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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

[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

A couple of days ago my friend Diego sent this history by mail. I don’t know if it is one of those chained-mails and you have read it, but I found it funny enough to post it here. There are more things apart from drawings and my problems with Wordpress. I must warn you that it is a bit long….
And the thing is that, whatever they say…..we have our charm :)

(Translation complete. This is not one of my standard posts and translate this collection of jokes and slogans from spanish to english is not as easy….you know, different languages have their own collection of jokes that are untranslatable and aren’t funny if you manage to translate them. So any errors and fun-shortness is my only fault)

GIRL MEETS A FREAKY

Being girlfriend of a freak is not easy. When she meets the first freak of her life, she opens a door to an unknown world…..

1: Girl meets freak
You can feel it, he is not like the others. Do not know what it is, but he has something more. He may look a geek, or a nerd either, but it is much more than that. He is a freak.
Sometimes he says odd things, but you think “So Cute!.” He has a special brightness in the eyes as if he hasn’t his feet totally planted on this world, a brightness that sometimes, when he is next to “certain objects”, becomes fanaticism. But you don’t mind (at the beginning at least). You fall, and enter in another dimension.

2: Girl goes out with freak
The first obstacle to overcome is the great ignorance that a non-freak has about the parallel universe in which the individual you have adopted as boyfriend, lives. You are talking quietly, doing the more innocent commentary, and suddenly you see how your guy begins to look red, open his eyes much, that vein in his neck begins to swell and his mouth opens and closes without articulate any sound. You know you have done something bad but….what? Two examples, courtesy of Misia:

- You’ve called “puppets” to his miniatures. Wrong: His miniatures deserve the utmost respect and a treatment of totemic idol. They must be given the proper name, without diminutives. And never, EVER, associating the adjective “cute” to any of them.

- Your hands have rolled (without notice of course) one of his cómics/magazines-of (now, you know they are) -miniatures. Call emergencies… Maybe he doesn’t leave you, but you always will have the suspect that he is waiting the moment to give it back to you and that,at night while you sleep he is watching you , planning the just revenge. If your freak belongs to the category ’sword-collector’, keep an eye open, my friend.

Despite these “small misunderstandings,” the most difficult part comes when we must make a gift. You spend weeks thinking about what can make happy your freakyboyfriend because it is not a good idea to gift him a Ralph Laurent sweater and you get hung with it. You decides to go hunting a ‘freak type’ gift, but it’s not going to be easy.

If you decide to gift a figure, follow these three rules:

A-Face of happiness of friki will be directly proportional to the ugliness of the critter you gift. Just see the Orcs, trolls or Conan.

B - If it’s possible gift something containing a deadly weapon, even when it is false. If it has a sword, daggers, machine gun, claws, fangs or looks like it can shoot down a pine with just a buff he will like it. And if it has all together, freakyorgasm assured.

C - If you have to decide between giving the good or bad of the case, always take the bad. It has more glamour.

Of course, none of this applies in the case of Kill Bill, but you’ll probably do not want to gift him a woman that is sexier than you.

Finally, a real testimony from Misia, “Oh, these comics shops, figures and other freaky-things…! What a world. I was so confused and the employees (they are short, round and with almost no hair, like all freaks except my boyfriend, of course), They were looking as if an alien had landed in the shop.So I, after more than fifteen minutes watching without seeing the shelves, and running around to get leave of the collapse caused by so much critters and figures and all that, I decided to buy an Alien - I was told that it was one of the most adored films of my freakyboyfriend -. The new collapse came when I discovered that there were at least eight different shapes of alien and that according to the film they all had obvious differences (um, obvious?). In the end I bought the critter, which follows all the three rules:it is really ugly has teeth, claws, it is lethal and it is the bad. If it doesn’t have liked to freakyboyfriend, then I would have becomed an alien, and would have hung him on my balcony by the thumbs. Of course, dressed in an Elektra’s disguise

With experience in freakys learned over time, we understand that those freakyemployees our friend Misia met were in a state of shock about having some real tits next to them, beyond those Lara_Croft- real- sized ones next to the desk. Normal, in the freaky-shops aren’t accustomed to see customers wearing black tube skirt, cleavage, black socks and long heels

What reminds us: Girls, take note. The obsession with sex is a basic feature of the standard freak. “And of all the guys” you can argue. My friend, if you say this is that you have never been with a freak. In his defense it must be said that, according to surveys conducted between freakygirlfriends they tend to be very imaginative (and that is gooooood). Today’s Frakyadvice: If you don’t have any idea for a gift, opt for sex.

Never fails.

The gifts are not the only point of imbalance in the relationship.

Let’s talk, for example, of romantic escapes. CandyGirl speaking: “My boy came with the pamphlet of a country house. That’s when I must have begun to suspect.

Freakyboyfriend: In the middle of the mountains… The nearest village is 10 kilometers, mobiles have no coverage and… this weekend there is a full moon. Is it not perfect?
Me:My beloved Freak, are you ok?
Freakyboyfriend:You don’t like it?
Me: First weekend together, without parents, without apartment freakycompanions… I love it.
Freakyboyfriend: Really? John, Philip and Frank will be amazed too
Me: Joh…!
Freakyboyfriend: And those Mark’s friends too. For a good session of Vampire we must be at least 10, in this house will fit perfectly and in the vicinity there is a church in ruins which must be scary at night. Honey, you’ll hallucinate with Live Role Playing
Me: Well, if you want this weekend someone put the Princess-Leia-babydoll, you’ll have to ask John and Frank. You’ll certainly be amazed of how well it suits them.

3: Girl leaves friki.
Sometimes, love does not last forever. That is the sad part, which belongs to the privacy of freak and ex-girl, and we will not go into it here. It is enough saying that life is often not easy, and that apartments of 35 m2 are not made for mixed couples.

In case of a break, we recommend not returning the gifts. Those Princess Leia sexual-slave-with-fake-buns-included, Wonder Woman, Sailor Moon and aforementioned Elektra models may come in handy in the future. The light saber does not match anything, and what the hell are you going to do with a 1,90 m tall figure of Spiderman? Not to mention that, despite the intensive course of freakyness you would have been subjected by the already ex-freakyboyfriend, Alien will still seems very ugly and you don’t want it back in your life. You stay gifts.

And also, if it can be, you must keep the freak as a colleague. Since you have entered in the vice of Science Fiction, he has the responsibility to advise you what to read when you are done with “Dune”.

4: Girl knows another freak
Back to normal. You go to the cinema to see a romantic comedy in which nobody is green or flies.you take coffee with friends and meet guys that don’t know who is Wolverine. You live quit. Until it happens again: a perturbation in the force and you meet another freak. This time you are confident, because you are not a beginner in the freakyworld, when, without you have noticed another branch of the freakyness opens in front of you. If the first moved into the manga-anime sphere, your second freakyboyfriend is a fan of Marvel. Although it could be worse… Girls, if you hear DC pronounced…..run in the opposite direction; at least those of you who have sworn that “Marvel” was a fridge’s trademark

The DC ones are even more rare.

In practical terms, when you have become accustomed to gift katanas and Battle Royale comics with some criterion the new freakyboyfriend arrives and change you the references. And back to start again. Calm down my friend, some things never change. After all, a freak is always a freak either japanesefriendly or americanfriendly, cosmicfriendly or fantasyfriendly. Gift Sex

Freakyadvise: Over time you are keeping things. Take advantage and learn, you never know when will come in handy all this knowledge. Imagine a guy who tells you that the woman of his life will be the one that knows what is the adamantium. Of course, you know what is the adamantium. And we also know that the Taumo (or Thaum) is the basic unit of magical power, established universally as the quantity of magic needed to create a small white dove or three billiard balls of normal size. And that “to be or not to be” in Klingon is said “taH pagh taHbe ‘.”

NOTE CandyGirl to AdamantiumDude: I take this opportunity to tell you that I’m still thinking about that.

5: Girl knows a “non-freak”, and dislikes.
And of course, there comes a time in life when one tells her mother: “Mom, I met a guy.”
And she “Do He speaks elfic?
Girl: “No, Mom, that was Jack, who is now living in Montana and is a property advisor.”
Mother: “Aha. So, he wears a Spiderman costume underneath the shirt? “.
Girl: “Mom, Jacks wasn’t wearing a disguise, it was a shirt very realistic.”
Mother: “aha. But he wears it? ”
Girl: “Noooo!”
Mother: “And then, what happens to him? What odd things likes?

Real Life testimony from CandyGirl
“Well, I do not know, Mom, the truth is that right now I can not think of anything…”

Mothers are prescient. The point is that when you are accustomed to a freak, the non-freaks are tasteless. They bore you.You want to say “Dude….go and find a hobby.”

And again return to start again: to put a freak in your life.

Hi there!, I am working on putting the blog fully functional and suiting my likings.step by step, because I do not have much time, but I’m doing it whenever I can. A while ago, I was commenting with YeNS the issue of keeping my old template or change it to a new one,then he made a comment that surprised me. He said that the new template (that you see right now) was very common and yet, the old “suits” me, that it “goes” with me, for the colors and my way of drawing …. So he convinced me to maintain it. The truth is that put that old theme to work as I wanted cost me a lot of hard work, because I have no clue about php (or how to program anything) or make templates for wordpress, so, reading a lot and deducting what I could I got a little template that suited my needs and tastes. And I am quite proud of the result, although the code should look like a collection of patches to those with knowledge on the subject.

Unfortunately, with the changeover to the new server and the new version of Wordpress (and 2.4 seems to be just around the corner) that template that cost me so much effort to put “in order” gives increasing problems. The truth is that the template is outdated in terms of code, not visually, and it will not work with most of the plug-ins that had installed in their new versions. One example is the fact that the plugin Compartelo is not working properly, at least without retouching code, as well as the plugin a title=”SRG Clean Archives” href=”http://www.idunzo.com/projects/clean-archives/” target=”_blank”>Clean Archives for handling the files either. In fact almost no plugin that uses moo.fx or similar libraries is functioning properly “out of the box” without the code being extensively retouched. In more new templates (such as the current one) they are working properly without touching a line of code. This will not be a very serious problem if I knew what to touch and where, but it is not always the case and in some cases I can’t find information on how to do so. As you can see I have added a “checkbox” in the comments of the entries for you to subscribe by mail to the comments of this entry in particular and thus keep you informed of the talks …. it is not effective with my beloved old template.

I say all this because it has reached the point where keeping the old template working as I want it to do is quickly becoming impractical for me, with my limited knowledge, I found a new version of the template here (with lots of adds as 404 page, etc.) but it has a CSS style sheet that does not convince me and many changes that I do not like. The fact is that those who know me know that I do not like “follow the masses,” that is, It’s not enough for me to put a theme that is already in use by zillions of blogs. “I need to” make my template “my own”, that’s why I extensively modified the old one, but this “make my own”, with my knowledge is reduced to modify an existing one as much as I can (which is not much).

Finally, after all this brick that probably bored you …. If there is someone in the room with knowledge on how to make wordpress templates willing to gives me a hand with this matter would have my eternal gratitude (could promise eternal fame and glory, but that would be lying and my mom teached me not to do so), and a permanent link (wow!) In this humble blog ….

Thanks for reading this brick ;)