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Problemas con Vodafone, España
Llevo siendo cliente de Vodafone, España desde hace siete años. Durante los ultimos cuatro años, he tenido contratadola tarifa plana de 39 Euro/mes data plan, que me daba conectividad al internet desde mi teléfono.
En Marzo del 2008, recibi un SMS de Vodafone donde comunicaban: “la modificación de [...]
One of our neighbors who works in the Spanish agriculture business was telling us, in passing conversation one day, about the steroidal products that are used nowadays in the produce industry. It was interesting to hear that one of the main uses for such products was the production of crops which simply look good. She [...]
Although I’ll probably do a disservice to the topic, I’m going to try to compress a lot of study, experience and opinion into a brief blog article about personal investing. I’m very interested in the subject of investment, and enjoy chatting with others about it. So I decided that, rather than having to always repeat [...]
To celebrate the new BJJ brown belt, as well as a couple other things, (and in part due to the breakdown of our 10-year-old Honda), I decided it was about time to splurge on a lifelong dream I’ve had to own a Jeep Wrangler, in particular the new Jeep Wrangler 4-Door Unlimited.
Given that I normally [...]
December 14, 2007 was a really big day for me, as I was awarded the brown belt by my brazilian jiu-jitsu teacher, Edson Jorge (of Gracie-Barra). There’s only five belts in BJJ — white, blue, purple, brown and black — so I’m only one step away from the BIG ONE. By no means do I [...]
Last night I was out on a bike ride, from Monda to Tolox. About 8:30 PM, I was on my way back, and had just turned the corner at junction to Guaro. My eye caught what looked like a mouse on the side of the road. As I approach, I saw it was a little [...]
The United States offers a lot of conveniences and advancements with respect to (certain parts of) Europe, but I find the level of automation and corporate cost reduction a bit disturbing. Most calls to American customer support lines recently are a bit too consistent with my call yesterday to Earthlink:
On March 26, 2007, I ordered a pair of Oakley Half Jacket sunglasses from the UK-based Chain Reaction Cycles, who claim to be “Europe’s Largest Online Bike Shop.” At almost $180, this purchase represented the most I’ve ever invested in sunglasses, but I’d always understood that Oakley made top-quality sports sunglasses, and, hey, if they’re [...]
Recently getting access to the alpha version of OmniFocus (which, by the way, is going to be the ultimate GTD application) provided a good opportunity to re-assess my personal productivity.
Over the past months, without being able to pinpoint a precise cause, I’d begun to sense myself becoming less and less productive. Although somehow there never [...]
Since I really enjoy blog articles where people present the tools and equipment supporting their work and play, I thought I’d do the same. We’ll start from the top, and work our way down through the details.
On the beach…
Our office is located on the mediterranean sea, in beautiful Marbella, Spain. It’s a wonderful place to [...]
It’s kind of cute or weird or funny or something when your music system is about a fraction of the size of your headphones. This is the case with my new Apple iPod Shuffle, and trusty old Audio Technica ATH-ES7 headphones.
For mother’s day this year, I decided to order my world’s greatest mom a little [...]
Each year in May, for the past 11 years, the Spanish Legionnaires (”La Legión”, a Spanish military wing) organizes the famous, “101 km of Ronda” event, in which the 5,000+ participants endure a 101 kilometer (66 miles) tour through the mountains and sierras surrounding the beautiful namesake city of Ronda.
My wife and I participated for [...]
My first real job was a co-op position with the Georgia Power Company back during my university days. The company bought us all Macintosh computers (Mac IIs), and I was introduced to desktop publishing with the Aldus PageMaker application (which, today, is known as Adobe InDesign).
I started using PageMaker and the office LaserWriter to [...]
Now that I’m back to blogging, I’d better catch up on a long overdue task. My office colleague Arto Bendiken pinged me with the Five Things meme, so here goes: Five Things you probably didn’t know about me:
I’ve climbed down an 800 foot smoke stack. Not sure I can tell this story… but what the [...]
Wow, it’s been a long time, but I’m back to blogging. Business has been going well, and that’s received most of my non-family time, but things are settling down, and some blogging time should free up now.
What’s new:
Bought an Apple TV and a new Phillips 32″ LCD screen. I’m in love! Oh how I’m waiting [...]
This US is clearly ahead in many fields, but telephone services doesn’t appear to be one of them. I think it’s long been agreed that mobile services in the US are far behind their European and Asian counterparts (and this was in line with my personal experience last time there.) But after witnessing my mother’s [...]
NetNewsWire (690 Unread Articles) -> Mark All as Read -> Aaaaaahh :)
…and just like that, I feel better. (Somebody let me know if I missed anything real important in the past couple weeks.)
My good friend Diego just launched an information portal dedicated to information related to the nearby beautiful pueblo of Ojén, just 10 minutes up the road from Marbella, and the famous home of Spanish singer Julio Iglesias.
Be sure to check it out: Ojen.net
For anyone interested, I just posted some life and business lessons learned over on the Summit weblog.
I love Rory Blyth. This post is hilarious, and reminds me of the parking ticket machines at the Málaga airport.
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