20100607 Flattr

I saw the video, and their proposal sounded interesting, so I signed up for this Flattr thing a few weeks ago. I’m quite intrigued and really wonder how will it evolve. To date, their site is not really useful for discovering new cool stuff, but I think they don’t really want to be a source [...]

20090511 Site update in progress

Dear subscribers, occasional readers and visitors referred by Google who may possibly read this before their lovely short attention span times out: I’m performing a very much needed and as much delayed update in the website. The changes are mostly cosmetic (in the templates), for taking advantage of newer features of WordPress such as tags, [...]

20090211 From Pipex to Be (via BT)

2004: Bulldog When we moved to our first flat, we signed up for a DSL connection with Bulldog. It was really good: reliable connection, the corporate image was quite decent, and the online clients area (the lounge, as they called it) was usable. Since then, several disastrous things happened with Bulldog. It was first sold [...]

20080504 Bye bye, Burnaby! Hello, Laurel!

\o/ If you’re reading this, it means my new server is working properly It’s been a long process, there were several websites to migrate and there were several issues too. First, the old data is in utf8 but the database is latin-1, which I solved with some smart scripting to update text and char columns. [...]

20070316 CDmon rules!

It has taken longer than it should have done, but at last I can say that my domain (soledadpenades.com) is registered and managed in a good place – that is: CDmon! I registered it for the first time around seven years ago. By that time, I hardly knew anything about domain registrars and so just [...]