200 more images

While uploading a picture to the first post after my long break I had to agree to Google's new terms and conditions on images, which I did. And today, when I uploaded another picture, I realized a small message saying that I was using 17MB (1%) of my 1024MB at Picassa web album.

First, Google linked Blogger and Gmail accounts, and it seems that now we have Picassa in the house too.

I don't mind having my services linked (I preffer not to have everything together, so that it's me and not Google who controls each thing), but what I really dislike is to have to agree to their conditions to realize then that what I had was far better than what I have after the "upgrade".

Well, as I've uploaded 2 images filling 1% of my space I guess I'll have room to upload 200 images or so, which means that I'll have to start to "hotlink", which is something that I don't like.

Image: hotlinked from google.

thought on business model

Yesterday I went to a restaurant specialized on serving oriental food and I was surprised when I saw some of they sauces they used and also some of the noodles they serve placed on shelves at the entrance of the restaurant ready for being sold. I just passed by without looking at the prices.

Then I thought: How much do you think the items cost? Before continue reading, What would you say? Do you think it was more expensive, cheaper or had the same price than the same products on shops?

I tried to guess it, and I think I did fine.

When I sat at the table and after ordering the menu, I tried to guess how much these things would cost. I started looking at how many of these items they had: they only had 4 shelves with 3 or 4 types of each sauce/noodles on it: not too many. Then I thought what was the main business model of such place: "they serve meals". After such thoughts I realized that products couldn't be more expensive than at shops, perhaps a bit cheaper and when I went to the shelves again I realized that they were on average 10% cheaper on average.

Some can argue than getting the products at the restaurant will prevent you from going back to the restaurant (you can cook it at home), but as always, it's a risk you have to take to be succesful, and providing more services to customers is one of the keys to succeed.

Image taken from diamondjoe

Back to the present

Hi!... Anyone still there??

In case anyone still reads my blog: sorry a lot for not updating in such a long time!. I had a good excuse... but so long time without any update deserves a VERY good excuse and I don't have it, so I'm very sorry about it.

I was looking for a good thing to write about and even if I had a few I didn't feel these were interesting enought, anyway I'll write a short description of a new website you might find usefull. It's a website that one colleague mentioned once and very useful for finding music online: Dilandau.

I hope you like Dilandau and also you continue reading my blog (I promise next entry will come before 2 next months :-)

See you soon!

Image taken from lautenbach

The CD inconvenient

I, same as a lot of people, have original CDs with music from various artists. What I'm not sure about is what people does with these CDs.

In my case even if I have the CDs I bought at the shop for a lot of money (like 15-20 Euro for 12 songs) I no longer listen to them. I also have some other CDs with tons of songs I downloaded from Internet (in Spain it's legal :-) but I don't even listen to them either.

Having to find the concrete CD on the shelve, then puting it on my computer and then looking for the concrete track I want to listen to is too much work to me. I'd rather go to an online service to listen what I want without having to worry about where I left the CD or whether there're scratches on it.

I think services such as itunes are great and nowadays such services are amazing because it solves the problems that physical media brought. On the other hand crazy things like the one that just happened on amazon can be really a pain, but I reckon there're many more advantages in these days.

I think I won't buy a CD / DVD / Blu-ray anytime soon. By the way, do you know any impressive music site? In case you do, post a comment. In my case I mainly use deezer, what's your favourite?

Image taken from [nati]

The art of start

Yesterday I just finished reading an interesting book called "the art of the start" where Guy Kawasaki explains a lot of things related with companies. I wanted to read it since a long time, but it was because of one thing or another that I always delayed it.

If you want to get a nice overview about what he says on the book don't miss this speech, because Guy is really brilliant.


image taken from tojosan

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.