Some weeks ago, I decided to try one of those websites which deliver a box with organic vegetables and fruits directly to your door. My advice? Do not do that.

The courier completely ignored my selected delivery slot, coming 30 minutes before the slot began. He called me while I was shopping in a shop nearby. Told him: could you please wait? I’m there in 5 minutes!

I was there in just 3 minutes instead. But for reasons which I still haven’t found, he chose to drop the box in the first door of my street (which is not where I live, by the way) and disappear from the map. I called him and he reassured me he had left the box in my door. I began to suspect the worst and then went door by door until I found my box, with my name, telephone number, e-mail and everything else on top of it, as well as the fruits and vegetables, readily available to anyone which wished to pick one.

I picked the box and went to my real door while mentally cursing somebody’s name, and proceeded to check the contents of the box. Again, while they may have been organically grown, some of them came from places like Holland and Italy, whereas the website insisted that nothing in their produce had been airfreighted.

The peaches tasted specially as if they had spent a good whole week in a fridge, ripening there. Why do I always choose peaches to speak about this? They are a good indicator of quality and care. When things are truly authentic, you can tell just by smelling the fruit.

So I sent them an e-mail detailing the ability of their courier to act as a stupid, and got not one but three phone calls the next day, excusing themselves with absurd reasonings: – he tried to deliver early because you live near the market… – it’s the first time he does it – maybe it’s a hard to find street

Funny to say that even pizzas come directly to my door, with no need for me to give step-by-step instructions on how to find a street in bloody central London, as the customer service girl was suggesting I should do next time I order with them. After that she proceeded to try to convince me to set up a weekly order which is something that obviously I didn’t want to do. I said no thanks, let me check this order properly first, and I said that like three times, because she insisted a lot. Aaaah!

And this past Saturday I passed near a little street market and decided to give it a try. And hey, false-organic-traders, you can save your stuff for yourselves. Those were peaches, and what about the cherries! All of that for a ridiculous price, and no hassle at all. I have the strong feeling that the peaches came from Spain (with the horrible weather that we’ve had these past months it’s impossible to get such a sweet flavour in UK), but I don’t care too much because there wasn’t any poster pompously announcing that the street market hadn’t airfreighted their produce.

So if you want to buy good fruits and vegetables in London, go to a market. I still have to check Borough market which they say has the best organic stuff in London. So I’ll let you know!

Did I tell you that I managed to buy one Wii Nunchuck on Saturday? While everybody else was thinking on Le Grand Depart of Le tour de La France I was punching furiously my rival until beating him not one but four times I believe.

In the future, should you need to address me, please do it with Boxing queen as title.

Xplsv’s Fantastic Four¹ managed to finish their entry for Intel Demoscene Compo 2007 in time and it is supercool (literally!): Höfn

I really like it, I should try to convince Blackpawn to do a mac-version with opengl renderer, so that I can use it as a screen saver in my mac². Those waves are so beautiful! I was kind of expecting a polar bear but I guess they hadn’t much more time :-D

If you add that to the advertisement for Iceland Air that I see every day in the tube (when it feels like being inside a giant sweaty armpit, and they show you a glazier and say This is our Eiffel Tower) you end up with a supreme desire to go back to Iceland. That’s so cruel, guys!³

Also I found today that I won’t be able to attend Sundown07. I thought it was held in October like past year but the truth is that it is at the beginning of September, the same week that I’ll be in Spain enjoying summer’s last sunshine. So sorry rc55! I really wanted to attend!

I could send trace with some productions so as to fill the enormous emptiness that my absence will bring. Probably another song with high resonance so that everybody thinks that the PA is going crazy like past year! :-)

¹ Blackpawn, niko ruen, synbiotic and trace

² Yes, I know Parallels now does DirectX acceleration but I haven’t even tried Parallels before it had acceleration

³ OMG OMG! I just caught a mosquito with a simple hand movement. Either I am developing ninja skillz or the Wii training is doing wonders.

After endless nights without being able to sleep, worrying about caching problems and believing the sky will fall open upon myself, I believe I finally managed to fix the cache in this little site of mine.

Now, once the pages have been cached, they should be served by Apache, not mongrel. It maybe doesn’t tick anything inside you but for me it means that I can write a lot more of content without having to fear lots of Bad Gateway errors because mongrel gets killed or horrible slowdowns for my loyal legion of readers (joking!, I believe there’s just 5 people subscribed to the RSS feed and I may be able to name each of one you!)

As a bonus, I also added some incredible stuff:

1. Pages! Now I have an about page and a music page
2. Archive – no more excuses for not reading everything that I wrote

Maybe I did something else but I can’t quite remember right now. And surprisingly after all these movements I checked some pages and they are still XHTML STRICT VALID! BEAT IT!!!

Apparently, the only way of getting another wii nunchuck is to buy another Wii.

I have gone to three shops in the last three days and every single assistant gave me the same reply: No, we don’t have, and actually, I have been willing to get one for myself for three weeks already! I’m pretty desperate!

So if anyone has any spare nunchuck and wants to donate it for the cause¹, just let me know. I will really appreciate it². Maybe you bought wii and found you don’t like that ugly accessory connected to your Wiimote, or maybe you’re pretty oldschool and just bought a classical controller and don’t want to hear about innovative controllers anymore.

¹ The cause being us wanting to play Wiisports’ Boxing with two players.

² I have nothing else to say, the truth is that I just wanted to play with footnotes and see how did they look :-)