2008

Robots love Punk music. http://tinyurl.com/5vefmb

Do you know that Apple designer Jonathan Ive designed the character of Eve in the Wall-E...

Drinking a beer at my local pub with my friend B.

Next friday 3G Apple iPhone hits the streets. Can’t wait for Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and Sony...

Preparing old school English muffins for lunch, yummy.

Buddy Chub: My new fiend Buddy Chub from Malfi gang.

Redesigning our website with a clean and simple interface. Looks really great. Stay tune for the...

Taking two days off, I need to clear my mind to be ready for the upcoming work.

Why Aerolines are so greedy ? I’m dreaming a bout a “passenger focused”...

Great Django how-to by the webmonkey gang. http://tinyurl.com/6qfn4o

I’m thinking to release our service code as open source, but I’m still not sure.

In a busy morning phone calling and emailing.

“And we would go on as though nothing was wrong. And hide...”
— Ian Curtis.

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Tempranillo: Last night Spanish red wine.

Doing maintenance stuff on production servers, and chilling on identi.ca.

It’s official, Firefox 3 set a new Guinness record. http://tinyurl.com/5v6p4h

Twitters is still the king of micro blogging services but identi.ca can take it over with an open...

Going to supermarket for some goods. By the way, I like the new improved service of WalMart’s...

Boop n’ Beep: Boop n’ Beep for the ugly doll...

Today we are rewiring the office for faster network access. :)

Going to see Antony Corbin’s Control movie. I like it so much.

Drinking a glass of Spanish red wine, so fresh with a soft taste.

Reading again Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink. Do you like this book ?

The countdown for 3G iPhone begins. Are you planning to get one ?

Why some Twitters are a copy-paste version of other Twitters ?

Pownce can’t do math. http://tinyurl.com/6en9y7

Bad math.: Pownce can’t do math, 3 is not 6, for god...

Help the planet, turn off your computer when you are not using it, you can save 40 watt-hours per...

I like coffee a lot and a good espresso more. This is the...

A call for action for Freedom and Privacy in the cloud. http://tinyurl.com/6obmq3

If you like French cinema you must see Du poil sous les roses, good and fun movie about the...

What do you like more, Digital Magazines or Paper Magazines ?

Sunday is the perfect day for Python and Django hacking.

This summer is so hot, I need something very, very cold.

“There has to be more to the Web 2.0 story than accessorizing...”
— Mark Sigal

Our new coolest micro blogging platform is taking form and function on Google’s...

I feel the entire social web comply with Pareto principle: 20% value 80% crap.

Thoughts about Lean and Agile development by Martin Fowler. http://tinyurl.com/5y8g4q

We know about mobility, we are the wireless operations specialist’s! I need an espresso for...

Jagermeister: El maestro yerbero, Jagermeister. A very, very...

Doing a business proposal for enterprise mobile services integration for a top U.S. insurance...

HOW! ZipCar turn from a little Cambridge start-up into a $100 million company in only 8 years....

Jubii web interface is not working with Safari on Leopard. I hope the Jubii crew fix this soon.

Designing a MB platform in the cloud with these premises: Availability, Simplicity and Scalability....

Watching the Google’s AppEngine conference on Structure 08 conference. There is no news about...

What do you think of Open Source Innovation? Not only software or hardware but research, algorithms,...

Great news! Mr. Scalability a.k.a Jeff Bezos supports Twitter. http://tinyurl.com/59ycfz

Time to go for a soy latte to my local coffee shop. I’m saying no to Starbucks boringness.

illy : I love illy coffee.

Scaling Ruby on Rails to one billion, yes one...

The wisdom of crowds by Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales. http://tinyurl.com/4zwyg

Drinking BubbleYum flavored soda, one hundred percent bubble gum taste.

I need a 250 GB FireWire Hard Drive, some suggestions ?

Amazon S3 plus SmugMug equals SmugVault. http://tinyurl.com/3tbemt

Hydration : For good body hydration in the mornings, I...

Preparing a live demo of our distributed mobile messaging platform for user real time anywhere...

Social networks are not a good business option … yet. http://tinyurl.com/5ntmsy

1:50 PM drinking another cup of coffee, I don’t want to drink more caffeine but I can’t...

Home Tweet Home, awesome photo essay of Twitter HQ featuring @ev , enjoy it before they move to a...

Monday, an awesome week begins. Lots of cool things to do. One is the new micro blog platform...

Anker Beer: Belgian blond beer, Anker so fresh and light.

The new Sony Ericsson 8.1 megapixel Cybershot mobile phone looks awesome. http://tinyurl.com/6nqjgz

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Confusion in her eyes that says it all. She’s lost control. And she’s clinging to the...

Sundown: Nostalgic Monterrey sundown

HelloTXT announce “bidirectional” service. Now we can “read” our friends...

Nikon Capture NX2, photo editing made easy. http://capturenx.com

Who would kick ass, Firefox or Explorer ? http://tinyurl.com/6yk7oz

For all footie fans. Footbo is here.

Great news, Java is now free and open! http://tinyurl.com/5ok83g

Seventeen mistakes start-ups make according to John Osher. http://tinyurl.com/62ykvg

Wingware is an integrated development environment for Python with native Django, Pylons and...

My Caffeine Test: OMG! today I’m insanely high...

Today I had a meeting with board members of a top US bank and now I know why mobile bank...

Sundown: Wonderful, Mexico City sundown.

Vampire Weekend MySpace Transmissions.

The new MySpace website redesign looks good, improved usability and faster load time. Good job guys....

Eating cinnamon Teddy Grahams mini. This cookies are so funny.

“Don’t build websites that make it easier to do something...”
— Jakob Lodwick

Firefox 3 download day, get this amazing browser today and help to set a new Guinness record....

And old one, The eighteen mistakes that kill startups. http://tinyurl.com/w76mt

Pylons is an awesome clean and lightweight Python web framework. http://pylonshq.com/

Another Windows Vista problem: Ninety-two percent of developers ignoring it....

The new E Series Nokia mobile phone.

New business focused mobile phone by Nokia, the shiny slider E66. Check the promo on Ovi....

Cube: A cube of light at Mexico City

Learning Google’s datastore infrastructure, there are some things that I’m missing from...

Algorithms in Java, book review. http://tinyurl.com/55node

Great thoughts about startups. http://tinyurl.com/6hnwzk

Yahoo! is going to run Google AdSense ads in his content and search strategy....

So great! Yahoo! is no longer in discussion with Microsoft for a deal. http://tinyurl.com/6cb6a7

Be ready, Firefox 3 is coming. Tuesday, June 17th.

S100: Pantech S100 mobile phone. 2007 iF Design Gold Award...

Testing the mobile browser of the S100 phone on twitter.Works perfect.

Playing with Pantech S100 mobile phone, by the way, this phone has earned 2007 iF Design Gold...

DF Old Flat: My old flat in Mexico City. Lovely afternoons...

The Firefox religion by Blake Ross. http://tinyurl.com/yvrnjy

Drinking natural yogurt with a sponge vanilla Twinkie. Love it.

“… for the 99% of the world who don’t shop at Bang...”
— Blake Ross, Firefox founder.

Jun 14 : Google on Scalability

Jun 23 : Google Developer Day

Jun 25 : Structure 08

Jul 21-25 : Open Source Convention

Nov 8-10 : FOWA 08

Two laws for social media startups.

Metcalfe’s Law.The usefulness of a network improves by the square of the number of nodes on...

Random Things: Random things from yesterday’s...

Apple’s reality distortion field is over us again. http://tinyurl.com/6hjbla

According to WorkLight people between the ages of 18 and 34 wants to interact with their financial...

Cherry Coke: One of my favorites soft drinks, Diet Cherry...

Customizing the 1 GB Black MOTOSLVR L7 with cool background images and traveling tunes.

The bad thing about Apple’s new iPhone is the poor resolution digital camera and not video...

Mexican iPhone: iPhone arrives to Mexico July 11th

Wow! 3G iPhone is here, 199 usd for 8GB , 299 usd for 16 GB and it will available July 11th...

MobileMe is going to replace Apple’s dot Mac service. 3G iPhone is here, faster, thinner and...

Apple is one of the worst tech companies in material recycling and energy consumption. Steve Jobs...

Al Gore is in WWDC, I hope Steve Jobs is considering a serious environmental effort for Apple.

Apple Stores are down world wide! Cool things are coming.

It’s Monday! Live coverage of WWDC 2008 at http://tinyurl.com/4mag3d

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
— Alan Kay

Kool-Aid: I love grape Kool-Aid.

Doing maintenance stuff in production servers and drinking Lone Star beer because is so hot today...

The new MOTOROKR website is ON. http://rokrmusic.com/mx/

APIs are so Web 2.0 and boring so we are going to implement @microformats for realtime access to our...

An excellent article about Python thread and queue programming. http://tinyurl.com/6kc5dc

Configuring Eve on Google Apps for AppEngine custom integration.

Today Twitter is not helping me to recruit more users to the service.

Trying to convince my friend carlitos to use Twitter. But he is so skeptic about Twitter benefits....

MacBook: My new black MacBook is ready to rock.

Today carlitos and I talked about the Eve service implementation and we decide to use AppEngine over...

The bird is doing his homework, Twitter availability and response times. http://tinyurl.com/4esb56

I do not like the progress bar when you sing in the new Gmail version. Hey Google dudes, you must...

Installing Python 2.5.2 and NetBeans 6.1 on OS X 10.5.3.

My new MacBook just arrived. So happy to use Mac OS again. Bye, bye, Linux laptop. :)

Traditional Beer: Special edition Carta Blanca Mexican Beer...

I do not like Facebook’s closed approach to social networking, I’m using less the site....

Watching Mexico vs Argentina football game. Go Mexico, go!

NetBeans and Ruby are an awesome programming duo. http://tinyurl.com/6ewd6t

Good news for the planet, BBVA Bancomer bank is going to build green offices in Mexico City....

The new Tim O’Reilly’s buzz world is Ambient Computing. :P

Listening Second Coming album by The Stone Roses, Ian Brown is a music magician.

Google on Motofone: Google services on the super minimal...

Nokia Prism series arrives to Mexico. http://europe.nokia.com/prism

Are you in a software startup ? Maybe you should move to New York City. http://nycseed.com/

According to Bloomberg the mayor U.S. banks cut 34,443 jobs since July of 2007. This global bank...

Microsoft is going to release this June 10th a special...

Unofficial shell for Google at http://goosh.org/

Ten good UNIX usage habits. http://tinyurl.com/6jep22

Digg: What is happening today ? Digg is down too!

Mobile Web revenues can reach $22.4bn by 2013, driven by user generated content and social...

Blogspot: Google’s blog hosting service is down this...

Brightkite can become in the next generation social network without all of the implicit noise of the...

Any social media service is superficial if your close friends are not in it.