Self described "economist by day and diner by night" Tyler Cowen writes an article in the Washington Post on ethnic dining in the Washington metropolitan area. People are often surprised when I tell them there are many Bolivian restaurants in the area, although less so than before. In his article, he interviews Victor Serrano, owner […]
The excellent MABB tells us that Things are Getting Ugly in Bolivia. My native country is in the midst of rewriting the Consitution and it is turning into a divisive process. The main message is that the Constitutional Assembly is in serious crisis. There are calls from the separatists in Santa Cruz (la nacion camba)
On an email list I lurk on, someone asked if there was any way to prevent PDFs on their website from being indexed by crawlers, such as Googlebot, MSNBot, and their cousins. A helpful reply pointed tehm to Jakob Nielsen sidebar on Preventing Search Engines from Spidering PDF Files. Nielsen suggesst using your robots.txt file
Blue Screen of Death is "Anqas Toqu millay" – Filthy Blue Window is the best I could do. Microsoft releases language support for Quechua, one of the native languages spoken in Bolivia. Probably to less fanfare than they expected. "We congratulate Microsoft for having facilitated the use of computers in our own languages, but we
But when I came back in, Staci was up listening for a sound. “You know, before you turned on the AC, I thought I heard something like a scratch.” Something was going on. We fell silent and then we heard the sound of scratching on metal, or was it just metal expanding. No, it was
Debian AMD64 Setup My Linux distribution of choice is Debian, although for the desktop I’d recommend Ubuntu. The server was first setup using the unofficial debian64 repositories. Since the amd64 architecture is now officially part of Debian, we moved to using an official repository. see Google groups. An unofficial repository contains /debian-amd64/ like so: #deb
Talk about putting the cart before the horse! Bolivia’s Hyrdocarbons Ministry aanounced that the nationalization of oil and gas industries will be temporarily suspended. Seems the state company does not have the fund or operating capacity to take over production. Morale’s nationalization program could end up as nothing more than a populist stunt if YPFB
Via Cafe Hayek, Allen R. Sanderson looks at how soccer is structured to explain why the World is passionate about the game and why the USA doesn’t get it. I don’t have time to think about how to reply to the article. Let’s just say that someone who describes the World Cup final as a
Recap of the DC United All-Star game and the Real Madrid match over at DCenters.
Wether your a hoarder or deleter, your inbox says a lot about you according to a study at the Center for Internet Behavior. i’m a deleter, but its more because I get a lot of email that’s not worth keeping after I read them- messages from my server, mlsnet and dcunited offer. If its from