My friend Amalahuige (Amala for his friends) has passed me a very cool video of the city where I live.

Here is Vancouver in time lapse, enjoy.

At the end of this year I will have completed my pledge of not eating Chinese food for a year in my battle against shark fin soup, however I will continue with this commitment until the shark population goes back to normal.

My family supports me and my wonderful wife bought a full bus billboard in China. These billboards will be placed in either Beijing or Shanghai for a full year and will encourage people to stop consuming shark fin soup. In addition to this she adopted a shark through the WWF and purchased merchandise through www.sharksavers.org and www.seashepherd.org.

Here is a copy of the digital certificate:

Thank you Irene for this wonderful Christmas present.

Big Brother is watching me, and I’m not talking about the stupid reality show but about Google… yes it is a fact, I’m on Google Street View; can you see the guy with the blue jacket?

I thought I have seen everything on a bike but for sure never have seen two girls on a bike…

Check out this amazing lift system used in Norway to help cyclist to reach the top of the hills, I wish we would have one of this in Tenerife

Today I came across to an interesting website that offers nice solutions for bike storage. When you live in a small apartment and have 3 bikes in your house, plus one more bike in your in laws house, plus the thought of acquiring more bikes (one for Maite and the other one for…. I told you guys, I need a bigger house); the space storage become a big issue.

Penny Farthings offer you a nice collection of products to solve this problem, check out The Green Pod I wish I would have space where to put one of this.

The Green Pod

Everything that make our life easier is always welcome, that’s why I have created this page. I pretend to collect some of all those “Tips, Tricks, and Applications” that I used to make my work journey

Applications

• Coda is more than a text editor and is the second most used application in my computer (is difficult to beat browser’s first position)
• Dockables: With a simple click of your mouse you can lock your screen, backup your time machine, go to sleep mode, and more…

Tips & Tricks

• Here is a nice collectios of Tips & Tricks for Coda.
• A very handy jQuery Plugins list.

Here is the solution of how to get rid of your submit button’s text with CSS and not only that, we also are going to replace the entire button with an image.

You are not going to believe the hack that I had to used to make it work in IE6… seriously, when the hell is this browser going to die? Another nightmare of morning thanks to it.
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Let’s keep it simple:

Regular way:

if (statement) {
  $variable = "return this if true";
}
else {
  $variable = "return this if false";
}

Short way:

$variable = (statement) ? "return if true" : "return if false";

And this is how it works: statement ? if-true : if-false

You may don’t know but the entire family of IE browser has a limit for the amount of CSS selectors to be swallowed; and when I say entire I mean IE6, IE7, and IE8.

Yes you read right, the “fabulous” new IE8 still is carrying that limitation.

Long story short is that IE stops reading selectors after 4095 ignoring the rest of your CSS code, however this is not happening in other browsers.

You may think this is a big number (I did too) but you will be surprise to see how easily the selectors growth when you are working with a CMS and a big big site.