For any of you who may have bumped into a FAT RED warning message when visiting this web site, or who may have seen a “this web site could harm your computer” message from Google search results… Fear no more. I have spent numerous hours this weekend repairing all the damage that a mass hacker [...]
Posted: Mon, July 26th, 2010 at 12:44 am
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With only a couple of slow days after the hectic month I’ve had, my brain is starting to play its typical games… Those where it tries to make me feel guilty for not being busy, for not being immersed on accomplishing something, for not tackling the items on my To–do–when–I’m–not–busy list… Only after TWO miserable [...]
Posted: Thu, January 21st, 2010 at 5:42 pm
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This comes from my days at business school… Whenever it was time to study for final exams, I used to get this unstoppable urge to clean. I’d start with the bathroom, then with the rest of the apartment. It was a huge surprise when I learned that I wasn’t the only one with such crazy [...]
Posted: Sat, March 21st, 2009 at 3:25 am
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A little over a year ago, when I was a free, childless, freelance web designer, I had plenty of time to do things like: Encrypt my style sheets so plagiarists wouldn’t have such an easy ride with my portfolio site Put and manage traps to find out when somebody downloaded my portfolio site with a [...]
Posted: Sun, January 4th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
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After three years of doing this, our e-Christmas Card has become sort of a tradition many of our people have come to expect. I’ve always loved receiving people’s Holiday cards and letters telling us about their year. When we got married, Joey wanted us to join the tradition, but I’ve never thought I’m a very [...]
Posted: Wed, October 22nd, 2008 at 9:19 pm
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Ahhh… The beauty of candid home videos… Since Joaquin was born I’ve been shooting several short videos of him with my very old digital camera. The main purpose of these is to help us remember all the cute little things he does before he stops doing them, and then of course to share life action [...]
Posted: Thu, February 21st, 2008 at 12:04 am
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An “ad whore”… That’s the latest sutileza from my dear husband. He’s called me that a few times over the last few days, and specially when I told him how much money I’ve earned in advertising revenue since I began the evil experiment. Well, he’s not interested in my explanations, but now that you all [...]
Posted: Tue, October 9th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
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I guess the novelty (not the joy) of blogging has finally started to wind down, but after over a year of having started Mafe Maria, I’m finding myself caring less and less about how many feed subscriptions this site has. For one, I am not sure that all 21 subscribers currently reported by FeedBurner are [...]
Posted: Thu, September 20th, 2007 at 11:46 am
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Oh yeah… Some time this week Mafe Maria has turned one year old, and an enthusiastic “Spanish” song is in order: Japi verdei tu yu… Japi verdei tu yu… Japi verdei Mafecitaaaaa… Japi verdei tuuuuu yuuuuuu About a year ago I began writing publicly — and secretly. Today, on my best day, FeedBurner reports 29 [...]
Posted: Sun, March 18th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
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—Why are you making that culo face? —[silence] —What’s wrong??? Are you mad at me? Have I done something wrong??? —My server is down again. I can’t work —Again?… Seems like you need to change hosting companies… —I can’t. Media Temple is supposed to be THE BEST —Oh —Yeah [back to culo face] What are [...]
Posted: Tue, December 5th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
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I’m not one of those insatiable designers who redesign and reboot compulsively only for the pleasure of creative change. As the pure ISTJ that I am, behind everything I do, I must always begin with a reason why and some concrete goals to direct my work. Without such direction I just get lost and don’t [...]
Posted: Thu, November 2nd, 2006 at 1:43 pm
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Documenting some sort of epiphany in my process as a visual designer… I’m not sure of how long the thought will last, so it’s important to quickly write it down to remind myself… before I continue producing poopoo designs for my own use. It’s true. When it comes to doing any design work for mafemaria.com, [...]
Posted: Thu, October 26th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
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