Merry Christmas 2011 :D

Yes, maybe I can't update the blog too much lastly, but I'll not going forward without doing this, so:

Greetings from the last christmas of 2011 :).

In The Top Of The World

Friday! Yeah!
Tonight we're going to a party!!! Well, yes, I'm going out, because today it's a friend's birthday. I'll leave you with this beauty landscape and with a japanse song, singed in english.

"Lately early", taken in St. James (Missouri) by Jon.B. Very good one I thought. Now to the video part:

It's seems that Shonen Knife means "Boy Knife", by the way. It's a group from Osaka (Japan), dedicated to the pop-punk genre. "Top of the World" can be the best song of their tribute album "If I were a Carpenter" (honestly I don't hear the entire album, but for the comments).
I wish you a very good and energic weekend!

People are Awesome

I steal the title of one of the videos to put it on the title entry, because it's a very awesome quote. Two quick videos, just to feel good. I don't know, but works for me.



If you kept wanting more, look related. Indeed, the second video was the one who made ​​me discover the Gorillaz's song Melancholy Hill.
Awesome greetings.

Colemak or Dvorak? Something better than QWERTY is welcome

I must say sorry by leave the blog alone the past weeks, but it's not as easy as I thought keep it updated, because life keeps running and sometimes I forget to go back.
But well, talking about interesting things this week I began to question the QWERTY keyboard layout, after a class in university. Of course I already knew from many years another keyboard layout (Dvorak) by a friend (Esteban Ordano), but I had never considered using it.
Finally, I don't choosed it, but also not choosed QWERTY, simply I went to Colemak. I guess everyone has their reasons for choosing each other, but my only thought few days ago was to leave the standard distribution.
But may be you can ask "what's wrong with QWERTY?" Well, as I have understood, was designed for people to write slow and avoid typewriters lock up by having their hammers hitting by themselves.
Another curious thing that I encountered, you can write perfectly "typewriter" in QWERTY without moving the hand of top row (try it :P). I don't remember well because it was, but was somewhat curious.

Colemak Keyboard Layout

Colemak I decided to go by, because it maintains a certain essence of QWERTY keyboard (as it relates to hotkeys, ctrl + [cxzvqwa] stay equal) but doing a great improve. But I'm kind of sad that there's not an optimized version for Spanish :( (as Dvorak), but hey, better than the standard is.
Over time I will tell you of my progress.
Greetings or Dpffgukdr in Colemak.

Ubuntu 11.10, more Desks and more settings for Compiz

A quick entry about Ubuntu 11.10. A friend (Esteban Filardi) told me a couple of things that maybe you will consider interesting.
Put in your terminal:

• gconftool-2 --type=int --set /apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/vsize X
• gconftool-2 --type=int --set /apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/hsize X

Where X is the number of desks. You can configure on Unity how many desktops do you want (by default, 2x2). It's interesting, because you can increase this number both horizontal (hsize) and vertical (vsize).

Nine Desktops

And with:
sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
You can configure some useful things of Compiz.

Well that's all.
Greetings, and happy mother's day.
PS: Be careful, Compiz Settings can crash your linux :p.

Ubuntu 11.10 Wallpaper Changer

Finally I'll post some programming. It turns out that I was searching for my Ubuntu 11.10 to have a wallpaper changer, and I wondered how Ubuntu make the default "automatic wallpaper changes" (look at the image below, also, you'll need to select the picture with the clock to make this work [thanks Labago]):

Well, turns out there's a file in /usr/share/backgrounds/contest called 'background-1.xml', which contains all the wallpapers, the times shown -static time-, and the transition time. Well, I made a python application to modify it at will (it'll create a new file background-1.xml, you only need to replace the current with this one).

Who knows? Only Time

I love New Age music, and what is it New Age without Enya, the pretty girl below, whose real name is Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáín. Eithne is pronounced /enya/ (so is not a pseudonym, crazy huh?).

Enya Brennan

I must say she has a lot of great songs (such as very good albums too), but hey, she dedicated her entire life completed to music, and once she said (paraphrasing) 'music it's the only relevant to me'.
Being so beautiful and smart as she is, it's a shame that she don't has a lover, but if she prefers it that way, so be it. Careful, not much is known about her personal life (she hides it very well), so maybe there is something else in her life (yeiy for her).
So, this is the post of Friday -in a strange format-, with a wallpaper of Enya and one of her beautiful songs to enjoy, Only Time.

Only Time is the third song on the album "A Day Without Rain" (2000), which became a success. It was used on several occasions, as in comercials of the acclaimed series Friends, in the attacks of 9/11, and it reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 in 2001.
Greetings and who knows what will happen this weekend, only time knows.

The History of Digital Storage [InfoGraphic]

Well, I saw this infographic, and I put it here because I like it (click to enlarge):

Those times when was hard to save 2MB of memory, and that amount is now something that it's seem too light, and in the future, with Cloud services, it's looks like not limit more than the physic. In my life, I reach to know until floppy disk, and you?
Greetings from the Cloud.

'via Mashable.com'

Evolution with Google Calendar and Facebook Events

This is something that will be useful only to people who use Evolution (as I said at first, my second OS is Ubuntu).
The other day, while examining my desktop calendar, I wondered to see if I could somehow sync with Google Calendar, and not only I managed to do that, I also synchronized the calendar with Facebook Events.
Photo of my success:

As you'll know, I use Ubuntu in spanish of course.

By the way, the orange icons are Google Events and the blue ones are Facebook Events.
First things first...

The Hardest Part Is Letting Go

Oh my, this is my thirteenth entry. I'm so conform, and I want to thanks to the millions of people who saw my blog everyday. Well, perhaps I'm overacting, there're only two thousands of lectors, not more. Hmm, yes, I'm exagereting one more time, but, it's nice to think that possibility :P.
Yaiy, it's already friday. The week pass over me too fast, and I didn't had enough time to post everything that I wanted. Very well, soo, let see.. Ah, it's raining again over here, so you know whats that means... PARTY ALL NIGHT!!! Ehmm yes, I'm kind of crazy today, but anyway, let's go simply to the pictures (and the video, of course).
Picture:

A picture taken by Moyan Brenn (march, 2011), in Italy. A piece of forest to enjoy.
Video:

The Hardest Part was written by all the members of Coldplay (nice) for their third album, X&Y -that in my opinion it's a very good album (and Coldplay is a nice band to). I'll leave the lyrics of this song over here (and a video with lyrics if you want).
Have a beautiful weekend, enjoys life, you'll only lived once.
Greetings, and greetings to Barbara and Spencer.

Good Bye Steven Paul Jobs

Today, October 5 of 2011, a great person dies. He was an example of creativity, imagination and hard work. Goodbye Steve.

Sad greetings.

Try to Count to Ten

A little message to make us better:

Try counting to 10 before raise your voice, before attack or accusing. Counting to 10 helps to relax the heart, to find the true in yourself. Try counting to 10 before doing damage, before lie. Your anger reduces, do not be misled by your aggressiveness. Try counting to 10, up to 10 no more, before boast, before deny, before abandon.

It's the right lapse of time to take a choice that you'll never regret.

Greetings my friend.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick

On Friday I managed to see Blade Runner, a film that I should see some time ago (and I had several opportunities to see it).
The film itself I found it delightful, especially the contrast between entirely futuristic machines (like flying cars) with computers "advanced for the eighties '" but old for our current point of view (you know, CRT monitors).
The point I want to emphasize is that once the film finished, I went to discover more about it (usually, whenever I finish a movie that touched me, I read about it on Wikipedia), and I found that it was based (loosely) on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? " by Philip K. Dick. Then I decided to see if I had the ebook, and it turns out that yes, I had it. So I started reading it. This was on Saturday.

Templates of Google Docs

I find something quite interesting in Google Docs, that I didn't know about it's existence :P.
From Docs you go to "Create", and choose the last option "From Template" (I don't know if that it's the exactly name, cause I've my Google in spanish :D).
Basically, will take you to the next link: Templates of Google Docs
And there are a LOT OF templates to choose, from documents to spreadsheet.
Enjoy :).
Greetings from BlogThis!

Another cloudy day with a little of love show

I admit I don't post on the blog much lately, but neither had much time to do so (and I had no time for ideas either).
But it's Friday, and as such, I keep my idea of ​​putting a picture and a video to end the week. At the moment, I have the strange tendency to put videos of songs (maybe in the future I change my mind :P), and because today in Santa Fe (where I live) it's cloudy, I go with the following:
Picture:

This picture was taken by Denis Fox (august, 2006).
Video:

Love Show is the first song on the album Mind How You Go by Skye Edwards. Interesting fact, the real name of this woman is Shirley Edwards Yonavieve Klaris, but apparently she took each of the initials of her complete name and she creates her stage name (I guess if I do the same, I get a Cge and sounds like a military rank more than anything else). I came across this song while listening to the radio (it's 2006), but as I liked, it falls here.
Greetings wise (or maybe dumb).
PS: I feel like hacking blogger by the way I put YouTube videos here haha.

A little comment about Windows Media Player

Well, I must say that I've a strange personality. In a moment, I think that having a blog is the best thing that I can do, and days later, I think I should erase it.
But anyway, to made a quick entry, I like to suggest a visualization for Windows Media Player (yes, I use Windows Seven, but also Ubuntu 11.04), that I like it.
Go to Visualizations for Windows Media Player.
Then, download the theme "Energy Bliss". Next, a preview (click to enlarge):

I hope you like it. I'm conform with it.
Greetings from somewhere.

Are you here with me?

Well, this is the fifth day of my blog (how exciting!). To end the week on Friday (because I'm not going to update on weekends), I will proceed to do something similar that I used to do on a blog that I had with two other friends (hpmaxi and fern17) few years ago: give an image, and video.
Picture:

Yes, I love the pictures of the sky :P. This one was taken by monkeyatlarge (march, 2005).
Video:

"On Melancholy Hill" is the tenth song on the album Plastic Beach by Gorillaz. Simply, when I heard it I was overwhelmed. I knew another version too (really, I heard this one first), which it's very good too, so I'll leave the link here.
Nothing more to add.
Greetings from Melancholy Hill.

Choosing the right colors using Adobe Kuler.

When you're designing a web page, or even an application, you should keep in mind the colors you will use.
While I was surfing in the net, I found a page from Adobe called kuler which carries a collection of color palettes made by users. Some are beautiful, and if you have no idea of ​​what colors utilize on your website/application, this is a good place to start.
If you use a single color scheme will not only look better, also can turn your app in a success.
It is also interesting to known something about the color psychology, so you can choose the best color scheme for your web/app. The colors awaken in people specific emotional responses.
As a brief summary, I can say the following (I didn't invent, I read about it):

• Warm colors (red, orange, yellow) are used to attract attention (hence are widely used in advertising). Stimulates circulation and nervous system. 
• Cool colors (blue, violet, green) are the opposite of the warm colors. Soothed and calm. 
• Light colors (pink, blue, beige) help defuse. Imparts softness and fluidity. 
• Dark colors (the dark ones) are space reducers, doing everything seem smaller. They're serious and focused.

Colors that you will use would have a powerful effect to repel or attract people, depending on how you use them. Colors convey a lot, and it is important to notice that.
Next, I leave a quickly summarize of each color "base" with their respective effects:

• White: Empowered the neighbor colors. Transmits peace, happiness, innocence, purity.
• Gray: Expresses doubt, indecision, lack of energy, sadness. However, if it's used in metallic shades, gives a sense of strength and luxury.
• Black: Transmit silence, mystery, and even evil or impurity. It gives a certain elegance when used in bright tones.
• Red: Brings vitality, passion, energy, aggressiveness, sensuality, sexuality.
• Orange: Expresses warmth, stimulation, energy, positivism.
• Yellow: Sends gaiety, excitement, impulsion.
• Brown: Transmits severity, comfort, and balance.
• Green: It is color of nature. Convey calmness, tranquility, and renewal.
• Blue: Expresses harmony, friendship, loyalty, serenity.
• Violet: Transmits temperance, insight, and reflection. A color of mystic and melancholy.

Color can become the key to the web or application to do, even if you are not aware of it. Choose wisely.

Colorful greetings.

A Tale About Three Old Men

Wednesday of reflexion... I heard a story from Milenium FM (a radio from Argentina) that I found cute, so I will rewrite with my words, my memories, and my mistakes, the tale. Enjoy.

The Three Old Men
The tale begin with a seat on the park, where were sitting three old men. They looked tired, and the only thing that they were doing was to look the sunset far away, without moving from the place.
It turns out that a woman was passing by, and saw them. In a moment of compasion, she invites them to dinner at her house, which was just to a few meters away. However, the elders asked her to consult to her husband if he was agreed. The girl nodded, went home and talked with her husband, who accepted to invite the old men to dinner.

I just install SyntaxHighlighter 3.something

Well, I added a coloring system for the codes that I'll write in the future. In fact, I must thank to my friend fern17 by pass me the data :P.
Install SyntaxHighlighter v3.something in Blogger is really very simple. But I will not talk about it, I'll just pass the post where I saw it: How to use Syntax Highlighter 3 in Blogger.
And here is a list of Bundled Brushes (you know, to know the languages available to coloring).
However, the guy on the blog of the url above, says to use SyntaxHighlighter with the </pre> tags, but I don't like it, I prefer the second method, using </script> tags: you can see it right here (at the end of everything).
Well that it's all. Looks like I'm just starting to make ultra useful entries :D.
Greetings my dear readers.

Thinking about how to write a blog that people want to read.

Well, I've to said that when you start a new blog, you don't have the need to reinvent the wheel.

With that in mind, I found a wonderful post about how to do a great blog: How to Write a Blog - How to Write a Blog That People Want to Read.

I will try to do my best, and get the best of the results in doing my blog. It's something almost new to me.

I was thinking about the topic, and as I'm studying about programming, I think that I'll post stuff about that.

But who knows?

That's all for now, keep us on touch.
I almost forgotten... At the end of some entries, I'll leave a quote...

"The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart." (Unknown)

Warm greetings from the South.

Hello mundo.

Finally, I decided to create a blog. In a first moment, my obviously choise was Wordpress, but I gave up when I realized how difficult it is to customize the CSS (and expensive).
And suddenly, before my eyes, appeared the possibility to do it in Blogger. Of course, I don't touch this platform since 2007, but Google has changed much in four years, as well as Blogger.
You know, another thing about me is that my native language is Spanish, and for that exact reason I'm doing this blog in English: to get more practice writing in this language (so forgive my mistakes, I'm going to improve, I promise :P ).
Regarding to what it's gonna be treated on this blog, the truth is that I still don't know. I guess that it's gonna be about every kind of stuff, I don't really like to limit myself because I get bored easily.
Well I don't know who will read this in the future, but here I am, Sunday 18, instead of studying Computer Architecture - I'm in third year of Computer Engineering -, I'm doing a blog.
By the way, another reason why I did it in Blogger's because every time I love Google more :).
Warm greetings from Argentina.
Cristian.