There she is, somewhere, watching closely. Not liking all she sees but trusting those she trusts. Always expecting the best and giving all, unconditionally. Communicating through gestures, love and smiles, there she is, somewhere. If you ask she will answer, quietly, warmly, lovingly. For what she was best I am made out of it now. Not a bit less I love her today, not a bit more I wish I had another chance. For the love, the hugs, the smile; there she is, somewhere. Cheers.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Are You App’solutely Sure You Are on the Right Track?
I am pretty sure we wont remember when it got to us, when it got to be part of our daily lives. Once you woke up, you picked up the paper and browsed through the news. All of a sudden we are writing, we are tweetin’. We write about others and we @mention and we use #hashtags, we are using symbols, hieroglyphics? We are curators, limited to 140 characters regardless of whatever it is we would like to say. We love to update our status, what we are thinking, what we are doing, where we are. We are selling our personal information but we are not getting paid; we’re facebookin’.
We buy phones we can customize, we buy “smartphones”. We load hundreds of apps and we spend countless hours on each one them. We engage in long term data contracts, gigabytes is our new gold; forget 1,500 minutes, unlimited nights and weekends, that’s history.
There is a lot to question about the future of voice as an application, an “over-the-top” service now? With speculations that apple for example should be looking into acquiring a mobile carrier placing FaceTime, its video and voice communications platform as the center of the iPhone, it simply blows my mind. It opened up my eyes, it makes so much sense.
Come to think about it, really, there would be no voice plan on your mobile phone service; no voice on a mobile phone! Of course not, the data-only service plan with access to hundreds thousands of apps already available, music and video streaming, VoIP becomes another native service, running just as your highly acclaimed Angry Birds game or even Facebook. Voice, as we know, it’s for singing; VoIP is for talking. Scary but true.
And so, the voice mail goes; yes you guessed it, it will go too. The so much popular service, used by so many for such a long time will eventually disappear. Why? IM. Simply IM. Why call and bother someone when you can just drop a single note: “call me, I need to tell you something.”
So I was just thinking, are we really, app’solutely on the right track?
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
on Maruja - Mother's Day 2010
For what you are, I miss you. For what you were, I admire you. For what you wanted to be, I love you; for what you got to be, I celebrate you. For you I love and for love is to be you. You made the strong out of me and you made sense of what I am. Forever I will be grateful, and forever my love I give to you… For the greatest mother I got to have, Maruja, this is your day and this day I give to you.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
A New Beginning
It has been a while since I picked up a pencil and a piece of paper, or should I say, picked up my computer and started typing. It feels as if while I was getting lost in translation, I was finding peace and tranquility; now that I am back home, I am lost in the routine. I was brought back to this filthy place where it seems things are happening for us and not by us. It is almost as if we where reprogrammed the minute we stepped out of the airplane.
It is good though, back with my beautiful daughter and amazing son which I missed so badly while being away for so long. My office, my desk, my environment; those things that when I breathe, they provide me with such positive energy that a smile builds up around my face. But it's only a couple of things that really have such an effect on my daily routine while so many step on my way uninvited. It is good to have learned to admire the good and the bad, the nice and the ugly, to accept the challenges as facts and turned them around for a profit. It was good to think straight for a while, to organize myself, my thoughts, my behavior, it was all worth every millisecond.
Now life goes on and the challenge still remains. It has been about a month and a half since we got back and we have noticed very little changes in our baby, although little changes can become big changes if we do not let ourselves run out of patience. My wife has been so dedicated to this little person that it is simply admirable and I could not doubt for a second that with her persistence and determination, there is no other way but up.
I am in constant research in order to find solutions and answers; little by little, step by step. And there are solutions out there, only that not a single one will produce real results, but it is when in concert that they will shine up in brightness and color. Wait, and execute, wait, and execute some more.
For the past ten years my life has trained me to be a scientist, a man in constant look for logical answers into every problem and situation I face. It actually brought me to think and to write: if it doesn't have a scientific explanation, it's a religion. How and why did I come up with such a statement? It doesn't really matter, it is a way of looking at things specially when your professional life demands it.
So I get the chance to resolve many technical issues every day of my life because my job demands it. See, we are in a business that has been evolving since the early nineties and it's still not homogenized or standardized. All elements across a network are not close to compatible to each other, yet we make them work. It's as if you go to an international convention and for the purpose of making communications easy, it is held in the widely popular english language. However, there is the guy from Denmark with its own perception of the english language, having a conversation with the Russian who is not agreeing with the German because the French, yes, the French, has to say no to everything. So there you have them all speaking in English yet not understanding the intentions in their words to the full extent; it is an english speaking communication environment to the 67.42%. I get the chance to make things work, I twitch them, I change them, I kick them until they get to do whatever it is I want them to do. I get to repair the conception of many of my colleagues that a simple "that does not work" will do for them; not for me my friends, not for me.
The challenge presented is somehow more controversial. The chance and opportunity presented has been now to repair a human being, to give it the right we all have to live a normal life and enjoy everything this universe has to offer. The challenge is to play God and to play the doctor. Although I'm neither, I have been taught to seek and constantly seek for answers, and to try everything with every possible variable until all resources are exhausted. It is what I am, it is built in me, and I thank the universe for giving me such a challenge to prove myself that if you put your mind into something, you can really get to its achievement. Everything has a logical explanation, nothing is just "what it is". So I will dedicate my efforts and resources to see this through and only to prove myself and to show myself that in this huge and black-holed aligned universe, there is a way to succeed.
Well my friends, that time has come. The time in which I get to work and face all my challenges. But something has changed in the process, I will be heart and mind, body and soul, and not just an individual piece separated from the core. So I leave you here and hopefully see you soon.
Love you all, always and forever.
Tuto.38
It is good though, back with my beautiful daughter and amazing son which I missed so badly while being away for so long. My office, my desk, my environment; those things that when I breathe, they provide me with such positive energy that a smile builds up around my face. But it's only a couple of things that really have such an effect on my daily routine while so many step on my way uninvited. It is good to have learned to admire the good and the bad, the nice and the ugly, to accept the challenges as facts and turned them around for a profit. It was good to think straight for a while, to organize myself, my thoughts, my behavior, it was all worth every millisecond.
Now life goes on and the challenge still remains. It has been about a month and a half since we got back and we have noticed very little changes in our baby, although little changes can become big changes if we do not let ourselves run out of patience. My wife has been so dedicated to this little person that it is simply admirable and I could not doubt for a second that with her persistence and determination, there is no other way but up.
I am in constant research in order to find solutions and answers; little by little, step by step. And there are solutions out there, only that not a single one will produce real results, but it is when in concert that they will shine up in brightness and color. Wait, and execute, wait, and execute some more.
For the past ten years my life has trained me to be a scientist, a man in constant look for logical answers into every problem and situation I face. It actually brought me to think and to write: if it doesn't have a scientific explanation, it's a religion. How and why did I come up with such a statement? It doesn't really matter, it is a way of looking at things specially when your professional life demands it.
So I get the chance to resolve many technical issues every day of my life because my job demands it. See, we are in a business that has been evolving since the early nineties and it's still not homogenized or standardized. All elements across a network are not close to compatible to each other, yet we make them work. It's as if you go to an international convention and for the purpose of making communications easy, it is held in the widely popular english language. However, there is the guy from Denmark with its own perception of the english language, having a conversation with the Russian who is not agreeing with the German because the French, yes, the French, has to say no to everything. So there you have them all speaking in English yet not understanding the intentions in their words to the full extent; it is an english speaking communication environment to the 67.42%. I get the chance to make things work, I twitch them, I change them, I kick them until they get to do whatever it is I want them to do. I get to repair the conception of many of my colleagues that a simple "that does not work" will do for them; not for me my friends, not for me.
The challenge presented is somehow more controversial. The chance and opportunity presented has been now to repair a human being, to give it the right we all have to live a normal life and enjoy everything this universe has to offer. The challenge is to play God and to play the doctor. Although I'm neither, I have been taught to seek and constantly seek for answers, and to try everything with every possible variable until all resources are exhausted. It is what I am, it is built in me, and I thank the universe for giving me such a challenge to prove myself that if you put your mind into something, you can really get to its achievement. Everything has a logical explanation, nothing is just "what it is". So I will dedicate my efforts and resources to see this through and only to prove myself and to show myself that in this huge and black-holed aligned universe, there is a way to succeed.
Well my friends, that time has come. The time in which I get to work and face all my challenges. But something has changed in the process, I will be heart and mind, body and soul, and not just an individual piece separated from the core. So I leave you here and hopefully see you soon.
Love you all, always and forever.
Tuto.38
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