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Unfortunatelly this time the post is about really bad movies I had to see these days. The list of movies to see are bigger everyday, and sometimes the recommendations were not that good, so:






The 40 Year Old Virgin
I'm not sure how come did I get this one, I think someone recomended it to me, some bits were really funny, but overall was really silly.

S1m0ne
Ok, this time I did watch this one because was written by Andrew Niccol, who also did Gattaca and The Truman Show which are really good movies, but this one was a real fiasco. I was thinking each minute how come Al Pacino accepted to do this crap?!

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
After that Kevin Smith Bomb of videos around internet I decided to get this one tho after Dogma I decided to don't watch more stuff from this guy. The movie was quite bad, the end was a kind of Orgazmo-wanabe. A shame, because I think Kevin is quite funny, but his movies are usually quite dumb.

Love Actually
I wasn't expecting too much of this one, but it ended up being even worse..

In the other hand, I've also watched some good films!






War of the worlds
Which I think was a superb show! The moment where all the robots appear was delicious, however when the robots itself showed up, I thought that Spielberd did spent too many time playing Half-Life 2 (you know why I'm saying that ;)) It's a shame the movie had such a bad ending!

Also, does anyone thought about this tune at any time in the movie? ;)

25th Hour
Not sure about where did I get the recommendation from but I think this one was one of the best ones I've seen this month. It had some veeery good moments, very recommended!

MirrorMask
This one is Dave McKean in motion. Some parts had terrible visual effect integration, and sometimes was overdone, but It left me a good vibe after all. Looking forward for his next one.

Ok, here is a funny adventure I'm living nowadays. Some months ago we bought a sofa in Argos. It really took a lot of time to be delivered, first then said one day but then it was another day blahblahblah.. So, you won't believe how dumb I felt when the sofa arrived and the door to our flat wasn't big enough! The guys said, that sofa doesn't fit by that door, is not going in. Oh shit, am I that dumb of buying a sofa without thinking about that?! Looks like..

So, do you want us to get the sofa back or do you want us to leave it here so you can try getting rid of the door. Leave it here was my answer. Doubledumb! Now we have a sofa in the door to our flat (in the patio) that doesn't fit by the door. Argos is comming next thursday to collect it back, but now the neighbours are complaining about the f* sofa! They say in case of a fire the people won't be able to go out the bulding. That's a silly lie! There is a lof of space for going out the bulding, you just need a mind with a "obstacle avoiding" feature.

Silly mistakes, silly days, lots of lost time.

Looks like if you have a code like this in flash:
getURL("?section="+section);

I'll work in every browser as expected, like going to index.php?section=about, for example..

However, looks like in Safari, it appends the string in the URL, so it will look something like that:
index.php?section=about?section=products

Nice, isn't it?

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! ;)