Sometimes issues between family members or friends can escalate rather quickly, especially when there are poor communication media involved. This is why I hate using chat, email or any other type of written communication. It is impersonal, small things are quickly taken out of context and can have quite big Read more…
During a skating run I fell backwards and broke my wrist on the ice. I got a nasty fracture with my wrist and this will need cirgury to get it straightened out. The ice skating facilities had evening perfectly arranged, they took me to the traumatologist by ambulance, there they straightened Read more…
Here at my place we are now celebrating the final hours of 2013. We didn’t win the lottery this year, nor did we have much luck with other things so 2014 is the time to set sails into a new direction. As far as software development goes, I’ll be using Read more…
To all my friends and readers, I wish you all a very good & nice 365 days 🙂
The Mayans are just like the Chilean government. They promise a lot but they don’t deliver anything…
It is nice to have a torrent client to download data from the web, but the issue is often that you do not want your workstation on 24/7 whenever you want to download something. I have a little server here that is doing the heavy lifting, so why not use Read more…
The summer has arrived in Valdivia, with EXTREME UV RADIATION 😀 Temperatures are going up and above 30C in my office, once it reaches more than 32C I’m taking the day off. (At 35C I’m shutting down my servers as well.) Last year this happened about 10 times, this year (from Read more…
My car has passed the road test, I got all the paper work done and after now about a week driving in it I can say that I’m happy that I’ve got it running again. It was an expensive endevour, but it was worth it. The alarm system of the Read more…
More and more often media sites are cutting down on content in their RSS feeds, with ‘read more’ links to get you to visit the site and link bait titles to seemingly trying to get you interested. What most companies know is that there’s competition out there and other sites Read more…
Today I had to do my checks for my driver’s license. Here in Chile they do a psychological and technical evaluation of your motor skills and an eye exam. I passed both with flying colors. The exams they do here are things like reaction tests and simple motor skills. I wonder if Read more…