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The most comprehensive electronic guide ever made (?)
I’m a fan of electronic music and many of its sub-genres, but it’s always been sort of hard trying to explain others the differences between each genre, its influences and origins, how they are associated and how they sound. Now imagine how can I show these sort of things to someone not familiarized with electronic music at all.
While I was surfing for something totally unrelated to it, I found a nice guide in Flash that explains it all, has music samples and maps of major genres showing its derivatives. This is the Ishkur’s Guide To Electronic Music. It even has an introduction tutorial explaining many of the basics.
It may not be perfect, but the sole fact that it “illustrates” you is enough for me. If you want to know even more about an specific sub-genre, Wikipedia is your friend.
Save by buying clothes on sale in the opposite hemisphere of the world
The title sounds kind of strange, but what I’m going to tell is pretty simple.
Here in Chile we are in winter right now, and recently most of the stores had all their winter season clothing on sale with discounts up to 80%. It started a few weeks ago and it’s still going on.
While I was looking for a coat I remembered that people living in the northern hemisphere of the world were in summer, which led me to the conclusion that if you do a trip to this hemisphere and buy stuff right on time, then when you bring it back home you should be ready for the coming winter season and also saved a ton of cash. The same logic could be applied vice-versa.
At least here in Chile when it comes to sales of these kind of stuff, they are done by the end of July until there’s nothing left.
Of course it isn’t worth it if you come just for that, but it might be an interesting thing to do if you happen to be here on time.
Lightweight free apps for a Windows-based Eee PC
When I received my Eee PC I was quite dissatisfied with the Linux it came with. Quite honestly, while it was nice for basic tasks, it didn’t feel very responsive and the OS took up a lot of space.
After some days of usage, I decided to install a nLited version of Windows XP. By removing drivers, some languages support and many other things the final installation media wasn’t over 200 MB.
The OS alone isn’t exactly useful, so I had to install programs, but they had to be lightweight and serve the purpose well at the same time. Today we are infested with bloatware, but being a software junkie myself I think I made some good choices when installing stuff on the tiny machine, which I want to share with you:
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New design, fixes and back to business!
It has been so long since my last post on this thing that anyone would think I’m dead or something. But I’m far from dead and back with some updates for this forgotten space.
Do you notice any change here? Of course not if this is your first visit, but this design you’re seeing is one of my latest creations. I took the same theme I designed before and modified it further to look just as you’re watching now (you may gonna think it’s ‘fugly’ if you are watching it from Internet Explorer 6, because it doesn’t support PNG transparencies).
Another thing I did was to fix some internal stuff with the blog. There were some database errors that actually prevented me from posting stuff here. After realizing that, I always lose the motivation to write and I was like that for months until now. Now this thing has been fixed and it’s running the latest version of Wordpress.
Finally, I made this website a little bit less blog-centered, since I won’t be always here to write stuff on it. One of the consequences of that is having sections in the sidebar, such as the portfolio section (which is still under construction) and some featured posts. This part is not ready, I want to put content above the blog entries on the homepage to show featured projects (but that will be when I actually have stuff to show).
Let’s see if this modifications and experiments I did will be here to stay.
Oh, as for the new design, feedback is welcome and greatly appreciated.
Blue21: My first Wordpress theme
Blue21 is a simple and clean theme for Wordpress that I have designed.
It has a pleasing color scheme, nice gradients and a familiar look if you’ve been working with the Wordpress Default Theme, since it’s based on it. It’s also Ad-ready, because the middle column has been reserved for a skyscraper banner, but you can get rid of it if you wish and put more content, or go the other way and put more ads.