I’m afraid I’m wrong by a century but, you know, what counts is the intention

HAPPY 2008 TO ALL!

Finally, after waiting for a long time, the new Nokia Internet Tablet N810 is in my hands. I was about to buy the N800 when Nokia announced the launch of the new model, so I decided to wait (have been two veeeeery long months). By the end it has been launched in Spain (almost a month later than in the United States), but only 30 units were available in the Nokia online shop and have already been exhausted by now (if I was not the first to order one…)

Finally, after a mistake from Ups that turned a delivery of 2 days in a wait of more than a week, it has arrived. And the first thing I´ve installed (after some “playing” you know ) has been Maemo Wordpy, an offline client for Wordpress created by Daniel Yerga that lets you write entries in the tablet to upload them to the blog later. A great program that, for what I´ve read will be even better,it even permits resize of images before uploading (well,by html tags). So this whole “brick” text has served to test this program, and create and upload this entry from my N810, so as you can see it works very well. And I am sooooo happy with my new acquisition

Note: Images aren’t so good, but I wanted to try how my E65+N810 combo works. The results are pretty good. It’s a good mobile solution

Well, I think it is time to return to the issue for which I started this blog. So here yo have some sketches. These are normally done when you have an idea whose intent (at least at the time of making them) is that some day they become full drawings. Most never succeed, and it’s not be because they did not try to, suddenly appearing among some papers that you had forgotten when you least expect it … Well, some may have luck this time. In any case, I put them here so they don’t lose in time

[Note: I have translated this post because I translate everything I write as part of my “internationalization politics” (lol) but even when this contest isn't mentioned as a “Spain only”, I think the prizes can only be sent to Spain's national territory so.....I can be wrogn though, there's nothing in the rules about this subject]

Yesterday I received an e-mail from Rafael R. Lopez, member/admin of Blog del dia (Blog of the Day)  informing me that they have launched a competition for the redesign of the blog. This contest is about the creation of an original template compatible with wordpress 2.2. In addition, the first prize for the winner, apart from a fixed link in the footer of the blog will be a iPod Nano 8Gb very interesting. You can see the rules here: BASES. I must thank Rafael for inviting me to participate, which I’d love to do. It is not that I have no ideas for designs to make a template for the blog, unfortunately my programming skills are not equal to the challenge to build an original template from scratch. More one in which important things such as CSS validation and usability are involved. May this few words serve as my little contribution to the distribution of the contest from this humble, and still in diapers, blog.

Anyway I must invite you to visit the blog, because, apart from the competition is a very interesting blog that I fortunately discovered the other day. They make every day a review of blogs written on a wide variety of topics in (as far as I could see) the language of Cervantes, including an interview with the author / admin of the blog. The theme of the blogs mentioned is the most diverse. Also, each day the give as a prize to one of these blogs (recommended and voted by readers) the award “Blog of the Day” which entitles you to hang in the winner blog a banner indicating that has been chosen. A major initiative that, from here, I must applaud. In order for you to find it, you have the link in my sidebar, in the section “Indispensable” of the blogroll.

Well, as you can see, at the moment I still have this “temporary” template running. I have made quite a few changes to bring it a little more to my liking and I think it’s not bad. I added several elements to make it a little more accessible, is not that I have so many readers but I feel that it needed more “comfort” about comment and blog subscribing. That is why I added the ability to subscribe to the blog by mail instead /in addition to the traditional Feeds. I think for those who, like myself, are accustomed to subscribe to specific threads in forums, it would be more convenient to receive an email each time I publish a new entry instead of having this blog “taking up space” in their feed reader, since I don’t update it every day. I have also added the ability to subscribe by mail to the comments of an individual post, thanks to the plugin Subscribe to Comments, which will make it easier to follow the thread in responses that you are interested (I need feedback if it is working or not). I changed the plugin that managed Blog’s archives by Extended Live Archive that works very well, although it is a little more complicated to install, but is highly configurable. I fixed a small problem with the contact form, but now I have a small problem with Babel, which is the plugin responsible of this blog can be seen in 2 languages, suddenly, It did not translate the titles of the entries, but it does with the body of the post, so it is a lesser evil. I am sure that the fault is mine as Matteo, the creator even had the courtesy to “fix” a version for me because It wasn’t working fine in this new blog.

Moreover I’m still working on the old template to make it work properly and to suit my likings in this new hosting service. At the end of this post you can see some pictures of a redesign that I’ve thought of for this particular template and that, I think, adds a touch of modernity to an “ancient” template that is elegantly perfect. At any rate changes are not implemented and I don’t know if they will be because, as I have said repeatedly, my knowledge of php and css is rather limited, but sufficient for minor modifications but not enough for extensive changes or create a whole theme. Right now I am focusing on making it operate as it is (or was in my old blog), then we will see. Maybe I’ll need help … ;)

See ya