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bbvanet, la web para administrar tus cuentas de bbva por internet, es lo peor! llevo 4 intentos para hacer una transferencia, se desconecta, vuelve a la home, da errores aleatorios, cada vez uno diferente. Y por descontado no funciona en Firefox, y vamos, no te avisa de que no es compatible, simplemente no se contecta y da otro error, sin mas.

En cambio, para pagar cualquier recibo que me llegue a casa (en londres) tengo una web, house.co.uk, totalmente compatible, donde te creas un usuario, pagas a la compañía que toca, sin problemas intuitivo y sin tener que hacer ninguna llamada. Es cuestion de invertir un poco mas de dinero para ganarse muchos mas clientes.. Es que mira que es facil!! España es asi! Grrrrr!!

Yesterday my computer had I, Robot as a present to me, I was really tired and I decided to sleep and watch the movie today.

The movie, as you know, was released some time ago, last summer if i'm not wrong. I was not very interested in check out it as the design of the robots wasn't very attractive (imho). Anyway I just wanted to check out today. And actually is not bad at all, very entertaining and good action scenes. But the story, the plot is basicly another American xerox to a japanesse Manga. This time Patlabor 2. 90% of the movie es basicly the same. It's a shame that nobody have seen that one. After some research I realized that Patlabor 2 was directed by Mamory Oshii (Ghost in the Shell & co), and that explain why I enjoyed it 10 years ago when I've seen it.

Also googling more I found that Alex Proyas was as well the director of The Crow, and I then wondered how that guy could continue doing movies after kill Bruce Lee's son :S

Just some hours after write that post I found some nice stuff for the handheld.

gpengine (with best 20 games pack)
pcengine emulator with a pack of the best 20 games for it. That pack is really cool as some of the games that are in it are some of the games I was playing when I was small, that tennis one is quite addictive.

SCUMM Pack
I tried some months ago to use it on the handheld, but I had a lot of problems, with that pack everything is easy, and you got the games on the pack as well (but you will need the codes for each one, also day of the tentacle stills a bit buggy (it's a shame as I was trying to play the full game))

Dr.MD v1.0
That one doesn't include the roms, you have to search on internet for them, but the emulation is good enough to play on the bus on the way work some fast icehockey games :')

Also, latelly, una-i is doing a 3drasterizer for the handheld and is very interesting ( you can download the last example here. If unai eventually finish them there will be probably a new era for the handheld. Perhaps I'll do a game for it also O:)

Finally, I have to say good bye to wordreference.com and say hello to dictionary.reference.com.

And you will think, what a silly post! It's not!

It's very funny how page ranking, google things and all that sort of things are annoying the web developing process..

It's not the first time that I have to sort that out, but now I'm doing right now a new version of a website. The design was looking fine, good new ideas and techy things but now, finishing the website, the client is asking to have a bunch of text at the footer of the page, like "special optimized text for searchers". That thing breaks the design easily, I tested things like adding the text in a layer and putting a fixed height to it, with an overflow:none, showing then only the first line of the content. But they say that Google can detect those kind of tricks. I honestly don't know if that's true or not but is making me lose time.

The last problem is that google does have a pagerank with the old existing pages on the site, these pages were .html, now the site is done in .php and is really late to sort that thing.

I'm sure that this "new" issues are happening to a lot of people.. so.. why they had to invent that page rank thing? It's very annoying!! ;)

\o/.

Es una pena no estar en España para disfrutarlo, me he de conformar con pequeños videos que ponen en la web. Si alguien conoce algun streaming de antena3tv estare muy agradecido :')

As some of you already know I bought a gp32 at the last edition of bcnparty. I bought is because I knew that was a platform where anybody could develop "legally" for free. And that means lots of apps, experiments, emulators, new uses for the handheld and all that. Just the first day I got it I found the module (xm, mod, it..) player mikplay32 and was really cool as there is a lot of great music done by trackers and usually doesn't need a lot of space.. like 1megabyte for a big one. That was great and I was expecting really good stuff for it.

Then I checked pouet.net for some good demo for it and the best one was baardei/aardbei. Actually was amazing, really fast and shows what the handheld can actually do. Then I checked the emulators and I found that the emulators were a big battery killer. Somehow, using any emulator the screen started to do some white waves and then dead.. :( I checked some other emulators but more or less have the same problem.

A good point was the port of Quake, very impressive but a bit slow to enjoy the game.. Then I started to test those miniOS for the hanheld where you could have some icons and add other for your apps, change the background.. and that's all.. well.. not bad.

After some months I finally have some thoughts about it.. basicly, as nobody is paying for it and is not really easy to develop for it (atleast I tried to do that without good results), THE GP32SCENE IS FULL OF SHIT. A LOT of UNFINISHED games, apps, ports, tests.. the games are only some smallgames, like the typical flashgames, but the flashgames are usually better done.. there is too many shit and takes a lot of time and test to find something usefull/good. But of course as in all those non-comercial scenes there is some people that works hard to produce good stuff, and this is what I'm writting that post today, just to save your time in the case you get one of these handhelds. Apart of the mentioned tools/demos/games I said that's a selection of cool stuff developed for gp32:

Slubman Firmware If you get a GP32, this is the first thing you have to add on it, that's a new BOOTMENU/TOOL for the handheld that makes Windows detect the handheld as an externalHD (this is really cool, because the tools for tranfer files with the original firmware sucks), also the firmware does have some small WinCommander on it. If you get one, put that on it! elena Tetris in a tube, quite original and with good music (music from Project A/Impact Studios demo I think)

electronia Very addictive small game.

GPSpout Totally weird game, very experimental, without sound but is quite addictive as well.

Lacuna Probably you know that game, this is the 3D version, improving the original 2D game.

And that's all by now, if I get something REALLY GOOD for it I'll post it here. Enjoy!

going to sleep before listen the last ronny pries djset. Wake up and going to work listening all the rohformat modules with my gp32. Listening at work dylandrazen - All Night Long.

too much techno?

Antena3+Agencia de trabajos en Londres=La aventura de Koldo en Londres.
No tiene desperdicio oiga! Nunca me he reido tanto X'DDD

As you probably know, neon (xplsv.com vjtool) binaries and sources was released exactly 1 month ago.

Some people told me that the release was not a good idea, because, for example, Spain is full of lame vj people putting some random videos downloaded from internet and doing nothing. And that they were going to use my visuals and also the tool. Well, honestly, about that point, I don't care, they can use my visuals if they please that will be much better than not to still in my HD, and about to use the tool, perhaps if they saw an xplsv gig wherever they can think like "wow! I want that tool! They do nice stuff!".. As always the tool is "only" a video and 3D scenes mixer/syncher. You CAN'T create new stuff with the tool, you will need to use photoshop and 3D Studio Max to create new stuff, and you will need time and good taste for that. Also the tool have a lot of bugs and there is no documentation, and nevere will be I'm afraid.

In the other hand, some people sourprised when said "ey! neon rox!! I spend all the las night trying to figure out how it works". Hahaha, really some people did that, but I guess they were playing only with the visuals I released.

We released the tool because mac started the v2 totally new last year and then leave the project. So the v1 was basicly dead, yeah, you can do stuff but have a lot of bugs and sometimes is really hard to do stuff with it. So as the tool is much better in some points that the actual commercial tools we released to "improve" the sector, and if someone wants to use it.. good! and also if someone wants to improve it.. fucking good!

A friend of mine told me yesterday that in some spanish club there was playing xplsv.com videos where you can see the xplsv.com logo on the right-down corner. Probably was some of the videos on the site right now. That guy asked me if I was angry because that.. No! just the opposite, I'm glad that they visual are good enough to be used wherever. Some months ago some guy told me that in some duth rave there was playing using videos from the demo MDMA on the visuals, that's cool!