Happy holidays!

The change we need: Obama, 44th president of the US!!!!!!

I'm speechless. Tearful. So happy.
Thank you everybody!!!!

Let's celebrate!

Ftom Barack's campaign blog:

Thank you.
You did it. You showed America -- and the world -- that change can happen.
Thank you for the miles you walked, the doors you knocked, the phones you rang, the hard-earned dollars you gave, the spirit you committed to this campaign. Thank you for never wavering, even when the days were dark, the clouds grayed the skies, and the rain poured. Thank you for tuning out the static of the cynics and believing in your power to change this country. Thank you for all the late nights and all the far too early mornings, for trudging through the bitter cold of winter and wading through the oppressive heat of summer to canvass in your communities. Thank you for the rain-soaked jeans, the mud-caked sneakers, the sweat-drenched t-shirts, and the snow-covered scarves and hats. Thank you for your patience; thank you for your perseverance.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need | Sam Graham-Felsen's Blog: You did it!

Yes, we can!!!!

I have lately been microblogging quite a bit on Obama.
I really want him to win. I need it, I think it's the best not just for US, but for most of the world. A change, a deep change, is necessary in the US.
And any other option scares me.
So, I've decided to send all my good vibrations towards US and Obama's supporters by compilating part of what I have been posting at Tumble & Fall.
Have a look and, if you are a US citizen, please vote for change.

I…believe that every American has the right to affordable health care. I believe that the millions of Americans who can’t take their children to a doctor when they get sick have that right…We now face an opportunity - and an obligation - to turn the page on the failed politics of yesterday’s health care debates. It’s time to bring together businesses, the medical community, and members of both parties around a comprehensive solution to this crisis, and it’s time to let the drug and insurance industries know that while they’ll get a seat at the table, they don’t get to buy every chair.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need | Policy Issues

Campaign Get on the Bus: Early Vote in Ohio (via BarackObamadotcom)

For the last eight years we’ve tried it John McCain’s way, we’ve tried it George Bush’s way. It didn’t work. It’s time to try something new.”

- Barack Obama Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need | Obama Road Blog: Road Blog Rewind: Barack Swings Through the Southwest

First Time Voters in North Carolina (via BarackObamadotcom)

Obama and Biden's Plan for America.
Obama Blueprint for Change

Get your own at Scribd or explore others: Politics Campaigns and Electi obama Change

These two boys waited as a long line of adults greeted Senator Obama before a rally on Martin Luther King Day in Columbia, S.C. They never took their eyes off of him. Their grandmother told me, “Our young men have waited a long time to have someone to look up to, to make them believe Dr. King’s words can be true for them.” Jan. 21, 2008.

Callie Shell - Obama - Digital Journalist

A New York Times article reports that as a college student, Barack Obama, one of the two leading contenders for the Democratic nomination for President, was interested in Nietzsche, Freud, and Sartre. A hopeful sign! I would have been worried if as an undergraduate he had been enamored of Kant or Hegel!

Brian Leiter’s Nietzsche Blog: Obama and Nietzsche

More stuff at
Tumble & Fall, tag: Obama | Barack Obama's issues | Barack Obama's campaign blog

...and 5!

Sorry, but I'm currently at my Spanish blog, at twitter, at tumblr ...you name it!
Check the links above ;-)

4 years already!

Google Calendar just beeped me: it's 4 years since I started O.K.! O.K.!

I know I've neglected this blog, and am too busy tweeting away or frenetically adding blurred pics to Flickr, or having a beer or two with my friends, going to some concert -or even working!:P

I've mentioned this anniversary on my Spanish blog -with a parallel post, slightly different- and I can not resist the idea of recommending you, English readers to check out the great idea Papel Contínuo has had: they've compiled a CD worth of great '70s and '80s songs, plus a couple of current bands, related to ghoulish stories suitable for Halloween: Tonadillas para un Guateque de Jalogüín ;-)



See you soon, I hope, and have fun!

Happy Whatsitsname

...And a Really Happy 2007 to you all ;-)

Back to Basic (s?)

Over a year ago I found out which file extension I am. I'd swear I'd taken the Programming Language test too, but I may have drafted it soemwhere and left it fall into oblivion.

Tiem to find out which programming laungage I am today -as usual, I guess if I took the same test in a different mood, I'd have replied differently and become something more exciting... Though I DO love the GOTO:Hell idea ;-)

Which Programming Language are You?

By the way, I DID get to program in BASIC, way back in my teens. One of the two girls in the computer group at school :D

New error encountered

001 java.io.IOException: No space left on deviceblog/56/1/okokitsme/archives/2006_08_01_okokitsme_archive.html

... what?

Still alive

...but not kicking. Sick of football. Sorry, Mousey!

So what do you think about Beta?

Just wondering.

By the way, I can't migrate yet, would like to know from people who can.

AND... don't know what I typed in last night to do the Beta trial, I can't get back in today :(

Missy Pro Blogger, there I go again!

UPDATE: PROBLEM SOLVED!

Reminded me of Mary-Anne

As we share the same sign -Aries- I guess it must be applicable to her, too. I hardly ever read this subscription to a daily horoscope I have, but sometimes I do for laughs.

Hence today:

Dear Okok,
Here is your horoscope for Tuesday, July 25:

Some people need to ask permission -- unconsciously or consciously --
before they do anything. But, that impulse is totally foreign to your nature.

Higher forces and a much different agenda drive you.

And then you realised...

As usual, Scott Adams manages to make us laugh at something that usually pisses you off -let it be politics, let it be work conditions...

Adjusting to new job

It's been quite hard these last 10 days or so: had just started at one new job, not too well paid but high chances of a decent wage in three months' time. Importing tropical fruit, so I'd have a chance to work with many of the documents I'd studied about but had never actually used -FitoSanitary certificates and so on. But I had this offer from a medical investigation institute, not a high wage but a great atmosphere and an interesting job in an interesting environment.

I finally decided to move on to the institute, and am really exhilerated with having made my mind up -but have loads of work ahead, to get deep into the processes so I can start helping the coeditor of a scientific magazine with the editorship e-mails back and forth, among other loads of tasks!

Sorry to some of you trying to contact recently -am hardly touching my personal computer these days!

Erased your blog by mistake?

After seeing how many people at the Google Blogger Help Group are as silly as I was and manage to delete their blogs by mistake, and after making a way-too-long comment on Blogger for Dummies, a highly recommended place to get your blogging ABC, I decided to copy and paste the said comment I made, so as to make a post out of it and have it handy as a reference instead of going on and on and on at the Blogger Help Group about this matter.

The big news is this: Blogger CAN RESCUE your deleted blog.

It happened to me in February, while playing around with my Spanish*, much more active, blog Ok, ok, it's me!. As I was trying out a specially complicated hack I decided I'd open a new temporary blog to ruin completely, and not use the one I already have for template experiments... but when I had to copy part of my good blog and opened a new window to have both templates available at the same time, I should have felt that ominous feeling... which didn't come until the second after clicking the "erase" button. As my finger was on the down movement a pray the mouse would get stuck came instantly, when I saw the name on the bar...

At the time of deleting I had 455 posts -a tad too many for the cache rescue, which is what I frantically did while waiting for reply from Blogger. So I would like to encourge people to try this -although getting a grip of caches in the meanwhile is also reassuring:

OH NO! I DELETED MY BLOG!

1. Immediately, OPEN A NEW BLOG -under your same username- WITH THE SAME URL (the name you should see on the bar) of the deleted blog. This is VERY important, so that no-one can claim that URL on purpose or unknowing your problem. You can paste there your template, that should be saved as Peter explains every time you change it, and the cache versions of the latest posts, at least, and -in my case I did this- an explanatory post so that readers know why the archives etc are gone.
2. Before all the cache recovering and pasting, SEND AN E-MAIL TO BLOGGER SUPPORT explaining what has happened. You shall get an automatic reply within a day or two, but don't let that put you off: Blogger seems to have a centralized staff for the whole worldwide community, so they get rid of silly questions like that. REPLY TO THE AUTOMATIC E-MAIL YOU RECEIVED and state clearly what happened, that you erased your blog by mistake.
3. Now you can go through caches, cry and tear your hair out or write 10,000 times 'I shall not click on a button without reading it' while you wait for the next, personal, email you shall get from Blogger. A staff member shall contact you and ask a couple of questions but IT DOES TAKE A WEEK OR TWO -In my case, about two weeks. Once in touch with a Real Person, though, I got my whole blog back again, comments and all, and a warning that the new version i had done meanwhile to keep my URL would be replaced when I republished. So,
4. Make the temporary blog a new one, if you have been posting actively in the mean time, by modifying its URL before republishing. This way, you shall have your old blog, a new temp one to copy&paste posts from and a lesson learnt -one hopes!
   

Exchange of e-mails between Blogger Support and me -It finally happened!

* See Spanish version of this post here.

Don't worry,

I know it looks weird but am fiddling on the HTML.

You know how I do the "bit by bit" changes, so it'll take a while till I get it fine!

Living in a film...

Have you ever had that deja vu feeling, when watching a film? Or have you not stopped sometime in real life, thinking you should be running into Nicolas Cage any moment?

Haven't you ever felt like you're in the middle of...

• a Woody Allen film? -Yes, I studied Philosophy, like soooo many of the girls wondering around his films/plays...
• Also, when going through the n-th session of pseudo-analysis with The Guy, as he crawls into your bed and monologues about his guilt and his feelings for you
• an Almodovar film? -Yes, waaaay too many times ;) -no further comment !
• a Lynch film?- Yes, like when climbing up a roof to gey P. down, who was crawling higher and higher in a dazed slow motion
• a Spike Lee film? -God, yeah! Junkies in my flat, demanding me B.'s money, and dealers stalking me as they knew I was his woman!
• a French intellectual-talky film? -Often, when discussing Isa's problems and her fantasizing onlove triangles with her husband's best friend
• Saturday Night Fever? -Hahahahaaha yes, at Magic with N.!!!! ;)
• Saturday afternoon tv films? -Yes, as a struggling mother hiding from wicked ex and trying to make up for the lost father...
• Spanish 70's films? -Sometimes, when I encounter the Original Spanish Chuloplaya specimens -ask some Spanish speaker if you don't know the word!!!
• a Tarantino film? -Not yet! Ô_o
• Battle Royale? [Okok slowly walking away backwards, smiling, not losing eye contact] -no... I used to love my students!!!

Freedom in Blogdom

As I was aha-ing and ahum-ing to my bosses over the phone a moment ago, I checked Bloglines for my favourite feeds and bumped into this.

I'll quote the introduction:

Blogs have given individuals of any and every background the ability to freely speak their minds and share information with anyone who chooses to read it, at any time they wish to do so. Bloglines was created for people as a window to access this world of dynamic content and a way to participate in its creation. We believe blogs have helped enable an open exchange of information that has never before been possible. As some of you may have heard, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) is reviewing its regulations concerning political speech on the Internet, including blog activity. Bloglines is committed to the continuation of open exchanges of information and opinions throughout the blogosphere and the Internet in general. Today, the Committee on House Administration is having a hearing on this issue. In the spirit of these beliefs, I have provided the Committee with the following statement.

Follow the link to read the statement... and tell me once more that All Americans Are Bush

Fortunately, THEY ARE NOT ALL BLINDFOLDED REDNECKS.

Soon to come...

• Changes on the template. But when I have time to do it, and a secure pc... Am usin lousy cibers now because they are cheap, and sometimes they don't even warn you of your remaining time... You can guess the rest ;)
• Pics from my trip to Colera, nera Portbou... beautiful place, just waiting for my photos to develop ;)
• Dedication. There I go, I am feeling like coming back to this blog a bit more often again, so...

And, I hope, a few changes in my personal life. Am making my mind up -now it's a matter of actually going ahead with it!

My own fault

Here I am. Been messing around a bit too much these last few days, bad moods and tiredness being the excuse.

Now I had everything quite scheduled for the last three days before my holidays, and then...

I'm having to do this evening what I expected to do tomorrow in 5 hours. Because tomorrow morning I shall have a long, unexpected meeting, and then I'll have to help re-organize the last of our old filing system. And I had already scheduled tomorrow afternoon to go through everything my assistant shall have to do while I'm away, and see if my indications are clear and she understands what and when..

Yesterday I was quite happy thinking I had most of it seen to, I'm actually ahead of myself and have solved things due for next week and so on. Now I realize I should have taken more seriously those corny secretarial tips in the mags, and left twice or three times as much of my daily schedule free for The Unexpected!

Anyway, not going to post while camping :P but probably will do once am back.

C. U.!

Pisssssed off, I am

No, my assistant is not going to have her part of our task done in time.

I guess it shall all fall back on me, as I agreed on her taking two days off last week. But how the hell did she go onto doing this other shit for september, instead of our basic task to give in tomorrow???!!!

Am not correcting the partial ammendments, as there may be major changes still and it would be useless.

But, of course, the R. A. Officers are now freaking out because they can't cope with tables in Word, and are wasting so much time adjusting format that they are not progressing in the real work, compiling information in the tables.

Sometimes I do wish I could start off some new Church. Talk people into my knowledge, get them to see me. Remember, Mary-Anne?