Monthly Archives: January 2009

Song of the Week: "Is this Love" by White Snake

This week I was using “Ares”, the popular file sharing program that I use to download songs, and I came up with an old song that I liked very much, when I was in high school. This week song goes to, “Is this Love” performed by the british rock band “White Snake“. White Snake was…

China is now the Third World's largest economy

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This mornig I saw on CNN Money, that China has surpassed Germany as the third largest economy in the world, just behind Japan and the United States. The ranking came up yesterday, after China’s National Bureau of Statistics, revised its 2007 growth number from 11.4%, to 13.5%, according to the article from CNN Money, China had already…

Barak Obama's Official Presidential Picture – First one taken with a Digital Camera

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I’ve just saw in Barak Obama’s transition website, and in Gizmodo’s blog, the official portrait that all the public offices in the United States, will have to have, of the next president of the United States. This would have nothing of special, if it wasn’t for the fact that, Barak Obama’s official picture, is the first…

Mexico cited for "rapid and sudden collapse" by Pentagon

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I was shocked this morning, when I read a note in the online edition of the Mexican newspaper, “El Universal“, that revealed that Mexico, was cited in the section of “Weak and Failing states“, of a report released by the United States Joint Forces command, which is one of the nine combatant commands of the…

I'm a pround father: My baby girl is now in Kindergarten

Yesterday, my daughter Diana finally went to school, she is now in kindergarten. I can’t believe how fast time flies, and now my two daughters are in school. I’m pretty sure that in less than a blink of an eye, they will be in college, (and I’m gonna have to pay their tuition as well,…

Welcome to Hector Sanchez's personal blog!

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Hello, my name is Hector Sanchez and welcome to my personal blog. This blog’s name synthetizes the to things that I’m most interested in: Technology and Businesses , although I’ll use it to blog about other things that interest me as well such as the Economy, Politics and World News. If you want to know…

Internet Marketing in the Spanish Speaking World – Is it Worth it?

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In my quest for a niche market I can target to, today I’ve been thinking a lot about the possibility of picking up a niche targeted to Spanish speaking Internet Users, as Spanish is my first language. So I went on to the good old “Internet World Stats” website so I can take a look…

My Favorite song of the week: Another Sad Song by Toni Braxton

Finally today is Friday and it’s time to post my favorite song of the week. I can’t believe that the first week of the year is almost over. This week’s song goes to”Another Sad Song” by Toni Braxton. I downloaded several songs last month and put them in a CD and this song was among them,…

The Power of Faith: Meet Chris Sharma & Obe Carrion

I’m about half way of finishing reading the book “Tribes” of Seth Godin and I read something that really got my attention. I plan on writing a full review of the book once I finish it but for now, I’d like to focus in only one thing and that is the Power of Faith. Faith…

New animal specie found in Galapagos: A Pink Iguana

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This morning I found a very interesting article at the mexican newspaper “El Universal“, featuring a story about a new specie of a Iguana found in the Galapagos islands. It’s a very rare pink iguana that is actually not a derivative of the iguanas we know, but a totally different iguana with a whole different genetic…