Dec 31
2005

Yesterday I had a very interesting night, I came back from the wedding of my friend where I saw the older version of my generation. We all had our friends and lives yet is odd how some pople are living now and well still somehow everything still remain the same.

Same people same places and sometimes same lifestyles. Not that is bad, this people are having lots of fun, and yeah they are well connected to don\’t have many worries. Yet, I wonder how hollow are they and if thats any issue to them.

I would love to see how they see me… Mr International, I have broken the spell and live a lifestyle most people have no idea I would. Basically I have been blessed yet at the end things are still the same and well as I am not the party goer, not really the greatest dancer and animator of the party most people want to do business with me which is refreshing. Respect and security is something that I am grateful to still mantain among my friends.

We all have our lives, we all like development of our skills and show off what we have and hide what we lack, play the game of appearances sometimes despise it and yet at the same time we have a rush about it.

Wonder what will th next year will bring to all my friends, and I wonder if I really wanna be there to see it or not.



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Dec 28
2005

So it has been hard to find people with vcf, vcf means Virtual Card File, they are usually called vCard o vContact, however this is one of the most known standards of the industry. Palm embraced the VCF format and pump the end user desire to use vcf as a virtual business card.

Acording to wikipedia:

vCard is a file format standard for personal data interchange, specifically electronic business cards.
The vCard or Versitcard was originally proposed in 1995 by the Versit consortium, which consisted of Apple Computer, AT&T (later Lucent), IBM and Siemens. In December 1996 ownership of the format was handed over to the Internet Mail Consortium, a trade association for companies with an interest in Internet e-mail.

With devices multiple applications having a PIM a standard is necesary since the contact database might not be very friendly to systems. For that reason most clients use the vcard, clients such as Evolution, Outlook, Eudora, Palm Calendar/Contact, Kontact, even older apps like Gnome-Cal, and web applications such as Horde, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail etc.

I recently inherit a palm device and I have been tweaking with it ever since, the first thing I tried to do was import my contact database, unfortunately the vcards are not all updated and having a logic of what should update first so data is not lost could be a pretty tricky mission.

That\’s when I realize I need to update my contact database, I mostly have techie contacts so I was very surprise when most people didn\’t even know what is a vericard (vCard). Is really odd specially since most of my contacts are international, from Mexico, to US to UK to Romania, none have a vCard.

I bet that most of them if not all have a client like Evolution, Thunderbird, or Horde, Yahoo or something similar. Yet nobody have their contact information.

This is pretty important since we wanted to have the best networking possible yet not many people use this already existing standards.



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Dec 18
2005

Cellphones is the most rapidly spread technology out there, however diversity in mexico has drop. I left mexico with the hope that the market was opening to new providers. However comming back to Mexico I see that most competitors have left the playground to the cellphone monopoly. Both iusacell and movistar are struggling against telcel. Funny enough their service is the worst most expensive out there. The lack of standard support, vendor lockin and dismisal of trends like the internet sounds way too similar to our PC monopoly under M$.

So how this affects me? Well is completely impossible to get my cellphone activated. Movistar has completely been removed from the malls and spaces and most employees don\’t know anything about their services.

This is a huge struggle and really a bad service which might be one of the points why the carriers have been defeated completely from the city. Coverage is also another of the concerns however I dont think coverage is that bad when people dont leave the city. Interesting seen how this things develop over time.



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Dec 18
2005

Finally I got the chance to blog about my experience back to mexico. I have mixed feelings, I have enjoyed myself here but it hasnt been something I was looking forward. I now have a set of goals and the urgency to develop.

Starting to develop a business is always challenging and paying attention to details is even more challenging. When you are doing a lot of things on the internet is hard to move to the analog country and do business off-line. Is a diferent magic and is definetly something that will take time to master.

So what too look forward, Xmass and family, is different this time around, my sis and bro already drive and they spend a lot of time out. With me also spending time like that, I have to compete for the car and also time in/out of house.

The nice part was when I land in cancun and it was just a beautiful day and to my surprise I found an empty cancun with really nice beach and great calm sea coast. The only problem was that some hotels were partially destroyed, the pools were empty or with seawater and the whole scenario look pretty bad. The most surprise came with the completely empty beaches, I was like the whole city was empty and it was just me and nobody else. The weather was gorgeous and the feeling of just me and the ocean was relaxing and amaizing about sometimes the things u take for granted.

I will love to see how things turn out and will love to see what else will come in the future.



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Dec 11
2005

I came to an interesting realization about business it kind of make sense but at the same time doesnt. Business is about people, calling people, meeting people, selling to people and mailing/faxing people.

With more communication infrastructure like VoIP, emails and cheap airflights, making global business is not as hard. However sticking with a schedule of meeting people selling to people and also haivng an accounting of the contacts is proven to be a very important task.

Having said that I wonder how will this sales tools and networking skills might make me actually earn money. Meaning that I will be able to get business and make business for others. I have come to the simple realization that technology should be replaced by solutions and earning time and worries to costumers usually comes even farther than just selling/installing and trainning busineses. The skill to integrate and just take most of the process from the clients is really what end users are expecting. Ease of deployment and great costumer service can go a long way but is expensive and this service is what really needs to be organized so that margins keep growing.



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Dec 9
2005

When the emcees came to live out the game, and to perform…

That was the sound of the time when the true emcee was on top things on the rap game, way before bling bling, playa playa and all that soft, fantasy life.

The time where the streets were literally was carring the lyrics on their walls and the tube was just a notebook of an era.

You can read our history sprayed on the concrete tunnel

After so long I see coming back to his trone with the magic and the technique of a hip hop veteran laying down the powerful lyrics, from a more artistic era.

\"GZA\"/.



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Dec 8
2005

God today was a sentimental day, the way it went from the second I open up my eyes till it was way late into the night. I went from sadness to pain, to frustration to sadness and love and desperation and frustration again.

The most frustrating part is the path we have ahead it seems like we can\’t see the end of the path and is so easy just to drift away and well try to be happy living without each other. Is a decision I need to make, I guess is the ultimate test. Can I wait that long, can I just be happy without her? Do I want to be misserable until I see her again.

I can see clearly that I am feeling misserable hoping to see her and that no happiness is true happiness wtihout her. So my point is should I conform with this state of mind? Do I have alternatives. Can I move on? What would i loose if I do?

All this doubts, feelings and awareness is basically what give me back to the question, can she be the one that can pull this off. Being a relationship I guess I have no power over the other person. And she faces the same questions, plus she has a whole liife infront of her while me, well I do to but at the same time I already live a lot like this and move on a lot before.

The fear of loosing her if she decided to choose to move on will hurt me, but i guess I will survive. But the feeling of waiting for her and then she changing her mind is even more scary since well.. I guess I dont want to put myself in that position.

All in all the way I felt those doubts today were actually afecting me really bad, extasy and grief combine and at the same time I realize how unpowerful I am to just fix things. I cnat fix eveyrthing and at the same time I can screw everything so easily.

I guess the answer I can find is love, no reason, no logic, no hope but just love and yeah faith too. If I can just have faith in love I guess love will find a way and we will find a way. Is hard cuz like many people will say, there is no right or wrong in love. Moving on is not a crime, even if it feels for the other, but also true love is hard to move on, even when u think u did, it will come back and hit u like a huricane wind.

\"let
Let our hands hold on and resist time.



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Dec 1
2005

Lately I have been listening to a lot of this Web 2.0 wave as the new rich internet applications generate a modularized information transport the static front into a dynamic one. This makes websites get into behaving more like desktop applications, at the same time, desktop applications have the potential to become more web-awrare. The veins of the back end is XML-RPC/SOAP and similar transmissions that connect to the different datasources.

The Office space can benefit for this quick exchange of information and become more web-aware. I define web-aware as an application that extend their normal pre-design options to be extendable through web-resources without being completely dependant. An example could be the Impress templates where you have 2 or 3 sample templates + the ones you generate, a 3rd one will be an option that resides on the net like OpenTemplates which you can access directly from your OOo interface and retrieve the latest templates.

Here are some mockups of a web-aware OpenOffice.org suite:

  • Cliparts

  • Templates

  • Extensions

Others can be:

  • Dictionaries & Thesaurus

  • Palettes

Other technologist like Miguel de Icaza recently is pushing Gnome# to be a more aware web. KDE is already being web-aware with Wallpapers and Jukebox apps like Amarok.

OOo to a degree is web aware with search engines connecting to google, Laurent Dictionary installer, OOoWikipedia, and caloan\’s OOoBlogger extensions.

Whats next?? True exchange of information will be when OpenDocument can be seamlesly interchangable between the web and the office suite. A writable web where each HTML page chan be download modified and saved back to the web (similarly to a wiki but with a more rich GUI/Framework). Where the information of your OpenDocument can be tagged, search, recorded and query using XML technology like SPARQL, XQuery, XForms and XML-Signature.



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