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Free antivirus programs for Windows

Some of the free (not necessarily as in freedom) antivirus programs I recommend when asked are: clamwin This is the first one I recommend, being my best ethical pick since its free software. It is a good scanner and it takes almost no memory, since its not constantly scanning every single thing you do. This […]

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I’m a lucky guy

Seeing this xkcd comic made me think about how lucky I am with my girlfriend. She listens to all my ramblings about free software and free culture and she even went to my anti drm talks I’ve given on several universities. She puts up with it. I’m not sure if she buys it, but at […]

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Sarah Brightman Symphony tour concert

I just arrived from being at the Arena Monterrey, where Sarah Brightman gave her Symphony tour concert. I was very excited for weeks that I’ll finally see one of my favorite opera singers. Bought the tickets with months of anticipation. The day I the tickets started selling, I got mine and most entrances were sold […]

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Lifeblog post

Fri 26/09/2008 00:46 Text note (Note): Testing lifeblog from nokia n95 Testing Related posts: No related posts.

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Depending on web services

What would happen if your access to most of your online services were to be disabled? What would you loose? I’ve been in situations where we have to decide either to run certain applications on our server, like E-mail, scheduling, project management, etc. Or use the ubiquitous, given-for-granted web services from huge companies with huge […]

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The last lecture

I just bumped with this lecture about dreams and life. It’s by Randy Pausch, a virtual reality expert and now dying from cancer. He teaches us his last lecture, which is about how to conduct your life to accomplish your dreams. It has a very emotional and unexpected twist at the end. Loved it. Related […]