Category Archives: General

More of Heroes

As I commented in this first post about Heroes, I’ve followed this TV show from the first episode and I can’t stop recommending it to whoever hasn’t seen it (every day are less). I see that this week episode named “Five Years Gone” looks like one…
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Your toast with whatever you want

No, it’s not about putting something on top of your toast, it’s about toasting it with whatever you want: an image, a small text, etc… In Evil Mad Scientists they are working on a toaster device to draw with a Hot-air gun and a X-Y motion control system.
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Darth Vader in the sky

The imagination of Star Wars fans has no limits. To promote a fans association/event one of the members got the idea to create a balloon with the shape of the head of one of the most recognizable movie villains. After getting authorization from Lucasfilm, they start working and 8…
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How to create a Start-up

Interesting post from Jesus Encinar in which he recommends the steps to follow in creating a start-up. These are basically: Idea Team Resources Implementation Beside a brief explanation of why each step, he also mentions some of the common mistakes at the start of a business, and I…
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Images of the Sun

A few days ago NASA published the images taken by the STEREO mission probes, actually they are videos and some animations in 3D that are impressive if you see them with the required 3D glasses (you know, the ones with blue and red lenses). But looking around I…
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Twitter from the command line

Here we go with another post about Twitter of the many in the web every day. To send a post to your account there are many ways, the most basic is going to the site and write it in the text box provided, or you can add Twitter…
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Solaris 10 gratis

Por fin llego, despues de mas de 2 meses por fin hoy llego a mi casa un paquete con Solaris 10, de hecho ya me habia olvidado que en Enero vi una noticia en Slashdot acerca de que Sun enviaria Solaris de manera totalmente gratuita. Dudando un poco…
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Network outage

Casi no posteo en el blog y cuando tengo varias cosas para escribir resulta que a Dreamhost se le ocurre fallar.. =(
6:47PM PST March 28th 2007
We just had a drop in out network for about half our servers.. if you can't access your site or…
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Donde subir fotos?

La semana pasada platicando con un par de amigos comentábamos acerca de las fotos tomadas en los eventos realizados en años anteriores, que por una u otra razón ya no estan en linea y de las cuales ellos no tenían copia (al menos de las fotos en las que salian).…
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La dimension desconocida

Una de las cosas que mas me molesta de aqui y a la vez mas extraño de vivir en USA es el servicio postal, simplemente no entiendo por que es TAN lento. Ejemplo 1: Enviar un documento de la Cd. de Mexico a Guadalajara, Jal. usando el servicio normal tardo…
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