The Drift

Hell...This is Art. Real Art Masterpiece.

The Drift.

Dear Mr. Scott Walker, we cannot wait ten years more.

Meet Ramirez, update

Meet Ramirez, second step

Meet Ramirez

Apaga y Vamonos

04 28 2006: Ready to go.

In case you want to know how was built the music score, this blog seems to be the right place for. ;-).

Yours truly.

In Peace

REST describes what makes the Web work well. Adhering to the REST principles will make your services work well in the context of the Web.

1. All resources accessible via HTTP GET should be side-effect free. That is, the resource should just return a representation of the resource. Invoking the resource should not result in modifying the resource.


2. No man/woman is an island. Likewise, no representation should be an island. In other words, put hyperlinks within resource representations to enable clients to drill down for more information, and/or to obtain related information.


3. Design to reveal data gradually. Don't reveal everything in a single response document. Provide hyperlinks to obtain more details.

Via Roger L. Costello.

Allright, I'll wrap it up. What I like about it is that if more sites were RESTful, a lot more URLs would be easy to remember and share...making the internet a little more approachable for each of us (which means A LOT more approachable as a whole).

Via Giacomo 'Peldi' Guilizzoni.

Interesting, isn't it? So, enjoy yourself and learn about REST here or there.

Coaching V3

Scheduled

Personal branding

Or how Anita went from lawyer to corporate IT to small business consultant.

Manifesto

Or how sophisticated and expensive content management tools produce poor-quality, non-semantic, inaccessible markup.

Kill Paragraphs

Or how no to insert your replies below the relevant paragraph and trim the exchange to be just about the matters of discussion.

Coaching V2

Coaching Standards

Currently working on a web-site re-design: EyeSea, a coaching firm bureau from BCN, Spain.

Our main work was to develope a funky-but-no-so style, using web standards and pure Nifty Corners. Also a brand logo re-design, information architecture study and imagery treating were realized.

We'll see... Meanwhile, have a look.

Easter arbeit

One of these days

Just Boot Into Windows

As many pundits and members of the Mac community feared, Apple’s decision to allow dual booting of Macs into Windows has caused all OS X developers to abandon the platform.

The Unthinkable

Mark my words: within five years, there will be no Macintosh. There will probably be no Apple.

Launching Crappy Apps

Software developers who’ve made Windows and Mac OS versions of their applications will inevitably drop their Mac efforts. It’s in their bests interests. Most people don’t care enough to do more than grumble. They need the functionality, hamstrung as it is, to do their work. They will continue to pay for the application, especially because they can run it reasonably well. Mac-only developers will rarely, if ever, be able to profitably compete with established Windows applications. The growing momentum to provide Mac versions of applications will stop dead in its tracks.

The Viruses

Because the Mac becomes a true Windows computer when in Windows mode, it is susceptible to all of the viruses and spyware that plague regular Windows machines, but not Macs running the Mac operating system. While these viruses can't infect the Mac side of the machine, you do have to install antivirus and antispyware programs on the Windows side.

No Object Allowed

I told you back in 2003. Now you have two months.
Read more in:

• Mezzoblue.
• MozillaZine.
• Macromedia.
• Apple.
• Microsoft.

Oranges and Apples

About the stirring in Wall Street Boot Camp has made last days. A clever and well-documented article by Mr. Robert X. Cringely.

A must-read page if you care about your job.

I have not yet installed Boot Camp. Just downloaded the app, and send Dave-- an old time-colleague of mine with whom I shared unforgettable moments, talking about Macs and Maths when we were students dreaming in our bachelor degree's date in the eighties, -- one email.
He just phoned me back after reading it, excited, with a figured smile over his face, and told me: " After Intel, this is the next logical step for Cupertino". Dave has always been a MacOs evangelist. He is still one, in spite of his wife's despair.

Reasons for Dave's happiness might be Apple never has had the influence in Spain, were we live, as it deserves, say, in United Kingdom. We were treated as fool geeks. Macs were for people who does not like computers, but design. No Linux in Macintosh, no left mouse button, no IBM packages. After the OS X release, we were back to programming again and time, now, seems to be in our side. Ordinary sys admins should think to themselves silently, maybe there were wrong in their initial considerations. Maybe.

Ordinary sys admins don't listen to, and don't make music. Not in Spain. We Do. And Ipod is brilliant. And Ipod is a computer. And sys admins now must face companies who demand to be attended with their own systems, not theirs. It's the sign of our times. First, the costumer, later the big corps. The end of OS wars.

Mr. Bob Cringley's article explains what you can be expected about the end of OS's wars. His article is essential to understand how future might be.

Obviously, I don't agree with all he explains, what make his opinions even more respectable. Writing this - your blog - have nothing to do supporting Apple or Windows. I'm just an ordinary consumer who post about things that care in life.

Is because experiences I share everyday, like a MACOSX pro-attitude with friends like Dave, I talk and know about Redmond or Cupertino. No other hidden intention. I promise you.

ADDENDA: Excellent metaphor: Windows: The New Classic via Daring Fireball.

Return (to the source)

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends:

• Scott
• Eno & Byrne

NO!SPEC

Me ( or Satie )

I'm burning to give you my description here (enumeration of my physical particulars - the ones I can mention decently, that is):... Hair and eyebrowns dark auburn; eyes brown-green (probably clouded); hair covering forehead; nose long; mouth medium; chin wide; face oval. Height 1 metre 81 centimetres.
The description on this document dates from ....). It would not fit me today.

I'm sorry I can't give you my digital (finger) prints. Oh yes. I don't have them on me, and these special reproductions are not good to look at (they look like Vuillermoz and Laloy combined).

Let us pass on. I shall come back to this subject later.

Following a rather short adolescence, I became an ordinary young man, tolerable but no more. At that moment in my life I began to think and to write music. Oh yes.

Wretched idea!... very wretched idea!

It certainly was, for I lost no time in developing an unpleasant (original) originality, irrelevant, unnatural, etc..

Then life became so impossible for me that I resolved to retire to my estates and pass the rest of my days in an ivory tower - or one of some other (metallic) metal.

That is why I acquired a taste for misanthropy; why I nurtured hypochondria; why I became the most (leaden-like) miserable of men. It distressed people to look at me - even through hall-marked gold eye-glasses. Oh yes.

And all this happened to me because of music. That art has done me more harm that good, really: it has made me quarrel with people of quality, most honourable, more-than-distinguished, terribly genteel people.

Precise and acuratte words to describe myself. I did not wrote it. But he did.

New Look

Apples and Oranges

What if Microsoft Bought Apple?

Maybe this:

Boot Camp.

More here and soon.

Dressed

Again.

Naked Day

What happened to the design?

To know more about why styles are disabled on this website visit the Annual CSS Naked Day website for more information.

On Types

What has to do a philosopher like you, Delfin, in a world of programmers?

Well, honey, read this before you ask me another silly question again, please:

• Type theory
• Russell
• Paradigm shift
• Mathematical logic
• Leibniz
• Digital philosophy
• Metamathematics

be my Podcast

• WE have all the time in the world
• Real Shocks
• funk you up
• Manifest
• Ankle Injuries
• signal failure

PNG, part two

How might look your PowerBook if your screen would be less or more like, say, a window? Kosmar has the answer.

A reason to beleive in transparencies. ;-)

NYT:1280x960

Khoi Vinh is behind the new NYT brand.

Via Todd Dominey.

Why do I care? Well, you can find me there, because of this. See ya.

PNG files

• Burn all GIFs
• Patents
• PNG Tips for Cartoonists
• A or B
• Factotum
• Definitively Guided

O Essays

On Algorithms

We, as hackers, know the USPTO is letting people patent the knives and forks of our world. The problem is, the USPTO are not hackers. They're probably good at judging new inventions for casting steel or grinding lenses, but they don't understand software yet.

The Age of Mechanical Reproduction

For every page of print and pictures published a century ago, twenty or perhaps even a hundred pages are published today. But for every man of talent then living, there are now only two men of talent. lt may be of course that, thanks to universal education, many potential talents which in the past would have been stillborn are now enabled to realize themselves.

Video KIled the Webby Star

Sir Tim Berners-Lee speaks on the 'Future of the Web'

On Players

“IBM and Macromedia were in discussions to open-source the Flash player. It was down to signing the contracts when MM pulled out of the deal. IBM had already built a Flex plugin for WebSphere Studio before these events that was eventually shelved. IBM was told at the time that MM was not interested in Eclipse (on top of which WebSphere is built).”