Last night I had a thought-provoking experience. No matter how much I tried, I couldn’t sleep. My eyes were tired of looking at the monitor all day long, so I left my computer alone. Instead, I went to the kitchen and looked out the window and stared at the night outside. Our street, Las Acacias, [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Silent Night
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Clouds, El Bosque, Insomnia, Nights, Sleep, Streetlights, Thoughts on August 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Tradition Continues
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Folklore, Girls, National Dress, Panama, Polleras, Tourism, Traditions, Women on August 10, 2010 | 6 Comments »
It’s a long-standing tradition of Panamanian women to wear a pollera at a very early age. They are also taught how to dance typical Panamanian dances that can be traced back to the early Spanish settlers in Panama in the XVth century. These folkloric traditions is what makes the Panamanian identity unique; it’s part of [...]
Cotton in the Sky
Posted in News, tagged Climate, Cumulus Clouds, Deluge, Flood, Nature, Pakistan, Panama, Weather, Wildfires on August 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The climate has turned violent in many parts of the world. Countries like Pakistan, China, India, Germany, and Poland are having a hard time controlling deadly floods that are destroying everything in its path. The deluge has affected approximately 14 million people in Pakistan. The devastation in Pakistan is of such a scale it is [...]
The Journalist Who Had “It”
Posted in News, tagged Charles Kuralt, Dan Rather, Daniel Schorr, David Brinkley, Journalism, Media, News, Oriana Fallaci, Peter Jennings, Television, Tom Brokaw on August 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Covering an event objectively without filtering it through the opinion of the observer is a very difficult task. Many journalists have fallen to the temptation of advocacy journalism or injecting opinion into what should be straight reporting. Daniel Schorr fought this biased journalism till the last of his day of his life, even though it [...]
The Bug was Crushed
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Anti-Virus, Attitude, Computers, Development, Education, Malware, Software, State of Mind, Willpower on August 7, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Today I’m very pleased to advise that my virus is dead. R.I.P. I got my computer back, with a clean bill of health, on Friday late afternoon. After I got it connected to all my stuff, (e.g., speakers, modem, keyboard, monitor, printer and so forth), I fired it up praying that the machine wouldn’t explode. [...]
There’s A Virus Out There…or Here
Posted in Miscellaneous on August 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »
This morning I was in for an unpleasant surprise. I don’t know how or when, but my computer was sick. She got a virus sometime during the night. I tried everything but the beast wouldn’t bulge. The name of the virus is Security Tools, and it was asking for $42.00 to solve the problem. After [...]
Baywatch
Posted in Photography, tagged Bay of Panama, Cities, Panama, Photographs, Pictures, Tourism on August 3, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Major Web Browsers Global Market Share – July 2010
Posted in Web Browsers, tagged Chrome, Competition, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Market Share, Net Applications, Opera, Performance, Safari, Software, Web Browsers on August 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s amazing how far reaching the Internet has become. The Cloud, as it is called, has permeated into just about every activity of our modern societies. It’s like a technological hub where different technologies converge, (e.g., radio, television, telephone, fax and whole lot more.) The vehicle to reach the Cloud is the Web browser, and [...]
A Family Friendly Sport
Posted in Miscellaneous, Uncategorized, tagged Baseball, Entertainment, Families, Family Bonds, Family Values, Societies, Sports on August 1, 2010 | 2 Comments »
There are some sports that I would never watch, although I know saying never is a treacherous word. You never know what lies ahead down the road. I’ll reword the phrase by saying that there are some sports I will try to stay away from, to the best of my abilities. These two specific sports [...]
