November 2011
Inseguridad aumenta en Jose Ignacio Uruguay
Queridas Inmobiliarias y amigos de Jose Ignacio, No se si estarán al tanto que han vuelto a entrar ladrones en nuestra casa del pueblo (“La Casa del Arbol”) durante la madrugada del Domingo pasado. Ya habían entrado en Agosto, cuando la casa estaba vacía y se llevaron una televisión plasma del living y todos los DVDs que había en la biblioteca. Ahora entraron con los inquilinos...
My impressions of Nokia's Lumia 800 with WP
I am testing a Nokia Lumia 800 that I got thanks to Hans Peter Brondmo a friend at Nokia. It is a beautiful phone. My favorite hardware right now, even better than an HTC, Samsung or iPhone in terms of look and feel. One hardware drawback though is the lack of a front facing camera which is not Nokia’s fault but Microsoft’s. The Nokia Lumia 800 feels pretty solid, whatever material is made of...
Tax fuel at the pump, balance the budget, and save...
In this time of huge deficits in Europe and USA a possible solution that I see that could address deficits, CO2 emissions and energy independence is the following one:
Each country should publicly announce that whatever the price of oil per barrel is in the next decade, consumers will pay for gasoline/diesel what they now pay plus a 10% annual increase that will go to the government to pay down...
What Southern Europe needs is not Austerity, it’s...
What each Southern European country needs now is not to spend less. Spending less alone will only exacerbate the recessions and make the countries insolvent, default and leave the euro. This is true even if the cuts in spending are made in areas in which today there is corruption and waste: less spending leads to less consumption and so on. Austerity, if it’s used as the only medicine, could have...
From Reed Hastings to all Netflix customers,...
How I would halt Europe's economic woes
If I were Germany and the Northern European countries that do well with the euro, and do not have spreads against Germany, I would tell all the countries that need rescuing, particularly Italy and Spain and in a smaller proportion Greece and Portugal, that Europe will guarantee their sovereign debt but in exchange they have to cut spending where it hurts less. One area that can easily endure...
Tumblr in an iPad
Tumblr as most self expression platforms originally designed for the web is vertical in nature. But the iPad is not vertical. It swipes sideways. It is pinched. You go in and to the side, not down. I wonder if Tumblr should be reconsidered in a totally different way to work on an iPad.
If you criticize Apple and work at Apple you get... →