Planeando el e-foro
Posted on May 10th, 2008 by omar
Planning a forum to discuss advance in Internet.
Carlos had an accident: explained
Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by omar
Ok, here’s the skinny. At 1:00pm my brother was driving home from a fast food place drive-thru. At an intersection less than a block away from home, he hit a motorcyclist with his rear-view mirror (he hit the brakes as soon as he saw the motorcycle slow down to turn at the intersection, but his car skid and he managed to only hit the guy with his rear-view mirror). The impact, however was enough that the motorcyclist lost control of the bike and collided with an on-coming guy’s bumper.
Luckily, the motorcyclist only had a minor bruise and did not press charges against my brother. My older brother and I coordinated efforts with our insurance company, a local hospital, where we took the motorcyclist to get first aid and have x-rays taken.
As local police procedure mandates, Carlitos was taken to the local police delegation to await a legal document signed by the motorcyclist saying that they had come to an agreement. This agreement was reached by the insurance company’s lawyer and the motorcyclist after his x-rays and the doctor’s diagnosis showed he did not have any fractures and was otherwise OK. I heard he did receive a shot and some pain medicine.. all taken care of again by the Insurance company.
My older brother accompanied the motorcyclist and his family and the insurance company’s lawyer to the hospital, while I took care of sending the broken motorcycle to the get repaired, once that was done.. I then joined a very gloomy and scared Carlitos at the police delegation.
Finally, at around 4:15, the motorcyclist and his family, my older brother and the insurance company’s lawyer walked into the precinct with the legal document releasing my brother from custody.
In the end, everything turned out OK for all involved… well, sorta… the guy did have a bruise, I got sunburned and had no lunch today, Adolfo only managed to get half a lunch, and Carlitos had quite a scare! But in the big picture, I can happily report that everything is going to be well!
Ubuntu 8.04 finally here
Posted on April 26th, 2008 by omar
It’s here… and again it has been a pleasure to upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04. The upgrade in my aging AMD Athlon XP2400 with 512Mb of ram went flawless. Everything downloaded and installed properly. I left the process running over-night, and I was pleasantly greeted by a dialog asking me to reboot the machine to boot into the new kernel. I pressed the reboot button on the dialog and my machine rebooted without any problems at all.
Just like magic.
Everything works, all my settings from the previous installs prevail… including, I’m happy to report, all my Firefox settings and add-ins. I bring this up, because Ubuntu 8.04 now has Firefox 3 Beta5 installed.. and I’m extremely happy that the upgrade did not kill all my settings and ask me to download my plug-ins again. I’m sooo happy with the upgrade that I’m downloading the install CD as I type this to install it on my main Windows Machine and my work laptop.
It’s just a pleasure to work in Ubuntu and I just love it when things JUST WORK RIGHT!
Soon.. I’ll write up an official review of the product and the new programs that it ships with. But so far, all the older programs that I used regularly in the previous release are still there, and their newer versions work extremely well if not better than the older releases.
Daniela telling her Mango Joke
Posted on April 18th, 2008 by omar
This is Daniela’s favorite joke now. She only knows two… I’ll try to get her to tell the other one on camara as well.
Marco wearing prop glasses
Posted on April 17th, 2008 by omar
Reminds me of Chicken Little and Jerry Seinfeld’s dad!
Admiring her older sister
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by omar
Luciana just loves here little sister to bits. Oh yeah, those scratches on Daniela’s nose are not from Lucina, but from a nasty fall she had… and she forgot to use her hands to protect her face as she was coming down.
Having lunch at Mc Donald’s
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by omar
What is it about kids and Mc Donald’s? They just love the place!
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