Archive for September, 2004

Your own personalized radio station

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

From Eduardo I’m getting the information that you can get your own personalized radio station, with your favorite tunes and some new bands and artists you can find in there — and probably like some of them — I’m talking about Last.fm , where with a plugin, provided by AudioScrobbler you can submit what song you’re listening in the moment, and no matter if you use Winamp, WMP, iTunes, XMMS, there’s a plugin for your favorite music player… So, if you don’t have access to your audio collection in the moment and want to hear some music of your taste, you can access to your personal radio and have some fun…

The best part is, that you can choose what you like and what don’t, so if for just coincidence you hear something that you don’t like, just press “Ban” and you’ll never hear that song again, but if the song really like you, you can press “Love”, and Last.fm will make sure this song and any similar song will be played more times. Yeah you can hear my own station or just see what i’m playing right now. And yes, it’s free

Telendro

Monday, September 27th, 2004

Ayer fue el final de esta competencia que duró aproximadamente 5 meses, y su objetivo era el de posicionarse entre los primeros lugares al momento de hacer una busqueda por medio de Google con el keyword “Telendro”. Esta palabra fue elegida por la gente de Dirson debido a que esta no tiene un significado en si, y además no estaba indexada en Google en aquellos meses (Mayo 2004). Muchas felicidades a Philippe Portes creador de ElTelendro.com por posicionar en el primer lugar.

The new face of agkamai.com revisited

Sunday, September 26th, 2004

You might notice some weird stuff happening in this site lately, and you can notice the layout is gone, let me explain you what just happened (more…)

More GMail

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004

http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-a735881915-854827801d-17ccf23e5f http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-a735881915-f63a1f6a2c-c813c6bebf http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-a735881915-7ffbb41c05-9dd6a232c0

Take them!

UPDATE All taken, sorry… and Alexa, don’t kill me D:

Mexico churches vs. Cellphones

Tuesday, September 21st, 2004

Not that i’m religious, but it’s interesting what some churches located on Monterrey, Mexico are doing to keep their ceremonies in total calm and peace. We’re on a era where almost everybody on the middle class can get a cellphone without any rate plans — you just make sure you have credit, which leasts 60 days, and you can get more with only buy pre-paid cards — and very cheap ones — without all that multimedia features — from about $30 USD.

What these churches made for block incoming signal from the carriers was installing signal-jamming systems created by a Israeli Israeli telecoms equipment firm Netline Communications Technologies. So during the service, your cellphone simply displays a No Signal message and of course your mobile doesn’t get screwed or something, so don’t worries, it just blocks the signal. Now, all churches from whole Mexico are calling to these, and want to know how they can get this kind of equipment, so they don’t have to deal with the assistants and ask them to leave.

I think it would be cool if this kind of equipment is available at the theater, because, you know, you’re watching a movie… i don’t know… probably some that you have expected from long time ago, or just is one of your favorite movies and you don’t want to miss any detail of it. Then some random gets a call and interrupt your experience … i think you know what I’m talking about.

Saw on Reuters.

HAL 9000 for sale

Monday, September 20th, 2004

So this well-known computer in the geek world, is now for sale at eBay, of course it’s not going to do the same as it was doing on the movie — like talk or try to kill you — . But for a very well sum, you can get home this precious item.

HAL 9000 is a fictional character in the Space Odyssey series, the first being the novel and film 2001 A Space Odyssey, written by Arthur C Clarke. HAL is an artificial intelligence, the sentient on-board computer of the spaceship Discovery. HAL is usually represented only as his television camera “eyes” that are an omnipresent feature of the Discovery spaceship. The voice of HAL 9000 was performed by the actor Douglas Rain. HAL became operational on January 12, 1997 (1992 in the movie) at the H.A.L. Laboratory in Urbana, Illinois, and was created by Dr. Chandra. In the 2001 film, HAL is depicted as being capable not only of speech recognition and natural language understanding, but also lip reading. — Wikipedia.

Of course the bid, is open to everyone who is interested on it.

Via: Slashdot

Kubrick for another blogging systems

Monday, September 20th, 2004

All i just can say is that the Kubrick theme is just beautiful, if you really like it, you can get it for different systems like MovableType, Blogger, etc… you can see more details about it reading this post

Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned

Wednesday, September 15th, 2004

I think you should probably know of who and what i’m talking about, but if not, oh well your lost. Do you remember Fat of the Land ? Oh back in the days, 1997, long time ago… Let me tell you something, if you really enjoyed this album or you heard something from this that you liked it, well my dear reader, this album is going to blow your mind up, definately. It’s a must have for any fan of the electronic music in fact.

So, The Prodigy is back after a terrible and awfully returning with “Baby’s Got a Temper”, the wait was worthed, and after 7 years today yesterday they released their brand new album on the US, of course this has been on the market since August 28th in Europe and some other parts of the world, so if you’re curious or you like the music of this band, get it…

The tracks i recommend are: Spitfire, Girls, Hot Ride and Wake Up Call

1,000,000 Downloads. 10 Days

Wednesday, September 15th, 2004

Get Firefox!

Please start spreading the word, we only have 10 days to reach the 1,000,000 downloads… you just need to follow the instructions on how to spread the word… and if you haven’t used FireFox yet… use it you’ll not regret…

agkamai.com en sus primeros dias

Wednesday, September 15th, 2004

Me he dado a la tarea de portear algunas entradas de mi blog antiguo cuando utilizaba mi propio CMS, no todas pudieron recuperarse y bueno también las edité un poco, ya que carecían bastante de gramática.

Eso sí, traten de encontrarlas ;)

Statistics

Sunday, September 12th, 2004

These last 30 days I have been used the Re_invigorate statistics to measure all the visits that came into this blog, because, with the default stats module i have installed on this server, is not tracking everything, included images, feeds, and another things are on this server, which of course doesn’t give me a very precise measure of the visits from site. So, I decided to get another statistics service, which was the above mentioned.

I can see the users who get to this page, are using more Firefox, Netscape and Mozilla, which is included on all the group of Netscape 5

Apparently 1024×768 is the most popular resolution on my readers, but anyways, this layout was made to fit on a 800×600 resolution

The popular timezone on this blog is GMT -06:00,

Why Windows is had to be the most popular OS? Well here you check it out, but i can see there’s an active audience seeing it on MacOS

And there are more pretty features that i can check. The thing that i don’t like about this is sometimes the Re_invigorate server goes down and of course my page cannot display because of this, so i can’t find any solution to solve this issue. Hope you like my statistics report.

P.S. Those graphs are included on the Re_Invogorate System

Untitled

Wednesday, September 8th, 2004

I don’t remember the last time i talked about me, and since the main topic of this blog is personal i forgot sometimes it is, oh well, what the hell. Why Untitled? You probably ask, well, i don’t have a title for this entry… yet, so i think it’s a good idea to put that.

Yesterday, i went to that restaurant who is very near from my office, and yeah everything was so fucking expensive for just a soup, and a chicken breast with permesan cheese and spaghetti — delicious in fact — but anyways the grand total was a sum of about $50, yeah $50 fucking dollars. Anyways, i was just sat down on this huge bar, and apparently this sir about 60 years of age, sats on the same bar as me but of course a little far from me. So he take his cigarrete package and bam, lots of them are there, this sir takes like 3 or 4 from there, and he turn on the first one and apparently 5 minutes later and half of the cigarrette he turn if off on the ashtray and he continues with the next one… and this goes over and over and over, till he’s done with the package, yeah it looked very creepy and stuff, and now that moment is letting me think about my smoke habits, is there i’m going to stop if i still smoke. Just thinking about is just make me shudder.

So all that made me think more the rest of the day… just that

Congrats Google

Tuesday, September 7th, 2004

Testing your layouts on IE

Monday, September 6th, 2004

You probably know by experience when making CSS+(X)HTML layouts can be a PIA when you try to make it look good on IE, and since IE hasn’t a very good CSS support, there’s people who actually doesn’t know how to test them on another versions of IE, especially the older ones. And of course there are available web-based solutions, just to see how it looks your layout, but that’s an image, and sometimes you cannot see the entire layout if is larger than the window visible height and you need to scroll it to see it entirely… Well the point is there are available standalone versions of IE (since IE is based on Windows’ Explorer), even on Mac versions. You can find out more in this article. Via: noscope

MT 3.1 Pfff

Friday, September 3rd, 2004

Well these days i’ve been trying this blogging system, that everybody thinks is the greatest. Oh well, this has been a purely deception, and of course it has features that actually Wordpress already has them since 2 or 3 months ago, like the dynamic publication (which also Textpattern has), sub-categories (which both, WP and TXP has), future publishing, so if you are absent for… i dunno 3 days, 1 week, 1 month, you can write some articles and then you can configure them to publish on a particular date, so your blog doesn’t look very alone in your absent time (WP has this feature only).

First of all, is not that easy to configure that dynamic publishing, you have to configure each template you’re using for your archives, so if you missed something in any template, you’re screwed. Of course it’s a requirement to have mod_rewrite, thing that doesn’t happens with WP or TXP, where you’re not forced to use it if in your host is not enabled. So if you don’t have mod_rewrite, sorry, you have to use static publishing and rebuild everything when you’re changing something.

The comment system, in just one word, is ssssssslow.

And some sort of weird glitches for example when you’re using dynamic publishing, the archives doesn’t seem to exist sometimes and sometimes they exist, very weird.

And i can’t see the PHP support on this, i can’t see it, i’m sorry if i look so damn ignorant, but where is it? i can’t see it seriously. And yeah i pretend to be a total ignorant when i’m using a new piece of software just to see how easy is to use it.

So, there will not be a switch to MT3.1 since it’s basically the same with some bloated features and sometimes a little slow, so lets wait until the Six Apart guys give us an explanation on this or something, that tends to happen with this people, but whatever…

UPDATE Like always, this guys are really quick, there’s available a bug fix for all this issues we had

Mozilla.org redesigns

Wednesday, September 1st, 2004

So this morning i checked the homepage of Mozilla and i see the beta-design is now there on the main page, but with some improvements. In fact i kinda like this new one more than the last one. Why don’t you go check and make your own opinion about….