Monthly Archives: December 2008

The best and worst of 2008 for me

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Tomorrow is the last day of the year and I thought it would be good to do a brief recap of the best and worst things that happened to me this year that we are ending. I did something similar last year on this post “Good bye 2007, Welcome 2008!” and although it was very…

Play "Doom" in your browser

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Via a post of Incubaweb, I found a webpage that allows you to play the popular game “Doom” right on your browser. The nice feature of this, is that you don’t have to install anything on your computer as these guys have rewritten the entire game in Flash, so all you need to play it…

2008 Christmas celebration in Ocotlán

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This year, once again, I spent Christmas in both my parent’s and in-laws house. Because my wife Sol and I are from the same town, we can’t avoid having Christmas dinner twice, we have to do it in order not hurt any feelings. Of course, nothing I’m complaining about, as I’m always willing to taste…

NASA Space Shuttles to be sold by 2010

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When I was a child, I dreamed about becoming an astronaut, and I remember that when I was around 12 years old, I followed very closely the mission that took Rodolfo Neri Vela, the first mexican astronaut, into space. Down the road, I started to grow and realized that becoming an astronaut was far within…

Victoria Secret's Christmas Fashion Show Video

This video is so damn good and the theme is so in line with the Christmas season that I couldn’t avoid publishing it on my blog. It’s the 2005 Victoria Secret’s Fashion Show, as you can see the theme of the fashion show is around Christmas so it couldn’t be more on time for these days….

What is Web 2.0 and how I can take advantage of it?

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I’m writing this post after Leo Diaz wrote a comment in one of my recent posts, asking for a post dedicated to what Web 2.0 is. This post also comes quite on-time as Othaner Kasiyas, a blogger from my hometown Ocotlán, also wrote a post dedicated to the latest status of Web 2.0 in Mexico…

George Bush's Boot Camp

It’s amazing how news fly these days of Internet and global communications. It was on Sunday night when I saw in the news that President Bush is almost hit buy an iraqui reporter that threw him a pair of shoes, and now I came up with a very funny online video game whose purpose is…

Global Recession has reached my family

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This weekend I went to Ocotlan, my hometown, to celebrate my mother’s birthday, she is now 60 years old, but I also came up with some unpleasant news about one of my brothers. And the thing is that apparently my brother Felipe is going to lose his job in the coming week, he had been…

Web 2.0 Origami Style

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Via one of my favorite blogs in Spanish, “Incuba Web 2.0“, I found a really cool picture with all the logos of the main websites that lead the Web 2.0 Revolution. The curious thing about them is that they are designed as if they were done in paper with the japanese technique of “Origami“. I…

How to access your PC remotely

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Today I’d like to share with you one of the coolest programs/websites that I use on a daily basis. It is a website you can use to connect directly to your home PC or any other PC for that matter, just like if you were in front of it. This website is: http://www.logmein.com I use…