Visto desde Lausana, en direccion de Ginebra. Otra que un wallpaper…
Hagan click sobre la imagen para verla con mas detalle…
Cabe aclarar que es el mismo lago de siempre, pero en primavera.
Monthly Archives: March 2005
MDA, Thales, Nestle and Microsoft
I haven’t blogged for a while; I must admit that this has been a busy month. In fact until June I will be working inside one of the biggest companies on Earth: Nestle. My task, as a Software Architect, is to set up the overall architecture of a worldwide, distributed application, whose details I shall not lay down here (for I have signed a non-disclosure agreement). But I can say that this is, by far, the most exciting time of my professional life; this architecture is already the biggest challenge I have ever faced. Continue reading
Primavera
Historias largas, pesadas, combinandose y dejandose llevar sin mas sentido. Dias identicos, grises, frios. El calor artificial de una frazada, o de un radiador, y la diaria gilada sin sentido. Continue reading
Sur O No Sur, por Kevin Johansen
To beast or not to beast, that is the hueso. (Sarampión Mamá, que esto es contagioso!)
Me voy porque acá no se puede, me vuelvo porque allá tampoco Me voy porque aquí se me debe, me vuelvo porque allá están locos Sur o no sur… Continue reading
Saudade, par Etienne Daho
En ce mai de fous messages J’ai un rendez-vous dans l’air Inattendu et clair Déjà je pars à ta découverte Ville bonne et offerte C’est l’attrait du danger Qui me mène à ce lieu C’est d’instinct Qu’tu me cherches et approches Je sens que c’est toi Continue reading
Dia de furzios publicitarios
El mismo dia, dos furzios en publicidades online de los dos diarios mas importantes de Argentina… Continue reading
Unix Expo, Remarks by Bill Gates – October 9, 1996
Taken from http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/industry&tech/uexpo.asp
If we go way back in time, Microsoft was actually the first one to go to AT&T and beg to get a nice high-volume commercial license for Unix. And for many, many years we were the highest volume licensee, not only for our own Xenix products, but Siemens with theirs, Santa Cruz with theirs, and dozens and dozens of sub-licensees. I have to admit, it was fairly difficult to work with AT&T back then. They simply didn’t understand what they had. They didn’t understand how to manage the asset, either in terms of promoting it properly or in terms of making sure that there wasn’t fragmentation in how different implementations were put together. And so that vacuum in leadership created a bit of a dilemma for everybody who was involved in Unix. Well, Microsoft stepped back and looked at that situation and said that the best thing for us might be to start from scratch: build a new system, focus on having a lot of the great things about Unix, a lot of the great things about Windows, and also being a file-sharing server that would have the same kind of performance that, up until that point, had been unique to Novell’s Netware. And through Windows NT, you can see it throughout the design. In a weak sense, it is a form of Unix. There are so many of the design decisions that have been influenced by that environment. And that’s no accident. I mean, we knew that Unix operability would be very important and we knew that the largest body of programmers that we’d want to draw on in building Windows NT applications would certainly come from the Unix base.
Fisura en el Tupperware
Vivir en Suiza no es cosa facil. El otro dia lo hablaba con Laurita, justamente; de lo jodido que es vivir en Suiza para alguien que “cae” aca sin conocer a nadie. Te la regalo. Incluso despues de haber pasado unos 15 años en este pais (como es el caso de Laura) es sorprendente ver la cantidad de gente que se encierra en sus mundos, nunca dejandote entrar en ellos. Gente que te conoce, que “dice” que te aprecia, que tal vez llegado el caso te dirija la palabra cuando la saludes; pero que nunca, nunca soportara que la llames por telefono a las 10 de la noche. Y que probablemente se ofenda terriblemente por este ridiculo (y aparentemente anodino) atentado a la privacidad.
No es mentira; yo he perdido amigos por el simple hecho de “caer” un domingo a la tarde para visitarlos sin prevenir. Bueh’, “amigos”, no creo que el sustantivo sea el adecuado. Digamos “conocidos”. Continue reading
Sin empleo
Un hombre que estaba sin empleo, acude a Microsoft para solicitar el trabajo de conserje. El gerente de recursos humanos lo entrevista, le hace una prueba (barre el piso) y le dice: “El trabajo es suyo”. Continue reading
Childhood’s End?, by Marillion
And it was morning. And I found myself mourning For a childhood that I thought had disappeared I looked out the window, And I saw a magpie in the rainbow, the rain had gone I’m not alone, I turned to the mirror, I saw you, the child, that once loved The child before they broke his heart, Our heart, the heart that I believed was lost.
Hey you, surprised? More than surprised, To find the answers to the questions, Were always in your own eyes Do you realize that you could’ve gone back to her? But that would only be retraced in all the problems that you ever knew, So untrue. For she’s got to carry on with her life, And you’ve got to carry on with yours Continue reading