Category Archives: Tech

Joost

I have been beta testing Joost. This is a computer app created by the same guys who did Kazaa and Skype. It is a peer-to-peer video broadcasting application and it wants to do to the TV industry what Skype is doing to telephony and Kazaa did to file distribution.
The video and sound quality are very [...]

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Why Vista Sucks Reason #433

At work, on my test machine… if I press the PrtSc key (to take a screenshot, of course) the computer freezes completely, requiring a hard reboot. This worked fine on the same machine using Windows 2000 or WindowsXP (which aren’t exactly pieces of art either).
On a happier note, I’m scheduled to receive my new Mac [...]

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Wii Action Shots

See Aarón and Thelma nuke it out in Wii Sports (bowling, boxing and tennis) in this high impact, low quality crappy cellphone photos in the Ultimate Wii Appeal Challenge for Not So Young People:

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Infrared Vision 2

Giant robots with infrared vision keep chasing me. Here’s how I look to them:

Again, the big cold nose proves it’s really me.

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Engadget gets hacked!

No mention of this anywhere on the website now. Anyway, I thought it’s interesting. Sadly, either my security is too tight or nobody cares about hacking The Marcos Kirsch Experience

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Migrating from MovableType to WordPress

Well, I just imported every entry from my MovableType blog.
Categories preserved, all posts, all comments, even images look ok.
I screwed something up with the character encoding, so accents (i.e. México) look funny. I may or may not fix that, since most of the blog is in English anyway.
I still have to fix the template, to [...]

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Infrared Vision

This is what I would look like to a 25 meter tall killer robot with infrared vision:

…in case you were wondering.
(Yes, it’s really me. My nose is noticeable colder than the rest of my body. Could it be because it’s so big?)

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Shiny

Which one should I get (both?). Decisions decisions decisions.
(courtesy: Engadget)

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FIFA 2005

Just when I thought I may skip a year, they announce that FIFA 2005 will include the full Mexican Soccer League.
Here’s a screenshot of the most important game played in Mexico: Monterrey VS Tigres.

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I just had lunch with Bjarne Stroustrup

Well… me and another 250 persons or so.
For those not in the know, Bjarne Stroustrup designed and implemented the C++ language.
He is visiting National Instruments today and gave a conference. Very interesting, touching on everything from the goals and future direction of C++ and standarization processes to his opinion on Java and C#. The Q&A [...]

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