Interesting post at Stephen's blog about worldwide trends. Worth reading.
The problem of interoperability
Bought an Apple AirPort Express to connect my laptop with my stereo to listen music and at the same time be able to browse the web. Since I have a Fonera router for using my network and sharing it with others (not that anybody has actually connected as I live in the middle of nowhere), I thought it would be easy to have them talk to each other and to my PC… how wrong I was!
After 3 hours of fiddling with the different settings I got it all working and now I'm happy listening to music without any wires in the way. However, it got me wondering about the good old problem of interoperability. Even when following the same standards, it is ridiculous things wouldn't work because of an arcane problem between WPA/WPA2 implementations in the two routers. I guess there is still plenty of work to be done.
Recommended Book: A short history of nearly everything
Finished reading this book last week but had no time to post about it. Highly enjoyable. What I liked the most was not his handling of facts (after all, the writer is not a scientist himself) but the way he wove together the histories of the discoveries and the personal biographies of the scientist involved.
Huono suomenkielenkäyttö
OK, tiedän että joskus en puhu suomea hyvin, mutta kyllä voin hyvin nähdä että tämä nettikauppa on käännetty väärin. Jos todella haluaa nauraa etsii toimitusehdot alhaalta.
Hassuin on, että englannin- sekä espanjankielenkäännökset ovat niin huonot kuin suomenkielisen.
FIFA date wrap-up
Finland 0-0 Belgium
Finland has almost performed seppuku, with its hopes to qualify to the Euro 2008 needing nothing short of a miracle. Two goals were ruled out for offside, one correctly, the other not.
Mexico 2-2 Nigeria
The senior team played against the Africans in Ciudad Juárez, and after going down 1-0, they ended up tying 2-2. A very interesting game.
Finland 0-0 Spain
In the commemoration of the centennary of the Finnish Football Association, both teams played a rather passive game in rather cold conditions. Nothing to play for and Finland’s 4th 0-0 tie in a row.
Mexico 2-3 Guatemala
A wrestling rather than a football match, with 2 players per side sent off, and the under-23’s giving a not-so-nice year end’s present to Hugo Sánchez, Mexico coach.
In case you got tired of your Facebook friends
You can now add your enemies too! Hilarious.
Social Networks of all sizes and purposes
Was reading the Groundswell blog and found a series of different online communities for all sorts of different purposes. One that definitely caught my eye was Design your portion of the border fence, where people are invited to submit designs for graffitti that would be placed on the American or Mexican sides of the barrier the U.S. government is building between the U.S. and Mexico.
Definitely a creative way to raise awareness of a current issue.
What a difference two weeks make!
I wrote before that Chivas sacked their previous coach "Chepo" de la Torre and put Efraín Flores in charge. With the same men, my team has not lost a game since and just trashed Necaxa 5-1 last night.
Besides deciding to bring the game to the opposite team instead of playing only on the counter, he has shown great vision in giving more responsibility to youngster Sergio "Gauchito" Ávila. The kid has answered with some great performances and determination to seize his opportunity. Now let's hope he does what is expected of him as Sergio Santana hasn't been that good playing in the hole between the strikers.
If you travel a lot
It might be a good idea to use Dopplr. Interesting, simple concept: write down where are you going to be and share with people that need to know. They even have a Facebook app/plugin.
Hamburg
Had I not gone to Finland to study, I would have ended up in Hamburg. After all this time, I finally had the opportunity to visit the city. It was interesting to have a glimpse about how different would my life now be For starters, I wouln’t speak Finnish nor be married with my wife, but would probably have much better German language skills. I would have probably adapted to German culture instead. Those details would have made a rather different me (or maybe not).
In short, you build your life every day, so try to make it the best it can be.