Via one of my favourites spanish blogs (Enrique Dans), I have found mapmyname.com, a 2.0 cool application that expect ascertain Internet user?s number (in my opinion a bit difficult).

It is easy and user friendly, you have to find your location via google maps and register a few personal details, after that, you must invite three friends to join in, in fact the net will grow up quickly.

It pretends to find the rough amount of internet users in a month, (has been alive for one week and more than 8,000 people are already in).

Let?s see what happens!

A friend’s brother plays in STANDARD, a band from Bilbao (Spain) that have reasons to celebrate because they are going to play on a festival with The Smashing Pumpkins, The Killers and Kasabian.

I don’t know if they are going to be the support band for any of those or not, but doesn’t matter, the band is quite young and just to be in the same list of acts, in my opinion, is enough to celebrate it!

The festival will take place at Madrid (”Plaza de Toros de las Ventas”, 12th of June).

If you have never been to Madrid and love festivals, is a good chance to kill two birds with one stone

Britain’s best blogs have been recognised (as I am living in London now, I have found it interesting…)

Ask.com (have you got a question?) and Metro?received more than thousand nominations from users up and down the country.

The awards recognise the very best in British blogging - nominated by the public/readers/users, and decided by an expert panel of celebrity judges (though I don’t know anyone…), across eight categories (arts & entertainment, politics, sport, fashion, technology, travel, youth adn weird & wonderful).

WINNERS LIST

Arts & Entertainment
- Hecklerspray
- The Sessions
Politics
- NHS Blog Doctor
- Iain Dale’s Diary
Sport
- Caught Offside
- Urban Fly Fisher
Fashion
- Style Bubble
- Little Miss Beauty

Technology
- Shiny Shiny
- Tech Digest
Travel
- Phileas Blog
- Bloodbus
Youth
- Flying Saucer
- Pole To Polar
Weird & Wonderful
- Hencam
- What If?

Do they deserve to win? What do you think?

Google was few days ago named the world?s top brand ? less than ten year after it was founded. The internet search engine topped a survey by Millward Brown. Google, valued at ?33 billion, beat last year?s winner Microsoft and Coke.

Anyway! Today I have discovered that the internet search engine Google was named after the number GOOGOL (1 followed by one hundred zeros) by Larry Page, one of the founders, because was fascinated with mathematics and “Googol”.

Another curious thing is the name from its headquarters, in Mountain View, California, that is referred as ?the Googolplex? (in mathematics a googolplex is 1 followed by a googol of zeros).

What a geeks!!

Every year (since 2004) I take part of the kickoff and organizer committee in garruchaff.com

What does GFF stand for?
GFF is a 5 day party that has been held every year for the last 5 years and is held in Garrucha and Moj?car during the last week of June. Every single evening is different, for example, in 2006 there were a lots of parties; One in a country-side house; another in Mojacar and we had a great night in a “chiringuito” reserved for entirely for us. And on the Saturday night the well-known All White All Night took place. All White All Night demands that everyone attend in a white outfit. When the sun is rising and we glimpse the first sunrays, all clothes are ripped off and everyone throws themselves into the swimming pool. No exceptions, nobody gets away with it! And in between everyone enjoys the fabulous sunbathing, swimming and, seafood of the Mediterranean.

Who can come along?
GFF is a private party. Thus, you can come over if you invited. First of all, as we pointed out above, the party is not meant to make money. If we wished to get money out of it, we would invite everybody and charge a higher price… Nonetheless, this would GFF no more. Second, it a five day long party. We make sure everybody gets along to avoid any uncomfortable situation. Therefore, we know that ,by inviting only close friends, we ensure the party will be held in line with our arrangements and expectations.

Following the steps from techtraction.com and fuzzyfuture, I have just installed the plugin Dofollow in my blog.

By default, the link included when submitting a comment has the attribute “NoFollow”, in fact Google and other Search Engines do not follow that link. In my opinion should be an option within the WP admin.

Do Follow Plugins:

There are several WordPress plugins available to help disable the default nofollow setting. Originally I installed Link Love. This plugin allows you to set a required comment threshold, which means that ?Do Follow? only occurs after someone has commented a certain number of times. My blog is still very new and I need to provide as much comment incentive as possible. When I stopped to think it through, I decided that a comment threshold didn?t provide the right type of incentive for my situation. I removed that plugin and quickly switched over to DoFollow. All it required was a quick download, placement in my WordPress plugin directory, and a simple activation back on the Dashboard?s plugin section. Very quick and very painless.

Who does ?Do Follow??

Here is the part of the post that starts to help perpetuate the ?Do Follow? meme. What follows is a growing list of blogs that have disabled the default nofollow setting. If your blog is one that has jumped on this bandwagon, then follow the instructions outlined below and help keep this movement rolling forward.

Here are the rules of the D-List:

1. Write a short paragraph at the beginning of your post and link back to the blog that put you on the list in the paragraph. This isn?t a suggestion. You need to break up the duplicate content. Someone took the time to add you so the least you can do is give them an extra link back.

2. Copy the list of originals below COMPLETELY and add it to your blog. If you would like a different keyword for your blog then change it when you do your post and it should pass to most blogs with that keyword.

3. Take the adds from the blog that added you and place them in the ?Originals? list.

4. Add at least 1 new blog that you KNOW us using the DO FOLLOW plugin to the list in the ?My Adds? section. (Add no more than 5!) Let the people you?ve added know, so that they can keep the list going!

5. Leave relevant comments on the blogs listed and get a link back to your site thanks to Do Follow!

Original List

On the Horizon
Angel Food Cake Isn’t A Candle
GeekySpeaky
Simple Kind Of Life
3DayMom
BuyMeBlog
The Hockey Dad
Midlife Musings
Utterly Geek
Whatever I Feel Like
My Dandelion Patch
Surviving NJ
BizMark Tech
Two Dog Zoo
TDZ Travel
Body, Mind & Solar
MidLifeMusings
HomeBizBlogger
Confessions of a Housewife
Andy Beard
Randa Clay Design
Solo Technology
Fuzzy Future
Magicalrosegarden

Miquel Clariana, a good friend of mine, has started his own project esFresh.com, it uses last.fm and youtube to play musical videos and songs of a great variety of artists.

Completely programmed with .NET and Ajax is very user friendly.

Congratulations for the project and good luck!.

Yesterday I listened something interesting at the office:

? You have three ways to do a job:

??- Good

??- Quick

??- Cheap

But unfortunately you can only have two from these three ways anytime together. ?

You can do a job Good and Fast in fact is not going to be Cheap, or you can do it Quick and Cheap but will never be Good

A very good piece of advice! Isn?t it?

Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, the three countries with the shortest working day, presents the greatest productivity per hour worked, according to IESE-ADECCO that analyzes the labour market of 7 European countries.

Although Spanish workers spend more hours at work than their European neighbours, efficiency obtained per hour worked is shamelessly smaller

Gossip with colleagues, surf the Internet, coffee breaks, send emails to family/friends, smoking a cigarette? may waste up to 25% of the working day.

The conclusion is an easy arithmetic function:

less hours = smaller denominator = greater quotientTake care if you are reading this article at work, maybe you are decreasing your country?s productivity rate; anyway is not my case, as I have never worked a single hour!

Since I arrived to London 6 months ago, I have improved my english a bit, I have realized that the weather is not as bad as the people believe and also that the basketball is not practiced in UK as in other countries.

But good news for the fans of basketball lining in London, Boston Celtics and Minnesota Timberwolves are going to play on the O2 Arena, as part of the NBA Europe Live presented by EA SPORTS this autumn.

The match will go ahead on Wednesday 10th October. Tickets for the event are on sale now and are available to book through theo2.co.uk or by calling 0871 984 00 02.

The Boston Celtics, led by Paul Pierce, are one of the founding teams of the NBA having won a record 16 NBA Championships. Behind the Most Valuable Player Kevin Garnett, Minnesota Timberwolves are sure to bring intensity and excitement to the game in the UK’s capital.

NBA Europe Live presented by EA SPORTS will also visit the Italian cities of Rome and Treviso; Spanish cities Madrid and Malaga; as well as the Turkish city of Istanbul this autumn.

more info

I am only a novice with Photoshop!

I was searching how to do some stuff with it and I found this this post, it has 10 url’s from masters (from univers) of photoshop and their unbelievable portfolio. They (Adhemas Batista, Bert Monroy,…) really know how to push the boundaries of the tool and produce astonishing pieces of work.

Amazing what people can arrive to do!

wednesday evening - london - concert - MURDER BY DEATH - awesome - oh yeah!!

We have just arrived from the bush hall (perfect for live music), yes! I’m feeling pretty euphoric after the gig and no! I haven’t drunk too many beers!

My flatmate Pilun (you will read his name quite often) bought the tickets long time ago and to be sincere, I had not listened about Murder by Death before. Surprise factor!

As someone shouts at the end of the concert… unbelievable!

Anyway! I’ve taken a fancy to them!

- Murder by death on myspace

- Murderbydeath site

As lately I am having a lot of visits and my monthly transfer has been multiplied per 10, I have taken the decision and I am going to move this site to a Linux Server! (Finally, I will be able to change the permalinks?)

I seized the opportunity to say that I have tried (in many ways) to change the uri?s from my blog, and without access to the IIS and without a rewrite mode or an ISAPI filter has been impossible for me!

Sorry about the broken links and problems that the migration can bring about!

Thanks to everyone!

Who said IPHONE??

I was pretty sure that my new gadget would be the Iphone from Apple, but I have found another one that commands my respect.

Its name is “Butterfly cell phone” and its designer, is just 15 years old, (in high school yet). The slick slider has a touchscreen, a weather indicator and Wi-Fi, not too bad… take it a look

Now I have more than one cell to choose between! Cool!

I have found a funny but at the same time useful article that explains how all you learnt in Kindergarten can help you to become a better programmer.

Among others rules:

- Share everything.

- Clean up your own mess.

- Don’t hit people.

- Play fair.

- Flush.

- Be aware of wonder.

- Live a balanced life

I would point out the step 11:

“Take a nap every afternoon.

Working 24 hours a day doesn’t make you more productive. Take breaks, go home, take a real nap. Often I have solved nasty problems by going home, and the solution came to me as I was driving away, or the next morning.”

Agree my friend, Oh yeah!! Take a SIESTA!!

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