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Never create/use a variable/object with "3d" in the begining of the name ("3dXX"). It won't work.

Katsuhiro Otomo is back! After great productions like the super famous Akira, Roujin Z and Memories... produced 2 years ago a new one: Steamboy, which I wasn't able to see until this weekend :/

As usual, does have a great level in the animation, great architecture (katsuhiro is in fact an architect), great vehicles, scenes, and well, feeling! It really leaves you a nice feeling.

This time the movie is based in Manchester/London, which is very well reproduced. It's maybe a mix between the world of Future Boy Conan series, Roujin Z and Akira..

I probably won't need to say that is totally recomended ;)

Click here to check the trailer.

Yes, that's my new pet. An AIBO ERS7 It doesn't pee/poo in the floor, it doesn't destroy things, doesn't need you buying everyday food. It just makes sounds and right now (Mind1) is quite dumb. Looking forward to receive the update for Mind3 which will make all this more interesting (in theory it cand read you the RSS and play music and things like that.. By now he is just exploring my flat and doing a little bit of mess everywhere he goes.

As you may know, Sony decided to leave the robot sector because they weren't getting enough money from it. Quite a shame because that means the robot QRIO will be never released. The new made me look for information about the robot and I found that was much more interesting that what I thought. So the next step was going to Ebay and check how much the robot was on there. Somehow (i'm not sure yet) I won the bid and I got the robot for less than half of the price ;)

It doesn't have his toys yet tho, so he is being a little bit bored.. well, now, does anyone guess why his name is Chris?

I'm still wondering how come products (as they like to call it) like basecamp and thousands of forums out there are still using textile and bbcode (probably because everyone uses phpBB ;). I agree, bbcode was a good solution when it was released, a good way to control what the user was sending to the server. Then textile was a clever version of bbcode, faster to write, but in both of them you're always quite limited. I really hate whenever I have to write a new post in basecamp at work. You cannot really combine things, and whenever you have to write in any forum with bbcode, that's painful again.

Nowadays we got scripts like fckeditor which simulates an editor like word, notepad or any of those, where you select a word, click a button and tadaaa! bold! isn't that easier?!

And yeah, I know, I'm the first that is still using bbcode for xplsv.tv, but believe me when I say that this will change soon! ;)

For those who didn't move to the darkside yet (wordpress, blogger, ..) and are still developing his own blog system (right now I think that i'm the only one doing it (well, sole too)), here is what I did to stop the SPAM I was receiving as comments. For doing this sole was moderating all the comments one by one, I didn't want to do that, then I started to receive SPAM, and she told me to only accept comments from known people, from names that are already on the list. I didn't like the idea either.

So what I decided to do was just saving the IPs and realized that they always use the same IP. That was clear then, I added another field in the mysql database indicating if the comment was SPAM or not, and then when anyone adds a comment, the system checks if the IP is in the database, if the IP was flagged up as SPAM, it will leave it in the database but flagged up as SPAM too. If the IP is new or already in the database but without any SPAM indication it goes directly adds to the database and shows the comment.

After having the idea and developing it, sole, again, told me that it's the same system that wordpress uses. And by now it works, sometimes there is a new SPAM with a new IP that I have to flag up as SPAM, but it's much better than moderating comment by comment. Tho not too many people writes here :P

This is one month older already but who cares? Well, on 31th of December we were in Barcelona and some of the things we wanted to do was going out to Parc Guell and also to Tibidabo. Then we run out of time and we just were able to do one of them. We decided Tibidabo as it was going to be cool to see an old funfair that was still working (kind of).

I've already been there for some times when I was really young, I actually don't remember too much. It's something that I had all the 20 years I've been in that city but somehow I didn't went to there. So I didn't been there for something like 15 years.

In order to do a complete trip we used an old tram that they still have to get there and also a railway. Once there, half of it was close because they weren't opening all of it on christmas, a shame because it really turned to be a very small funfair. It was mainly for kids or atleast I'm too fat, I wasn't able to fit properly in any attraction ;) Even the well know airplane!!

So well, after all, we had a great time! I'll really recomend you to go there for one of those Sundays you don't know what to do. Not everyday you can see a 50+ years old funfair!

Check out the pictures of the day!

PS: It was such a cold day!

I feel like this every morning when I go work. Just before going inside Victoria station there are hundreds of pedestrians going in my oposite way as Victoria does have a lot of offices buildings. I really feel like I'm the only one going in the other way.

It really feels weird, but in a good way I think ;)

He aqui un articulo bastante interesante que escribio God / Ozone en 1998. La verdad es que es muy interesante, son cosas bastantes globales y que en general (y por desgracia) aun no se han quedado obsoletas. Recomiendo la lectura a mas de uno ;)

Si quereis leer mas "oldies" aqui teneis unos cuantos textos mas.

I'm not trying to compete with the famous curiouslikeacat-girl of the spanish demoscene and her series of demoscene gossip posts but there is some gossip I wanted to talk about. So if there is anything I like to gossip about sceners/retired-sceners is the place where they are / where they work (yes, this post was inspired by this pouet.net thread).

So, looks like the well-known Cirsa (btw, what a shitty website which uses a Reason example tune - quality!) is being recruiting quite a lot of catalan sceners latelly. The first one I knew that went to work there was Xphere / Zon@n (coder of 2 fast 2 intro, gran scener 2), then my brother (Dr.Kami / MCD+Fuzzion, coder of ep6invtro, kukka, ignition...) went to there to do some temporal work but looks like he's finally got a permanent job and he is in fact working with another new recruitment of Cirsa:  Chc / MCD (coder of moderator, crazy...). Working on there my brother find out that there where another MCD old member and he didn't know: Marathon Man / MCD (coder of rc-mania, revolution...). But that's not all, looks like HlodWig / Anaconda (coder of 359.60, Eunectex, The Requiem) is also working there!

As you can see, the famous topic "demosceners always finish working in games" is kind of true, because in addition to Cirsa (argh! that horrible website again!!) there is somewhere in Barcelona another games company (Microjocs), this time focused in mobile games which in fact was created by another well known amiga scener: Drareg / Ozone (coder of Smoke Bomb, Fetish,...) And this one really had a lot of sceners working, as far as I know BP / Fuzzion, Ufix / Fuzzion, CCM / Fuzzion, Sml / Fuzzion, Pasop / ex-threepixels, Madgoblin / Zon@n (you know what these people did, don't you? ;)) are working or did work there. But in this case there are always really bad rumours about the company and mr. Drareg. Hope those rumours stop some day ;)

Then we got Pyro as well, but I really don't know who exactly is working there, feel free to complete the information with those ones you know ;)

Looks like when there is a language that you don't really use, the time you start using it again it mixes with another secondary language (only if you speak three languages). And that happens when I try to speak catalan. Here I don't really speak catalan with noone so when I go back Barcelona I have to think a lot what to say until I found the catalan words, that could be an example of what my brain does:

"No hi ha enough space in that field."

So, you start the sentence in catalan, but when you don't find the next word, the english one come first and you finish the sentence in english. And mixing languages in sentences is nothing new, but is new to me the fact that I don't control it in this case

"L'altre dia vaig anar al cinema i va ser una peli forsa dolenta and the people no paraba de push me when entraba."

Weird, uh?!