Willy The Fog... MIX of the following themes: Marketing & Advertising, Trips, Business and Literature.
martes, diciembre 18, 2007
Electronic Tatto
Os dejo con la innovacion de Phillips...la verdad es que no paran, estos son algunos de los avances en tinta digital...un concepto que a mi me fascina. click aqui
lunes, diciembre 17, 2007
Temperatura global
Click en la imagen para ampliar.
Gracias a este fantastico blog; La huella digital encuentro este "chart" que esta muy chulo
lunes, diciembre 10, 2007
Esther Psicore - Les luthiers
Lectura rapida
PS: Me encanta
sábado, diciembre 01, 2007
gato y fisica cuantica
El experimento del gato de Schrödinger o paradoja de Schrödinger es un experimento imaginario, diseñado por Erwin Schrödinger para exponer uno de los aspectos más extraños, a priori, de la mecánica cuántica. Supongamos un sistema formado por una caja cerrada y opaca que contiene un gato, una botella de gas venenoso, una partícula radiactiva con un 50% de probabilidades de desintegrarse y un dispositivo tal que, si la partícula se desintegra, se rompe la botella y el gato muere. Al depender todo el sistema del estado final de un único átomo que actúa según la mecánica cuántica, tanto la partícula como el gato forman parte de un sistema sometido a las leyes de la mecánica cuántica.
jueves, noviembre 29, 2007
¡Ayudadnos!
Hola a todos:
Estamos realizando un pequeño estudio acerca del consumo de servicios de salud dental en España y nos gustaría pediros vuestra colaboración cumplimentándola. Es muy corta, tardaréis menos de 5 minutos.
Para agradecer vuestra participación, sorteamos cinco cupones regalo de Amazon por valor de 20€ entre aquellos que respondáis.
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB2277ASNMZ6E
Como necesitamos tener una muestra lo más amplia posible, os agradeceríamos también que invitarais a participar a vuestros amigos y familiares; para ello pueden utilizar el mismo enlace.
Muchas gracias
domingo, noviembre 25, 2007
Garry Kasparov jailed over rally
Scuffles in Moscow – Former world chess champion and Russian opposition figure Garry Kasparov has been jailed for five days. He and other opposition figures were detained during a rally organised by Mr Kasparov's Other Russia coalition. About 3,000 protesters attended Saturday's rally, carrying banners and calling for the country to be rid of President Putin. The trouble broke out at the end of the rally when about 100 protesters tried to break through police lines. They began to march to the election commission and were stopped by riot police. Full story...
& CO
Juanito: alias "I bring apples"
Koke: alias Kekorote
Antonio: alias "poker man"
Salu2
miércoles, noviembre 21, 2007
KEKO; JUANITO Y MARICONIUTTI
1. Kroonos: Me ha encantado la idea, y parece que empiezan despacio y con buen pie. Es un portal para hacer trueque de casi todo (es decir, que lo que se intercambia es ppalmente TIEMPO) por ejemplo clases de ingles por clases de escalada (via microsiervos)
2. Click AQUI: para ver un video de 30sec en youtube que me ha parecido muy chulo
Y para que no parezca que me limito a copiar lo que leo en microsiervos, otro link interesante que tambien he copiado de otro sitio :)
3. ¿Os acordais del anuncio del MONO? pues mira este
Y otro especial para Koke y su alter ego Keko: Aqui y Aqui
Para Mariconiutti: Aqui
PARA JUANITO: Aqui
Salu2
sábado, noviembre 17, 2007
La Petite Claudine
y he encontrado articulos de todo tipo. Copio este, que me ha parecido una reflexion muy interesante, ya que yo soy un defensor de la pirateria (con matizes):
The paradox stems from the basic dilemma that underpins the economics of fashion: for the industry to keep growing, customers must like this year’s designs, but they must also become dissatisfied with them, so that they’ll buy next year’s. Many other consumer businesses face a similar problem, but fashion—unlike, say, the technology industry—can’t rely on improvements in power and performance to make old products obsolete.
Raustiala and Sprigman argue persuasively that, in fashion, it’s copying that serves this function, bringing about what they call “induced obsolescence.” Copying enables designs and styles to move quickly from early adopters to the masses. And since no one cool wants to keep wearing something after everybody else is wearing it, the copying of designs helps fuel the incessant demand for something new.
Juanito y Keko: Lecciones basicas
Como no entienden un carajo les explico, de forma facil y via el blog salmon una serie de conceptos basicos:
jueves, noviembre 08, 2007
SER MAMA en la ERA DIGITAL
Via el genial Guapacho
viernes, octubre 26, 2007
Renta per capita
Los países con un mayor PIB per cápita son:
1. Luxemburgo: 81.510 dólares
2. Irlanda: 4.675 dólares
4. Estados Unidos: 43.223 dólares
6. Hong Kong: 38.713 dólares
7. Suiza: 38.705 dólares
8. Holanda: 36.936 dólares
9. Dinamarca: 36.920 dólares
10. Qatar: 36.631 dólares
sábado, octubre 20, 2007
Microsiervos
El Simulador de Esperanza de Vida de UNESPA produjo una extraña sensación de dejà-vu a Pere, quien creyó haberlo vivido antes en Return of the Golden Child, episodio dos de la segunda temporada de I.T. Crowd (¡Gracias por el enlace!) Pere no tuvo nakasones de rellenarlo para comprobar si la fecha de su muerte estaba cercana, pero los Microsiervos no pudimos resistir la tentación y descubrimos con ilusión que llegaremos a octogenarios e incluso nonagenarios.
Intentando «forzar un poco la situación» para conseguir una predicción más cercana como la de Roy, del tipo morirás el próximo martes a las 3 pm, hice el experimento de probar con algunos datos inventados.
La conclusión es que en esta vida parece que las aseguradoras dan esperanzas a cualquiera:
Comencé diciéndole que bebo treinta vasos de vino y treinta cervezas a la semana (además de dos copazos diarios y dos carajillos mañaneros). También que me fumo más de dos paquetes diarios y me drogo bastante. Además que conduzco sin cinturón y sin respetar las normas de circulación. Mantengo discusiones fuertes en un trabajo que me amarga y ante el que tengo una actitud negativa. Por si fuera poco me definí como un diabético que no consigue controlar sus niveles de glucosa, además muy hipertenso y con el colesterol alto, pese a lo que nunca voy al médico. Apunté que llevo una vida estresante y agobiante que no puedo controlar y que practico el sexo con cualquiera sin protección alguna, mientras a diario realizo trabajos extremadamente peligrosos. Para redondear la faena, puse que mis hábitos alimenticios dije que mi menú ideal se basa en comer hamburguesas y pizzas regadas con café, debido a lo cual peso 150 kilos.
Este «estilo de vida ideal» da una esperanza de vida de… 55 años (WTF!?) así que no se puede sino calificar al simulador de «optimista». No sé qué más habría que incluir para conseguir un «¡oh, morirás mañana!» Por cierto que Nacho descubrió que tu esperanza de vida se puede alargar o acortar según el estado civil (soltero, casado, divorciado…) ¿Adivinas cómo influye eso?
DEEZER MUSIC
Merece la pena hacer click y que juzgueis vosotros mismos: Click Aqui
Kasparov: Opinion politica.
Via: Chessbase.
domingo, septiembre 16, 2007
Pincha en el link. Anuncio - mono - Chocolate
Via: Llamame lola: el mejor site de videos en internet
http://www.aglassandahalffullproductions.com/
jueves, septiembre 06, 2007
Acceder a Pandora fuera de US
Pues entrar con un proxy diferente :-)
Copio la entrada de Este blog
How to: access Pandora from outside the US
Published by Stan Schroeder May 3rd, 2007 in News, Tips Tags: anonymous browsing, hacks, News, Pandora, tips.I’m not an avid Pandora user. Personally, I like Last.FM better. But it angers me when I see that such a great service will now be unavailable for users outside of the US. TechCrunch has the details, as well as a facsimile of the letter sent to Pandora’s international users.
Of course, I don’t blame Pandora for this: they’re just complying with the US (and international) laws and regulations.
I blame the laws and regulations.
In any case, this is the Internet, and it’s easy to be a hacker nowadays, so here’s a couple of services you can use to access Pandora from wherever you are (btw, Pandora still works for me although I’m from Croatia; I guess they haven’t covered all the IP ranges just yet):
1. Firefox + anonymous proxy - in Firefox, open Tools - Options - Advanced - Network - Settings. There you have the proxy options. Go to one of these sites:
http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/
http://www.publicproxyservers.com/
http://www.proxz.com/
http://www.stayinvisible.com/
Find some proxies there, enter their details into the proxy options in Firefox. Don’t worry if the first couple of proxies don’t work; it’s a trial and error process.
2. Public CGI Proxies - the easiest method. Randomly chooses a public proxy server; all you have to do is enter the Pandora.com address and enjoy the melodies.
3. Tor and Privoxy - these two are frequently used together to surf anonymously. Might be a bit complicated for beginners.
4. Metropipe - a set of commercial and free tools for anonymous surfing, including a free Firefox toolbar. Starts at $8.33.
5. Proxify - just enter Pandora.com, uncheck remove all scripts, and you’re good to go. Well, in theory; it didn’t work for me; might be just a temporary glitch.
6. The Cloak - same as Proxify, enter the address and surf anonymously right away. And, just like Proxify, it doesn’t work. Again, maybe it starts working somewhere in the future; you never know with services like this.
7. Cotse - another commercial service, starts at $5.95. Covers much more than just anonymous surfing, though.
8. Anonymizer - another commercial anonymizing package, a bit more expensive.
This should be enough for most users. Enjoy Pandora, wherever you are (;.
miércoles, agosto 29, 2007
Homenaje a Umbral
El ligue (por F. Umbral)
El domingo es día de ligue y el lunes es día de amachambrar el ligue, de comprobar si la chai es capaz de aguantar 24 horas sin pedir cosas, sin reclamar su precio en especies, en cocacolas, en bocatas calamares, en películas, en última moda o en pecados. Un gran poeta amigo mío se quejaba de que las mujeres consumen mucho, están siempre pidiendo cosas, consumiendo. Eso a él le cabreaba, aunque era funcionario, traductor bien pagado, soltero y amigo de todo el 27, que los había tratado vivos y muertos en gracia de sus traducciones y sus escapadas a París, donde para él seguían viviendo Verlaine y Colette.
Y perdonen ustedes que saque en esta columna tantos poetas, pero a mí me ha dado por los poetas como a otro le da por las meretrices, ahora en huida por culpa del Juicio Final de la Casa de Campo. Mi amigo, decíamos, repetía a Nabokov sin saberlo o porque no se acordaba. Nabokov dice de Lolita que es la consumidora ideal de todos los anuncios porque a él le está pidiendo siempre cosas, mayormente helados, que para las adolescentes siempre es verano y sudan sin olor, lo cual ya es de agradecer. Su novela Lolita es la novela de un ligue grandioso entre el maduro y la ninfa. Sólo faltaría saber si ligaron en domingo. Eso nos decepcionaría un poco, pues los ligues dominicales acaban en boda.
La palabra ligue data, diría yo, de la gran movida de los 60, cuando la juventud se crea su propio idioma, lo cual anuncia su propia ideología y todo lo que vino después a base de coca, picos, Douglas Fairbanks, camellos y camelleo, ramoncines y billar en los billares, a base de Felipe González, aquel presidente mitificado por lo que hizo y lo que no hiciera. El ligue te llevaba lo mismo a Casa Ciriaco a cenar que a un piso molón de la Castellana para otros esparcimientos más nocturnos y duraderos. Se acabaron los domingos familiares, tan piadosos, con su lujo de abéñulas en el baño de la hermana quilona, que no acabará suicidándose, pero casi.
El ligue se consumía y consumaba en los bailes/bolera de la calle Sevilla y las oficinas de las quinielas, cuando todos teníamos una moto o la moto de un amigo, que era poeta, traductor y veterinario. El ligue no es el adulterio ni el noviazgo ni el parentesco ni el idilio ni el romance ni el romanticismo. El ligue es una manera desesperada y urgente de saltarse el domingo haciendo de éste un lunes con pecado. En la salsa rosicler de las revistas del género podemos encontrar un ligue cada semana, ahora que al ligue le dicen «hacer sexo», preguntando a la encausada si hubo o no hubo sexo, pues hoy calibran el sexo como antes el matrimonio. Generalmente hay sexo entre las profesiones liberales o liberadas, que la mujer, después de conquistar la oficina, la medicina de vanguardia y la piscina, ha conquistado su libertad de hacer sexo y horas extraordinarias que a lo mejor, quién sabe, resultan muy ordinarias. El poeta situaba sus ligues entre «látigos de azufre». Ahora esos ligues se sitúan entre grandes superficies, con lo que todos respiramos mejor y el ligue de aire acondicionado nos pone curtidos.
miércoles, agosto 08, 2007
Travesuras de la niña mala
Nubes
Lo interesante es que aparecia bajo el titulo "palomitas de maiz, preñadas de rayos que estallan en relampagos de terciopelo"...toma ya!
How life imitates chess??
Esta sencilla entrada es simplemente porque me parece que el titulo de este libro, que calificaria de "decente" sin mas, es porque me parece que el titulo deberia ser al contrario "how chess imitates life" y no al reves...a no ser que sea una especie de licencia literaria..que dudo.
Por cierto que el link pertenece a Chessbase, que seguro que cualquier aficionado al ajedrez conoce; es fantastico
Abrazos
miércoles, marzo 28, 2007
Las Diez plalabras que el New York Times recomienda conocer para viajar a Madrid
- Guay (gwhy) Cool
- Cojonudo (ko-ho-NOO-doh) Better than cool
- Me mola (may MO-la) Love it!
- Alucino (ah-lu-THEE-no) Can’t believe it!
- Paso (PAH-so) Couldn’t care less
- Juerguista (hwer-GHEE-stah) Party animal
- Cutre (KOO-tray) Seedy, lacking class. Sometimes used affectionately, as in, “Sometimes the most cutre places serve the best tapas.”
- Ligar (lee-GAR) To pick up someone
- Hortera (or-TER-ah) Flashy, tacky, kitschy
- Fashion (FASH-yohn) Trendy, obsessed with the latest. Used as an adjective, not necessarily related to clothing, as in, “The people who hang out in Chueca are really fashion.”
- Gente guapa (HEN-tay GWA-pah) Beautiful people
- Pijo (PEE-ho) A posh and conservative type, as in, “That party at the golf club was crawling with pijos.”
viernes, marzo 23, 2007
Pepitogrillo
"Para todos aquellos que alguna vez hayan sido tildados de locos....Solo aquello que es diferente se puede apreciar"
y la que más me gusta;
"De que sirve la soledad si no la puedes compartir..."
dedicado a Bubu
miércoles, marzo 21, 2007
MAFALDA
VIA: El mundo de Mafalda
Esto lo tenía guardado desde hace tiempo. Es un video sobre lo que “las manos pueden hacer”. Lo encontré en un blog que tiene buena pinta ( via EGG blog)
MAFALDA
http://llamamelola.com/
viernes, marzo 09, 2007
"Detenido en Bilbao el presidente de la ONG Anesvad por apropiación indebida de fondos"
Esta noticia me revuelve el estomago...(aqui)lunes, febrero 26, 2007
EL MUNDO AL REVES
La batalla esta servida
Salu3 :-)
"CONSPIRANOIA"
Google nos controla
Curiosidades sobre el número primo 23
Salu2
sábado, febrero 24, 2007
Alkleine le decia mientras miraba su copa a medio terminar "No sé en otras, pero en esta vida lo unico eterno son los momentos (...) por eso se disfrutan más cuando no se espera que duren toda la vida"
miércoles, febrero 21, 2007
Pan de Higo
Salu2
sábado, febrero 17, 2007
jueves, febrero 15, 2007
El lider nace o se hace?
Me gusta este post que he encontrado en el blog de "por fin es lunes" sobre esta misma cuestion. (Merci Niña)
Ahora bien, una cuestion interesante es plantear cúales son las cualidades comunes del "lider". Personalmente me arriesgo a poner las siguientes:
1. Tienen una gran capacidad de comunicacion.
2. Los lideres son empaticos por naturaleza.
3. Enamoran....porque son capaces de transmitir la pasion por una idea
4. Esta es fundamental- Tienen mucha, mucha imaginacion.
5. Son fieles a si mismos y se conocen bien (Nosce te ipsum).
6 Toman DECISIONES! (y se dejan de gilipolleces)
7...
(Abierto a comentarios)
Solo las 6 primeras, a mi juicio, prueban la premisa de que UN LIDER NACE.
jueves, febrero 08, 2007
'You've got to find what you love" (READ IT...Thx A. Le)
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
martes, febrero 06, 2007
lunes, febrero 05, 2007
miércoles, enero 31, 2007
Fernando Sanchez Drago
Aqui podeis encontrar una entrevista reciente en el Mundo.es. Me quedo con una frase que precisamente refleja su capacidad para el "nosce te ipsum" o "conocete a ti mismo:
Para decir "Yo te amo" primero hay que aprender a decir "Yo".
lunes, enero 29, 2007
8 skills of people who perform
8 Skills of people who perform es un slide show de 8 slides en flash que he encontrado en el blog The fast company, que ya he comentado otras veces. Le falta uno, uno fundamental a mi juicio. PASSION, MY FRIEND…PASSION!
Bill Gates y la TV
Es muy, muy, muy interesante este articulo sobre Bill Gates y la Televisión (lo he escuchado en el mundo.es)
PANDORA
Merece mucho la pena que lo probéis. Os llevará tres minutos (ademas tiene un interfaz realmente friendly). Pandora es un sistema en el que tecleas un grupo de musica (o una cancion) que te guste y automáticamente te busca grupos/canciones afines a tu gusto musical basado en esa entrada. En apenas un minuto ya estas escuchando musica. Me encanta.
Update: Me acabo de abrir una cuenta con ellos y es muy interesante el rating que haces de las canciones, el mix de radio personalizada que puedes crear, y como no la posibilidad de comprar online. Nada nuevo respecto al QUE? Pero me gusta mucho el COMO?...muy bien resumido en el libro WHY HOW MATTERS MORE THAN WHAT…(que ilustra, entre otros, el caso IPOD)
Aquí el link a mi radio personalizada que podeis escuchar: Es un Mix de Massive Attack, Enigma y Portishead
martes, enero 23, 2007
Why Peter Drucker still matters
A continuación copio “The timeless ideas” de Peter Drucker que he encontrado en un numero antiguo del Business Week; sin duda el autor que mas me ha fascinado del mundo del management y que desde luego son ideas que aplicaria al 100% a mi caso actual:
- ON LEADERSHIP: Don’t ever say “I”. Think and say “WE”. Effective leaders know they have authority only because they have the trust of the organization. They understand that the needs and opportunities of an organization comes before own needs
- ON TALENT: Attracting and holding talent is one of the central tasks in management. Knowledge workers should receive continuous learning and training and respect and authority. Give it to them!
- ON WORK: Focus on opportunities rather than in problems. Problem solving prevents damage but exploiting opportunities produces results. Unless there is a true crisis problems shouldn’t be even discussed at management meetings until opportunities have been analyzed and dealt with. Exploit change as an opportunity and don’t view it as a threat.
- ON MAKING DECISIONS: Every decision is risky. It is a commitment of our present resources to an uncertain and unknown future. Risk can be minimized if you know when a decision has to be taken, and if you have defined well what the problem is
- ON ORGANIZATIONS: Human beings tend to close out the outside. But effective organizations exists not to satisfy themselves but to fill a customer need. Leaders have the duty to focus an organization on the outside in a way that continually refreshes what everyone is doing inside the company.
lunes, enero 22, 2007
San Sebastian
miércoles, enero 17, 2007
CASA
Hola!
La verdad es que hacia mucho tiempo que no escribia (no paro en el trabajo), pero me alegra que mi primer post del año se lo dedique a mi madre (un besote muuuuy fuerte). Le encantan las casas, y por eso subo esta foto que he encontrado en microsiervos (mi blog favorito). Salu2 a todo el mundo.