Wednesday 7th of May 2008
I can’t help but sympathize
Orlando Urdaneta habla sobre el Facebook, buenísimo:
YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhavb8WMpCg
Tuesday 22nd of February 2005
This time, the walls are shaking!
I made fun of it in the past. I admit it. And I’m about to eat my words. I like punctiations. Really. I do. Ehem.
Hide yourself under the long skirts of ugly old women! (no offense, they’re just a very strategic place to hide; no one in their right mind will look for something there) Wikipedia is down! D: -a tripped circuit breaker caused the Wikimedia servers to stop chattering and mayhem has ensued. I found out when I wanted to look up again which city has the largest metropolitan area in the world (Mexico DF is either second or first, if my memory is not failing) and I was handed an error message telling me to check back in a few minutes. A few minutes later, they probably diverted their DNS to another server and they informed the people of the power failure.
It’s getting worse now though, every single thing that sparks my interest, I vainly go: “uuh, let me look that up in Wikipedia!” only to seconds later come to my senses and remember what’s going on. “Curses!” I say.
Honestly, not having it has made me notice how much I need it. They have an off-site backup of the fundraising page, so go donate some dough. I order you.
Saturday 15th of January 2005
I feel a great disturbance in the force..
As if millions of teenage girls cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. At least now millions of users might actually have something to write about when the servers are back up. “Today I went outside. My pupils have never been tinier”.
Ok, heh :p sorry for the generalization, couldn’t stop myself. Let’s go back to regular stuff. First, here’s some pictures of fish that have been driven up to the shore by the tsunamis, seems mostly they are those that live in the bottom of the ocean, where sun light does not reach them. I see what looks like some Angler fish in there.. mwahaha! -”Rape” is the Angler fish’s name in Spanish.
Shiny things. The Japanese have a great way of finding excellent and thoughtful names for their toys. Take an exclamation, add the word “Super”, and append the product function; you then get the Oh! Super Toaster! -a 1.1 million ¥ toaster (~$10000) that not only can slice whole loaves of bread but also can toasts them with an infrared beam. Intelli-toast, step aside.
On to more important things, a salute goes to the Huygens Probe, which touched down yesterday on the surface of Titan and the people at ESA have been busy churning out pictures. Here’s some of the first, and even more that were released today. I’m happy.
I’ve got nothing else, so I’ll just leave you with the furminator while I go do something productive.