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Over the last few years, in most countries, statistics have shown that, in general the trend is pointing towards lower participation in public elections. In some cases, a particular election can break the trend, specially when important matters are at stake, people live in fear or when the country is highly divided on a particular […]
According to this BBC article, the authorities in India’s premier engineering institute, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bombay (Mumbai), have cut off internet access to students in hostels at night. They apparently feel that 24-hour internet access is hampering students’ academic performance and overall personality development. I agree. I am most productive when […]
After Apple announced two weeks ago that Leopard would be delayed until October, I was disappointed, like almost everyone else. I expected to be able to play with the new APIs in June, as promised. Even though I had much fun last year at WWDC, I had decided not to attend this year. I thought […]
I am a big podcasting fan. I usually spend about two hours a day listening to mainly tech personalities interviews. This is a nice way to understand industry trends and learning about cool new projects. Here is a list of some of the podcasts I subscribe to: IT Conversations (In particular Technometria) Late night Cocoa […]
There is no doubt that the movie “An inconvenient truth” was able to change the perception of where our world is heading if we fail to act. The movie, combined with high gas prices and the war and Iraq was able to shake consciences and get our society moving. I am amazed by the incredible […]
During this week Technical Leadership Exchange, attendants could take up to three product certification tests for free. On day 1 I decided to take the “Developing WebServices with Rational Developer 6.0” exam since it was a topic I was quite familiar with. I found the exam to be pretty easy, specially considering the fact that […]
I am currently spending a couple of days in California (Anaheim), attending IBM’s Technical Leadership Exchange. This event is organized once a year to train technical talent and also to serve as a forum where participants can share ideas about the future of technology. It is an interesting event because unlike other events organized by […]
Over the last few months several rumors indicated that Mac OS X would be delayed. Often, the alledged reasons were not really credible. The last rumor, that Leopard would be delayed because of lack of proper Vista support in Bootcamp, launched by Taiwan’s Digitimes , was simply laughtable, and as such was quickly dismissed by […]
The extremely low-key release of the new eight-core Mac Pro earlier today illustrates perfectly some of the problems the computer industry in general and Apple in particular are facing. When Apple decided to move away from the PowerPC it was simply because IBM could not deliver a competitive processor to challenge Intel. At the time […]
I still haven’t decided whether I will buy an Apple TV or not. The only thing that is holding me back is the fact that in order to stream video to that device, the files have to be added to an iTunes library. Since my main machine is a laptop, my HD is relatively small […]