Super Enalotto scam arrives home
Today I have received a letter from Italy. The letter was properly addressed to me: my name was correct, so the address. I am surprisingly a winner of €970,000.00! wow I am rich!
The letter was sent from Italy and it comes with a form I should fill in with my bank details and address. A supposed lawyer company called “Studio legale Anna Giovanna de Italia” wants me to authorize them to claim for my money and give them a 10% of the prize in exchange. Nice try! There’s even a phone number and a fax number. Should I call? ;)
Apparently, there are many cases of scam via Email. Although it makes a big difference when the spammer sends you a physical “love letter” correctly addressed to you. I had to read it twice. WTF?
Soon we’ll need Google to install spam filters in our house doors. Quite annoying…
New restore session interface in Firefox 3.5.4
Firefox lets you choose which tabs to restore. Specially useful when one website is causing your browser to crash. Nice one!
I’ll be there
It is not common to find good and tasty design when talking about internet service provider (ISP) websites. At least, in my experience in Spain and Germany during last 10 years I found them to be outdated, confusing and a way too complex.
After my move to London and after waiting quite long for a BT telephone line, I could finally sign up with Be there. I did choose them because instead of offering annoying free web space and free mail accounts, they do offer serious features such static IP(s) and nice upload speeds at a fair price. But I did also choose them because their website looks different. In fact, it looks great! It takes you a second to understand their products , see the current promotion and realize that they have a user group and forum. And, come on, we all like wearing a nice pair of shoes! ;)
Just after signing up, I logged in and saw a nice “widget” in the sidebar that tells me where my order is. That is just an example of lots of the details that makes the BE website a great user experience.
In less than a week, here I am, already connected to the broadband and enjoying of really high speeds.
Thanks to one user in the BE tech-wiki, I could set up in a minute the BE box in bridge mode (modem-only) so I can use my own router. This was unfortunately not possible by default. Anyway, great to have a user community with clever people on it!
It is too soon to evaluate the connection service and I can’t compare it to other providers in the UK anyway. But if I compare it to my recent experience in Germany, specially the painful 1 und 1 (be aware of an eye shock if you click this), I feel like in heaven now.
Who said that ISP websites had to be annoying and useless? Someone here decided to BE different.
London reboot. The jocabola splash!
Back in 2002, I made the tough decision to leave my natal city, Barcelona, and moved to Berlin. It was November, and I left my friends and 20 °C. In these more than six years I met great friends (I miss them) and grew up professionally (I am thankful). I met Hugo and I co-founded an awarded studio called Mocoro. I got married with a Serbian woman and had a memorable lunch celebration in a great Italian Hostaria. I regularly deejayed at Das Hotel although I suck at deejaying (that was great fun).
After a long meditation, we decided to make a move to London some months ago and we finally got installed in White Chapel, quite close to the City.
Along with the move, Jocabola is experiencing a deserved relaunch: new server and a temporary splash page. This page is a metaphoric screensaver, a slideshow of highlighted work until the real thing launches.
I am also starting up a new business adventure together with Juan Romero. Keep tuned!
Oh, I almost forgot! Jocabola is finally on Twitter. It took me quite long ;)
HTML5 Canvas meets Processing
