Welcome to the company!

Date Arrow  July 22, 2010

Many people have asked me why, when I was an employee, I used to change jobs so often. The answer stands in between my own curiosity to take on new challenges, and the various assholes I had to deal with through the ages. Just as an example of this last case, here goes a true [...]

Tagged   Humour · Project Management · Switzerland · TechnologyComments  Add Your Comment (7)

Tweeting without Twitter

Date Arrow  July 1, 2010

During my flight to WWDC this year I could not really sleep, and the 12 hour flight was the source of memorable tweets that will never make it to Twitter. Because of timing and context, and also because of the inexcusable lack of wifi network in some major airlines. Anyway. I used Pages during the [...]

Tagged   Argentina · Humour · Technology · Twitter · iPhoneComments  Add Your Comment 

Making traveling enjoyable again

Date Arrow  April 20, 2010

If there’s only one good thing we could take from the global grounding of planes all over Europe, it might as well be the possibility to enjoy traveling again. Even recognizing that the airline industry has been able to dramatically cut costs and times of travel, one can’t deny the fact that it has done [...]

Tagged   Act Now · Humour · OpinionComments  Add Your Comment (1)

suecia

Date Arrow  March 14, 2010

en suecia, al menos en göteborg, hay luces en cada ventana. dicho asi, parece una tremenda boludez, pero es asi: mirando las fachadas de cualquier edificio, cada ventana tiene un velador entre cada cortina. siempre. de esos veladores de mesa de luz, con su pantalla color crema, dando una luz acaramelada, melosa, calida, que contrasta [...]

Tagged   Humour · OpinionComments  Add Your Comment (2)

Ask Me Anything

Date Arrow  February 10, 2010

Exactly what you have read: if you have any question for me, don’t hesitate and post it in formspring.me/akosma. I’ll be glad to answer it for you! Of course, iPhone-related questions are top priority. But progressive rock questions are, too. And of course, anything related to Argentina and Switzerland. And software in general. Well, that [...]

Tagged   Humour · Opinion · TechnologyComments  Add Your Comment 

On the Importance of Yerba Mate in the Software Development Process

Date Arrow  October 26, 2009

This paper will highlight the results of an extensive research conducted since the mid 90′s, on the effects of the consumption of beverages based in the plant known as Ilex paraguariensis, in the framework of software development process activities in South America and some small parts of Europe. This paper will provide an introduction to [...]

Tagged   Argentina · Humour · Papers · SoftwareComments  Add Your Comment (9)

Wonderful uses of the Phone

Date Arrow  July 27, 2009

(Image caption: “A passenger in a plane of Northwest Orient Airlines makes a phone call relayed by radio”) Wonderful uses of the Phone by Richard F. Dempewolff Reaching over a shelf in her kitchen, a housewife pushes a button in a modern device similar to a transistor radio. “One, one, five, seven, five, eight, zero,” [...]

Tagged   HumourComments  Add Your Comment 

Lenin y Perón

Date Arrow  July 25, 2009

Enviado por elFede:

Tagged   Argentina · HumourComments  Add Your Comment 

PvP today

Date Arrow  June 20, 2009

Seen on PvP today:

Tagged   Apple · Humour · iPhoneComments  Add Your Comment 

Si Phone

Date Arrow  May 25, 2009

Argies, time to chuckle: This blog has been surprisingly quiet lately; lots of things going on. Next month is WWDC! Stay tuned.

Tagged   Humour · iPhoneComments  Add Your Comment (1)