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That's one of those frustrating posts, I guess..

Ok, as you may know escena.org has been serving the spanish demoscene for quite a lot of time now. The first site I know that was doing that was lobocom demoworld that was done by jcl, meanwhile, I felt that lobocom wasn't really working well, it was cool as demoscene information, but wasn't really a community platform. So I started the project spanish demoscene center. It was really basic, everything done in HTML by hand, every update was done by hand. At some point, an old scener (Mc_Tr) gave me a hand with some cg scripts for the people list and things like that.

So, the portal was online for some months (Arroutada 7 period), and then throught demoscene-sp SiN, Real Ice, some others and I had a fight regarding the fact of having a website for our scene in our language. Real Ice already had something started and also had the domain escena.org registered, SiN was also doing what on the beginning was called spd2k (spanish demoscene center 2000 (ugly name, uh?) in collaboration with naif, and at some point we decided to join the projects in one. And some months later (Euskal 8) escena.org was released for first time.

SiN was actually doing a great job with the site, moving the site, preparing interviews, but he just got quite angry as the people didn't really used it as he was expecting. So, since then everything started to go down and down, I was always there as admin, with sml and ccm. Also at some point I did some extra code for the site and event a forum. I atually designed the v2 (4 years after the first design), but because a couple of reasons I got really pissed off (mainly the way the scene people is) and stoped the project.

However I was still moderating news, and doing a little bit of work for the site. Meanwhile sml was really doing a lot of content for the site, flash-quiz, mat adventures.. lots of stuff.. but we always were looking for more people to help us with the site. Even SiN at some point said that he needed someone to continue with it, that he just didn't feel like doing it.

So, now. Today.
escena.org is now a "Lunar and Planetary Real Estate", (in fact real ice just told me right now that the domain expired and we lost it). and.. spd.planet-d.net is giving again a 500 error as usual.

and you know what?! I DON'T GIVE A FUCK, I WON'T FIX IT!

Ok, Emulin was a bit far but finally managed to give me the build 5270 of this new OS. I firstly tried to install it with a server version key by mistake. I took twice of longer, the final instalation was something like 7gbytes and the skin was the one of windows95 and there was no way to change it. Great!

So, after a little bit of research I found out the mistake about the key I used and found a client version key. I have to say that they improved a lot the installer tho the progress bar is still not working. Now since the beginning you see the glass style thing with a decent resolution. So after 45min doing the installation this time I was able to start using the OS. I thought everything was going to be quite slow with that skin thing, but in fact, everything was quite fast and smooth, with a sublte animation when closing or minimizing the window, with the blur effect with the background and other windows. And also with that new posh thing for changing between windows you see in the top screen. Really nice visual improvement!

I tried to install quicktime to be able to see the famous keynote from Apple's Jobs but it didn't work properly :'( Then I tried to watch any demo, I tried first Heaven 7 and worked properly and smooth. Then I tried fr-025 but unfortunatelly didn't work. So, looks like everything needs to be recompiled to run in this OS. I was going to try installing Trillian but was quite late then, it's still not using my wireless properly.

If you want more Vista Build 5270 screenshots, check out this Paul Thurrott's gallery.

The 1st of January of this new year xplsv.com had a gig at goldance'06 (cerdanyola, barcelona). It was suposed to be a pro club with professional people and all that. But since I arrived there I knew they weren't really professional and It was clear that I was not going to do anything on there as I knew they didn't have a projector. In fact, they were asking if WE had a projector. That scene is always going to be the same.. I think I'll start looking around London to offer my visuals ;)

Well, I'm don't regret anything. It was a chance to catch up with Alex Martin and also meet Tony Rox. And also to do some extra visuals with neon2 and give some more ideas to shine for the tool.

So, click here to check out the visuals I produced for that party. A shame that wasn't used, I think they were looking quite nice. Maybe for the next one

As looks like ox86 was not really moving enough to have something usable in a near future I decided this weekend to give a try to Windows Vista as my friend Emulin just gave me a copy of the build 5231.

So, the installation was really loong, the progress bar was not working properly but somehow I had the patience and after 45min or so, the new OS was installed. It looked quite nice and a lot of things were designed UI with another concept. Browsing my computer was really different. Some modules crashed some times and restarted again, atleast now says "I crashed and I'll restart". There were some very cool bits like the list mode for the windows (you know.. Thumbnail, Details..), were you can mix styles using a bar, I mean is not any more one option or another, you can drag the bar to select a mix between two styles, it looked quite nice. And also they have now super big icons as osx does.

Internet Explorer 7 had all the TAB system totally ripped from Firefox and Opera, same mouse buttons to do everything. But hey! better than IE6!

Unfortunatelly, there were no working drivers (atleast for that build) for my ATI x300, so I wasn't able to see the glass transparency effect and some other things (I guess mainly Avalon). My friend Emulin told me he is going to give me a copy of the build 5270 which says is much better.

I'll keep  you up to date ;)

Google just released at CES an installer of a selection of good programs which they called Google Pack. The selection is cool, it's basicly all the programs I usually use but inj the other hand I don't understand the fact of having Google Talk! and Trillian separated, it just looks messy, and also instead of Norton Antivirus I would better put AVG. The screensaver looks cool (quite similar to my phodoob thing), but I hate to have the logo on the top right-corner.

I'll like to see if Google adds more software to the pack tho.

Some weeks after my kind of complain about the unsincronized evolution between video compression and datadisk capabilities looks like everything is starting to move (at least I didn't read anything about it before).

Like this new there are a lot more talking (mainly about CES) about HD-DVD as well. I'm really looking forward to see those 50GB disks! :') But that means, I will have to change my laptop soon again as it doesn't have a HD-DVD/Blu-Ray reader :'(

Once again last.fm is discovering me a great one. This time his name is Ochre and you can download quite a lot of MP3 for free!

http://www.ochremusic.com/
(to start listening his music right now click this link :D)

Hope you like it as much as I do.

Ok, probably some of you have seen some spam comments around these days. It was just a matter of time until I add to this hand-made blog an antiSPAM system.

It just flags the comment as SPAM if it comes from specific IPs. A message on the top will appear if it was flagged as SPAM, but I'll check all the comments in case there is a comment that isn't.

I'm doing the list of IPs in "realtime" so maybe you will see some shit some days.

Sorry about it :P

Wishing the best for everyone!! Have a very productive and creative 2006!! *\o/*

... let the money work for you.

Meanwhile I was looking for a chistmas gift for my father I was on amazon checking some books and I found this book called "papa rico papa pobre". From amazon you can read some pages of each book, in this case the introduction, and after reading it I understood myself a little bit.

I grow up under one of those educations like "save, save, save, don't spend too much, look for the cheaper one". But maybe because I'm lazy (doing things like that) I just tried to find a reason for not doing this. And somehow I had one but I never thought that was in fact a much better way to think. For example:

Issue 1 - mp3 player
You have to buy a mp3 player. Everybody always told you that you have to compare different shops before buy it. You got one shop just in the same street where you live but it's more expensive that buying it in a shop where is cheaper. Don't worry about it. You need it and you don't want to waste time getting the tube/bus and then going back. You need it, you go to the closest shop and you buy it. End of the story. Probably going to that shop that was cheaper you will have to pay the bus or tube to go there, this fact makes the product more expensive, but perhaps including the tube/bus ticket is still cheaper. Doesn't matter, it's 1hour of time your time that you saved.

Issue 2 - Getting a charge of 1 month for just half.
This month Foxtons did charge us for 1month when we only been on the flat for 15 days. Well, I don't care. I will probably lose a lot of time, finding the correct number to call, speaking with the correct person, making my english pronunciation as clear as possible, and probably I will have to lose time of my work because they only answer the phone in working hours. Solution, don't worry about, keep working and you will probably get the money back just doing what you like to do: your work.

Some people did ask me at some points of my life, "Where the fuck you get the time to be able to do all what you do?! Don't you sleep?!" they said.. Well, I certainly sleep much less than other people but the next time I will probably know what to answer. Just without caring about those small things that happens in your life that If you care about It will make you not concentrate in your ideas. I have to chose, or concentrating about having a very fair life where all what I have to pay is what I should, or just continue doing what I like, and probably will get back that money I lost and twice of it probably. The time I would lose doing things like that is time that I will lose of my relax time, If I lose my relax time the relax time will supply the work time.

This way of thinking just apply to the people that does have too many ideas and a lot of things to do. If you have time to watch tv or you got nothing to do. Don't worry, you can plan your day just traveling to get your life as fair as possible