Parador de Baiona

A couple of videos taken inside the cafeteria of the Parador de Baiona (a five stars hotel in Galicia, Spain)

Escapada a Antibes

A principios de diciembre hice una escapada a la casa de unos amigos en Antibes, Costa Azul, Francia. He aquí algunas fotos.

Sincronizando Google Calendar (GCal) con el móvil

Durante un tiempo estuve probando GCalSync. He tenido algunos problemas con ese programa y ahora estoy probando un soft, de cuya referencia he encontrado en un grupo de Google, GooSync. Por ahora todo bien. Un reporte mas completo (en inglés) lo podéis encontrar en este blog.

Fixed Font in GMail.

[This receipt is not working anymore because of recent GMail changes.] If you're using a Firefox browser you can have a standard fixed-font non-rich-edit view and edit look. Here is my last minimal personal style sheet. Edit your userContent.css. In Microsoft Windows is under under your "Documents and Settings" directory "Program Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{some hexa code}.default\chrome"

@-moz-document domain(mail.google.com) {
   font[size="-1"] /* print view    */,
   .mb             /* message body  */,
   .tb             /* edit msg body */ {
       font-family: monospace !important;
       font-size: 10pt !important;
       width: 700px !important;
   }
}

Original code from http://milov.nl/2608 and his commenters.

One Laptop Per Child system - first working prototype

Demonstration of the first working prototype of the One Laptop per Child computer.

Cómo poner un vídeo en Blogger.

Agregar este código HTML:

  <div class="video">
    <object width="425" height="350">
      <param name="movie"
      value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lpcREMropJI">
      </param>
      <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lpcREMropJI"
      type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
      width="425" height="350">
      </embed>
    </object>
  </div>

Se vería así:

San Fermin 2006. Monday.

Encierro del lunes. Monday's fest. Foto de una cornada. El mozo está bien ahora. The guy is fine now.

San Fermin 2006. Friday.

Encierro del viernes. The fest on Friday. Foto de cogida

Hace muchos años, érase una vez un niño...

... que soy yo y debo ser alguno de la foto. ¿Adivinad cuál soy?

Fiestas de España

Fiestas de España

Fiestas de Madrid

Fiestas de la Ciudad de Madrid Fiestas de la Comunidad de Madrid

Aquí vivo

cargando mapa...

Y A VUELO DE CONDOR...

¡Por fin! ¡Ya era hora! Mapas de Google para Europa No está completa ni está al día pero hay bastante. Ahora podré enlazar mapas a los eventos de Google Calendar, a los contactos de GMail, etc. etc.

¿Por qué piratear?

¿Alguien necesita algo mas de lo que hay en esta lista ?

Portable Office

You may have a Microsoft Office suite within your browser fingertips. (Taken from http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=123) Mail GMail, Goowy, GMail for domains, SproutIt, WebMail Spreadsheet NumSum, iRows Word Writeboard, Writely, ZohoWriter, http://www.rallypointhq.com/, http://www.jotlive.com/ Calendar 30boxes, CalendarHub, Airset, Hula, Joyent, Kiko, Planzo, SpongeCell, Trumba Presentation SlideML, S5 Project Managment Basecamp Suites Zimbra, gOffice, Thinkfree, Goowy

Forget Outlook.

Last weekend I decided to downgrade from my POP3 email to the bare web based gmail account. It's part of my plan to outsource every soft I use to whatever the net offers me (for free, that is) In the long run all I'll need is a web browser...

The problem I thought I would have is uploading to GMail the thousands mails I've got in several Outlook .PST files. Lukily, I was not alone. While it's not straight forward ain't rocket science too. Thanks to Mark Lyon for his GML little gem.

The process went like this:

1. Download and install Mozilla Thunderbird (you can uninstall it after importing the messages.) Thunderbird will detect your Outlook so let him do the import. As it will take some time, meanwhile you can

2. Download and install GMail Loader (GML from now on)

3. When done (both 1 and 2) open Thunderbird, right click on "Local Folders" (or whatever is called in your language) and select "Properties" menu. From the new displayed window copy (or select, or remember 'cause you'll need it later) the local directory path for messages storage. It's something like:

C:\Documents and Settings\hernan\Program Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\7zl9itc7.default\Mail\Local Folders

4. Open your browser at your GMail Inbox and open Outlook too (it may be your last time you do it.) Clear your GMail Inbox by archiving every email you have still there, so it will be easy to distinguish the imported messages from your everyday ones. I highly recommend to tag your imported messages from the normal ones with, say, a common IMPORTED label so you can review them later. Besides you can tag the imported messages from each Outlook folder with a content related label.

5. Run GML.

This will take several minutes to complete. Be patient.

• Mark "Requires Authentication"
• Fill Username and Password with your GMail account (no domain)
• Click "Find" and point the explorer to the path of point 3.
• Pick one file with *No Extension" at a time. Each file corresponds with one Outlook folder.
• In "File Type" pick "Less Strict" (the default may or may not work for you, it didn't for me)
• "Message Type", I leave it as is.
• Enter your GMail address.
• Click the button "Send to GMail".
• Watch your GMail Inbox while it works.

6. Repeat 4 and 5 for each of the files under 3. There may be other folders down there so procede with caution.

7. Enjoy GMail.

8. When your comfortable enough drop Thunderbird, GML, Outlook and those .PST files that you left around.