Discussion: Water as a medium of Intercontinental High Speeds Data Transfer

If water can transfer sound (low frequencies) 4 times faster than air, can it do the same for higher frequencies? could you encode megabits/s at an ideal physical frequency range and transmit it over rivers, seas, or even oceans? I’m thinking that the Air is probably one of the worst data transmission mediums available, it’s […]

Legalization: Yes We Can

Repost if you can. This ad is the first TV Ad ever to be run nationwide in Pro of Marijuana legalization. It started today, 4/20 “four twenty” a date that matches the pot-iconic number. It’s time it’s legalized, it’s not like they’re not smoking, you might as well tax it, create jobs, export it and […]

Space Data making wireless connectivity available from the stratosphere

As seen on Techcrunch, it seems Google may be putting its eye on this company.

The Fat Tax

I think the only way to end with the Fat people in america is to call for a Fat Tax. My initial proposal would be to tax per every pound extra, per month, there should be standards defined based on your age and size. Say something like one dolar per extra pound a month would […]

En vez labor social obligada, pq no poner a trabajar a los delincuentes?

Hace un tiempo antes de las elecciones hablaba con Kakei, y menciono el una idea muy interesante, y nada nueva… Poner a trabajar a los presos. En venezuela y otros paises latinoamericanos, no es ningun secreto que la situacion carcelaria es un desastre, quizas deberian empezar por liberar espacio en las carceles al poner a […]

Episode 0006 – How to get an IT job in 20 days

In this podcast I talk about what’s going on with wedoit4you.com, what’s going on with this blog, and then I’ll start telling you my best practices on job hunting. How to look for job postings? How to write a cover letter for IT companies The first phone contacts What to do before the first interview […]

What will be the next thing after the Internet?

My girlfriend is doing a paper on how to distribute media (mostly video) through the Internet, and why we’re not quite there yet, during the conversation we started talking about the evolution of technology and she came up with a very interesting set of thoughts. This post will be about how people grew up along […]

Firefox 1.6 might include Python interpreter:

Rumors say Google engineers are working on a branch of code that will allow embedding python code on the client side. It seems finally we won’t have to deal with an Object Based language (javascript) which makes sense… Now we’ll have a true Object Oriented language running on the backend of Firefox. This totally makes […]

The future of media – Part II – “The triad of DVRs, P2P and Social Networking”

In honor to the future of media, and by the suggestion of kakei-ho I decided to make this post in audio, aka, a Podcast. OGG Stream (Point your xmms, winamp, iTunes to this location) Magnet Download in ogg vorbis (You need LimeWire to download Magnets) Magnet Download in mp3 In this podcast you’ll hear me […]