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Hehe, as you can see, there is some spam on the title of this page. Seems like a cracker (not a hacker) from Brazil found a way to send scripts to our server. The funny thing is that the name of this bored guy is "trace" soauker, which uses the email soauker@gmail.com (feel free to email a thanks email, or something ;).

Well, now we are busy cleaning all the shit that the guy added to all the sites... And aparently he was trying to use the server as a bounce for accessing porn-gay sites :D

Respects to sole for finding all this in a record time :)

PS: Oh, btw, we are considaring about baning all Brazil ip's trying to use neonv2 (which was the site they/he was/were using).. yes, just because this... so, if you know someone called trace soauker with that ip, you know who to blame to :D

Heh...

"El principal desafío del mundo islámico es la falta de oportunidad de millones de jóvenes. Muchos de ellos frustrados abrazan ideologías violentas, desperdician la enorme riqueza de la región, entran en guerras increiblemente sanguinarias como fué la guerra entre Irán e Irak y culpan a otras culturas de sus fracasos."

Aunque este punto ya lo vi expuesto en syriana, no deja de ser interesante. La verdad es que admiro lo abierto que es el hombre este. Supongo que uno de los puntos de que le este yendo asi de bien es la estrategia de ser controladamente abierto, le da mas publicidad que no ir a lo secretista y oculto como hacen muchos.

Big up Martín!

Right... you may seen that some weeks ago there was a Windows Automatic Update which installed a "Genuine Advantage" thing... Luckily I saw this before install it on the computer we use as server at home, so I was able to cancel it.

That really pissed me off and made me lose all the little interest that I had about Windows Vista.

I don't think I'll move to Windows Vista, really... I'll probably turn in a Linux guy or MAC guy before doing that. By now I'm testing some linux distros in order to get rid of that Windows copy from that machine. I'm ovbiously looking for a distro which uses Xgl, I tried Kororaa, but crashed after some play with it. Looks like ATI drivers are going to be a problem in all this stuff. Well, meanwhile I found out that you don't need Macromedia Flash in order to compile SWF files, yes, I know I probably has been quite late on this, but as you can see on this Article (spanish) written by Zárate it's quite straight forward to avoid Windows for this matter. However, Macromedia released the SDK so you can also compile AS3 in any platform (afaik)

Photoshop will be the one that will keep me on Windows or macOS probably. I can learn MAYA or something like that in order to don't have to use 3DStudioMAX anymore. Also the other thing that keep me in this Window platform is the demoscene and the VJ (neon) stuff...

So, well... Don't be surprised yet... All this change will take place probably in some years... Maybe by then MenuetOS (which I think is how an OS should be like (it's still 600kbytes!)) will be the one... Who knows?

And, yeah, I know that the Genuine Advantage update has already been cracked, it's still anoying anyone.

UPDATE: I've just tired that Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor, which checks if your computer is good enough to run Vista, and well, looks like my laptop is good enough, however seems that isn't ready because it doesn't have 15GB free. Does that mean that Vista will need 15GB free?! WHAT FOR?!!!

And the website is ready!

http://www.playboymansionparty.com

Just for the fact that I'm Spaniard and from Barcelona, the people use to think that I love football. Well, when I was a kid I did, probably because my mind was so simple and I didn't have anything else to think about.

Right now, I don't have time to follow it, and well I just don't see the point. It's a show, yeah, but repetitive. And, I'm sorry, I can't be happy if someone elses win. I'm happy if I win something, if someone I care about win something. But people that earns 20 times what I do, winning? Why should I feel excited? I should feel depressed instead... It really depresses me when I see thousands of people going to the street to celebrate that 11 guys won something. What a waste of time.
However I can understand that the people likes it, everybody likes to shout and throw all that energy in someway, and if you scream with some other people in front of a TV watching a football match nobody is going to think weird things about you, or is going to call the police. But again.. that's not for me..

And there is probably a lot of people like me nowadays, I call it the "interactive" generation. Hehe... That kind of people that are moving from the TV to internet, where atleast you can chose what you want to see instead of opening a direct channel to your brain to anything that the TV wants to infect you with.

The funny thing was that at home, when I was watching the TV with the family, they were always changing the channel whenever the ADs where starting. And ADs are the most interesting thing of TV imho, 10/15 seconds of concentrated ideas/motions trying to catch the people. In fact, that's the only thing I miss now that I don't have TV.

Uhm....

I did this picture some years ago in a town near to Barcelona, I found the scenario like this, I didn't added anything, I just had my camera with me :D

Well.. Yeah! As usual, when I go back to Barcelona, I end up pissed off for eveything that doesn't go as I'm used to now. This time the problem was on the floor. And as this time I spent a lot of time just walking and observing the city... Just because I was looking up for the new buildings and building changes, I step on some of them :'( Some of them were dry some weren't (puagh!). Specially in my neighbourhood. That's one of the things I realised the last time I was here, there are quite a lot of dogs, anytime you go walk around you can see more than one person just walking with a dog. And because this then we got the problem of this post.

I know, very disgusting...

Also called the magic beverage (by my ex-workmate Jonathan Clarke), the tea has been one of those things with took me more time to get used to (almost 3 years). I never liked it, tried it before in Spain, and wasn't able to like it as was something like water with a little bit of taste of something. I remember always saying "no, thanks, I hate it" whenever anyone at Spring asked if anybody wanted one done. I tried one as they add Milk on it and they said it was going to taste different, but I wasn't able to finish it.

But some months ago, I decided to stop being picky with everything. Now I can eat any kind of food (even vegetables ;). So in that new period I also said "yes please!" when Ben Messinger asked to the team. And guess what?! This time I found something on it. So I started to accept it more and more. And I end up really digging it. Some weeks ago, Lisa O'brien (also a workmate) teached me how to do it. So thanks to her I'm doing now this post. Thanks to all of them actually.

Now you laugh (cos I usually don't do that kind of stuff..)...

HOW-TO MAKE A BRITISH TEA IN 10 EASY STEPS

STEP 1:



You'll need all these. So if you don't have something, go buy it! (Cup, spoon, sugar, tea sackets, milk).

STEP 2:



Use you clean hands to get one sacket. I think this step is easy enough.

STEP 3:



Put the sacket inside the cup. The result may look something like in the picture.

STEP 4:



Put some water inside the boiler and use the activation button. It may do some sounds.. Wait until the activation button deactivates.

STEP 5:



But hey! you can do things meanwhile the water gets hot. You can put some sugar in the cap. I use to have 2, but there is people that doesn't want any or just 1.

STEP 6:



With the sacket in the cup, and the sugar, and also with hot water ready we can just put some water in the cup now. Be careful, is hot! Lots of kids go to Walk-in Urget hospitals everyday because they throw each others boiling water (that's what happens when you got an automatic machine that boils water, in Spain that doesn't happen). So yeah.. be careful!

STEP 7:



You have to reach more or less the level that you see in the picture. Leave a little bit of room for the milk! Use the spoon to stir the tea sacket and the sugar a bit.

STEP 8:



When you get tired of that mechanical and boring movement, just use the magic spoon to get rid of the sacket. Throw it to the bin. Any bin.

STEP 9:



So, until here, we have more or less a "normal" tea, what we need now is the english touch. Just add a bit of milk.

STEP 10:



Not too much, the result needs to have a colour like the one in the picture. And here you go! You can drink it anytime, not only at 5o'clock.






And If you had enough patience to wait until here, there is also an extra gift...

Today in my way home I went to a normal/arabish shop where I found these things:



The texture was very similar to Churros so I really wanted to get some and try them. But far from the reality, it doesn't taste like churros, they, in fact, taste like our Pestiños tho are smaller and less honey-ish.

Heh.. in the next issue.. I don't know, what do you guys want to know? :)

I think that was enough VJ/live visuals for a while :) Check out the non-uptodate xplsv.com for all the work done.

I'll update xplsv.com soon, I promise!

As I saw some friends talking about their new mobiles in their blogs, I thought that was going to be quite funny talking about that. So, yeah, this time I'm the one that is changing the mobile.

I had a Nokia 6610i before, it had camera, lots of colours and stuff. It was quite nice, but some day the keypad just stop working. The key 3 had some problems but you just had to press harder. Anyway, the good news are that I'm changing it, I'm having now the one that I always wanted to have.

So, here you have! my new phone!



A Nokia 8310!!!! Well, to be honest I already had it, hehehe, it's in fact my old phone, but I had to change it because the battery worked for 1 or 2 days. But luckily I was able to fit the battery from the Nokia 6610i in it.

So my new mobile (which is 5 years old now (more or less)) does have uhmm.. sounds, lights on the keypad, and a fantastic monochrome screen. I can even send SMS and call to my friends with it!!

Heh, now you see how much I care about the mobile world ;)

This company kind of reminds me SGAE in Spain. I wouln't be able to run a company creating fear in the people in order to paying me. It's just annoying.

Check out the letters that they send:

Dear Owner/Occupier, OFFICIAL WARNING - THIS PROPERTY IS UNLICENSED You are hereby notified that we have authorised officers from our Enforcement Division to visit your home and interview you under caution, as our records show there is still no TV Licence at this address and as yet we have received no response to previous communications from you. Your statement will be taken in compliance with the Police and Criminal Evicence Act 1984*, and is the first step in our action to prosecute if we find evidence that you watch or record television without a valid license. I feel it is my duty to inform you that if found guilty, you could receive a maximum fine of £1,000, and your name will be added to our National Enforcement Database. We take this offence very seriously and last month alone we caught 24,184 people. To avoid an appearance in court before a magistrate I would strongly advise you to call 0870 241 5698 or buy a TV Licence online at www.tvlicensing.co.uk Yours faithfully, John Hales Head of TV Licensing Enforcement Division Please see reverse for important TV Licensing information, including exclusion and how to pay. A TV Licence currently costs £131.50 for colour and £44 for black and white. *In Scotland interviews & cautions are made in line with Scottish criminal law.

So, imagine receiving letters like that every month. Now imagine receiving letters like that being a person that HATES TV!

I wish I could just flah the mail as SPAM like in gmail, and don't caring about it anymore, but that's oldschool mail that you can't stop. If you want to stop it you have to call them and then let them do a check of your flat to see if there is a rubbish tranferer to your brain machine (aka TV).

F*U*C*K O*F*F!