http://www.coliv77.com Espontaneous thoughts about personal technology and digital media Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:34:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently bought a Netbook, the MSI Wind U100-432 to be precise and I must say I'm very happy about it. Granted I'm grumbling about having to use Windows XP and remembering why I love Mac OS so much. Nevertheless, the advantage of running full applications when compared with my first ... http://www.coliv77.com/2008/11/26/working-with-a-netbook/ Yesterday I went to the MIT Forum's Future of Wireless Event. The audience was mostly suits from the telecommunications industry and the usual Atlanta networking crowd. The forum itself was very TV like since it was being transmitted live to 26 other locations around the US. Here are some of my notes. Nothing ... http://www.coliv77.com/2008/11/25/mit-enterprise-forums-future-of-wireless-event/ I've managed to be at a fit level I never could have hoped to achieve. I'm feeling better than ever and I've stopped "dieting" to loose weight. I now eat many more calories but I still do count them daily and also I continue to exercise strongly. The hardest part, according ... http://www.coliv77.com/2008/11/02/weight-loss-update-november-08/ I went to Caracas for a few days of intense work with El Universal. Mostly I was at the Upfront sale for 2009 advertising space, where they exhibited a video starring me. Also got to work on other aspects of my project and see part of the family. ... http://www.coliv77.com/2008/10/26/my-last-trip-to-caracas/ El Universal in Caracas produced a video with me about their future challenges and how media consumption is changing with the advent of media fragmentation. Here it is. I have to translate it into english but most will already see the point. It was hard to convey so many details in ... http://www.coliv77.com/2008/10/25/my-video-for-the-2009-pre-sale-of-el-universal/ Yesterday I received my new MacBook. It's meant to replace the MacBook Pro I've had for more than 2 years now. It's not that that MacBook Pro really needed replacing as it works great. I'm most surprised at how long I was able to keep my old MacBook Pro and ... http://www.coliv77.com/2008/10/16/new-macbook-unibody/ Yesterday was the release of Google's first Android based phone, better known as the G1. The hardware is from HTC and it is tied to T-Mobile in the US. True availability will be by the end of October. I was excited about this but now I must admit I'm a bit ... http://www.coliv77.com/2008/09/24/not-so-impressed-by-the-g1/ I've always been kind of chubby, except when I was a young kid around 7 when I was thin. But since I moved to the US, my weight started to increase. By last december I was as fat as I've ever been and I started really feeling bad about it. ... http://www.coliv77.com/2008/07/26/the-biggest-looser/ I gave a seminar on Monday at the American Press Institute (API) about the newsroom of the future. It was a quick trip except for a cancelled flight on Sunday that almost made me loose the conference entirely. Fortunately they rerouted me to a different airport and after a long ... http://www.coliv77.com/2008/07/15/back-from-speaking-at-the-api/ As many of you know, I couldn't resist. I have the black bag and now want the white one... http://www.coliv77.com/2008/07/11/apple-fan/