After a week dealing with software updates, and thinking how far I feel from main subject from this personal & technology notes, suddenly I found this TED-Talk. It makes me reconcile with human being, where hand-made stuff, art and artist, makes us feel, again, like a child.
Handmade technology & art(ist)
Amazon in Spain
Couple of weeks ago Amazon has come to Spain. As long as I’m Amazon customer (both UK & USA sites) I have a look on it. Nothing new, just Amazon. There’re two things where Amazon may have a great impact in Spain:
- digital books, because the lack of good aproach from publishers, they seems to be blind
- distribution, because they portfolio, price and cost on delivery
I need books, traditional ones not digital, for my yet not finished university studies. So I check my university online store and Amazon. In short: Amazon is cheaper (even more, if I consider Amazon offer free cost delivery and my university charges an amount for it). Amazon is easier.
The truth must be told and I’ve to admit Amazon has no stock, but honestly, is this particular case I can wait a few days.
In conclusion, IT technologies may help -significantly- to bussines success; easiness in use, delivery efficiency, cost reduction, process management… that’s what you may find after my buy decision in Amazon.
Watch your thoughts
Watch your thoughts, for they become words,
Watch your words, for they become actions’
Watch your actions, for they become habits’
Watch your habits, for they become character’
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny
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Goodbay Planet, hello WordPress
Lately I’m being helping a friends in getting together a couple of blogs. Those blogs are on different platforms, with different publishimg rythim.
My friends wants to put it all together in a single website, all this blogs ordered by publishing time, the most recent at the top of the page. The ideal scenario is all has to be done automatically.
Inmediatly I think about Planet using sindication. There’re different software for this purpose -truth must be told and there’re not so much options- for instance; Planet requieres Python.
But a very good friend of mine -thank you Jaime- found an interesting plugin for WordPress that really gets the same results without such requirement, much more easy to install and very very easy to manage for a non expert admin.
So, deal done! The plugin is FeedWordPress (as long I remember that’s the plugin name)
Updating blog stuff
I’ve updated my WordPress installation (yeah, I know, a little bit later…) and as long as I was expending few time on reviewing some of most popular WordPress plugins.
So I decide give a chance to All in One SEO Pack which is -nowadays- most used for SEO improvement on WordPress.
Easy to install from your dashboard and easy to configure, just a few options to fulfil, click on Save and go for it. Let’s see in a couple of weeks -maybe less- how does it improve our Google appearance. I’ll keep you up to date.
…and by now, I’m not bored at all with this simple & clean theme, I have to say.
Mira eso – Look at that
Spanish version:
Desarrollas una conciencia global instantánea, una orientación hacia las personas, una intensa insatisfacción con el estado del mundo, y una obligación de hacer algo al respecto. Desde allí en la luna, la política internacional se ven tan pequeña. Quieres coger un político por el cuello y arrastrarlo a un cuarto de millón de millas y decirle, “Mira eso, hijo de puta“
Visto en Un astronauta del Apolo en atolladeros políticos (Boing-boing)
Apps for GTD Work
Nowadays I’m interested in GTD (Get Things Done) an approach to time-management very popular. If don’t know anything about it have a read to wikipedia article about GTD (I found it more clear than Allen’s own explanation on his web page).
As long as a main principle is not to keep task in your mind (it’s recommended to use a store to keep it all inside) I’m looking for an application that let’s me syncronized my smart-phone with, computer and I would appreciate web access.
There’re a lot of applications appearing all around:
- Omnifocus: even Allen mention it on his web page (quite often by the way) according a lately article you’ll see it has a lack of usability (not mention about the price, 15,99€)
- Things: very popular among Mac users, lack of sequence task requirements (7,99€).
- Toodledo: crossplatform, very popular & it has sub-task! (2.33€)
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Nozbe: as good as any other, Apple oriented development, implementing GTD methodology, translated into Spanish
it has no subtask but they say why (3,99€) - Producteev: GTD implementation, or so they say and free up to 100mb & 2 users
Between two first applications now I got a clear approach by reading an article about why Things can’t do GTD there, even OmniFocus comes out with fails.
This days I’m using Wunderlist, it has two major fails: first it does not apply GTD methology (although I do) and sometimes app get freeze if I try to modify a date in a reminder… But it’s free, and it’s a begining.
A bunch of options for you to get started with, but don’t forget, the main issue is to know and practice what GTD methology teaches. I’m planning to switch to a full GTD oriented app, I’ll writte about my choice just to share experiences.
Construid
Cada espíritu se construye una morada, y más allá de esa morada un mundo, y más allá de ese mundo un cielo. Sabed, pues, que el mundo existe para vos. Y para vos es el fenómeno perfecto. Sólo podemos ver lo que somos.
Construid, pues, vuestro propio mundo.
Ralph W. Emerson
Todo, nada, hombre, solo, cielo
Reconocer la verdad como verdad y al mismo tiempo como error; vivir los contrarios sin aceptarlos; sentir todo de todas las maneras y no ser nada finalmente sino el entenidimiento de todo.
Cuando el hombre se yergue hasta esa cima está libre, como en todas las cimas, está solo, como en todas las cimas, está unido al cielo, al que nunca está unido, como en todas las cimas.
Cluod computing all around…
The main stream is to talk about Google+ … well, yeah, I know, and I already got my Google+ account in use, but now I didn’t wrote a single line about that.
I want to point and emphazise to things that pass unnoticed for most of us: Amazon. Let me explain myself.
First: Apple uses Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure as a software architecture for they brand new cloud services (for example you may read about in English or in Spanish). It may sounds peculiar but they build cloud services over an existing cloud services.
Second: Recently I received an updated from Dropbox about TOS and so on. If you read carefully (I know you allways do) Privacy Terms or Security Page and you’ll search inside those pages the word Amazon you’ll notice Dropbox also relies on Amazon S3 services for cloud computing services.
So, as a conclusion
- cloud computing is here to stay (no matter what you think about it, you’d better get used to it) and the cloud may be in or out your own company (yes, you may build you own cloud inside your company)
- Amazon is doing an excellent job, while mos of the people assume they just sell books on line, the fact is, they sell book, jewelry, and many things, but also, excellent ebook readers, web services, storage…
We should have a look permanently on Amazon.