sana and Jaime took a trip to Spain during the summer, and they talk about it, mostly commenting on the old city of Toledo, which Sana really enjoyed and wanted to talk about it on the podcast. As usual with our conversations we take frequent detours to other topics. Like churros, for example

19: iPhone the 13th

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 22:00:00 +0100

Sana and Jaime wear again their tech hats to comment on today's new relase of new Apple products, mainly the new iPhone 13 line, but also other products presented in the September 2020 Apple event, including the Apple Watch Series 7, new iPads and other services.

18: August Flash News

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 12:00:00 +0100

Sana and Jaime get down to current affaires to comment different news that came over August. They talk, among others, about the Afghanistan situation, how is the COVID and vaccination going, how Ireland got recently over 5 million people and even sports events!

17: ...and cybersecurity for all

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 17:00:00 +0100

Sana and Jaime talk about different aspects ideas on cybersecurity and criminal activities related to the use of technologies. They go about the most common kind of activities and what are their characteristics.

16: Staycation is not a real world

Thu, 12 Aug 2021 21:00:00 +0100

Sana and Jaime go to an unestructured podcast starting with the recent short trip around Ireland that Jaime did. The conversation evolves into talking details about the current COVID situation in Ireland and restrictions and other ideas about current state of news, anxieties and fears

15: Let's get real state

Mon, 26 Jul 2021 22:00:00 +0100

Sana and Jaime talk about the housing market in Ireland, and how is the process to buy a house (or appartment) based in their recent experience, aiming to give information to people going through it for the first time. Jaime compares the process on how it's done in Spain. They both touch also how the renting market is, and even on how privacy is involved in all this gaff craic

14: Football is coming to Rome

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 20:00:00 +0100

Sana and Jaime do a follow up episode about the Euro 2020 tournament that finished with Italy emerging as champion! They go through our previous favourites and forecasts that were, well, not great. They analyse the English team, which reach the final, and comment on the bad displays that followed the final. They even have time to coment a bit on other sports, like Copa America results and even Sana get to comment on UFC fights!

13: Working as a software developer

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 21:00:00 +0100

Sana asks Jaime about what are the key aspects of being a software developer. They talk about how information is the core aspect, different roles inside the industry, emotional aspects, different programming languages, pressure and frustration, mentoring, teamwork, building things and even touch in trendy buzzwords like Agile

12: Euro 2020, moar football!

Sun, 27 Jun 2021 17:00:00 +0100

Sana and Jaime go back to comment everyone's favorite subject! Sportsball! In particular, they talk about the Euro 2020 football/soccer competition currently in progress and pick their favourites for winning, their most charismatic underdogs and comment on how the media tends to oversell the options of certain team. By certain team they mean England

11: Teaching and conferencing

Mon, 21 Jun 2021 20:00:00 +0100

Sana and Jaime talk about teaching, whether that's on a more academic environment in a University, a talk in a conference, or even a training course in your organisation. They also get in a bit of commenting about self-promotion, something that's common in the conference talk circuit, and about remote teaching, in vogue in these COVID times.

10: Monopoly of Dragons

Sat, 12 Jun 2021 17:00:00 +0100

In this episode, our hosts talk about different boardgames, starting with Monopoly, a favourite of Sana. Jaime also touch about other, geekier-ish games like Settlers of Catan or Puerto Rico, and, even it's not exactly a board game, explains his experience about Dungeons & Dragons back in the day. Sana also challenges Jaime to a game of chess.

9: Apple's event WWDC 2021

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 22:00:00 +0100

Today we tap directly into the tech side of the podcasts and current conversation analysing our ideas right after the WWDC 2021 keynote, the Apple event for developers where the new features in the software are unveiled.

We talk about the different features introduced by Apple on their multiple platforms in this event and go over what are the ones we thought are more useful. Jaime is more interested in the tech side of things, and Sana is more about the privacy part.

8: Cryptocoins and grocery shopping

Sat, 29 May 2021 19:00:00 +0100

Sana and Jaime talk about the crypto currency space, mainly Bitcoin, trying to describe a bit of the technical foundation that makes then possible. They go into checking its feasibility and commented their own ideas about their future

7: Just one more level

Sat, 22 May 2021 16:00:00 +0100

We talk about different memories playing videogames. We get a bit on how current games require you to pay extra after purchased and our lack of time to enjoy long games.

6: Privacy, GDPR and Mechanical Turks

Sat, 15 May 2021 18:00:00 +0100

Sana, being an expert, talks about GDPR. We cross over to related subjects like privacy and data treatment ideas, tech background of this, social media effects, why Jaime wants to get actual target advertising that works and what the heck a mechanical turk is...

5: Vocations and Collegue Years

Sun, 09 May 2021 16:00:00 +0100

Sana and Jaime talk about how they started what they are doing professionally. We talked about how we decided to start doing what we are doing and the challenges early in the course of our careers, both from the point of view of the sectors of laws and technology.

4: The Beautiful Super Game

Mon, 03 May 2021 17:00:00 +0100

We talk about sports, and football (soccer) in particular. We use the recent Super League announcement and fiasco as an excuse to have a discussion about footy, Messi, Arsenal, Beckham and the World Cup. We also discover Sana's short-lived career in GAA football

3: Setting up a comic book store

Sat, 24 Apr 2021 17:00:00 +0100

Sana asks Jaime about his experience running a comic book store in 2006 for less than two years. We talked about the problems and details supplying materials for nerds and difficulties running a one-man show in the dangerous entreprenourship world

Jaime talked about this in his blog some time ago.

2: Lockdown while waiting for a vaccine

Sat, 17 Apr 2021 17:00:00 +0100

In this episode, Sana and Jaime talks about how the lockdown has been going, as well as the different aspects of vaccination and how they interact with social media. Sana also describes her theory on what being an adult means and talks about Jaime's hair

1: Zombies, pandemics and Pokemon, oh my!

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:00:00 +0100

First episode extraordinaire with Sana and Jaime! We start talking about zombies and intersecting other topics like the COVID pandemic, Pokemon, Data Privacy and launch of Sana's campaign to get a John Wick movie with zombies