September 2006

306 Diggs tiene este enlace a las imágenes de Google. Un regalo del diseñador que ha hecho todos estos logos... http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/how-long-is-8-years-in-internet-time.html.

Well... panic passed and now it's all just a big blur, like my hard drive. I bought a new Samsung hard drive, 80GB, and took the damaged to a data recovery expert. Yesterday he told me he wasn't able to recover any data whatsoever from my HDD. All the information I had on it was lost, forever.

My laptop stopped working a few hours ago. I'd done some work in the morning on it, closed the lid to make it hybernate, took off to the office and when I turned it on, I just got an error. It doesn't even load the system now. Error 0200 Disk Failure. I had so much information in it that hasn't been backed up, including everything I did this morning, tons of work, my email (which I'd saved for years up to now)... Panic. Panic.Panic.Panic.

Stephen Downes was here for a conference on virtual learning objects. "Bogotá hasn't changed. You've changed." Said Diego to him at the end of their journey around the city. Thanks Diego for bringing Stephen for the conference, for showing him around.

Thanks Stephen for this. I'm still thinking about it.

http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2006/09/bogota.html

I found a keynote speech Chris Dede did a few months ago in a conference. Something he said about doing River City Singapore made me think he must be working with Kate on doing this. How hard and stupid would it be to do it in three countries, not just US and Singapore, but also Colombia. Eafit and the research group there could backup and do the research on this side with Harvard and the Singapore institute doing it in Boston and wherever it is Kate is.

Ayer se fue mi hermana, Jacinto, a estudiar antropología médica en la Universidad de Amsterdam. Hoy nos vimos un ratico por messenger y me contó que todo va bien. No hablamos mucho, pero sí le pude ayudar con algunas cositas referentes a su nuevo blog, el cual pueden encontrar en www.adrianadiazdelcastillo.com.

Bad habits do die hard... what a common place.

My mailbox at work has an outrageously amazing capacity: 25MB. In my hard drive, in my personal laptop I have all my email dating back to 2000 or maybe 1999. I am used to saving every non-spam email I get. This isn't a bad habit for work, since so much is done by email. I am able to keep track of a lot of things looking a back email exchanges.