Alright, let me see how can I break it down for you guys...

*thinks*

Okay, here's the whole thing:

• I'm working! (not really)
  
  I'm actually on practice, a 2-and-a-half-month-long period. There is a good and a bad thing about it:
  
  1. Good: I'm learning stuff I didn't before, and mostly about how real work is. But that's all there's to it.
  
  
  2. Bad: I'm not happy with the company. It's not what I thought a company would be, specially nowadays. But I got my hopes too high.
     
     The first thing I felt a bit annoyed about is how centered the people is towards a programming language, specially the bosses. It's either ASP.NET or XML. They barely code in PHP, and that's already a lot. All the servers run in Windows, specially the shared host. And it runs IIS, instead of Apache, so no PHP for it, since it's a shared host. They wanted a CMS (Drupal, Wordpress, etc...) but there are none that fits their configuration.
     
     I've barely got work these weeks, and they're giving me whatever little thing they have to do, if there's any at all. Which really frustrates me. Most of you will say that's good, that I get to do little to nothing, but I don't like doing nothing. I'm a very auto-didactic person, and I like to learn something new about the things I like. That's one of the things I don't like about this.
  
  Bottom-line: I'd rather be in another company, honestly. They're not going to hire me anyway.
  


• Bournemouth, here I go!
  
  This year I'm going back to Bournemouth for 3 weeks. The sweet thing about it is that I already know the place around, and I won't get fooled again :D
  
  I'll go to the same school (Kingsmore International), and hopefully a better (and closer) family this time. Which will be even sweeter (yay!~)


• Reading material:
  
  I've been reading 2 blogs recently, aside from the typical: /., TheDailyWTF, ALT1040, Laura's Blog when-she-posts. They are:
  
  -> Kirai: A geek in Japan : It's a blog about the everyday life and findings of Héctor García, a Spanish System Engineer, in Japan, where he currently lives and work at. It's a very interesting blog, and he wrote a book not long ago. I'll buy it if I find it and tell you guys about it :) I'm sure it'll be worth every copper.
  
  -> An Amazing Mind is a blog about psychology, Linux and self-improvement, specially since the point of an I.T. person. It has very interesting articles, which I personally recommend to read. It's not aimed (mainly) at geeks, so don't worry about not understanding anything ;)
  


• Flickr! status:
  
  I know, I know, I know, I know! I should update it more frequently, but ever since I bought my new Sony DSC-W55, it makes me think scanning the pictures is such a big, long-term task which somehow may never end. Or may end. Regardless, I'll promise to have all, if not as much as possible, before I go back to Bournemouth. Promise.
  

And that's it guys, for this year? Maybe :)

Alright, I've uploaded up to 48 pictures this month in my Flickr account There's a total of 98 for the Bournemouth trip, and next month I'll upload some more.

By March I'll have them all uploaded. It's not because of the time it takes to scan it, but of the 100 MB I'm limited to per month.

Anyway, enjoy ze pix plx.

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

You've heard it, I can post from Flickr, and I do it because I can.

PS: What was the point of it.... Ah yes, that LiveJournal is quite slow to load.

( Bournemouth and England )

( I have upgraded my computer/gaming rig/h4xx0r1z1ng d3v1c3. You name it )

( My first job )

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That's all. Dismissed >:3

Watch this first.



Now, why did 19 police men and women altogether had to get this guy down to the ground, tasered without an apparent reason and then taken out, probably to "answer some questions"?

How did this simple question rise so much scandal and action?:

“If it's so clear the last elections have been manipulated, why did you accept the result, did not protest and hastily declared your defeat against George W. Bush?. Why didn't you request George W. Bush resignation?”

I absolutely find no (visible) reason behind such actions. He's been charged with Public Disorder and Arrest Resistance, charges which I find reciprocal to his actions: asking a simple question. What was the problem with just saying "We found that out later, we couldn't do anything by then. Next."? Absolutely none!

This censorship is getting annoying, and it's all over the place. One day we'll have to think all of the words we'll say on that day, because we might get arrested under "Public Disorder".

Update Friday 2007-09-21:
Wheelchair-Bound Woman Dies After Being Shocked With Taser 10 Times

This is unbelievable....




On the other hand, and a much larger censorship case is this:

“Chavez threatens to nationalize non-compliant private schools”

Right now, Venezuela's dictator is currently on a plan to implement his "Bolivarianism" in all of the school, be it public (state) or private. Public schools of course will have this new brain-washing "subject" implemented and its teachers deployed at once, but the private schools will be forced to implement it, otherwise they'll lose their "private" status, and become part of the state. In other words, it means a full downgrade of teaching quality in that school.

I lived in Venezuela for 16 years, enough to say that Private schools are the only way for people to actually get a decent education, enough to prepare them for the University and raise a family. Public schools were most of the time on strike, the students weren't attending classes or the school material and furniture was in a depressing state, more than enough reason not to choose it over a private. Sadly, the amount of population who could afford a private school for their children wasn't the majority.

But anyway! Back on topic. This new "Bolivarianism" aims at indoctrinating people once they start school, making them believe the dictator is a God-like ruler of the country, hence, making everyone shut their yappies about the things they don't like. Their parents may (and I really hope they do) tell them that what those brain-washers are teaching is absolutely non-sense and utter crap, that they should not believe it. But chances are they won't, to protect them from the killers of the government.

If this ever gets rolling for over a few years, I don't really want to see my dear country become a land of ignorance, leftist communism and fear. I really don't...

"Aceptalo, No vas a tener casa en la Puta Vida"

This is going to be a spanish-only post. Sorry 'bout that guys.

Es cierto. En España, por lo que he visto y oido, la vivienda vale una barbaridad. Precios exorbitantes por algo que es un bien primario y necesitado. Muy pocas personas se pueden permitir un piso o una casa "a su gusto", y a veces tienen que conformarse con una caja de zapatos, en sentido figurado. Ya esta bueno.

Yo pienso ir a ver si en A Estrada, Pontevedra, va a haber algo. Lo mas probable es que no haya nada, ya que aunque se ha auto-proclamado "La Ciudad Digital de Galicia", casi nadie navega por internet. Una pena.

Pero bueno, ustedes que si tienen un pueblo/una ciudad decente con bastantes habitantes, vayan y manifiestense, que es la unica forma de hacerse notar. No se preocupen, aqui no hay Circulos Terroristas como en Venezuela para hacer del 19 de Octubre un 11 de Abril.

Lo siento por las personas que hablen español y no entiendad muy bien el inglés, ya les explico luego.

You all know that Global Warming is a rising problem. Take Spain for example. Here where I live, Galicia, it's about summer and we still have rain. I know Galicia is rain forest-like, but this is madness! (THIS AIN'T SPARTA, /b/).

Last year the rain was gone and the sun was heating everything up to 38 ºC by May 31st! To this very day (June 13rd 2007), we still have rain and a mild/cold weather. This is total craziness.

This might be an effect of the Global Warming, who knows? All I know is that if it is, it's not going to look pretty at all.

I found the following video in CAD's website, which totally made me think, What does really matter: money or the future? Check it out:

http://www.break.com/index/tough-to-argue.html

A los de habla hispana:

El video es sobre el Calentamiento Global, proponiendonos 4 alternativas, dependiendo si actuamos o no, y si el calentamiento global va a cambiar radicalmente nuestro mundo o no.

Si decidimos actuar, pero no cambia, habremos gastado dinero en vano y nos vendrá una depresion economica muy fuerte. Si no decidimos actuar y no hay cambio, pues todos contentos :-)

Por el otro lado, si actuamos y sí ocurre el cambio, habremos gastado dinero, pero nos habremos preparado para dicho cambio, y la adaptación sera muchísimo menos drástica :-)

Ahora, ¿que pasaría si no actuaramos y sí cambia nuestro mundo? Pues que simplemente nos veríamos sumergidos en el caos, en problemas de salud,sociales, politicos, ecosistemáticos, etc... En fin, una catástrofe.

¿Que te gustaria a ti? Y lo mas importante: ¿Que harias tu?

Yes, I am back, my internet is back. Luckily there was no need to pull out the ban'dminhammer.

Spanish:

Si, he vuelto, mi internet volvio tambien. Por suerte no hizo falta sacar el palo de azotar.

As some of you know, or guessed, I have no internet at (my new) home.

Yes I moved, and I did request the move of the phone line. But like in all the countries, ISP are the biggest and fattest lazy bastards humanity has ever known. I don't specially need it at the moment, since I can browse from school, but my dad needs it.

The past weekend (May 4-5), a cousin of mine had an accident. He's in critical status, although slowly recovering. My dad needs to call every now and then to know how is he. He's the son of my dad's sister, and they're a very united family. I hope everything turns out good...


( Español )

Primero:
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/vtech.shooting/index.html#

Mi más sentido pésame a las familias de las personas que murieron, y tambien quiero decir que las cosas hay que hablarlas señores y señoras, no hay que quedarse nada que el dia de mañana lo pueda poner a uno en semejante situacion.

Que descansen en Paz.

Segundo Punto:



Me da igual lo que digais, que no es bueno reirse de las desfortuna de otros, que a todos nos puede pasar (o nos ha pasado), pero es que este video, aparte de ser de lo mejor que he visto hasta ahora, nos enseña varias cosas:

• No hay que pasarse de listos con los agentes de tráfico


• Si eres un/a pij@/sifrin@, date un tiro en la cabeza y nos haces un gran favor a todos.


• No te juegues el pellejo por otra persona cuando las probabilidades de perder son mayores que las de salir libre.

Y Tercero:

http://balafria.wordpress.com/2007/02/18/venezuelan-spanish-for-english-speakers/

Esta bastante completo, e incluso me ha ayudado a recordar algunas palabras que me gustan bastante decir. Os lo recomiendo

PD: De ahora en adelante, los posts de mi blog seran en español y en ingles, y actualizare los posts anteriores cuando pueda.

( English here! )

For those that does not know what the title is about:
( Clicky! )

Now read:
http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/theWife/biscuitcity/

I wonder how many days took to build up all that. Imagine the seconds it'll take to eat that all... specially with Tea.

Mmm... I wonder if they ship to Spain.

OK Go - Here it goes again.
This is coolness and the rest is crap :D

These guys were on MTV, and they're famous enough because of this. The music is great and the coordination is almost perfect. Props to them.



On the other hand, Mad props to these guys and their two-months-long video shrunk to 5 minutes. The video really made me laugh and remember my Dragon Ball days.

PS: I want a treadmill :(

Today I didn't have the last 2 hours of class. Two friends (one of them has a Citröen C4. What a beauty...) and me decided to go and have a few drinks.

At 2:15 PM we decided to leave, and he took me home with the other friend. We were driving towards home, and he's one of those speedy but careful drivers.

So we were driving at 60 KM/H in a street, then a turn to the left comes close, and he proceeds to turn. Here's the deal: it was a 105º turn with no sight to the left, because the ground was high enough to block it. He didn't go slower than 60 kM/h. Then what I was expecting happened.

A 3m tall bus popped out in the other end of the turn fairly fast. We were like:

OH SHIT...!

Then he (the driver) quickly reacted, turned right and hit the break. The car slipped in the asphalt a bit and the bus passed by next to us by less than an inch from the left mirror.

We began to laugh afterward. It totally gave me a twist for my life. It was the first time I saw my life pass by so closely.

And I'm still laughing about it.

Since on Wednesday I am having a LAN party (go them!), and every year I always bring something new (the first year was a webcam, the second a video card ATI Radeon Gecube 9250 256 MB and the third a Seagate ATA-IDE HDD 160 GB 7200 and a DDR2 400 MHz 512 MB RAM stick), I decided to

finally

paint my case, a black one, in efforts to make it look different and something not so "simple". SOOO I bought 2 spray cans (NO CFC, fer yer infermation!): one white and one yellow. Then the big stuff... What to spray...?

I was searching around and brainstorming: what can I do!?! Then got a hold of my mechanical pencil and started to draw some stuff around. Then needed something to stuff inside it, but something with no lines, or almost none at least. I found it then: the Biohazard symbol

Now that I had the symbol, I needed something to match it up with. Then I saw: Yellow + Black + Biohazard Symbol = Radioactivity symbol!

Total Win. I started to work and drew the model on some crates I cut for it. Painted it with the spray cans, the design + Biohazard in white, the other... well you know. I left it drying up some, and voila:
Results!

What happened to the Yellow one? Easy. I painted it in an angled position, not laid down on the floor and left it like that for it to dry. I then removed the pattern for it. That's how it ended up =_=

What happened to the White one? Easy aswell. The pattern was too high from the case and well... the whole spraying went under it.

When it came back home and saw it, I was like OMFG WTF DIS SUXXXXXX H4X FIX PLZ OFFICE SUX DUST PLZ. I grabbed the nail cleaner of my mom and a few cotton and cleaned it up. 3 hours for it to end up like this:
Voila!

I didn't do much to the white one as you can see. Turns out it looked cool that way. But the yellow one I had to finish the circunference for it to actually look cool. And if you notice... the black parts are inverted.

Well, one small step into the modding community. Next time I might install an aquarium B)

Well, most of you should know that Today, November 23rd, is the Thanksgiving day in USA (it was 1 month ago and some days in Canada). I barely have an idea of why is this day a celebration (I'd like to know!), but seriously, thanksgiving shouldn't be once a year for us to be thankful of the things we have.

Given this, all I have to say is:

• I'm very thankful of having the family I have. They have supported me throughout these years and they love me like no other, so do I.


• I'm very thankful of having friends that supports me and that care for me, as I do for them. (specially to Laura, Jojo, Aitor, Paseiro, Lupe, Angeles and Daysi. Go them!)
  
• I'm very thankful of this life I have. It has its pros and cons, but as it is I couldn't have asked anything different.
  

Saying a "thank you" or being thankful of something/to someone once in a while doesn't hurt. You can try that :)

Well, everyone has to start off somewhere, nothing comes nor came out of the blue (Also I have to put a good use to this!). So, where shall I? A good introduction about myself should be more than enough.

Let's see, my name is José Alejandro Carrillo Neira. I'm an open minded person that just not stick with what I believe in, I can also take other points of view (PoV from now on) and re-structure mine as I see fit. Sometimes I know it gets dumb to do it for every person that I meet, but I'm a flexible and very adaptative person, and seriously, my basic way to be can't be changed.

Some people says I'm such a kind person, some says that I'm sometimes pretty insensitive. To be honest, I am not sure of what kind of person am I. All I know is that I behave the way I feel the best that is for the ones that surrounds me and I care for, and for me. But yes, it's always this order:

Family -> Beloved ones -> Friends -> me.

See question nº1 at the end for reference.

Why? It has to do with a special quality (or should I say curse? Keep reading), which is my emphaty. My emphaty (capacity of one person to be able to understand other people's feelings) is not a normal one. I can be called a "mirror of emotions" if you wish. I just need to look at a person's face (even a bit of the face is enough) if I'm open enough to "feel what they feel".

So bad that once, I was waiting for my Galician's class and there was this girl sitting on the floor looking at a cell-phone. I suddenly started to feel strange as I stared down at her. When she raised her head to go to her class, I saw she was crying, and it felt like "Earth, eat me". Despite that I didn't know her, that I had no relationships whatsoever with the said girl, and despite that I did (nor do) not have any clue about what happened, I could feel how she was feeling, so much that I could start crying if I would have wanted.

That's why I say being emphatic can be a curse. You tend to suffer for people that you don't know nor know what's going on in their life, but yet you still do it. And no, it can't be helped, see question nº2 at the end for reference.

Well, enough of it, now the main part of this stuff:

( ~ The Past )

( ~~ The Present (somewhat ... D:) )

( ~~~The Future? )

( Q&A )