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I-don't-know-how but I ended today at Google Code's Web Authoring Statistics. It has been a quite interesting read and it has kind of confirmed several of my personal suspects in the world of the web. More specifically, I liked to read this pair of following facts -knowing that they were written by someone from Google-:

• most of the < meta > tags are useless, excepting the Content-type and the Description (and seems that is not that useful nowadays, I can read between lines). So, specifying things like keywords, copyright, author name, revisit after, cache control, and so on, is nothing more than an stupid waste of bandwidth.
• there's still too many people writing a lot of invalid crap into the < body > tag. Please stop using such things as marginheight, topmargin, leftmargin and so on. Do me a favour and use body {margin:0;}. Thank you.

All in all is not that bad, I still have some hope for the future of the web. Hehe…

By the way, you'll need a decent browser like Firefox to see the graphics, as they are in SVG format.

It had to happen. When you're all day long working with php and mysql, smarty and whatnot, the last thing you want to do when you have some free time is to continue fighting with the same issues once and once again.

I also had been testing some wordpress installations and I finally surrendered to WordPress. Specially since version 2.0 is very neat and attractive and offered me some features I wanted but didn't feel motivated to code by myself (pinging, trackbacking, rss for comments of one entry, etc). I did know how to do them but sincerely it is not the same that when I started doing php stuff, back to 2002. Then most of the things were new and kind of a challenge, like "will i be able to create my own system to keep a log of my stuff without having a design as ugly as slashdot's one?".

But now -and specially after having minimumly guessed the possibilities of other methodologies like Ruby On Rail's one- it is highly discouraging to do more simple stuff in php. So I said to myself:

1. do I want to keep reinventing the wheel forever and not adding new ideas or functionalities (i.e. continue with my self made blog), or
2. do I prefer to use something which sums the efforts of lots of people, and contribute with whatever I can to the community? (i.e. switch to wordpress)

Obviously I chose 2) as you can see!

I have set up a redirection for the old rss, so it still should work perfectly. If you find something wrong please tell me :)

Also, I haven't applied any hack at all to the css and html so it is all valid but some things do not work as they should in The Cancer (i.e. Internet Explorer), although they look gorgeous in Firefox (both Mac and Windows) and Safari (and I am not going to break my clean css & html in order to fix it). It's been funny to play with selectors and all of those advanced css techniques I can't use normally "because it needs to work with explorer".

We have finished this demonstration a year and some months late but… who cares? Now featuring Mac Os X version (as well as the win32 one), as well as a new scene and lots of improvements here and there. Grab Blue Tuesday final version!

If you just can't see it, try the video version :) (Quicktime file, H264 compression, 400×300 pixels) - although nothing compares with the 1024×768 pixels size of the realtime version. Should you have a decent opengl card, go for the first one…

I hope you have a very great and blue tuesday :)

He estado paseando hoy un poquillo por la parte antigua del pueblo y no podía dejar de girar la cabeza constantemente, intentando situarme en el mapa. Si no se había derribado por lo menos ocho edificios, no se ha derribado ninguno. De ahí el girar la cabeza constantemente, para verificar que estaba donde se supone que estaba y no en otro punto de la calle.

Y el que no está derribado está apuntalado y con vallas y cartelitos de "ni se acerque ni entre".

La verdad es que es una sensación bastante desorientadora, por momentos me recordaba a esos escenarios de postguerra que alguna vez hemos visto en países tan lejanos, ya que además están todas las aceras levantadas, los tubos y cables saliendo del lugar más inesperado… Esta coincidencia es bastante nefasta, da una impresión espantosa, deprimente.

Obviamente no voy a exigir que se mantenga la memoria histórica de esos edificios, ya que para ser sinceros, eran de bastante mala calidad, pero no puedo evitar el sentimiento de confusión…

He hecho algunas mejoras y/o cambios en la página. A ver quién los encuentra…