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<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://tumblr.superfeedr.com/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"/><description></description><title>Opinions and worse things</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @omardelrio)</generator><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>México cambia hasta que:</title><description>&lt;p&gt;1 - Respetemos el derecho a los demás a opinar,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2 - no usemos apodos para nuestros políticos, &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3 - no usemos el acotamiento como tercer carril,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4 - esperemos nuestro turno en las filas,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;5 - podamos debatir sin insultarnos,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;6 - castiguemos a los que violan las leyes y los reglamentos, &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;7- dejemos de pensar que el problema son los demás y no nosotros mismos,&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/51115218762</link><guid>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/51115218762</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 20:40:38 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>No hay a quien irle.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;AMLO - Es muy difícil tomarme la pastilla del pesimismo y que todo esta mal. Destruye el trabajo de muchos con sus palabras. Me da miedo por que solo lo que él piensa es la verdad, si no ahí véanlo negando datos del INEGI o insistiendo que la masa amorfa &amp;#8220;ciudadana&amp;#8221; piensa como él. Personalidad mesiánica. El &amp;#8220;yo tengo la razón&amp;#8221;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;EPN - No se me olvida el sufrimiento de mis papás por las crisis recurrentes. No se me olvida por qué tuve que salirme de donde nací. Es un aparato con tendencias absolutistas, lleno de complicidades. El &amp;#8220;el partido tiene la razón&amp;#8221;. Responsable del estancamiento de México - después de todo, son mayoría en el congreso, gobiernan la mayoría de los estados. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;JVM - Ni frío ni caliente, indiferente. En materia económica coincido con ellos. En materia social, representan lo más retrasado de la sociedad. El partido más democrático, pero que no ha sabido concretar. No es eficaz. El &amp;#8220;tengo la pelota y no sé que hacer con ella&amp;#8221;. Perdieron las agallas.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/24608708439</link><guid>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/24608708439</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 09:08:17 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>¿Por qué la gente vota de la forma en que vota?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Hace un par de días leia una columna en El Norte, donde la editorialista se preguntaba, ¿por qué va ganando el partido tal?&amp;#8230; también he oído comentarios de personas cercanas que se preguntan lo mismo.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Investigué un poco, informalmente, las razones por las cuales alguien vota por quien vota. No estoy diciendo que este bien o mal, pero me dió mucha curiosidad dadas las preguntas que he escuchado. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Salieron varias respuestas (excluyo una, de la cual espero poder escribir después):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Por tradición: &lt;/strong&gt;existen familias enteras que han votado siempre por el PRI por ejemplo. No de una forma coaccionada, sino por convicción, costumbre. De la misma forma en la que alguien festeja el día del niño o la navidad. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Por conveniencia:&lt;/strong&gt; también hay personas, que aun y no concordando con el partido en si, dependen de que el partido gane. Anoten aquí las razones oscuras también (algún contrato prometido), o las no oscuras pero comprensibles (mi trabajo depende de quien gane). &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Por apatía: &lt;/strong&gt;existe otro grupo, más numeroso, que parece votar en su mayoría por lo que los demás opinen. No debemos descalificar a este grupo, muchas decisiones son tomadas de esta forma. Lo que importa es el impacto que la decisión tiene en la persona. Solo eres apático de lo que no te afecta, &lt;em&gt;o&lt;/em&gt; de &lt;em&gt;lo que crees&lt;/em&gt; que no te afecta.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Por coacción: &lt;/strong&gt;tengo que admitir que aunque directamente no lo he experimentado, debe haber situaciones y muchas, en donde se amenaza para obtener un voto. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;</description><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/23552880720</link><guid>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/23552880720</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 13:08:53 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Quienes son los verdaderos responsables...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Hace un par de días se publicó la cifra de &lt;a href="http://www.tradingeconomics.com/mexico/gdp-growth"&gt;crecimiento de PIB de México&lt;/a&gt; para el primer trimestre del 2012. Con este, ya son 11 trimestres consecutivos de crecimiento. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Con las campañas políticas, escuchamos a los partidos decir:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Estamos creciendo gracias a la estabilidad económica que yo he logrado (PAN).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;El modelo neoliberal sume a la gente en la pobreza (PRD).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Estamos estancados y hay que cambiar (PRI). &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;La realidad es otra. Es poco probable que quien quiera que gane modifique sustancialmente el modelo económico actual. Si acaso, podrán implementar programas paliativos y que sirvan para mitigar la desigualdad que existe en nuestro país. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pero - los protagonistas reales del crecimiento económico reciente no son los políticos. No han aprobado ni modificado las reglas de manera sustancial en los últimos años. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ustedes son los protagonistas. &lt;/strong&gt;Sí, hablo de la gente que día a día hace un esfuerzo por ser más productivo y por aportar un poco más. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cada vez que 1) realizamos nuestro trabajo de manera más inteligente, 2) trabajamos dos minutos más, 3) implementamos nuestras ideas; contribuimos a ese crecimiento. Cuando aportamos valor a nuestros clientes con una idea, una solución que les ahorre a ellos esfuerzo o dinero, contribuimos otra vez. &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/23290563318</link><guid>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/23290563318</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 09:22:41 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Real-Time Google Analytics</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;ve always hated that GA had a delay of several hours (if not a full day). With the release of Real time views in Google Analytics, now you can see what&amp;#8217;s going on in your site in near real time. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Of course, to be useful, your site has to actually have some significant activity per minute and not just the ocassional visit. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This opens up a big opportunity for site optimization, since you could actually see the result of changes in your campaigns over a short period of time. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More info from the &lt;a href="http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/09/whats-happening-on-your-site-right-now.html"&gt;source&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/13747321575</link><guid>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/13747321575</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:08:12 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>More on the soap opera that is Europe (not that it is not a serious problem)... </title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2011/11/polands-appeal-germany"&gt;More on the soap opera that is Europe (not that it is not a serious problem)... &lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/13506557940</link><guid>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/13506557940</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:38:06 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Unhappy Hipsters - :)</title><description>&lt;a href="http://unhappyhipsters.com"&gt;Unhappy Hipsters - :)&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/13320876072</link><guid>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/13320876072</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:58:59 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>I think this explains rather succinctly what's going on with the Euro</title><description>&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21540259" target="_blank"&gt;The Economist&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8220;The euro zone is showing the symptoms of an internal balance-of-payments crisis, with self-fulfilling runs on countries, because at bottom that is the nature of its troubles. And such crises put extraordinary pressure on exchange-rate pegs, no matter how permanent policymakers claim them to be.&amp;#8221;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Differing economic performance (policy, productivity, industrial production, consumption) has an effect on the currency exchange rate; I am not sure if I agree that the Euro is just an &amp;#8220;exchange-rate peg&amp;#8221;, since I don&amp;#8217;t know enough, but it makes sense that currency depreciation is something that needs to happen but &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;can&amp;#8217;t &lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;happen because of the Euro. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ergo - the Euro is dead?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/13254203002</link><guid>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/13254203002</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:22:23 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>More on the Euro... and the leading Europe economy, Germany...</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21540283"&gt;More on the Euro... and the leading Europe economy, Germany...&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/13254003557</link><guid>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/13254003557</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:15:43 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Community and the inevitability of failure</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I was reading &lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/11/18/community_recap_season_3_episode_8_reviewed.html"&gt;Slate&amp;#8217;s review of this week&amp;#8217;s &lt;/a&gt;Community episode&amp;#8230; and it reminded me why this show is doomed to not last.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Maybe it is too complicated or too smart for its own sake; I love most of the episodes and I don&amp;#8217;t get many of the references they make&amp;#8230; somehow the dynamics and the characters are so well defined that even when you don&amp;#8217;t get all the references, you still enjoy every line. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I just hope that along with 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation, it keeps going for a couple more seasons. I don&amp;#8217;t include The Office in my list anymore, and it is not because Michael isn&amp;#8217;t there, it is just that, humm, it&amp;#8217;s just not as smart or alluring as it used to be. &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/13051916442</link><guid>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/13051916442</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:11:41 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Stone Soup</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type1548.html#hunter"&gt;Stone Soup&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/12970982742</link><guid>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/12970982742</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:41:18 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>A note to myself - things to remember when setting up an app in IIS 7.5</title><description>&lt;p&gt;The identity model in IIS 7.5 changed, so to make the application work correctly make sure:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1 - You have Kernel Mode Authentication enabled,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2 - The IIS Apppool&amp;#60;&amp;lt;your app pool name&amp;#187; account has permissions to the folder where you app resides (read). Note, this is a special account that resides on the local computer, and the account is created after you start the APP Pool for the first time. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3 - If you&amp;#8217;re going to debug locally (for development of course), make sure you do the DisableStrictNamesChecking and BackConnectionHostNames changes in your registry. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4 - Obvious, but anonymous authentication needs to be disabled. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;5 - Recommendation: keep integrated mode on for the application pool, the application pool user default of &amp;#8220;ApplicationPoolIdentity&amp;#8221; is a must. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Use the &amp;#8220;TEST&amp;#8221; button in the &amp;#8220;Basic Settings&amp;#8221; dialog on the website you are configuring to make sure it works. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;References:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iis.net/ConfigReference/system.applicationHost/applicationPools/add/processModel" title="IIS Process Model" target="_blank"&gt;IIS 7.5 Process Model&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861" title="You receive error 401.1 when you browse a Web site that uses Integrated Authentication and is hosted on IIS 5.1 or a later version" target="_blank"&gt;Accessing sites with Windows Authentication (locally)&lt;/a&gt; (i.e. in the same server, remote desktop)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/12932091624</link><guid>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/12932091624</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:03:58 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Sounds too good to be true...</title><description>&lt;a href="http://dvice.com/archives/2011/11/chevy-volt-test.php"&gt;Sounds too good to be true...&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/12898286536</link><guid>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/12898286536</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:00:45 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>"For instance, according to our labor supply and demand data, there is only one active job seeker for..."</title><description>““For instance, according to our labor supply and demand data, there is only one active job seeker for every three open positions in multiple fields, including nurse practitioners and cloud developers.””&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;CEO, CareerBuilder (from &lt;a href="http://How%20American%20Business%20Can%20Navigate%20the%20Skills%20Gap" title="How American Business Can Navigate the Skills Gap"&gt;HBR&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/12887534368</link><guid>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/12887534368</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:30:50 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>The complexities of handling different languagues (Windows style)</title><description>&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2011/10/31/10231661.aspx"&gt;The complexities of handling different languagues (Windows style)&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;How hard is it to support languages other than English in the operating system?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/12882494408</link><guid>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/12882494408</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:16:37 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>Raspberry Pi</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/344"&gt;Raspberry Pi&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/12857349618</link><guid>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/12857349618</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:17:54 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>So this is what they mean when they talk about "fate"?</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2011/11/neuroscientist_michael_s_gazzaniga_explains_why_some_people_may_be_born_criminals_.html"&gt;So this is what they mean when they talk about "fate"?&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/12856548186</link><guid>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/12856548186</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:02:14 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/07/14/defense-in-depth-locking-down-mash-ups-with-html5-sandbox.aspx</title><description>&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/07/14/defense-in-depth-locking-down-mash-ups-with-html5-sandbox.aspx"&gt;http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/07/14/defense-in-depth-locking-down-mash-ups-with-html5-sandbox.aspx&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/12793840598</link><guid>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/12793840598</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:04:25 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>When people complain about "oh yours is better but not for me"...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/one-week-with-a-windows-phone-2011-11"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/one-week-with-a-windows-phone-2011-11"&gt;http://www.businessinsider.com/one-week-with-a-windows-phone-2011-11&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;His main complaints:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- It&amp;#8217;s integrated but it&amp;#8217;s too messy (ah? this is one of the features all phones will end up having, like it or not - it is the way it is supposed to work). &lt;strong&gt;He&lt;/strong&gt; can&amp;#8217;t figure out where each message comes from even though the messages are clearly labeled. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- Calendar - are you really saying that the calendar on the iPhone is really better? A draw at least.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- Better app selection - before, the complaint was about quantity, now that the quantity argument has been debunked - now it is called &amp;#8220;selection&amp;#8221;. Yes, most major apps will appear first on the iPhone, but things are changing. Then he picks the &amp;#8220;sex and other stuff&amp;#8221; page (just to make his point right?).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;- iCloud vs. Skydrive - a &amp;#8220;draw&amp;#8221;&amp;#8230; notwithstanding the fact that Skydrive was before way before iCloud was (or at least I&amp;#8217;ve been using it since day one when I got my phone).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lately, some of the criticism is becoming far less logical and it boils down really, to a matter of style and what you like to use. WP7 has caught up. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By the way, no mention on this review of Zune, the client? Games? integration with XBox? &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I had an iPhone, and really, I changed because of iTunes and into the Zune subscription model. I ended up liking this phone much more, it feels less intrusive and somehow (the horror) more polished. &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/12793272491</link><guid>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/12793272491</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:45:07 -0600</pubDate></item><item><title>"Most Windows users don’t use Macs, but most Mac users use Windows."</title><description>“Most Windows users don’t use Macs, but most Mac users use Windows.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Just there, I don’t remember&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/12654590696</link><guid>http://omardelrio.tumblr.com/post/12654590696</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:59:08 -0600</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
