~ Travel (7 posts) ~

Recien llegado del EBE a Madrid. Me perdí el segundo día por motivos familiares, pero allí estuve ayudando en lo que se podía. Espero que el Wifi haya ido mejor que el primer día, lo desconozco, pero el viernes fue catastrófico (que me perdonen los de la organización, entre los que me incluyo).

Respecto a la gente, soy poco amigo de los gurús, de las caras conocidas, de los "yo soy alguien en los blogs y quiero que se me reconozca". Poco amigo del protocolo, muy poco amigo, poco amigo de los gurús.

De lo poco que me traigo del EBE es la cercanía de Javier, mi admiración por este señor con el que tomé un par de cervezas, y que si probablemente es el que tiene uno de los blogs con más solera, no me equivocaría si dijese que debo de ser de los que hace más tiempo que le siguen; pero eso no se lo dije; ¿para qué?. ¿En qué cambian las cosas?

Pero de las 36 horas que estuve en el evento me quedo con una persona. Un chaval al que le doblo la edad. Un chaval con el talento de un crío mayor, la frescura de la juventud y la naturalidad de los "cracks". Señor Victoriano , es usted un tio brillante.

Again. I know. Lack of updates in this blog of mine. Tons of projects going on right now outside this blog. Tons of designs to deliver during April and May. Then this company i work for that wants to do some business in Athens with their customer. So that's what i will do next week. I will be in Athens for a week period, 4th time i am there in my whole Ericsson's life, 4th time i will meet the same people i met the other times. 1st time i will be more than 100Km far from my lovely wife and my daughter since she was born. For sure that i will miss her while updating my beloved CSS Mania.

Oh, Athens. What a lovely place to visit. What a sad city if you are alone.

Jetlag is actually caused by disruption of your 'body clock', a small cluster of brain cells that controls the timing of biological functions (circadian rhythms), including when you eat and sleep. The body clock is designed for a regular rhythm of daylight and darkness, so it's thrown out of sync when it experiences daylight and darkness at the 'wrong' times in a new time zone. The symptoms of jetlag often persist for days as the internal body clock slowly adjusts to the new time zone.

By following a carefully timed program of light and dark at the times your body clock is most responsive, you can quickly reset it to the new time zone. Instead of taking a week or more to adjust to an intercontinental journey, you can become fully adapted to the new time zone in just one or two days.

A successful time zone shift depends on knowing the exact times to seek and avoid bright light. Exposure to light at the wrong time can actually make jetlag worse. The proper schedule for light exposure depends a great deal on specific travel plans. Taking a night flight to Tokyo, for instance, creates very different demands than a day flight to Los Angeles. Personal variables are important too; if you're a 'night owl' you'll typically need a different schedule to a 'lark'.

Acording to the Jet Lag Calculator as i have travelled east from Madrid to Sydney, I should avoid light between 06:30 and 11:30 then switch to seek bright light until 14:30. Ok, i haven´t done any of this. Today i should avoid light between 03:30 and 08:30 then switch to seek bright light until 11:30. Ok, same shit, i don´t think i will be able to do this. And here i am, can´t sleep and waiting some hours for a meeting with this guys, and designing in flash a hotel template you can see finished above. Enjoy.

Traditionally the most important material for jewellery down here in Syria was silver, but for poorer people copper and bronze were also used. Silver gilt and gold were less common and used only in exceptional cases. Precious stones played no part in folk jewelry, but semi-precious stones occur occasion­ally. Cornelian, agate, turquoise and amber were the first choice, and magical properties were attributed to them, because of their colours. Consequently glass beads of the same colours could be substituted. This is what i have learned talking with the people in Damascus.

It is extremely difficult to draw the line between Syrian folk Jewellery and the jewellery of the neighbouring regions, as traditions of late antiquity and Byzantium are still just as apparent as those of the Near East. Syrian jewellery, however, also shows influences of Egyptian, Palestinian and Yemenite jewellery, as well as of jewellery from present- day Turkey, the Caucasus, Iran and Central Asia.

And jewellery is what my last design is about. Down here in Damascus, no matter the amount of work i have, i also find some time for designing. Check above. Back home to my lovely Spain tomorrow.

As they would say: "When you try your best but you don't succeed, when you get what you want but not what you need, when you feel so tired but you can't sleep. Stuck in reverse." Well, yes, that's how i feel now. Next Sunday i will be flying to Damascus up there in Syria, to work for this guys and their GSM network. Considering that a couple of weeks ago, my company didn't allow us to travel there (due to a high risk situation) and they removed the restriction yesterday (funny) ... well....!! It is more because of my wife being alone with the baby we are waiting . I don´t feel like going up there. But it is a MUST.

Damascus is known to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. There is firm evidence that in the third millennium BC, Damascus was a population center of a civilization that was considerably prosperous and economically influential. The earliest reference to the city was found in the archaeological site of Ebla in 1975; where the word "Damaski" was found on one of the clay tablets. Some historians believe that the city actually dates back to the seventh millennium BC.

Sorry for the lack of updates the last two weeks, NV30 was on holidays as you all may know. One of the reasons i went down to Ibiza was the wedding of my good friends Niko and Nadia. A Japanese couple born in Tokyo that i first met while working in El Divino 5 years ago. He wanted me to design his wedding webpage and i did what you see below. I love the photogenic these japanese couple are.

All the best , Niko and Nadia.

Long time no talk about my daily work business trips, here in this blog of mine. Long time (considering we travel twice each three months) since my last home departure up to Sweden back in December last year. Wife was happy about it, she is not right now. Work takes me back to Dubai the day after tomorrow. 5 days outside home, back to Madrid on Tuesday next week.

Don´t expect too many updates within the next 5-7 days; i have more than enough with the cssreboot and the time consuming tasks updating one of my last projects you already know, Cssmania. Yay! . Being honest, I really don´t want to miss a single screenshot.