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| Trackmania Nations 08.03.2006 |
 Could you believe that something that looks like that is for FREE? Trackmania Nations looks like Elastomania 2006 edition. This time in high quality 3D render, and multiplayer (lan, internet). The game is quite addictive, so be careful ;) The tracks sometimes are quite hard to do, and some other times are veeeery spectacular.  As you can see, you will really fly a lot, in fact, you're probably 20% of the time flying, which is quite cool. Download it for free! (272Mb) UPDATE: Here you have a nice video which will show you what's all this about. |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 00:51 |
2 comments| Novell XGL rocks! 07.03.2006 |
Looking forward to see a distro with nice ATI drivers embeded (Radeon x300) :D Is this going to catch more users for Linux? Probably, the eyecandy is what sells.. |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 08:16 |
| A sofa finally fitted in \o/ 07.03.2006 |
| It was easier than expected. The last saturday I was feeling very unproductive, I had too many things to do and I just didn't want to do any of them. So we decided to go to IKEA instead of just staying at home. Looks like IKEA is the same everywhere, lost in an almost out-of-the-town neighbourhood where you will wish having a car for atleast 45min. So we went to Neasden with the tube and then we tried to follow the map (that's the same everywhere too, looks like Sweedish people aren't too good doing maps ;)). So we were there following (in the other way) the people that had IKEA bags, and then we saw some signals like IKEA and an arrow. That was like a game. Even a foreigner joined us because she was lost (she was in fact scared). Anyway, we arrived, we did all the tour inside the shop, we seen some sofas (which we already seen in the website), and the good part was when we realized that attached to IKEA they had a dodgy cab company which can deliver your big items in 1hour to anywhere in Greater London. That was cool because we didn't have too many options for that. So then we decided to buy that red leather sofa we seen (and also checked the sizes this time). And then went back to home, as soon as we arrived to Victoria the guy in the cab was already calling me (he had a terrible accent) and was telling me that he was already waiting out of the flat. How cool! in less than 1hour we bought the sofa (and extra things) and we had them inside the flat already. Now I understand why IKEA is working that well. So as a gift, here you have ;) The flat is almost done now, we just need some small bits now.  And as I'm feeling generous this morning (4:09am) ... here is another glowy picture of the kitchen (with all the plastics and wrapping of the sofa).  \o/ |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 04:12 |
| Hayao Miyazaki 03.03.2006 |
I've just realized that one of my favorite movies that he did (Lupen III: Castle of Cagliostro) was released on fucking 1979!!! OUCH! It's a shame he is not producing movies anymore, looking forward to see what his son will come up with... Time to read Hayo Miyazaki's short-bio |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 19:11 |
| ifparty'06 website and identity 02.03.2006 |
| Ok, following the tradition, I had to do the website & ID for this year's edition of ifparty. This year the concept wasn't really clear, I mean in the orgo we were discussing about some concepts, and there were some nice ones, but then it was too late to develop those concepts (delays, delays..) and then (thanks God) was when shash and slack released a intro4k invitation for the party. The concept in the intro was totally new, I mean, didn't have anything to do with what we were speaking about, but I thoght it was cool enough to use it as base for the concept. Let's just continue that theme, develop the Identity of the party with that concept and job done. And that's what I did the last weekend. Bug 1: ?section=contact Unfortunatelly my beloved Sole doesn't have the time (and energy) for helping this year so I had to code a basic template php system for the site. Then It was when we found the bug of Safari and links like this: <a href="?section=contact"> Bug 2: $_COOKIE vs IE Which Sole is researching as she is the number 1 defender of Safari. Also, I had the usual problem using $_COOKIE['language'] with Internet Explorer, but with the system I did was quite fast changing it to $_SESSION['language'] and now works properly everywhere. And that's more or less all, a little bit of promo here and there, and now it's time to design the t-shirt. So this is more or less all the work that a party needs. Hope you like it! |
| posted by trace at 11:59 |
| Movies galore 28.02.2006 |
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. |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 15:11 |
| That sofa has to go! 28.02.2006 |
| 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. |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 14:49 |
| Safari vs Flash #1 28.02.2006 |
| 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? |
| posted by mr.doob at 14:38 |
| Winamp 5.2 reads your iPod 23.02.2006 |
| 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?) |
| posted by ricardo cabello at 20:07 |
| !important (link colour with FCKeditor & TinyMCE) 12.02.2006 |
| 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!! |
| posted by mr.doob at 21:50 |
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