July 2009
According to fire eagle i’m now in Chile
Arranged to meet up with the guys from @pinwall at the airport before i leave to chat with them about scaling. It’s a nifty little service.
Ok, i’m coming to realize that Uruguay actually has good broadband compared to Ecuador. I look forward to my dinky home adsl connection.
It’s weird when on twitter you can send somebody a direct message but they can’t send it back, due to follow / following asymmetry
RT @eraad: there, i fixed it… http://thereifixedit.com/ (also via @make)
Earthquake was a 4.5, not that big. RT @rt10runner: #temblor GYE, Magnitud 4.5, Prof 29.30Km, a 10.84 Km de Duran, a 11.04Km de Guayaquil
June 2009
EARTHQUAKE in Guayaquil?!
Using the earthquake just now to figure out number of active twitter users in Guayaquil. @EduardoPalacios http://bit.ly/iyHtm :-)
That definately was an earthquake / temblor / terremoto….
The interview i gave the other day with El Universo about twitter and the like is online. en español http://bit.ly/19NiJ9
Catching up on work from the hammock. It’s the only reasonable place to sit next to a power outlet… Egronomically it’s less than ideal.
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Fire Eagle’s wrong… i’m still in Guayaquil, Ecuador until this night, tomorrow morning, Chile, then midday back home in rainy uruguay.
According to fire eagle i’m now in Uruguay
Done with my talks, all done. Ready to head home. Tired. Not looking forward to a redeye. I think Saturday’s talk went better than today.
On stage, prepping, and the like… quitting twitter.
I wonder, is the HTTP standard masculine or feminine?
CRUD en castellano es algo como CLAB Crear Leer Actualizar Borrar, no? Mi gusta la sueña de CRUD mejor en verdad. :-\
Interesting, the CRUD entry in wikipedia english is 598 words, in Spanish it’s only 92 words long. I think spanish speakers use en.wikipedia
My talk proposal for Web 2 expo in NYC with @blaine got accepted. Implementing privacy & oauth. Guess i’ll be in NYC in November.
Bah, no puedo subir el presentación a slideshare. Voy a hacer mañana en Santiago de Chile cuando cambio vuelos en el regreso.
Looking at the Uruguayan elections results. Wow, %49 of the votes cast in primaries were for Blancos. I don’t see how Frente Ampilo will win
Attempting to upload my presentation from saturday yet again to slideshare. Hopefully i’ve more luck this time.
Well the evangelicos are done with their thing, they seem to be packing and leaving their hotel after their folky godrave thing.
There’s a couple of people staying a the hotel who are drinking mate while sitting in the pool… i think they’re uruguayas
It’s hot, i’m tired, and i’ve got to talks to prep for & give tomorrow , 1 on rails in the morning, and 1 on web services in the afternoon.
It’s 4pm and those evangelicos are *still* doing their thing at the hotel. Church service which has been going on for at least 7 hours!
An hour uploading the presentation to slideshare only to have it fail. Bah. Might have to wait til tomorrow to get it up.
Che, gente de barcamp guayaquil, hay una grabación de mi charla de ayer? #barcampguayaquil09 Quiero publicar con los slides en slideshare.
Attempting to upload my slides from yesterday’s talks to sideshare, well see how it goes. I had to zip it just to get under 100 megs. :-\
Hey @obama, what’s the story, why did your embassy support the coup in Honduras? http://bit.ly/13fOYp Creating dictatorships is cool now?
According to various tweets, www.telesurtv.net and others, it seems that there’s been a coup in Honduras. Come on Obama, you let this happen
RT @rbreve: black smoke + helicopters over Tegucigalpa, Honduras http://bit.ly/S8Waf
RT @Crazthonfry: Totally incommunicado. No power, No TV, No radio, Only twitter. #honduras (translated by me & via @palulo)
The evangelicos are doing church services in the hotel… singing fútbol chants with the words changed so their team is god. how odd
Well reading the back tweets and talking to people it seems like my first attempt at a non-technical went pretty well. Now i’m tired
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blackberry social network software developed by Ecuadorian startup.. apparently they are popular in Indonesia… Funny how the world works.
Hearing about @pinwall, a social network app for blackberries created in by a startup in Ecuador. http://getpinwall.com/ 4 your crackberries
All done with my slides, found a spare room and did a complete practice run. I’m feeling good about the talk. We’ll see how it goes.
The gender ratio at barcamp guayaquil is much more equal than any other barcamp i’ve been to… is it ecuador or the organizing?
“As of the submission by team “BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos”, the competition entered the “last call” period for the Grand Prize.”
Che el chévere, chévere, chévere… creo este palabra no existe en uruguayese. Tenemos barbaro, genial, y buenísimo, pero este chévere no se
Drinking Nescafe… there’s no ingredient list on the jar… Does it even have caffeine in it? It’s not working.