Recently I read about the Wealth&Giving trick by Foster Hibbard, follower of the post Great Depression self-help guru Napoleon Hill; a little magic to get into an abundance mindset. The trick is dead simple: for every euro that gets into your hands you shall hoard and give away fixed percentages; v.g. for every 100€ you [...]
Un problema muchas veces repetido cuando no trabajas en ingles y ASCII. No siempre se controla la codificacion que se usa en distintos entornos de trabajo y produccion; al final acaban apareciendo caracteres extraños y problemas de codificacion. Working with many development and production some people forgets to check their default charsets; in the end [...]
There’s an ongoing conversation about filesystem layouts on planet debian. As Wouter, I find the biggest drawback to multi-filesystem layouts is lack of flexibility when resources are scarce; scarcity means laptops in the Wouter’s post. I’m thinking of long-lived servers in need of upgrades, in particular those with a life of unplanned and ad-hoc growth. [...]
This is the first in a series of tales and anecdotes giving body to the “IT Facilitation” buzzword. It’s the main idea in my new effort as entrepreneur in Ageda. The web page for Hotel Mayari is simple, the content almost static. Most of the job was mediation, bypassing the limitations frequently found in spanish [...]
Visualtis is now becoming an established local IT consultancy; we still pursue new ventures (taking more fun than ever) but for the most, gone are the days of the early-stage startup-wannabe. Our first years are full of valuable experiences, as Jim Hirshfield says at The Grateful Life: be a student of entrepreneurship at an existing [...]
Playing with a new (to me) perspective on business. Last week I heard via twitter of an Old-World SalesMan and his seminars and dvds on the fine art of money making. The guy is Dan Kennedy; “pyramidal scheme” comes to my mind looking to his offerings. And yet, I’m not myself a experienced salesmen or [...]
Via twine (i guess) found a small essay on the concepts of flow and living a meaningfull live. Full of things both small and obvious that are easy to forget. I was reading small snippets. I read little snippets while puppet compiles. Truly inspiring. I found it in a moment of recovery, after a week [...]
In the past I used ‘:’ as separator for complex labels on my gmail account (v.g. fuco:faw). Now, Apple’s Mail.app likes ‘/’ as separator; if my label is fuco/faw Mail.app shows a folder ‘fuco’ with a children ‘faw’
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