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I want to thank Esther Fuldauer for this plugin.

It has been a long time fighting against SPAM in the comments on my weblog. The first step was moderating them, but when you recive almost 100 spam comments at the same time, it’s difficult to manage all them.

The solution goes through this plugin. This plugin adds a random image in the “Post Comment” page, and you must retype it in the text field below. If they so not match, you cannot post it. It’s easy for a human being, but hard for a robot or bot.

I’m sorry for this inconvenience, but I think you will understand it.

You can find the plugin and the installation instruccions here.

This is my new watch.

It is made by Fossil and designed by Philippe Starck. This watch is inside the 2005 Fossil collection and together with other designers, complete the rest of the collection.

As you can see in Fossil’s store, this watch can be found in 3 different colors, black (mine), gray and orange. As the LEDs are in orange, I think this one give more contrast when the time is shown.

Philippe Starck (S+ARCK) is a designer that has touched all kind of objects giving them a very personal style. You can visit his own website with all his designs here.

The perfect balance between art and science.

The original ecosphere (Ecosferas®) is fruit of a space exploration of the NASA and is the first ecosystem totally closed; a complete miniature world and integrated self-sufficient in a crystal ball. Easily manageable, an ecosphere is an element of learning that provides interesting information to us about the life in our planet, as well as a sample of the technology for the future exploration of the space.

You can buy an ecosphere here from 97€ (0,5 l. of water in a 10cm diameter sphere with 3-4 shrimps).

I wanted to post this several days ago, but it has been impossible…

Do you like Warhol or Lichtenstein style paints?? I do, and that’s the reason I write about this website.

allPopart.com is a website that converts every picture you send them to a pop, retro, Warhol, Lichtenstein, etc… style and send it home in paper. Different sizes and paper types.

You simply email them the image you want to use for the portrait, they check if the quality’s good enough, and they send you back a proof within a week. A month later you get the final artwork.

Now, I must find a good pic to send to them, and hang it up in my living room.

Found via: MoCo Loco

As lots of people all around the world, I’ve said “Hello” to the new year together with some friends. We spent all the night in Barcelona, since yesterday afternoon till today afternoon. We met in Dani’s flat, where Laura was preparing something to eat with Dario. I brought some wine, some Lambrusco and a bottle of Cava. Then, after having dinner, we spent some time playing “SingStar” in Dani’s Playstation2, interrupted several times by mobiles phone calls. We talked to Roberta, Valter and Silvia from Italy, Bet and Sylvia from Girona, Victor, Maria José, Edu and Mari (Erasmus friends from Sweden) and several other friends and family, some SMS and missed calls. (I’ve heart in the news that between 23h and 01h, there were 76 million calls in Spain).
After all this, we left Dani’s flat towards Razzmatazz, the club where we want to spend all the night. We arrive there around 2:30h, and we leave at 8:00. After that, just walk back home, having breakfast in a bar and going to sleep.

This have been my 2005 New Year’s Eve.