How can you run when you know?

I really support the Human Upper-body Grab of the Jihadist Elimination Worker in order to prevent terrorist attacks.

So, Apple learns somethings and returns Firewire to the MacBook 13' (nee MacBook Pro 13'), and I assume that means that target disk mode is back and they drop the prices to a point where they are just more expensive instead of hugely more expensive. And the price of Leopard presents a huge problem for Microsoft, they will have to give away Windows 7 just to look good. Of course, they don't learn about everything, the iPhone is still locked and the Shuffle still sucks, but now it's clear, we just have to insist.

Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

In my years writing this blog I have talked about a lot of companies. Some of them have been a constant fodder for my acute wit and cynicism. A few days ago a friend told me I have become a hater and that I should forgive some of those companies I have put on the you are dead to me list. This post is an effort to start that process and see if it is possible to forgive and forget the pass... Click more if you want to get into it...

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I have two books with a Geek bent to recommend. The first is Daemon by Daniel Suarez. It's a thriller with a heavy technology bent. It was published in January and I read it soon thereafter. I just reread it and its sequel should be coming in a few months. What is interesting is that the technological description are very accurate, maybe not easy to understand, but right on the money. It is a great book. The second book was published this week, it is called The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive by John Graham-Cumming. It is a description of a 128 places to visit with geek content. It is a great book and a great guide book. I am going to use it this summer and go to some of the places described there. Enjoy!

Because our leaders do not even understand that the last five hundred years of progress have been fueled by basic science research. If they don't like science let them live without TV, Internet, Cars, etc. They are hypocrites. I am thinking of resending this article of mine to publish in El Nacional. They published it already 10 years ago, but it is as relevant today as then, how sad. I could dedicated to IVIC in its 50th anniversary...

A few months ago Apple was selling more phones than RIM and I was saying that somebody was lying. By using an invalid and artificial breakdown of the cell phone market into smartphones and dumbphones, they got incredible numbers for Apple. Everybody got on my case about how it was me who was confusing the numbers (which indeed I was), but I am still suspicious about that distinction and about the numbers that get handed out. The latest is this report which states that the Blackberry Curve is the best selling smartphone this quarter, while the iPhone is the second one. That I believe. But then it goes to point out that the Storm beats the Pearl (all models for third place while the G1 comes in in fifth. If that is the case, where are all the storms? Everything I read about the phone is bad and negative. Do people really have it out there? Is it really more common than the Bold? Is the G1? Really? This is in the US... By the way with these numbers RIM must be beating the pants out of Apple... Somebody is lying.

When I was in Las Vegas last year I was disappointed that in a place where gambling and prostitution were legal I found a lot more gambling than prostitution. That and the amount and attitude of minors was really sad, actually, I didn't see a single person happy in Las Vegas. The reason may be that the Deadly Sins are not well distributed in the US. A study by the Kansas State University may have the answer. The Seven deadly sins by state and county, and Clark County, where Las Vegas is, doesn't do bad enough. Actually, Lust is only bad enough in a few small places. How sad...

Bruni sends word that Rona a kind of Home Depot in Montreal, used Apple's ad at Jacques Cartier Bridge to point out their paint recycling program. Neat, Right?

Venezuela is the only country where you can drink beer and think you are helping science. The major science prize is given by the biggest beer company and My Wife Won this year! So drink Polar Beer and support Venezuelan Science.

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After a lot of intentions I finally installed Windows 7 on a machine. I used the Dell with a clean hard druve is a year old midrange machine, has a 3.4 rating (out of 7.9). It is very impressive, responsive and very nice to look out. I am thinking it could be a solution to my iTunes issue, namely, iTunes is still the best podcast, music manager out there. I could buy a big drive and have a dual boot machine (Ubuntu/Windows) and use Ubuntu at work and Windows at home. Still Microsoft has a lot of work to fix its problems. The multiple Windows versions have to go and Microsoft has to decide either it stops making IE and Office or it starts making it for all OS. Microsoft has to get out of its preserve the monopoly mentality. Windows is big business but it really has to compete to stay on top, the only way that will happen is if other OS has the rest of Microsoft tools. And please make the Zune compatible with Mac OS X and Linux, come on Microsoft! Be cool again!

My other new thing today is SkyGrid, looks pretty good, a lot of info in a real-time web format that makes sense. Very configurable. SkyGrid uses flash which is fine, but for some reason Flash doesn't work in 64 bit OS. Unless you use a 32 Bit browser. Why Adobe why? And why did I believe it was ok to use a 64 bit OS? Man, the future is getting slower and slower...

So, Oracle buys SUN. Sun was one of my favorite companies and I am sad to see them go. But I have seen them going for a long time and I was very disappointed with the decisions they made. They could have taken over the world but they were so dispersed with so many different ideas and projects without consolidation. For me the day they died was when they sold us a card for a machine only to discover later that Solaris didn't supported it. We switch that machine, and eventually all machines, to Linux. What will happen with Sun hardware, very likely it will disappear or become a brand to some manufacturer. What will happen to Java, OpenOfice or MySQL? Those could be huge distractions for Oracle, if they get very involved with those Oracle itself may start to go downhill. Hopefully, Oracle will ignore those. So long Sun, and thanks for all the Java!

Or have I drink more than I thought?

It is sad that the governments of the world think corporations and companies have more rights than people. The Pirate Bay Founders being convicted means that the political system must be overthrown. Companies own governments. Chavez may be closer to the truth than we think.

Sometimes when I don't have change to fill my scooter tank gas, they let me fill up for free. It cost around 5 cents (with tip), because as reported in the New York Times, gas prices in Venezuela are ridiculously cheap, subsidized, and the government can't do anything about it.

Yes, some of us think this is right, because it's about the only thing we get from the government in exchange for the taxes and the suffering we pay, for our sin of being born here. But it is very unfair because the more money you have you get the largest benefit. Bigger and more cars, more leisure time to use them, avoid public transportation. Poor people can't do those things and public transportation is ridiculously expensive. Chavez has talked about solving this, but he won't. For some reason his natural constituency feels a strong need to defend that right we, the opposition, enjoy. Thanks for that.

Just saying...

With a little help from my friends (particularly, Sebastian and Gabo), all the comments are now in place. With that Tyromaniac is, pretty much, back to normal and a new era of peace and prosperity can start! I don't think anyone will notice the few details missing, but these could be resolve in the changes that are a'coming.

I was blogging.

After years of suffering from the services in Venezuela I've decided to move my blog to a hosted service done by professionals. The site should be up more since the Internet and Electric service will also be done by professionals. Unlike in Venezuela... There are a few kinks to work out. The old comments have disappear and there are several esthetic issues with the site that I hope to resolve with a little help from my friends. We'll see how it goes...

For as long as I can remember I have had my site in my home or office, why did I do it? Was it a Geeky thing to do? Probably, but I think mostly it was that I was young and foolish then, I am old and foolish now...

Dear Facebook,

Our brain indicates that you've been misusing certain features of our humanity. This post serves as a warning. Misuse of my features or violating common human terms of use may result in your website being disabled . Thanks in advance for your understanding and cooperation.

If you have any questions, please contact your priest or your psychiatrist.

Tyromaniac