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Previously to my career at VNU BME, I helped a friend relaunch his site targeting private lessons in the U.S. It was a great idea that had a lot of trouble getting off the ground. As so many good ideas do. When I went to VNU, it consumed nearly every second of [...]

Ok, this is semi-annoying, and semi-interesting. but fun in a narcissistic way.
“E-mail chain letters annoy me as much as they annoy you because they are usually based on lies. How many times has that girl in the hospital been on her death bed waiting for your friends, right? As if. This blogger chain letter [...]

I was scanning some online jargon/lingo dictionaries for some site marketing purposes, and came across a new term (new to me):
nerd rustler: The person in a corporate personnel department responsible for hiring computer programmers. (found it here on netlingo.com)
Of course there’s the closely related classic, for which I can relate:
nerd herder: A manager [...]

If you’ve ever managed engineers, you likely see some truth in this.
Q: How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. It’s a hardware problem.
Can you guess how the systems administrator would tell this joke?

OK, trying not to be one of those new parents that can’t stop gabbing about their kid, but hey, once you have one it is a life changer. But I’ll make it short.
Here’s little Rafa with one of his first smiles caught on camera. and yes I am a wee bit proud:

Yes kids, a milestone has been achieved, this very site you are gazing at has a google pagerank of 1 (ok, and only in 1 of god knows how many GOOG datacenters), but hey Rome wasn’t built overnight. You may be thinking, “ha ha ha ha, you sad little man, my grandmothers hair-removal-adventures-blog has a [...]

ok, this IS news.

A friend forwarded this to me.  I think i’ll have to consider moving to Australia, their news is way more entertaining than listening to CNN and the whole lot. check it out at smh.com.au.

just put live a humor website i’ve been meaning to make for ages. it’s purely a hobby site, no business intention. I’d really like to see if i can get a online community started. easier said than done. it’s not a novel idea either, yet another challenge. [...]

take two of these and don’t call me in the morning.

kudos to the depressed individual who killed some free time with this.

A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a man below. He descended a bit more and shouted, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”
The man below replied, “You are [...]