Check the Top 10 Linux Commands you can’t live without

Type the following on your cmd line (or make into an alias) cat ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -r | head In my case they are (for this week) ls fg svnSync (script I created) stats_fetch; stats_display (other scripts) cd crontab -e ps aux | grep ssh_map_command (another script) python emacs -nw

Top 10 “Why” Questions on Google

I often play around with keywords in Google Suggest to see what could be what most people type. It’s very interesting and sad to see what are the top 10 “why” questions from about 148 million people that used Google as of last month. Top 10 “Why” questions in English Why Poems? I guess some […]

Dream: Export Company Dream

I was at a restaurant, it was so full they had a buffer table outside, I sat there to wait for Mauricio who was going to meet me. There was a man siting there, he was reading the menu. All of a sudden Luis Coa came, he greeted Mauricio with a handshake, he shook my […]

N95 – 2 years later

I got this phone on August 1st, 2007, this is how it looks now, 2 years later. I’m still doing my research on what phone I should get. How it looked the first day (August 1st, 2007)

Reference: Linux Network/Bandwidth Monitoring CLI Tools

I often want to see how much bandwidth is consumed by my network interfaces and how this is happening. There’s plenty of tools available in the linux world to monitor your network activity. If you’re a Ubuntu or Debian user you can try the ones I use by installing the following packages. sudo apt-get install […]

I said it before and it’s happening, Twitter closing new Venture round at $1bn valuation

I said it in March 4th 2009, Twitter is a company with billion dollar capable business models behind it which is probably monetizing plenty already while making everybody believe they’re not even focusing on it. Today Techcrunch posts how Twitter is closing a New Venture Round at $1 billion valuation.

Putting Faith in it’s Place

Don’t let yourself be bullied by religious people, for they have no logic arguments, or evidence to support their beliefs, therefore they have no reason to make you believe in what they believe. I found this awesome video via Twitter

Iterative Sierpinksi Fractal (drawn on HTML5 Canvas)

So maybe you’ve seen this very famous fractal called the Sierpinksi Fractal. A few days ago I heard that you could create this fractal pattern by simply plotting out of a random sequence of mid points of an ever growing set of these mid points. So curiosity added with my apetite for playing with the […]

If I Ruled The World – Driving Edition

– All traffic lights would have regressive timers to let drivers know when the light will switch from Green to Red and from Red to Green. No more guessing, and no more honking on people to move their clueless asses. – Traffic lights would have sensors for about a mile before each on every direction, […]

Birthday Trackbacks (30 yrs old – 2009)

As a way to thank back all the people that took a few seconds, minutes, or even hours preparing a happy birthday message for me, here’s the list of all of you. (Here’s last year’s) – My beautiful wife – Laura Borman [uk] (It was great to see you this year in London) – Erika […]