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One month ago I was really happy when I realized that I had like 24 days for holidays to spend at Spring, that means that in like 2years I didn't have too much relax/holidays (working working working working). So, before losing them, I just planned the holidays/trip to USA but it really was a big mistake, as a week later, the landlord told us that we had to leave the flat on 12th December, I bought the tickets in a cheap way, so I wasn't able to refund them.

In addition to that, instead of moving to another rent flat we decided to buy a flat in London, carzy stuff but we were paying a lot of money on rent, so, I was really worrying of the timming for getting a flat, I was trying to do it in like 1 month and a half, and the estate agent was always saying that was possible. The problem was the mortgage advisor (I'll do a really bad post to thank him and his company in some days, hope they have a nice pagerank ;)), that just delayed everything, and I had to look for a mortgage by my self after losing 3 weeks.. So, the day we were suposed to sign the contract. But guess what, just the day before yesterday we were able to setup the morgage, that means.. that I won't be able to do the trip that I've paid for. And I just hope that I don't lose the flat now because the delay...

Also, if all that wasn't enough, as usual, if you're going to get some holidays, the latest 2 weeks at work turns in to a total nightmare, lots of stuff to do, too much too much...

Sometimes I just wonder, why I just didn't stayed at my parents home where I didn't have to worry about things like that..

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!

THX 1138 extended. It really looks like THX 1138 tho in The Island they go out of the box in the middle of the movie instead. I quite like the main actors of the movie, that's why I wanted to see the movie, tho I didn't know who directed it until I was watching the movie, there are a lot of blurred action, you don't know what's happening at some points, but also there are great explosions, cars destroyed, cool vehicles and, compared to Minority Report, I quite like the future design they predict. It's like more clean, more Apple.. thought in the movie there was some sponsoring from microsoft and msn search for phone booths :D

Personal rating: 6

Or, should I say, I'm back?! After quite a lot of time without releasing any demo.. well.. actually since euskal 13 where I did release codename serotonin as coop between roterfleck (as the superb tune was done by neurokin/roterfleck) and xplsv mainly as demoshow entertainer (it actually took me 4hours to do it).. I've been working in some editor based in an engine with sole, but that's going quite slowly (mainly the editor), so by now the only I could do (as ithaqua's editor doesn't work with the latest openGL drivers (he's fixing it)) was use shine's neon2 to do the demos on-the-fly.. This means that you play the music in winamp, and with neon2 you do a kind of live vjset with all the effects meanwhile recording the session. Obviusly the result is quite simple and the sincro is not as accurate as a normal editor can do. However, it's fun stuff and I can experiment with some music.

So, this bcnparty besides I'm lately quite busy, I was able to contribute in three prods. As you already know, r08064 was one of them, that got the 1st place, then astharoth used one of my old tunes for his demo My Style as well, that got the 2nd place, and as the last but not less important, minimalanimal released a new demo (as there was going to be a fight about noise/ambiental demos this year and minimalanimal obviously had to be there).

It's an unfinished version (shine should do a better launcher for it, and I should add another scene) but you can check out the party version W3'R3'B4CK / MININAMLANIMAL

So, as you can see, i'm quite active again, and looks like I'll be able to contribute with another prod for kindergarten this weekend ^^. Stay tuned!

Here is the new rip of google.com/ig (btw, as I already said, I'm now using netvibes.com): live.com

Also, they are working on a rip of gmail.com here: mail.live.com

guess what... LOSERS!!! ;)

Some weeks ago, mr.kile was asking me for an idea for a 64kintro, as he was looking to release something at bcnparty. The only thing I suggested him was to do the demo r08028 in 64k, and somehow he liked the idea and started to work on it. Luckilly after some search in my backups and HDs I found the original scenes and he was able to use them easily. The harder part obviously was going to be to redo the music, firstly I tried myself but I didn't have too much luck. Days later Wonder did quite fastly all the base, structure and the result was very similar, then I modified it a little bit as he just missed some parts of it, and also I destroyed it, Wonderboy to the rescue saved the disaster.

The there was the idea of doing r08080 as well (as r08028 was already ready, but this time Wonder didn't want to do the full music, so, well, you will see how it all ends :D

So, it just ended like a little brief of my demos in a 64k. And it won the 64kintro compo! Thanks kile <3<3<3!!!

DOWNLOAD R08064 / SGZ + XPLSV

Today, when checking the xplsv.tv refereers list of the day I found a very interesting new website.

netvibes seems to be a copy of google.com/ig. However it may be the original one that google copied (I don't know). Whoever were the first, netvibes looks much more completed and with more features. In the case of google.com/ig if you needed something you were able to suggest it but google is always very cold, there is also no blog about the progress of the project, and netvibes does have it. Just a couple of (silly but very important) things that will make move to netvibes.

You should give it a try as well :)

Full 64bit OS done entirelly with assembler in only 600K. Is that possible?

Looks like... Respect!

If you check the history of changes, seems that they are doing great progress quite fastly. I'm wondering where this project ends.

tpolm si back! enjoy!

Just in the middle of the explosion of extra work (Spring Digital's overwork, getting a flat in London, bcnparty/2ndstage getting closer and with the indirect work that it means..) I had a wedding to attend in a lost town close to Valencia (one of sole's friend was getting married).

The first problem that this had was the fact that I used to hate suits, but I just changed of mind about that quite fast and I went to Zara to see what could I have. The final decission was to mix the top of the suit with dark jeans and a kind of serious sportshoes. The mix of styles was quite nice, it is quite typical in London but I was a little bit concerned about how the people of that town and with their town-mind were going to think about what I was wearing, but well, I prefered to feel good with my cloth instead with the people thoughts. Once in the wedding everyone was looking at us because what we were wearing (Sole was wearing a chinese/japanese style, someone said that she was wearing in a Pucca style).

I've never been in a wedding with a little bit of awareness of what it was all about. That one was a catholic wedding so you know, priest blabling and blabing. Since the beginning I was quite confused.. what the hell he is talking about? the part inside the church was like 90% talking about god, about how nowadays the people doesn't attend every sunday to church and well, I just feel like if they were crying and asking us please to attend as catholithims was just dying. Another thought I had meanwhile they were speaking was the resemblance between the priest an a dj. The dj's as the priest do can make a bunch of people to sit up and sit down. It was exactly the same, bunch of people following what the dj was saying. And as the last point inside the church, well, if your name is Rigoberto, or your girlfriend is Romualda, please, make sure that the Priest can speel properly the letter "R" or everybody will just laugh about it. I have to say all that was very funny. As usual trying to don't laugh inside the church, sentences like "you cannot buy love, love isn't something you can buy in supermarkets, isn't something you can buy in 'el corte ingles', 'consum'..", or like "you have to put yourself inside her, and see what she feels, what she needs", also watching how the altar boy was yawning all the time... just funny.

I'm sure the happy couple will be not really happy to have the video that this guy was recording on there, I don't understand why they keep recording videos in weddings.. Anyway.. once all this spanish traditional sectism (sorry, but that's what I think) was over we had to wait outside the church for the married couple meanwhile they were getting properly married. Then some drinks on a normal bar, then a lot of food on a kind of restaurant and to finish the special day, 'dancing' the latest spanish supercrap hits in a drink-as-much-as-you-can party.

At this point we were really tired (as we didn't sleep too much to be able to catch the plane) and we decided to leave.

After that wedding was easy to see that in my case, in the future, I will prefer a XXX's wedding style (with DJ, VJ, friends..) instead of a catholic/traditional spanish one.

Btw, check out the pictures of this topic wedding

Finally I will be able to continue playing WipeOut! o/ And in the case Ridge Racer or Metal Gear AC!D also die I will be able to download the backup and continue playing.

But I'm actually more interested in trying NEOGEO PSP emulator on it and see if I can play Metal Slug, WindJammers and all those great games. That's something that GP2X will do (see GP2X playing Metal Slug), but GP2X doesn't have wifi, so I'm afraid I won't get GP2X in the future, doesn't matter how great it looks ;)

Anyway, I'll keep my gp32, and also I'll keep trying with SDL in my spare time.