Site creator

As I briefly introduced in a previous post , last few weeks I've been a bit busy. Some might think that this is the typical excuse you give when you don't want to tell anything about what you've been doing in some other case, it becomes what you say to avoid the embarrasment of recognizing that you've been so lazy :-).

In my case I've coding some cool things, but not all of them can be seen on Internet, so I'll just show you one of the best things we've ever done at Monogatari. It's called site creator (sc) and it's a website that you can use to create your own websites. It works perfectly on Firefox (we are working on the Internet Explorer version), but the very best thing is that you can create the website you like (you don't have to stick to a boring template) without knowing anything about programming.

It's not 100% done, so any flaw you might find, just let us know.


Uodate: to use the website just right click to open the menu (even if it's written on the tutorial I think few people read it :-)

Uses of Google

Today I found this picture and I thought it was interesting because it shows the use of google.

The colours are:
- Blue -> search for useful information
- Green -> search for porn
- Yellow -> when you're too lazy to type ".com"
- Red -> to check spelling



Image obtained from curiosidadesone

Not holidays, but business

This has been one of the longest periods I've had my blog without any update (in fact June 2009 was about to not to have a post :-).

These days most people use to go on holidays, but unfortunately I've been busy, so that's why I left the blog as a secondary thing (and I also felt a bit lazy last week) until today.

I don't have new interesting things for this post, so you'll have to read the next post.

Image taken from: ktpupp

We're all the pirate bay

In a very weird judgment (I can't imagine any other word for a judgment where the judge is also involved and looking forward to condemn someone) the pirate bay was found guilty of providing access to media files protected by copyright.

In response, the pirate bay devised a plan to pay the fine and also to complaint for such judgement.

A couple of days ago Montt Mardie composed the song at the begining of this post. I hope you enjoy it.

Google's shortage

Today I started firefox and I went to gmail to check my mails and chatting a little with some people. It was a pity because it took a long time to load so while I waited for it to fully load I went to my blog to check the comments. Unfortunately it was the same, and my blog didn't load properly, but since I was reading some news on internet I realised that my internet was fine so it wasn't my computer's fault.

After trying to reload both my blog and gmail a few times I went to another blog and I tried to play a video there... But I suffered from the same problem again. As it was a youtube video I realized that perhaps google had some kind of problem today or perhaps there was something wrong with my computer when trying to access google. Such a pity because under other circumstances I'd have googled for this problem to check what was happening.


On the other side it was not so bad because I realised this:

• I tried to access my e-mail (gmail) and I couldn't.
• I tried to access my blog (blogger) and I couldn't.
• I tried to watch some videos (youtube) and I couldn't.
• I tried to figure out what was happening and I couldn't (I tried using google).
• I read some news -> I did it, but I couldn't access the videos

As you can see I was just able to read some news. Moreover, trying to find something in a map would have failed again because nowadays almost everybody uses google maps.

In brief: I'm afraid because we rely on google too much. Do you use google so much?

PS: On time to time I check some sentences I write on this blog using google's translator -> Once more here they are!


Image obtained from: keso

Firefox scrolling

Today I realized that firefox wasn't scrolling webpages correctly and it was really annoying because sometimes when I pressed the arrow pointing downwards it moved a bit while another times it moved a lot.

Then I realized that the pointer was scrolling over the page as if it was a word document: going line after line, so when there was an image it moved to its bottom.

I don't know why the configuration changed to it, but in case you need to fix this problem you just have to go to "Tools" menu and then choose "Options". Then, under "Advanced" tab, you have to look at "Accesibility" and unmark the option "Always use the cursor keys to navigate within pages" (it's the first option on this menu)

If you never suffered from it I can ensure you that it's really annoying. To test it just mark the option I mentioned above and then try to scroll over this blog.


Image taken from mrtopf

Apple competing on price

I swear I didn't read this new until today: Apple might start competing on price. I seems someone inside Apple realized they are missing a huge ratio of customers just because of staying cool.

As it's been said for long: "Better late than never".


Image taken from jordanmerrick

Meneame's ban day

Or why you should remove any link to meneame and point to apezz.

A few days ago one of the most popular Spanish Internet site, meneame, became sick. This was a site I used to visit quite a lot, but which I visited less day after day. In fact I stopped visiting it for long terms and right now, after what happened (let's call it meneame's sickness) I decided to switch to a better place: meneame isn't worth my time anymore.

What happened with meneame? Nothing new at all, some users claimed that the admins weren't fair at all, not publishing interesting news because the admins didn't like it.
It was hard to probe so, and admins also didn't say it so clearly. The way admins had to get rid of the news they didn't want was easy: they just applied "meneame's rules" as they pleased. The way they applied "the rules" was something like this:

• This news is good (good= I think the same way): lets publish it.
• I don't like this other one...mmm... let's see if there's something wrong: aha!, the title doesn't correspond 100% with the article!!

(The examples above are an aproximation, not 100% veridic, but quite close to the facts)

As you can imagine this wasn't approved by the community (the non-admin users, which is the most of the users), so some users used to complaint.
Then a popular user submitted a story which was rejected. He then complaint, and finally the admins banned him from the site. As you can see it wasn't fair at all so a lot of users posted a list telling which were the admins that rejected this user's news.

As you can guess that didn't pleased the admins, which then started banning anyone publishing such list, so at the end of the day more than 400 users were banned.

Some of these users were very active ones, sending a lot of news, which in fact is the engine of the site (to publish news). So the site creator decided to undo the massive ban (his business was going down quite fast), keeping only one user banned: the one who started it all.

I never had a user on such community, but a lot of people moved to apezz because there aren't such injustices.

Perhaps you think my vision isn't objetive at all, but to me such site was going down month after month, so this just speeded it up a bit.

One last advice, move from meneame, because if you still stay there they'll think they did it right, so this is the only way we have to tell them we don't approve what they did.

Try apezz (from where I got the image): You'll like it (if you understand spanish)


Update: I just removed all the links I had to meneame: You should try it!!, it's sooo relaxing :-)