Month: January 2006

  • Escopetarras and lousy t-shirts

    This week two interesting news got my attention:The first one is about César López a Colombian musician and Luis Alberto Paredes (a musical instruments manufacturer) who are converting weapons into instruments. This week the colombian vicepresident Francisco Santos, gave César two AK47 from former paramilitars, to have them transformed. The ‘Escopetarras’ (escopeta / gun +…

  • Well done Longhorns!

    The University of Texas (UT) football team won last night the Rose Bowl beating the University of South California (USC) 41-38 and became National Champions. This is a huge accomplishment for the team, for the University and its home town Austin. 1970 was the last time UT won the National Championship. I don’t particularly love…

  • Vacations in Colombia 2005

    Here are the pictures from my trip to Colombia in December. Sorry it took me too long to publish them, but my PowerBook’s hard drive almost died and I struggled for a couple of days to recover my data (including my pictures!). Finally Disk Warrior fixed my HD. I highly recommend this tool. Click here…