“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them”
Por Jodi Picoult, vía Charlotte.
A proposito de algo completamente distinto (gente frikeandose con google maps) tenemos esta joyita de la trivia:
Now you’re probably wondering where the rest of the depth data comes from if there are such big gaps from echosounding. We do our best to predict what the sea floor looks like based on what we can measure much more easily: the water surface. Above large underwater mountains (seamounts), the surface of the ocean is actually higher than in surrounding areas. These seamounts actually increase gravity in the area, which attracts more water and causes sea level to be slightly higher. The changes in water height are measurable using radar on satellites.
visto en el articulo That’s no moon, it’s a seamount de Jason Kottke.
I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car.
I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme.
I hate it, I hate the way you’re always right.
I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you’re not around, and the fact that you didn’t call.
But mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you.
Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.
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i was reading this article about rss aggregators and bandwidth on scoble’s, and i just had to write this: bloglines is the best aggregator ever. not only for the user (can be accessed anyway) but for publishers. how is that? simple enough.
bloglines, like most aggregators, checks feeds once an hour, but it doesn’t need to check it for every user. so even if you have 1000 subscribers, you still get 1 request an hour.
that sounds fair enough for me. and robert should thank that, given he has 2901 bloglines subscribers at this exact moment (i’m one of those).
which takes us to the other reason bloggers should encourage the use of bloglines. they can see how many people is reading them from it. for those who complaint about trafic numbers and stuff.
i have the decaf bad blog in my
bloglines, but every time i see my feeds, there’s the same 20 posts.
no new ones. not even nothing. the same old ones.
who’s fault? no idea.
i have succesfully installed and tested a wordpress (formerly cafelog)
weblog on this server, and i will soon be migrating from blogger to
it. just need to do some more tweaking and learn some about the
template sys.
just in time for the plot v.X cool, cool new layout.
well, i must say blogger’s posting interface sucks. it’s not ugly, and
actually it’s very clear and simple. but it’s too slow.
i tend to blog from slow computers on slow networks, and blogger is
slow enough for not letting me post. i can’t spend half an hour
waiting just to post a few lines.
thus i’m testing blogger’s mail-to-blog utility… if it works, gmail
will become my blogware…
so…
the plot, as you may have noticed, experienced quite a long downtime; but now it’s back up and no longer hosted at dan’s evoex. i’m still in the uk, but now hosted at a free acount provided by the über cool guys from trash the system.
if anyone else is looking for a cool host, now you know where to go.
regular posting will go on from now on, expecting everything goes right. archives, however will probably suck cause i have to update all of the links and layouts… maybe i wont.
i’m going on vacation for ten days, so no new posts till at least july 25. that’s right.
oh, how i love chrono trigger. i’m an emulator junkie, you know?
chances are if you’re watching this site through internet explorer on mac os 9 or older, it will look horrible. i don’t know exactly why this happens, but i have my guess.
i will not fix that as i already had to hack my styles because of ie 6 windows, and i must say i don’t give shit about mac users. specially if they use internet explorer.
so if you have that problem get mac os x, that way you can switch to firebird. or simply blogline me.
celebrating it’s first year of existance bloglines now has a brand new layout and some new function like blogging. yeah, now you can read and write blogs all in one place, web based. cool stuff. be sure to check that out.
so i’ve just changed the plot’s layout to v.9… nameless, aparently.
i’ve also spent some time doing an essay for university where i analized a post by robert scoble, it was kinda fun…
let’s see how all this goes…
see, i can just blog every other day because i do other things, but look at how many posts a day robert scoble can do… just freaking amazing. maybe if i had bradband or something, i’m still modem stuck, you know.
no, i’m not reviving apple ads here. i don’t even liked that campaign, and i certainly ain’t a mac fan. it’s mozilla what we’re talking about here, mozilla firefox. and the switch is obviously from ms internet explorer to it. yeah, i know it’s been said before but it’s getting more and more critical every time: internet explorer is unsafe. it’s unsafe because it’s full with lots of little bugs that someone is eventually going to write an exploit for. we’ve all seen it before and it is going to continue. so what can we do? switch to the best browser ever. mozilla firefox.
wow, long time no post.
i’ve been doing some other things this week and left the site quite aside… but no worry, i’m here.
i’ll write some long posts soon.