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 :-)

When coming back from Spain, I thought that I would try to preserve my newly acquired skin colour by going to some park whenever it got sunny.

I evidently had too high hopes since it looks like the most humid May in years has extended its influence to June as well. Not only it has been gray and cloudy but there have also been torrential pour downs and windy storms (all of them very uncomfortable for one poor girl used to walk in flip flops at this time of the year).

They say the key of the evolution is to adapt to the environment, and so must do I. This evening, I downloaded latest releases in Enough Records after reading ps’s newsletter

When I found myself quite enjoying what ps describes as a gothic rock band I suddenly realized that the solution to the weather misery was to become a goth!

It is a perfect solution! Not only I would live in the best climate for keeping my skin white and pale but also I would be able to dress to the highest goth standards since working in Camden Town allows me to visit a wide range of goth and alternative shops which people from other boroughs of London can only dream of.

Don’t you think goth boots, with their extremely thick super-soles, are the perfect match for me? I would be able to suddenly feel superior thanks to the extra five or ten centimeters tall that I would suddenly enjoy. Oh, hold on! Did I say ten? Let’s make it fifteen!

It would feel like being in Hyde Park’s Speaker’s Corner all day long. I suppose I would begin giving my opinion about a vast array of topics, shouting loudly to everybody, whether they liked to hear it or not.

Cyberdog would become my second home (I have the feeling that I would be quite inclined into the cyber-gothicism) only followed by the finest piercing and jewellery stores. This is the ideal excuse for getting some more piercings. Goths love pain! And I’m not going to get normal piercings like in the nose, or in the eyebrow. Those are for kids! And while I’m on it I should get a couple of tattoos as well. And dye my hair blue-black.

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Not!!

Yesterday was the birthday of a very special person (but he wants to keep it secret) and he was given a Wii as a gift. He allowed me to play with it and I must recognize it is really funny!

But I’m looking forward to have the Wii hacked in a safe, software only way. I don’t care what closed minded people say but I believe we should be able to freely manipulate and control every single thing that we own. I’d love to do one homebrew. Its title would be something like Asteroids meets Space invaders on steroids, and we would need to use the funky Wii controller for destroying everything. It would be a terrible way of killing daily stress. If you earned enough points you would be able to load your most-hated people black and white pictures and they would be used to create a bump-mapping effect on the asteroids, so you would effectively be firing at an infinite number of your most-hated people.

Next thing I would probably demand is the ability to hack our own digital cameras, so that we can program little scripts such as “Take three pictures when I click, each one with a different level of exposure and ISO”. They would be really useful for doing HDR stuff and all that kind of things which require you to take several pictures of the same thing but changing some parameters in the camera.

But that’s another, completely different story…