Me iPaq is famous for its high quality, low light camera… Who was that masked man? That´ll be Fernando. And Javier´s Groucho…

How many times have I been to the Lucha Libre now? I´ve lost count to be honest. I´m starting to get a bit lucha fatigued, maybe cos of the inordinately long queues at the bar and the bloke who managed to tell me he wasn´t pushing in in front of me at the same exact time as ordering 2 beers with his nationally understood Mexican Hand Gestures… Git.

So anyway, I´ve got my computer back and it´s actually running better than ever. Thanks for your support and kind words during this trying time (Annelise & Dad 🙂 ) I spent a large part of yesterday watching progress bars crawl from left to right, but now I´ve more or less got the system as I wanted and can start working properly. It still sounds like a fridge with the temperature dial on -50 ºC though, but I´m going to get the parts on Ebay and after about 200 bucks should have a well behaved lappy back once again.

Alrighty, back to the grind. Hopefully in a few days I´ll be able to post a link to the fruits of my labours, and you can pick out some of the most expensive handcrafted jewellery Mexico has to offer.

PS Flickr tour #5/#6? to the Guachimontones on Sunday, meeting at 9am by the Arcos… Contact me for details!

Just want to tell the world that I got “ululate” and “anointed’ in a game of online scrabble. And still lost.

As you were.

So once again my laptop has died. I won´t go into details but suffice to say I´ve lost a fair amount of work. Sporadic posting once again will be the flavour of the week. Check out Flickr for some uplifting photos of people hawking their wears on a Sunday market during 10 inches or so of rainfall…

Slowly getting there with me latest ecommerce project… the PHP classes are coming in very hand though I don´t think my code
bares bairs bears close scrutiny… It’s taking up pretty much all of me time though hence the grinding to a halt of blogging this week after an auspicious start. Hey ho.

So it’s Friday so here are some three links to enjoy over the weekend:

Have you seen Cat Face yet? He’s got the body of a cat and the face of cat… There’s 3 episodes that’ll take about 2.5 minutes to look through.

Vector game thingy.

“There are two things that one can a director can add to absolutely any movie to make it at least three times better: zombies, and Gary Oldman”

Alrighty, back to the artisanal jewellery shop…

I finally managed a new minor film review (in the sidebar if you’re using a decent browser), and I’m trying to get back into my blogging groove, but I’ve got a fair bit of “chamba” on at the minute- translating movie scripts, site updates and getting my head around a WordPress e-commerce site.

This is also a test post to see if I can get a LightBox plug in going. Sorry if it screws up the RSS feed as I might need to keep editing this entry.

Yay, it appears to work. Click on John Craven to see another John in a balloon. Make sure the entire page has loaded first mind for the full ajaxy fun.

NB: Americans: First familiar”ize” yourselves with classic British kids TV programmes here… the first 30 seconds should be enough, then have an eyeful of Atticus´s latest landscape gardening attempt…

As visitors to our house may already know this is a regular occurrence whenever anyone drives away from young ‘Cus.

…for online tools to make you resemble Simpsons characters and Lego men and then 2 come along at once.

Behold! how I might look brandishing my PDA and electric guitar somewhere in the 8th circle of lego hell.

I´m liking the daily cartoons from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

So we´ve been to the cinema a few times this week and one of the adverts is for some car or other called the Edge or summink. Where Bono wanders into a record shop and the employees there are all excited “Is it really him”, then “Bono” leaves in his fancyish car. (Video below. Obviously)…

Sita and I had a heated debate about whether it was really Bono or not. First off the bloke looks just like Bono, BUT, he´s driving a pretty crappy car, there´s no U2 music in the ad and I don´t think Bono needs the cash from a cinema-only ad in Latin America and lastly I remembered some story or other on Weekend America or This American Life about a Bono Lookylikey taking advantage… And since I have my own corner of the interweb and Sita has nowt I can reveal to you that NO ES BONO. (As I type sita is saying “I can´t believe you´re blogging this…”, that´ll learn her for not even getting on FaceBook).

The evidence? Megafan.com.mx´s exposé and link to the impersonator´s site where in his list of gigs he mentions “11.22.06 Ford Motor Corp, Mexico City, Mexico”. Ta da!

It speaks fairly ill of Ocean´s 13 that I´m writing about the advert before it rather than the film itself…