el blog de tnarik? http://blog.tnarik.net el blog de tnarik! Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:42:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 en © tnarik@gmail.com () tnarik@gmail.com el blog de tnarik! tnarik@gmail.com No no http://blog.tnarik.net/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg el blog de tnarik? http://blog.tnarik.net 144 144 first run http://blog.tnarik.net/20080612/first-run/en/ http://blog.tnarik.net/20080612/first-run/en/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:39:21 +0000 tnarik http://blog.tnarik.net/20080612/first-run/en/ I’ve spent the morning drying from the rain which accompanied on my ride to the office, thinking about a cover system for bikes which I should research (because it can be an awesome triumph) and writing/testing a component for CakePHP to help me with the first run of an application. this creature should help me checking the proper configuration of everything, that files have the right permissions assigned, that tables are created on the database (with the model they should)… it should also try to fix everything to its best effort or at least notify the user something is wrong. ¡ah! it should also update the system if changes are detected.

I hope to finish the component during this week and check if it works fine.

]]> http://blog.tnarik.net/20080612/first-run/en/feed/en/ but now I sit in front of a table and write http://blog.tnarik.net/20080611/but-now-i-sit-in-front-of-a-table-and-write/en/ http://blog.tnarik.net/20080611/but-now-i-sit-in-front-of-a-table-and-write/en/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:03:33 +0000 tnarik http://blog.tnarik.net/20080611/but-now-i-sit-in-front-of-a-table-and-write/ and watch videos such as the WWDC 2008 keynote, which I’ve been watching in small slices of time during the last three days.
watching videos, reading texts, viewing pictures, everything adds items to the list of things I’ll like to do, research, try, visit. and there I end up with a lot of things I will like to dedicate my time to, while I’m also tempted to record every event, capture almost every thing I see, report every conversation, store every thought. is not that they are so important, is just that feel that urge sometimes. why is that? does it has anything to do with the brevity of life, with the unconscious need to leave a footprint somewhere? I just don’t know, but my guess is that somehow is some kind of attempt to begin a conversation, I don’t know yet with who. maybe a future me, maybe the present me, maybe you.

probably I’m convinced I won’t be able to do as many things as I want to, so I’m writing about them as Borges wrote about unwritten books. maybe is just my way to create some order where there is only chaos.

but now I know I’ll also like to develop something for the new iPhone (as I tried with the N95, the Palm or my old Ericsson). to many ideas and urges, so little time.

and there’s always a you (now you are that you), which is much more important. and the need to have food every once in a while. and I have a salad waiting on a table and the end of a Dexter’s episode on mmm. priorities, priorities.

]]> http://blog.tnarik.net/20080611/but-now-i-sit-in-front-of-a-table-and-write/en/feed/en/ I was walking down the street http://blog.tnarik.net/20080611/i-was-walking-down-the-street/en/ http://blog.tnarik.net/20080611/i-was-walking-down-the-street/en/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:02:59 +0000 tnarik http://blog.tnarik.net/20080611/i-was-walking-down-the-street/ yesterday afternoon you told me that I’m always thinking about publishing everything, even that story. you’re probably right. but it is not about publishing, is about saying things out loud. listening to my own voice saying certain things helps me developing those thoughts, those ideas. when I see the things I’m writing, or hear the things I’m saying, plans become more solid, more real; intentions turn into future choices; I move stuff from that place in my mind where they are simple abstractions and create objects I can play with, even if that doesn’t mean making things real, starting any project, building anything, actually doing anything at all.

anyway, I just realized today during my lunch (I rode besobeso to that bench near the office) that the publishing part is some kind of addiction, I agree with you on that. long ago I just walked along the street thinking, maybe talking to myself, and that was enough. now I take a stroll and get to this (or other) silicium place and let words come out, transform into lists, sentences and that incoherent fabric with which this blog is built. sometimes it makes sense and something is actually made, something changes because of what is exposed to your eyes. sometimes is just words.

sometimes I feel it’s hard to stop doing that. sometimes I really feel the urge to write down even the tiniest idea (probably “jolt down” describes this procedure better). and then I do it. or don’t, as happens now (because I’m thinking about that… meta-thinking, instead of doing). a few years ago (no more than five) I used to carry a notebook with me, or a small page of pager folded to the size of a paperback. and I took a lot of notes, almost of everything: names, fictional titles for books or theatrical plays, concepts, small-blurry-confusing schemes of software (or data, or stories), ugly drawings… now I use to carry another notebook (a Moleskine), a phone (I can take pictures, video, write down notes, record sound), I have another notebook nearby (at least at work), a photo camera (I can take picture and record sound) and sometimes a laptop (when I’m traveling, which I’m doing a lot lately, or at home). and yet I don’t write down as many things as before, or do as many things with the ideas I have.
that’s what a job is all about: you end up spending more time in “real” things than on “ideal” things. and the “real” things are usually the kind of things that will help you buy food, not the kind of things that will make you feel happy or fulfilled (although sometimes both worlds are joined together, probably that’s the goal). and yes, I know all this is part of the “I need to do stuff, all the time” mentality which doesn’t really make sense, because life is just much more than that.
but I digress, I wanted to share my feelings about lists and the boundaries between sharing and shamelessly exposing oneself to the world. or maybe not share them, but putting them out there to see if I can understand those feelings. I mean, do you really need to know that I intend to install a RoR server? that I already thought about that before? do I need to share that? do you even care? (I know some of you do, at one point or another).

my point being: yes, talking out loud, writing, helps me thinking and doing. and I don’t fully understand the publishing part (why do I do it), because I’m aware I don’t publish everything, every thought, every emotion, every mental project. I will have to investigate that.

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]]> http://blog.tnarik.net/20080224/mojito-time/en/feed/en/ Open your arms and welcome http://blog.tnarik.net/20080103/open-your-arms-and-welcome/en/ http://blog.tnarik.net/20080103/open-your-arms-and-welcome/en/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:19:52 +0000 tnarik http://blog.tnarik.net/20080103/open-your-arms-and-welcome/ “Open your arms and welcome”

, you know. or not.

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the lips on the radio from The Warriors.

]]> http://blog.tnarik.net/20071231/sorry-about-that/en/feed/en/ what’s your name? http://blog.tnarik.net/20071206/whats-your-name/en/ http://blog.tnarik.net/20071206/whats-your-name/en/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:24:07 +0000 admin http://blog.tnarik.net/20071206/whats-your-name/ - “what’s your name?”

- “Oscar Pulitzer.”

Ed talking to External Validation, in the Grand Prix episode of Northern Exposure.

]]> http://blog.tnarik.net/20071206/whats-your-name/en/feed/en/ gentlemen, gentlemen http://blog.tnarik.net/20071104/gentlemen-gentlemen/en/ http://blog.tnarik.net/20071104/gentlemen-gentlemen/en/#comments Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:12:33 +0000 tnarik http://blog.tnarik.net/20071104/gentlemen-gentlemen/ <blockquote>gentlemen, you can’t fight here! this is the war room!</blockquote>

]]> http://blog.tnarik.net/20071104/gentlemen-gentlemen/en/feed/en/ meow! meow! http://blog.tnarik.net/20071010/meow-meow/en/ http://blog.tnarik.net/20071010/meow-meow/en/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:54:03 +0000 tnarik http://blog.tnarik.net/20071010/meow-meow/ ok, so I’m going to Cabo de Gata again, this time to the Cortijo del Aire, diving experiences in San Jose, with Isub and some friends. I’m not pleased to say that means Dial D for Download won’t be ready yet. but life much more important than getting FLV videos to download, and I hope you’ll be waiting happily as there are more tools available for you (just a few minutes ago I learned that the last Real Player version do so,… yeah, the talk about “one click downloading” and “time shifting” as a great achievement or invention by their part makes me really sick, but if it works… I mean, they didn’t really accomplished anything new so it’s good to have that in mind).

anyway, now I have my WP-DC6 underwater cover and I’ll be taking photos of fishes, other stuff (I’m not that good with names yet) and me and my partners, so get ready for a flood of images on my flickr account. the pity is being unable (again) of attending to the Musical Geographic sessions this Thursday 11th in Madrid. just visit the mondobrutto forum and get more information if you’re interested.

life is missing some parts of it, while trying to live other. decisions. isn’t it, my love?

]]> http://blog.tnarik.net/20071010/meow-meow/en/feed/en/ the future… http://blog.tnarik.net/20071009/the-future/en/ http://blog.tnarik.net/20071009/the-future/en/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:51:29 +0000 tnarik http://blog.tnarik.net/20071009/the-future/ “I said you were right, who knows?”

O’Connell, talking to Fleischman, by phone.

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