Today, July 4th, our friends in US are celebrating Independence Day. They commemorates the fact that the Continental Congress proposes Independence from Britain by singing the Declaration of Independence. I recently found in Neatorama 10 facts about the Declarations that will trill you. Of course, I recommend to read the complete…
My fellow #Blog30 Challenger Jane Lee invited me as her guest blogger in recent days. We decided that my topic must be «blogging in another language», because she invited me to do «Economy without pain» an audiopodcast in english, and also comment in my bilingual blog. She asked me to…
Someone had asked me why I don’t want to comment on the election results of last sunday, July 4th. Of course I did, but not in this site. As I said, I want that «Dichos y Bichos. Bugs and Saids. A log of the travel of life» was a place…
Speaking of the oil (Petroleum) spill of the Deepwater Horizon platform, I found this post from Senator Adriana González Carrillo (PAN-Party Elected). I want to recommend it! Her diagnostic is precise and I hope that she can, in her senatorial labor, make better laws on the issue. Also I want to…
Ok, let’s see… Mexican electoral system is so suspicious, that we divided the electoral process in two whole days -but not as a primary election-. The first, citizens go and vote in ballots, and the selected citizens as electoral board receptors, take the votes, count it, fill acts and report…
Many markets are based on fear. And it’s all right that insurance, armored vehicles, locksmiths and similar offers solutions to concrete problems that individuals had, and all based on fear. By example, in the insurance deal, someone are afraid of a theft or accident could occur. Then goes to the…
Mexico City had a new program of videocameras fixed in all the city. The program will ended with the colocation and control of near 8,500 cameras installed. Some of them are state-of-the-art, with capabilities or «hear» shots and turn around to locate the place of fire. The program, which starts…
In yesterday’s post I comment that the new surveillance system in Mexico City includes cameras on the subway, and that they will be used to detect delinquents who had warrants and don’t be arrested yet. The system had a facial recognition system that scans every user faces. Yesterday I found…
At the end of 2009, my Twitter Friend @El_Enigma invited me to write a column about Applied Economy for his blog sumayresta.net The idea of the column is to analyze an everyday problem with the economy tools, but trying don’t to use complicated mumbo-jumbo. And our common idea is that…
For all the people who had read this blog in the last month or so, it will be a surprise the change in all the stuff: design, tools, content… And maybe you are surprised. You must not!! It happens that, as I said, it’s my first blog in a while,…
