Goodbye 2011 – America in despair

US States and CapitalsI have never analyzed a past year as much as I do now, as to question why has been answered by my closest family and relatives. In a tone of my, supposed, increased maturity and experience in life. Regardless of their perception, it seems that I’m not alone when it comes to the greatest nation on earth. The United States of America.

Perhaps it is only related to my personal interests, but I sense a touch of melancholy and despair whenever I hear about this country’s place in the world. Slight repression of the people, corporate empires, obesity epidemics, ridiculously high debts and idiotic conspiracy theories. Somewhere, underneath the stupidity, I sometimes come across illuminating substance. That shift my focus for a while. Continue reading

I Freakin’ Love This Thing! – Touch Sudoku

Touch Sudoku nr1Ever since I learned Sudoku, I’ve had great difficulty putting it down. That is the book, the print-out, the app and now the console. I find it an awesome way to relax and really use my brain. I have noticed that my current tiredness really affects my performance in the game, that is time to completion. Anyway, I received a really awesome gift this Christmas, Touch-Sudoku. Continue reading

Google Advanced Search: Google Site Search – Search Website Contents

Lesser Ury - Reader With Magnifying GlassIts quite an annoyance when you badly need a search feature, and it just doesn’t exist. When all you got is confusing menus, crappy graphics and giant (foolish) listings. Google has a very useful feature that helps out, that I don’t see used very often. Its called Google Site Search. Continue reading

Divided, Rebuilt and Lost Forever

Smashed CarI have never been interested in mathematics, partly because of my failures in Practical Math class. In any case, I stumbled across a very simple and well established idea, that caused a Paradigm Shift in my way of thinking. I have yet to come up with a practical example, but I can however visualize similar concepts that are of the same nature. Dividing something, then adding the results, in an effort to rebuild. It rarely looks the same it once was, whatever IT may be. Continue reading