Humberto's Thoughts

Well, this is the fifth time my wife and I relocate in less than two years, kind of crazy uh?. Hopefully this time we'll stick around in the same place for a while; to be honest this relocating business is fun at first but quite exhausting and stressing; specially when your budget is limited because you end up saving on things that seem a good idea at first but turn up to be time consuming (and tiring he he); assembling dozens of pieces to get an IKEA furnished apartment is not precisely how I wanted to spend days and days of my holiday time :/ The bright side is.. our apartment is wonderful and the furniture looks great yuhuuuuuuuuu!

Here we are, end of the road. This is my last week here at Steel City. The master just ended and I'm already missing CMU...one gets used to the pain je je :) Where will I be next?... yeap, seems that all paths lead to Redmond. Merry Christmas to Everybody and best wishes for the upcoming 2007.

Yeap! It's officially out. I just released my firefox extension "Advanced Bookmark Search"(v 0.2) :). Give it a try and let me know your comments. If you want to improve it please go ahead! all the code is licensed under MPL/GLP/LGPL http://hlgeniusos.blogspot.com/

So far so God. Graphics are nothing impressive but still nice. The sound is amazing for such a little device and the screens are sharp and bright. The whole idea is to purchase another DS and play games with friends and of course with my wife (she loves to beat me playing tetris :) ) The only thing that I regret is that I should have waited a couple of weeks until my mini-1 exams are done he he :)

Have you seen the amazing update that Apple has done to their I-Pods and I-Tunes.. Isn't it WoWW? Of course not.. same old stuff. Of course more capacity and less size but.. nothing "really" new under the hood. http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/12/technology/apple/index.htm

A recent article written by David Kirpatrik today in Fortune Magazine comes handy just after I wrote my post "Why the world hates Microsoft?". The article "Praising Microsoft and Attacked by Wolves" exposes some of the thoughts of Microsoft haters and, in my opinion, how they miss an undeniable point... without Microsoft the Personal Computing experience wouldn't be as advanced as it is now. Check out the article here

The service buzz Saas, Outsourcing, CMMI... Ringing any bell? No?, Well, is all about services. Experts are saying that the money now is on services, on reaching the so called "long tail" of the market; on continue the revolution of the world ultimately transforming everything into a big service whose delivery platform will be know as THE MATRIX!!! :) Well, the last part of the above is a bit exaggerate and of course not true but still the big buzz about services is indeed true and I strongly recommend my readers (yes, believe it or not I have readers although they are a bit shy to post comments he he he he :) ) to keep an eye on the terms mentioned at the beginning of this post. If your have any doubts drop me a letter and I'll be glad to confuse you a bit more or, more seriously, to redirect you so some really brilliant guys on the topic.