Archive for July, 2004

Day from Hell Chronicles

Friday, July 30th, 2004

07:34 pm Mexico City Central Time

Day from Hell has been finished sucesfully, now to enjoy a relaxing weekend for the first time ever in 1 month

04:34 pm Mexico City Central Time

I’m counting the time between now and the meeting time, counting the minutes, the seconds, just expecting for an aprobation and expecting my boss let me get out of the office early. Expecting the client with many impatience, listeting to an old live record from the strokes just to comfort my heart and my mind. Apparently everything is done and very stable, so we just need to make some more tests to the product and that’s it. My partners look very nervous too, about the same thing, but i think we’re gonna make it yes.

03:41 pm Mexico City Central Time

At 1 hour and 45 minutes before the meeting, apparently my parterns don’t care the consequences of doing nothing of the final details, so that equals to do more work, of course imma tell me boss about this actitude, i’m angry and very very nervous, many to come, and just the time is being more shorter and shorter and shoter. I thank that today is Friday and i’m gonna have 2 days for rest, and my vacations apparently are gone.

02:52 pm Mexico City Central Time

2 hours before the meeting, we’re gonna eat our last meals, the tension on the room is growing. The final release of the product is almost done, we have 1 hour to finish those last details and get it running, i haven’t sleep for the last 24 hours and my eyes are starting to close, i’m tired and today is payday. More to come in a couple of hours.

And then… what happened with you?

Thursday, July 29th, 2004

Probably many of you are asking what happened with me these last days, well i’ve been kinda busy at work, with more pressure than ever, with 2 partners who i don’t know what in the hell are doing, and with many many shame right next my boss comes in to the area. And with my personal issues i think they’re solved by this moment, everything now is cool, i’m ok, just a little worried about this new project in my hands.

What else? Planning things for content in this blog just for your enjoy and reading, i think i’m going to try to give me a couple of minutes just to write in here, at least a minimum line that express what i’m doing or feeling in that moment. But wait… i don’t like that kind of posts where there’s only one line with 10 words average. Yeah, for me is more important the content and stuff, but sometimes i don’t have nothing for you, just for share, so that’s another thing on my concerns list.

And of course, i dunno why, but lately, browsing the net and reading my favorite blogs has become very boring or just give up at the middle of the lecture and let it go, and that attention comes to SuprNova, oh you evil page! In fact, right now i’m listening the last album (i think) of Modest Mouse, which in my humble opinion is kinda great, specially for quietness moments.

So, that’s it for today, i’m crossing my fingers for the meeting of tomorrow, which will be the presentation of a demi-final product, and expecting more adds than modifications to the actual page.

Depressed

Sunday, July 25th, 2004

Right now, im kinda upset for the facts between yesterday and today. First we moved out from home, now i’m living by myself as my brother too, and im not gonna talk about my sister and my mom just for security reasons, even i’m not going to tell where i am right now. But i think i’m more free than before.

In other news i’m officialy out of any chance to get in the college this year, so that make more upset this moment. So one more year spent on this shit, wow….

¿Como contar esto?

Wednesday, July 21st, 2004

Esta es la primera vez que escribo en español, en este blog, y aunque de hecho ya tenía uno escrito en español, decidí dejarlo atrás para comenzar este nuevo proyecto. Siento que escribirlo en español dará un poco mas de detalle a esta entrada, que puedo expresarme de una mejor manera.

Los ultimos días me he sentido tan mal, y el tiempo ha pasado tan rápido que hace unas horas pensaba que hoy era Lunes, después me doy cuenta de que es Miercoles, no tengo mucha hambre y he comido muy poco, todo me preocupa de cierta manera como si todo mundo supiese exactamente lo que pienso y me mire de una extraña manera.

Ayer me entero que mi familia está preparando las cosas para irnos y dejar a mi padre, si, muchos se preguntaran por que. Mis padres están en el proceso de un divorcio, cosa en la que estoy de acuerdo, ya que mi madre nunca ha sido feliz al lado de este señor, sumamente me alegro por eso.

Todo esto me ha puesto ha reflexionar todos los años que hemos vivido con el, todas las cosas que ha hecho… o que nos ha hecho. Todo eso, de sobremanera, me pone a pensar, en que rayos ha estado pensando, de verdad nos odiará tanto que nos trata con tal rabia y tanto desprecio. Yo no lo sé, he evitado por todos los medios hablar con el, pues, con el no se puede mediar, uno trata de hablar con el de la manera mas pacifica posible, y siempre al final termina molestandose y ridiculizandote… en pocas palabras me hace sentir tan mal que… no lo sé, sientes una gran impotencia por no poder hacer nada.

Es por eso que el día de hoy, comienza una nueva etapa no solo para mí, sino, para mi hermana, mi hermano y mi madre en especial. Es por eso es que hoy puedo decir que, puedo al fin poder vivir con libertad, paz y mas importante, con amor.

Hace mucho quería descargar todo eso, pero no sabía como, y creo que he encontrado la manera de hacerlo, y en realidad no me preocupa que mi familia lo lea, solo quería expresar lo que sentía y pensaba en este momento.

Shawn Lockheart opens his own blog

Monday, July 19th, 2004

a.k.a Locke

There, have fun!

Happy Birthday Mozilla Foundation

Thursday, July 15th, 2004

Today is the 1st aniversary of Mozilla Foundation creators of Firefox and Thunderbird , made the annoucement of “Mozilla Europe” “a non-profit organization that’s working to promote Mozilla throughout the continent”.

Let’s celebrate, and happy birthday.

Happy 1st Anniversary Mozilla Foundation.

PHP5 Final Available

Tuesday, July 13th, 2004

Well finally, after many time of development, PHP5 final is ready to be used as a stable product. Remember MySQL is not bundled anymore, instead, you have SQLite. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t use MySQL anymore, that’s why you can have enabled in your PHP installation the MYSQLi extension.

“This new extension includes an object-oriented interface in addition to a traditional interface; as well as support for many of MySQL’s new features, such as prepared statements”

…and many more features.

You can get this version at PHP Official Page

Or you can go directly here to the downloads page

P.S. I’m not saying that PHP5 it’s the greatest thing because it has a bigger number, i’m going to try it before making any kind of judgement, so be tuned to know what i think about this.

Tea & Blogs 1 Review

Sunday, July 11th, 2004

Yesterday, was the 4th reunion of webloggers located on Mexico City organized by Eduardo and Alfredo, and the place for the meet was on Maison de Thé, a place where is just tea from every single place of the world and cookies. In my humble opinion a very interesting place, with any kind of place you can sit, and actually the first place i was sat, was very uncomfortable and my foot practilly died.

Anyways, this time more assistants came to this reunion, is good to see it, the list:

Of course i forgot someone but i don’t remember his name and his site, so if you’re reading this post in the comments, i don’t remember your name! Ok now i have the complete list :)

Good conversations, good ambience and fun in this reunion, but at the end of it, we went to… yeah another VIPS yayz!

And today was my last exam to enter the college, last opportunity!, and well, i think it was more easier than the last time… i think, anyways more content coming on the week.

And for the pictures, i’m not gonna publish them this time, i took another digicam and must practically every single picture looked very shitty, bad choice of camera, but next time it will be.

New layout

Saturday, July 10th, 2004

Well apparently this is a surprise for all of you, nothing related with the first preview you saw on this page, but anyways, this page is still table-less and with semantics. This page now works under XHTML 1.1 that i think it’s the same as XHTML 1.0 Strict, but well, i’m trying it so probably again will change the doctype.

And for Blog & Teas 1, yeah i’ll go to that, so expect see me and other people in there. Im gonna take pictures, more than the last time, and i can’t wait for your feedback, so post it.

“Pirate my film, no problem”

Wednesday, July 7th, 2004

Well those, were the words from Michael Moore, the Controversial film-maker. And you can download the film from any P2P software of your choice. Apparently he has no problem with that.

“I don’t agree with the copyright laws and I don’t have a problem with people downloading the movie and sharing it with people as long as they’re not trying to make a profit off my labour. I would oppose that,” he said.

So dear readers, if you’re interested to see this movie and don’t have time to go to your favorite theater, go download it.

P.S. Don’t even ask if i’m going to post some kind of link to a torrent file or ed2k link, no people, but i can enlighten you where to get it, post in the comments if you’re interested to download this movie, but please, if you’re gonna do it, don’t make profit of it, just share ;)

Reference
Moore: pirate my film, no problem.

Update Here’s the torrent for your delight and enjoy, just everyone is downloading it, so you will get very good speeds. Its aproximate size is 1GB. If you don’t know anything about torrents and bittorrent, i recommend you to get ABC, you can dowload ABC from here it’s free and without spyware so there’s no problem with it.

My first day without internet @ work

Monday, July 5th, 2004

Like the title is standing this was my first day without internet at the office when everyone else has it, why? i can’t concetrate at work with this because or is the MSN Messenger or the Email or the Forums i visit or whatever it is, the shit is always distracting me. So i asked to my partner to block me from this beautiful thing just for work more efficiently.

And of course, the first hours this guy totally forgot to block me, and after two times i told him, finally i get blocked, and i can say it was good, finally i can work very fine, with no interruptions. But some hours later, i tried to read my Email, and can’t, so i think shit! i need to… um, forget it.

So here i am, just browsing the intar-web just at nights… and btw expect a big surprise this saturday on the site ;)

They used to copy Apple…

Monday, July 5th, 2004

…and now they copy Google