Finally, web designers' prayers have been answered. Web search giant Google has decided it is time to kill Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 by ending support for the paid and non-paid services Google provides.

This is a great step forward for the Internet and at the same time it is a blow for Microsoft and their consumer products. Who knows? Maybe Internet Explorer 7 will be next. This clearly shows Microsoft's consumer product division is in trouble and that this is the beginning of the end for the has-been company.

As a designer sometimes you come up with ideas that you think will change the world. (or at least your own.)

I made this weekly schedule thinking that it will let me organize my tasks and help me with meetings, projects, etc. I wanted it to be printed on a 34in x 22in translucent film-like material that could be rolled and hung on a wall, almost like a whiteboard but rollable.

Like most people, I made my first website building static pages and yes, using tables. But after a time it was getting a little complicated to update my portfolio. I had to duplicate an existing page, or sometimes use a template, add an additional link with the appropriate URL.

By then I had heard about Content Management Systems, and though Wordpress does not market itself as a CMS that's the first one I got to use. So I continued researching about different CMS and learned about Joomla and Drupal. The former was the one I learned myself first, briefly. I was able to make my own custom template work without any problems but I felt I was limited to the user interface, it felt a little bit complicated and hard to use to make simple configuration changes. A bit like Microsoft's Vista and its gazillion "Are you sure you want to do this" kind of messages.

There are a ton of sites regarding this issue, I spent lots of hours figuring this one out. Every one of those sites forgot to tell you uploading the .HTACCESS file using your FTP client does not work (it did not work for me). I would spend days waiting for the server to update whatever it had to update and nothing happened, the CLEAN URL option remained grayed out no matter what I did.

Then I gave Godaddy's web file manager a chance and IT WORKED, it is like FTP but inside a browser, select the .HTACCESS file and update it with the new code. In my case the .HTACCESS file was empty despite uploading it at least a thousand times with a thousand variations using my FTP client.

Many of us can't live without an iphone, we can try, but it will be very hard to see our lives without one.

For my dad, it isn't about seeing, it is about listening his favorite radio news station from Colombia: RCN Cadena Basica.

I am not really sure who let Ticketmaster overcharge music/sports/etc fans for the events it promotes.

On April 24th, I ordered tickets to see THE ORB in Anaheim. I was actually surprised the tickets were $17.50 each, that was a steal, so I ordered the tickets without hesitation.

Have you wandered around the movie theaters lately?

My wife and I watched Star Trek at the Arlington in Santa Barbara with Jan, our 17 m/o boy. As many parents know (we didn’t), this was very stressful at best, my wife walked out with our little chat-box around the time Vulcan was black holed into oblivion and Spock rescued his family, sort of.