Advertising

I was reading some threads on a forum I visit quite often, one of it the discussions was about advertising, and how it has become quite annoying, to tell the truth I have no problems with it because I use AdBlock in chrome and Firefox, so I didn't knew know how bad it was until someone posted some screenshots. This are the ones:

This is how I normally see the main page of the forum

When I didn't had have AdBlock this is how it looked

And this is how it looks now supposedly

I'm not against advertising, I know it could be useful for some people, but this is ridiculous, the problem though, wasn't the advertising (well, not the biggest problem), but that it was taking too much to load, and it happened in every page he opened. For me, the second image is fine, it can be annoying sometimes, specially when the advertising have sounds, but it doesn't take the whole webpage.

Oh well, thank programmers for this awesome add-on/extension, now if this could be applied to false advertising in real life I would be even happier, and that's because I went to a new cafe today, the problem was that it had written "Cafe Veracruzano" in some place, and so, I thought that they sold that kind of coffee there, but they didn't, it was only American coffee and cake for dessert, well, my friend who went with me there and I didn't mind it , we wanted to go there for some time since it looked kinda interesting, small but interesting (it is inside of plaza Rio Grande), now there is one more place checked in our list XD, we had an awesome evening, and I was (and still am) very happy to spend it with her.

Juarez

This city is no longer what it was, I remember that back in the day, the end of the city was near what is now known as "plaza las torres", my dad worked in "Berg Electronics" now known as Scientific Atlanta not far from "las torres", one day I wen't with him (I don't remember why though) and it was the end of the world there. There was nothing more than wasteland, well, as things are right now, it is very populated in that zone.

Today I had to go to CAPSIC (an institution I have been working from time to time, associated to the college of psychologist) to get some things, my dad gave me a ride but he had to go to another place first. Well, I told him how I knew he could get there, but since the place he had to go was on the other side of the road he took another way, I don't know the city as good as he and trusted him that he would get there with no problem.

Ok, so in this map C is my house, A is the place I wanted to go and the trail from A to C is the road I always take when I go alone (a.k.a. in the bus), D is the point where I realize where I was and somewhere near the place my dad had to go.

To explain a little, I have only gotten to point A from were B is supposed to be or from C (since it is the easiest way using the bus), my stop was in Jupiter avenue, just before a bridge. I never got to the other side of the bridge, and so I didn't knew what was there, until today, but I got from the other side. The reason I didn't realize where I was was because that bridge wasn't there last time I wen't near there, when I saw it from the other side I didn't noticed either until I saw an old building called "valentinos", this is the avenue we took to go to El Paso, but it was so changed.

Well, my dad crossed the bridge and I saw a signboard that had written "Jupiter" and I was like WFT? I never realized that I was so close to there, I thought it was a place far away from what I knew, but after crossing that bridge it changed my perspective. But how would I think of that possibility, the place I have been going was new to me, but now I know that it is where the old cotton fields were.

I had not been there in many years, and this city is not what I remember :P

On another note, I found this in a certain website I visit from time to time:

It is obviously a bug, but the queue can go as far as 1 week from what I heard :P

Bad contact

Some days ago I had a little accident with my laptop charger, one of my sisters accidentally pulled it and it began to malfunction, at first I only needed to move it a little and it would work again, but today it just gave up. It would not work in any position I put it. At first I thought of buying a new one and started to look for prices over the internet to have an Idea of how much I would have to spend in it, but then I realized that it only was a bad contact, it wasn't an internal component from the charger, just the cables.

And so, I decided to repair it, looked for the place were the cable was busted and cut it. I took some plastic from it to tie the cables and isolated both of them from each other making sure they didn't have any contact and taped it. It worked really good and I didn't had to spend money in a new charger.

To celebrate (not really, I just wanted to make some :P) I made a strawberry and mango smoothie, it was damn good and refreshing.

TF2 F2P

So, some week ago Steam started to give support to Free to Play games, I wasn't too excited about it, most of them were MMORPG's and I didn't want to play any of those. They released 4 games at first, none of which I was interested in, but last week they made available a game from their repertoire for free, so anyone who has a Steam account has access to this game.

It was Team Fortress 2, an online FPS that, from what I have heard, is awesome, it has been around since 2007 and people still play it. So, I download it and, even though I haven't had that much time, start to play it, I have been in offline mode (a.k.a. training mode) to get a hold of the game, and I can say that it really is entertaining and can be addictive. Well, 2 hours in almost a week, i'm still not addicted to it :P

On another note, it seems that it was raining for a moment a few minutes ago, it smells like wet sand.

Speedtest

So, our ISP has been sucking this week, not because the Internet has been bad or anything, but because early this week my mom received a call from Telmex and they told us that we were going to have an upgrade in our Internet speed, the odd thing was that supposedly we had a 1 Mb connection, but our service should be a 2 Mb connection (since my mom doesn't know much about it she didn't knew how much we had), but one thing that Telmex has is that it upgrades the connection from time to time, so we had the equivalent to a 4 Mb connection (our download speed was like 400KB/s).

Ok, so my mom received the call and was told that the "upgrade" would happen within this week or the next one, I have been testing our speed through the week and it decreased from 400KB/s to a 100KB/s and then it increased to 200KB/s, that really sucks. I called tech support this Friday and I was told that they are still working things, but maybe next week it will be done.

This Saturday my mom and I went to change our modem since it was too old and was sucking from time to time, while we were there I asked about the speed and the person who attended us told us that in some sectors they were going to increase the speed, to the ones who had 1Mb it would be 2Mb, to the ones who had 2Mb it would be 4Mb or 5Mb (he wasn't sure about this one) and to the ones that had 4Mb it would be 10Mb, so tomorrow I will (if I remember) call again to see whats going on :P

:|

I was thinking that I have not shaved my "mustache" or "beard" for more than a month... and even though I don't care that much (well obviously I do care :P), it sucks because it looks (for most people) like a one week (or less) growth. Well less work for me, though I have to shave the cheeks because I have some random hairs in there :/

Well, at least my hair does grow quick :P

If I do not shave for like 3 months I would still have less facial hair than Sheldon :P

Computer failure #2

So, I decided to re-install Ubuntu since it has been running a little too slow and I wanted to re-size my partitions while I was at it. I insert the CD, restart my computer, change the booting order to CD first and... it doesn't read it, I boot windows to see if the disk was ok (it doesn't look like is damaged), and it does not read it, after some tries I decide to use another CD and it doesn't read it either, I tried with some audio CDs and movie DVDs and nothing.

I haven't used my CD-ROM for quite a wile, I only used it to install Windows or Linux, but nothing more, well, no problem, I only had to learn how to boot from a USB flash drive, which I already wanted to do, it is more reliable and economic than using CDs/DVDs.

And since I'm already doing this i'll do it with Windows too to see how fast it is :P
After this I was thinking of buying an external DVD burner, but since I almost never used it I see no purpose in buying one.