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Late anniversary

Posted on May 24th, 2008 at 5:40pm by Pi.
Categories: Pi in the Sky.

Well, I wasn’t around, or more exactly, the site wasn’t around to celebrate the first anniversary of the site. Of itself. Whatever. I thought that after such a long hiatus, I should remember and remind you the best stuff I’ve put in this site since its inception in April the 17th of 2007.

Probably the first thing I wrote with some passion was a review in two parts of the Hyperion Cantos saga (part one and part two).

Something else which made me quite proud were two articles on design. The first one was CSS div hell - Or how to make a 2way liquid frame with transparent graphics; I think the title is quite self explaining. The other one was Flexible versus fixed width in web design; dealing with the differences in layout between a fixed printed page and a flexible browser window, and how certain habits were affecting negatively the design of web layouts.

That month I also reposted an old article about the Ten Essential SciFi Movies I wrote in 2005. I like that article particularly much, because a few days after that, I found an article in a local newspaper where some cinema-loving scientists chose the best sci-fi movies, and there were quite some coincidences between both lists.

There was a similar, also very old article called SciFi Books listing a few books I consider essential to understand science-fiction.

Shortly after, I wrote what I consider the most useful thing to date (from a practical point of view), three articles for Understanding eMule. Many people have commented favorably about these articles and how they helped them to understand how eMule worked and how to make it work properly. Now I use aMule ^_^

Talking about useful stuff, of course I also talk about games, and one of my favs has always been Tetris. Thus, I wrote an article about its history called Tetris from first to last.

That was the month when I did read the complete Lords Of The Instrumentality saga, or almost. I wrote two articles about three of the books: The Lords of the Instrumentality (I and II) and Norstrilia - The Lords of the Instrumentality (III).

Another ancient article I love is The Teddy Bear Syndrome. I posted it after some enhancements from the original, wrote in mid-2006 IIRC.

Following the tradition of trying to be useful, I also wrote a review of three free antivirus in The Antivirus Dilemma, although it didn’t solve much.

Far from being very practical, but useful nonetheless for its laughable qualities, I saved from the oblivion another of my emulation related jokes: MAME is a condom. This was a real answer in the old mame.net boards to someone who didn’t seem to get the real reason of why MAME is MAME and not EMU4ALL.

Although October was a very bad month, I talked about the books Hart’s Hope and Dune (I already talked about the movie Dune).

And that’s almost it; in December I started my Stupid Sentences series (only in spanish), which spanned four episodes (two, three and the late four). Then I kinda got trapped in a lost of interests of being all day in internet, due to my reactivated social life, my better mood, and my hacked site ^_^

I also wrote other stuff you might find in this pseudo-blog, and I have a couple of good stuff to post one of these days; and I still like to write, in case you like to read my ramblings. And please let me thank you for reading!

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