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I hope we don't! But that doesn't mean that we won't try. I don't know if shine is planing to release a prod again, I'll ask him later, but I've done a bit of a survey and seems like there isn't really too much motivation to release anything there...

Just to remind you, xplsv got the 1st prize on 2005 with Sound Pressure, and in 2006 we got 2nd and 1st with Envolvente and Tokyo, so we were even challenging against us!

This post is mainly to make you do something to stop us winning again. Right now I'm starting to have a bit of extra time every evening. We're planing to release at Assembly, but I may have enough time to release at Euskal too (altough I wouldn't be attending it...)

This also goes to non-spanish groups. And for those that are after good prizes, just so you know, Euskal prizes are even bigger than Assembly (4500€ for the 1st at demo).

So, please, do something nice, don't let us win 3 times in a row ;)

At last I did something I wanted to do since the day the demo that used this music was released...

s0le - hard dreamings (r08028 remix).mp3

Uhm, maybe I'll modify the ending tomorrow, enough by now...

And the client couldn't be any other than Hi-ReS!. I can't say too much else, at some point will be finished and you'll see it somewhere :)

In my -new life- as a freelancer, this is the first time that I work as a fulltime-freelancer in the client's offices, and I have to say that it's really a good experience, it also looks like a much more productive strategy than having 4/5 clients and working from your own office, you spend quite a lot of time organising and speaking with the clients, and at the end of the day you don't do too much work. Working fulltime with a single client and also in the offices ir much more productive, you speak once a day to keep the track of the project and the rest is work work work.

I've to say that Hi-ReS! offices are also quite inspiring, mainly because you can feel the passion of the people there and how hard they work to make interesting work.

(Much) More soon...

I find this quite stupid. The beauty of blogs for me is the communication that it creates. Then the rest share their own point of view, and there is a bit of discussion. It also helps for asking questions to 'the internet' and with that someone arrives to your blog and answers your question.

But thanks to those guys using zombie computers to send crap to blogs creates a problem. And doesn't matter if you use Akismet or any other service like this one, if they send you 500 comments per day, some of them will go in.

So, as I'm getting rid of some responsibilities these days, here is another one. No more comments allowed in the site, I just don't have the time and the patience of having to clean the DB.

I won't hide the comments tho, just the form.

Everyone that ever did sent a comment in this site: Thanks!

http://akismet.com/stats/

Hace unos dias, en una conversacion comentabamos que lo que hacia que Espanya fuese como es era la Picaresca con la que nos educan. A partir de esa educacion no es de extranyar que hayan trabajos basura, que la gente intente no tener que pagar esto y lo otro, y un sin fin de detalles mas.

Me alegro haber encontrado este video:

Didn't I say that this guy fackin rules?

Realtime version here
Video version here

Uh, long time since writting something here under trace' name ;) Well, just so you know, trace is still active and will keep releasing demos for a while, he needs to find some free time tho. I was planing to attend Assembly this year (no, no Breakpoint, not anymore). I have the tickets and the hostel reserved already. But because some recent events, I'm not sure if I'll be able to attend.

Anyway, yesterday I finally received my copy of Mindcandy 2 that I ordered some days ago to the old spanish scener poves (now living in uk).



Again, nice cover image done by fthr (although I think it's and old illustration). For some reason, the first thing I did was to watch the production notes part, and If you receive the DVD, I recomend you to watch that part first so you get the big picture of the DVD. Trixter explains everything that he had to do for being able to produce the DVD, ordering Amigas, testing, post processing.

I agree with the selection, right now I don't think any of my favorites is missing. Another nice bit are the commentaries, however, for this one I think not too many original authors did them, Trixter had to do a lot of them. I specially liked the one for Silkut which was done by one of the original authors. Nice jokes and 'tricks'.

So, in the end, nice DVD for having good fun. Get yours!

I can't believe how can I be such a disaster. Years ago, when I went to open a bank account I realised I had my passport expired. As I may have said already, opening a bank account in UK is quite hard so imagine the situation, with a lot of documents, bills and stuff, and then with the passport expired. Luckily I had my driving license with me and the guy said that he would accept that as if it was the passport. That was the only time my driving license was useful in my whole life, that was 2 or 3 years after I got it and I never used it, never touch a car.

Well actually, when we went to Iceland I did drive a car, quite a lot of Km in fact, but guess what, I forgot my driving license in reykjavik. Well I though there wasn't going to be any problem as there aren't too many cars around there and we were using a automatic changes car. But then again, I forgot that the limit of these kind of roads were 90km/h, and I was drving at 130km/h when a cop car appeared, and as I didn't know the 90 limit, I didn't reduced... so 40km/h faster than I should, and without my driving license... Imagine the rest... Luckily the guy didn't fine me, but it's just that the roads there are too straigh and there aren't too many cars.. going at 90km/h is boring.
Going back to the passport, again, just after being back at home after reykjavik we obviously put some cloths in the washing machine. We had a lot so we (I) forgot to look on all the pockets. The result was this:



If you ever wondered how a passport will end up when you put it in to the washing machine (with drier program). Now you know. So, that happened 3 weeks ago or so, and then this week I was like, shit, I've to go to Spain now. Oh well, I have my spanish ID, that should be enough (although I may really need a new passport for next month :P). But then, I realised that my spanish ID expired 1 year ago. Yeeey!!!

Well, I went today to the spanish consulate and spend a bit of time there explaining all my problems. Now I have something called "Salvo Conducto" which is a paper that certifies that I'm a good person and that whenever I reach Spanish frontier, they should let me in. However, that paper won't be valid for going back to UK. So I guess I will have to renew my passport in Sevilla this week, and this week is easter, so I believe I'll end up missing the plane back and having to buy another ticket for the week after or something.

Funny, uh? I guess I just can't have *everything* under control. But I'll make sure to renew my passport as soon as it expires or I destroy it and I won't leave it for the last thing.

So, hopefully I'll go back sleeping at nigh like the rest of the humanity, and working from 9 to 18 or something like that. After all is my business so I'll see how much my boss (me) ask me to do.

Big thanks to the guys at Traffic Broker!!

At least not here. I had a similar problem before they released the AirPort Extreme Update 2007-001. For some reason it doesn't let me connect to my WPA wireless network.

I would say it's a problem of AirPort Extreme Update 2007-002 cos it also did the Mac OS X Update (Intel) (10.4.9)...

Whoever dos the updates in Apple isn't doing a good job :_(