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Last time I saw one was the first time I went to work on Germany, while being in London I've rarely seen a sunrise. I mean, properly, with the beach or a mountain being on top of the sun, instead of a bunch of bricks. Specially because I leave to work at 9am, but I would like to see the light going in the windows while trying to wake up.

Somehow I woke up at 7am today, and I was able to see the sunrise today, but not the real one, this one...



I guess that will do... not!

"Yeah, lets do a version of this cartoon opening tune for this other one, those stupid kids who watch TV will never realise."

The Spanish subs are quite bad btw, really inaccurate, and even loses a lot of the fun.

Here it's a piece of my youthhood.

The Catalan TV channel TV3 used to broadcast Jackie Chan movies when I was 15 or so. I think it was on Friday night, like at 2am or 3am. I still don't know why it was that late. If that wasn't hard enough they used to put one of those long infomercials that can go on for an hour (no kidding). And if that isn't yet painful enough, the schedule would be always random. If the paper said the Jackie Chan was going to be broadcasted at 2am, it was usually 1hour later, so you had to watch that advertisement. My brother and I always joked with the name of the product calling it "Pa amb pernill" (catalan for Bread and Ham), because this is how it did sound to us.

Having a discussion about ADs that get stuck in your brain with sole today I remembered that one, and I tried to remember the name. Luckily I seem to have a good memory for sounds, so I remember how the name sounded like, "Pampanseel". After saying it (and know that I have better english) I guessed it was actually "Pump and Seal" as that was the product all about.

After all this introduction I'm sure you want to see the AD, thanks to youtube, you can.



And this is only 10min of the AD, you can seal EVERYTHING, the best demo was when they were sealing marshmellows as they expanded to fill the jar. This is what I had to suffer in order to see gems like Project A...



or Armour of God...



Oh well, I guess that's what you have to pay when your tastes don't follow the mainstream.

While writing this, I remembered a worst one still... I also happened to be a City Hunter fan, Tele5 also did something similar, broadcasting the episodes at 5am, but sometimes instead of City Hunter, they broadcasted Manuela instead.

You gotta love the melody...



So, I guess that must be why I don't have TV anymore... internet let me watch all I'm interested on without having to stay up late watching crap.

Since 8.10 alpha was released I've been (kind of addicted) testing all the new versions with Virtualbox. Tracking all the ups and downs and all that and checking how the development process was. The Release Candidate was finally out a couple of days ago, and I tested it on my desktop (upgrading), apart from a couple of glitches everything was running well and new versions of programs were finally there.

So, I tested the liveCD on my laptop and it also went pretty well, everything was working out of the *cough* box. Graphics card, Sound card, Wireless, Bluetooth and, most importantly, suspend. Also, the fans are super quiet, which is totally not the case when on bootcamp/Windows. Only the trackpad gestures doesn't seem to work. However, I decided to finally get rid of MacOS and Windows from the machine and just leave the Ubuntu.

So yet another one of my machines got converted o/, only the macmini at work is still running Windows, I guess I'll have to wait until I finish the project I'm working on before installing it there, which it may even have to be for Ubuntu 9.04 :D

Anyway, this looks great, I'm super happy :)

PS: The isight wasn't working, so after a search I found this and then this and then this, and after rebooting the machine it worked perfectly. Cheese and Skype works good, flash crashes when trying to use the webcam tho :( Go ubuntu go!

Having to press Fn+F11 to launch the compiler on FDT/eclipse is not really ideal. Here it's the fix:

Edit the file /etc/modprobe.d/options:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/options

Add the line: options hid pb_fnmode=2

Save the file and execute the following command:

sudo update-initramfs -u

Reboot

Well, kind of predictable...

You spend a lot of time trying to improve your technical knowledge doing experiments all the time, and suddenly, a stupid idea pops, you tackle it in a couple of hours and that makes people go mad and your site ends up on the top 5 shakers list in Alexa.

That's worth a screenshot!



Can you believe that it's even higher than Zeitgeist? Anyway... I think the joke reached its end now. I have a lot of data of referrers and I'm tempted of doing a nice graph with it, but I'm feeling lazy.

Just a quick note by the way, the fact that I choosed that Rick Astley video wasn't really intentional for making it a Rickroll in HD, it was just the first video it came to my mind.

Yet another interesting movie everyone should see. It goes way more deep than the first one.

More info at zeitgeistmovie.com

This seems to be a sketch from one year ago:



On a side note... I love when we are in crisis. Seems like if there is a crisis serial killers and violence news disappear. I wish newspapers could just not release an edition one day if they though there were not real news. Ah yeah, I remember, it's all about the ADs.

More? :D