Archive for February, 2008
February 5, 2008 at 8:48 am · Filed under Something / Algo
I know it serves the best interests of the current goverment to have the citizens spontaneously stand up and march against FARC. I mean… they (FARC) make it really easy to be disliked by everyone by being the assholes, lying, murderous drug dealing thiefs they are and if the public opinion is being skewed by the media for this porpouse, let me tell you is not a hard job.
Yo se que sirve los mejores intereses del gobierno Colombiano que los ciudadanos se levanten espontaneamente contra las FARC. Es decir… ellos (Las FARC) hacen muy facil el trabajo de ser odiados siendo los asesinos, mentirosos, secuestradores, delincuentes que son y si los medios estan llevando a la gente en esta dirección, es un trabajo bastante facil dejenme decirles.
Lame political theories aside, there is one undisputed big winner in all this:
Politica aparte… hay un gran ganador en todo esto:
(foto taken from eltiempo.com)
T-shirt makers.
Los comerciantes de camisetas.
They say 1 million people marched and i think they are right (from the photos). Let’s say only 25% bought the t-shirt, but i think that it was way more than that (from the photos). Each t-shirt was sold for COL$8.000-COL$10.000 (U$4-U$5) and it takes about half that to make them. 250.000 x COL$5.ooo profit= COL$1′250.000.000 (US$625.000) in one day! not bad at all.
Hagan la cuenta: Si cada camiseta se vendia por COL$10mil-COL$8mil (U$5-U$4) y solo cuesta la mitad de eso hacerlas. Digamos que salieron 1 millon de personas a protestar, y que 25% compro la camiseta. 250.000 x COL$5.ooo ganancia= COL$1′250.000.000 (US$625.000). Nada mal eh?
I must pay more attention next time and get in on this thing.
Me toca avisparme mas la proxima a ver si me meto al negocio de vender insumos para protestas.
Of course, as good bussinessmen as Colombians are they never think big. I mean, there was no “official” t-shirt and this freeloaders got theirs for free (look at picture bellow). Damn nerds, be real Colombians and BUY.
Claro, aunque Colombiano que se respete se cree muy buen negociante, en realidad nunca piensan “en grande”. Es decir… donde esta la camiseta “oficial”? (asi como hay linea oficial de “Pasión Colombia”). Y aun peor, algunos jipis se las arreglaron para ponerse la camiseta gratis. Malditos nerds la proxima vez sean Colombianos de verdad y COMPREN!
February 3, 2008 at 7:17 pm · Filed under press clippings / recortes de prensa
Colombian newspaper “El Tiempo” features Colombian war games in today’s front page. The article covers Colombian artists who have made works that criticize Colombia’s armed groups and it’s related to public demostrations against FARC (organizaed by citizents via facebook) , that have already taken place in different location across the world (by Colombian inmigrants) and that will take place in Colombia itself this February the 4th.
Link to the article
El periodico Colombiano “El Tiempo” publica hoy en su pagina principal a Juegos de Guerra Colombianos como parte de un articulo donde se muestran obras de artistas Colombianos que hemos criticado a los grupos armados en el paÃs. El articulo esta relacionado a las marchas en contra de las FARC organizadas por ciudadanos Colombianos en todo el mundo y que tendran lugar en Colombia este 4 de febrero.
Enlace al articulo
February 1, 2008 at 9:12 am · Filed under fabrica, i dont like / no me gusta
The folks over at fabrica decided it was time to redesign their website. The old one had been made by award winning developer mr, Jonathan Harris back in 2005 under the direction of Andy Cameron.
The new fabrica.it
At the ex-alumni list there has been lots of critics of the redesign made by http://www.wehavephotoshop.com/ . Even thou some find the graphic style to be more dynamic and energetic, it is not what touched me the most about it.
The site Jon had made was not perfect, but it was pretty good. With all the endless back and forth approval rounds with the higher powers, he had managed to include some great features: Students had “student cards”, their own mini-page on the site and a system to upload images, text and others about their projects. There was info on applying to Fabrica. There was an active blog. There was even a small “grafiti” wall wher random people could draw on the sides of the site and express opinions. The site was fully dynamic and made to the best technical standards of web design. Jon is a very trough kinda guy.
The new site on the other hand, has none of these. Fabrica has changed a lot this last couple of years. Maybe it should not be a surprise that students no longer have mini-pages on the site.
The site doesn’t even have any information about applying. That says a lot to me.
And here is the kicker: i went and clicked on the link marked “Students”. To my surprise the fabricanti.com site had been hijacked without permission and it was displayed there on a frame under the “fabrica.it browser”. I say wihout permission because they didnt bother to tell me or Daniel (the other site admin), about any of this.
our very own fabricanti.com hijacked!
Its really kinda funny if you think about it. We started fabricanti.com as a way to keep all the former students still in touch with each other. We “borrowed” the structure of the original fabrica student database made by JH and we used it to make our small project. It was small little site, not very important to anyone except us and definitely not endorsed or approved in any way by fabrica. It was our own. Little by little former students started to join. Not very actively but still.
Fast forward to now. The small site is now being showcased by the official one. And we didn’t even know it. Since they probably threw away the old site, it’s a good guess to say we now hold the most complete copy of the fabrica students community ever, past and present. (i hope they made a backup of that at least)Â [ UPDATE ] Actually somewhere buried within fabrica.it, the old version is still availableÂ
As owners of fabricanti.com, Daniel an I welcome this change because it drives, at least for the moment, traffic to our little fabricanti.com. And another thing: think about it, we could just post anything we wanted there… and fabrica could not do a thing about it …not that we would. We are playing nice.
It’s not all bad thou, at least there is some humor to the page. In the source code (see image bellow)
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