On January1, 2008 I started Lingua Franca. My intentions were to write daily posts about technology, environment, photography, humor and other social issues. Now, fifteen months later, I feel so proud to advise that more than one hundred thousand visitors have read my posts—100,273 visitors to be exact. That was the statistics on WordPress this [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Lingua Franca Reached the 100,000 Visitors Landmark
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Blogs, Lingua Franca, Statistics, Visitors, Wordpress on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An Entrepreneur Emerging Under the Traffic Lights of Panama
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Business, Coconut Water, Entrepreneurship, Panama, Passion on March 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Usually when a person is laid off, it has dramatic psychological effects difficult to overcome. The blow is too hard to absorb. This is happening around the world even as we speak, as the economic turmoil deepens. Millions of people are getting the pink slip and the lines of jobless persons are growing like grass [...]
Photograph of the Day: A Coconut Water Stand in Panama
Posted in Photography, tagged Coconut Water Stand, Panama, Photograph, Street Workers, Traffic on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Project to Capture the Spirit of the Former Panama Canal Zone
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Books, Constructions, Engineering, History, Panama, Panama Canal, Panama Canal Zone, Pyramids, The Path Between the Seas on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Panama Canal construction project started on 1904 and finished on 1914, just at the start of World War I. The Republic of Panama had decided to separate itself from Colombia and signed a treaty with the United States for the construction of an international waterway which would unite the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. According [...]
Photograph of the Day: An Old Bank Building in Panama
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Banco Nacional de Panama, Banking, Central America, Dollar, Economy, Federal Reserve Bank on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Banco Nacional de Panama (BNP) is a state-owned commercial bank which acts very similarly to the Federal Reserve Bank in the United States. The only exception is that the BNP does not print paper money; it only issues Panama coins. It is to be noted that Panama does not have paper money. The Balboa [...]
A Quote to Remember
Posted in Quotes, tagged Accomplishment, Morale, Motivation, Performance, Quote, Self Improvement on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.” – Maltbie Babcock Source: My Way – My Page Blogged with the Flock Browser
Two Old Movie Theaters of Casco Viejo, Panama
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Casco Viejo, Cowboys, Entertainment, Movies, Panama, Theaters on March 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
After I graduated from eighth grade at the Farm #8 School in Bocas del Toro, I was flown to Panama City to continue my high school education. That was in 1963, many years ago during the Jurassic Age. (Smile) My parents arranged my stay at Doña Titi’s home which was located at Plaza Herrera, right [...]
Photograph of the Day: A Panama Photographer With a Mexican Taste
Posted in Photography, tagged La Peatonal Street, Panama, Pedestrian Street, Photograph, Photographer, Tourism on March 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
