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Although I use Anapod Shuffle (yes, believe it or not I bought a license) seems that Winamp 5.2  does now support different external devices (iPod, Microsoft portable players..) so you can connect then to the computer and play the music using the program itself. I hope they add the add/delete feature soon so nobody needs iTunes anymore (did I say that iTunes sucks before?)

After spending half of the day trying to understand all the code of FCKeditor, modifying it a lot, doing thousands of tests (in order to change the color of the links in the editor) I decided to stop using it and trying with TinyMCE. The funny thing was that reading the editor_content.css file I found out this part:

/* Important is needed in Gecko browsers inorder to style links */
a { color: green !important; }

So if you have the same problem, just add a new style for the <a> tag in the file fck_editorarea.css with the !important thing in the end.

More about the !important rule here

ARFF!!

Do you know what's this thing in the image? I'm sure you probably didn't seen one of those in some months.. Yes, we now use CDs, or even DVDs to save our data. So, I wonder, why the Save file icon is still being a Floppy disk in 99% of the programs out there?! Who had the brilliant idea of using a floopy disk as an icon? And why everyone is still following it nowadays?


Would be fun if in 5years we're still using that icon as for Save file option..

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 ;)