La incompentencia tecnólogica absoluta
[es] Life and stuff	microsoft, chile, banana-republic, c1, 2007-07-24

Era solo un cuestión de tiempo. La incompetencia generalizada de la clase político Chileno llego a las puertas de los Informáticos.

Para los que aún no saben. En infinito inteligencia el ministerio de economía otorgo, sin licitación publica alguna, muchos beneficios especiales a Microsoft para que esta empresa ejecuta proyectos de varios tipos en Chile.

Los detalles están muy bien explayado en el blog "El Francotirador". Básicamente se trate que:


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Santiago center observations
[en] Life and stuff	people, santiago, chile, 2007-04-24

When walking around the center of Santiago today, I couldn't notice how different the population there is from the more affluent areas of the City I'm normally at.


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Are the Bees introuble?
[en] Life and stuff	technology, environment, CCD, 2007-04-15

Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious 'colony collapse' of bees

Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? - Independent Online Edition > Wildlife

Maybe more interesting is the fact that there seem to be mayor problems with the bee colonies lately. And since bees polonize many of the staple food crops of the world. Well, that could mean a heap of trouble. In the wikipedia article it's noted that there is a lack of investigation into the effects that GM crops have on the bee population. Maybe a good idea to do some more research.

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Americans are NOT stupid
[en] Life and stuff	education, banana-republic, 2007-04-12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE

'Nuff said!

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Leaving the Job
[en] Life and stuff	work, job, great-plains, project, 2007-04-06

Almost precisely a month ago I decided I'd had had enough.

On that day, a month ago, they broke me. I couldn't take it anymore. At last, I realized that my current job was bad for me, both mentally and physically.

I guess that upper management never considered that they might loose their entire IT team to a badly conceived project.
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Bush team takes heat over global warming science
[en] Life and stuff	global-warming, censorship, banana-republic, 2007-03-21

The Bush administration has been meddling in climate research in a bid to downplay the importance of global warming, according to a memo released by the US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

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The new protocultura photo
[en] Life and stuff	trekking, pochoco, meta, 2007-03-18

The "lonely-bird" is dead. I changed it for a picture I took from the top of the "Pochoco" mountain (+1800M) here in central Chile.

The mountain isn't all that high or difficult to climb, but once you are on top, it's an amazing view at the rest of the Andes Mountain range. There you realize how big it really is.

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Got a working PC again.
[en] Life and stuff	hardware, computer, 2007-03-18

After 2 months of suffering serious withdrawal symptoms, i can feed my need once again. I got my main PC working again. The old board had fried, reducing it to a really acomplished 'beep', 'beep', 'beep' generator.

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Interesting math discussion.
[en] Life and stuff	education, math, chile, netherlands, c1, 2007-03-07

There is a very interesting discusion going-on on youtube (first time I see "inteligent use" of this media). It's about how to do to teach Math. concerned parents, math teachers and university profesors each have made a comentary about this issue. Very interesting stuff.

Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth

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Inzichten en Uitzichten over integratie
[nl] Life and stuff	nederland, immigratie, 2007-03-04

Na nu meer dan 5 jaar in Zuid-America te wonen, ben ik vrij ver geïntegreerd hier. Misschien daardoor zie ik het immigratie debat dat in Europa gaande is met iets andere ogen.

Je wordt aangekeken op dat waarin je verschild van je omgeving, niet in de manier waarop je gelijk bent. Waar je anders in bent, dat wordt door de omgeving benadrukt. Maar dat betekend ook dat je je steeds meer gaat identificeren met het anders zijn. Ik ben me nu veel meer bewust van mijn "Nederlands" zijn dan toen ik in Nederland wonde.


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