Couple days before Argentina 200 anniversary I started writing a post, I thought to explain our anthem or debate some questions about Argentina, however any of both completely satisfied me so May 25th passed and I published nothing. During such especial event, I had dinner with Joe, a friend from US who is almost Argentinean, [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Clouds factor
- 23
- May
I found a cool online tool to create clouds of documents, websites or a bunch of texts. It´s http://www.wordle.net and below you can see my blog´s cloud: According to wordle.net it was develop by Jonathan Feinberg; who acknowledges his employer, IBM Research, for extending the privilege of using code, which he wrote on their time, [...]
Mobile platforms for high speed trains
- 22
- May
China has the world longest high-speed rail network. They found that stopping in each station was a waste of time and energy, loosing energy to stop and spending extra energy to accelerate. They have developed the prototype, which is in the video below. I haven’t found if the prototype has been implemented, however the idea [...]
Insights of the situation in Bangkok
- 20
- May
When I was attending my classes in Australia I was honor to met Vittawath Athikhamanon, who is from Thailand. His name is a little difficult for the western languages so his nick name was King. Probably most of you have been reading about what is happening in Bangkok. I wondered if someone, from Thailand, can [...]
Shift of personal information paradigm
- 16
- May
I learned that keep things simple is a must to develop business, Facebook privacy has more than 50 different settings, with more than 170 options. The page that explains them has more than 45.000 words and its policy is longer than the US constitution, according to a report released by the NY Times, which is [...]