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to blog or not to blog

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

It’s mainly due to uncle Bob Martin’s twit on how lame we as a society become in terms of not speaking our minds due to unreasonable extreme politeness that I decided  stop procrastinating and write.

It is said we shouldn’t be talking or writing about politics, religion, abortion, drug legalization, gender changing, or other society sensible issue  if you want to keep friends.

When it comes to opinionated Ruby programming code bloging is more complicated. My friends and I can become quite judgmental and hurt mutual feelings, but friends are mine to keep as I love them and they probably do back.

I stand as a democrat but when it comes to guns, abortion and economy I divert from some of the core values.

In other venue of things I am not a mac nor a PC, but a Linux, with Ubuntu as my preferred distro. And btw, a vim rather than an emacs.
That said, Write on!

Keep tuned for more coming soon.

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Hello this is before

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after

It takes $700Bn to learn what not to do with $700Bn

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

The bailout money buys from troubled financial companies bad assets that no one in its sane mind would buy. This is a survival ticket for the companies in bad shape. But when the worries are about credit, there is no way to guaranty that credit will exist because of saving the bad companies.

In a nutshell, the banks go like “thanks for buying this crap from me, I am not broken now. But I will be cautious about lending, and I won’t to those with poor credit”.

So, what are we solving, the bank bankruptcies or the credit chain? Yes, the first option only.

The right use of bailout money would be let the banks sink, and ensure that a pool of money exists to finance home buyers.

Got Openmoko Neo-Freerunner!

Friday, July 4th, 2008

A great linux device, and the envy of those brickable iphones from the fruit brand.

http://us.direct.openmoko.com

Got GL1100

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

It’s an old GL1100 ‘81 that needs some repair to be optimal,

stay tuned for the repair chronicles,

moto.jpg

Do you get what you pay for?

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Interestingly enough, this study shows how the quality perception changes according to price,

http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9849949-39.html?tag=newsmap 

 

It is clear that the phrase was coined by some smart marketeer to justify expensive prices.

 

I’d be better with:

 

“you get what you choose for”

 

And then:

 

“you pay for what you choose”

 

 

Couldn’t be happier,

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Just purchased, and donated, one XO or one laptop per child laptop. Mine (or my children’s one, better said) will arrive someday in January. Manouk is waiting for it so he can join me at the next NMGLUG linux meeting.

more linux please

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

As apple has its own brand=OS match, I would like to see the same in the Linux world,
Some emergent company whose function is to put hardware together (and their specific drivers) which will work seamlessly with Linux installations.
A success waiting to be real.

predictions

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

About Google’s Os, gOS, on 2004 moded a mere 1 on /.