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Who controls the information?

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It’s been centuries since some small group of people controls information, based on how foolish their audience is the larger their profits are. We live in a world of gossip, where we are entertain by the demise and misfortune of others. There are some people that are really into it, I can name several sources but what is the point? I will not become part of the problem. Juanmanuel Cunningham Armas , that is my name, it was given to me, and with it I have been able to open bank accounts, set up business, register my children’s birth certificates, get married, and so on, but who controls the names? the records?? are we just a number like the movies say? we are worth what our number says….

Next time you are face to face with a problem, ask yourself, what am I? why do I have to respond to this? is it really important? you are not history, history is just another more record in books, when you die you don’t take that with you…. so be free and try to be as good as your heart demands you to be…. peace!

 

Downgrade, Upgrade, Firmware, Software, WLAN, LAN, OS, and the story goes on and on and on…

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It was not so long ago that we had to type our homework with our parents typewriter, I personally prefrerred to make them by hand, it was faster and easier. I then discovered computers, “WORDSTAR” and “LOTUS 123” were like the lost treasure of the word processing. I imporved my homeworks and my teachers would appreciate the clean and sleek presentation when they had to read to make their grading.

It was a good time, I remember my mother would use it very easily and there was not too much to be said and done, just type in and “Presto”!!!! , last night i brought a new printer/scanner/fax machine home. My friends, i spent three hours, upgrading the firmware, installing the drivers, now they do not even use cables, it is all wireless, good for me and the cleaning lady but if i hadn’t had any google reference or ask.com i bet i would still be installing the printer. while installing i was thinking of  my aunts or my mom doing the same. I guess they just could not do it in three hours, they would have to call someone to do it for them. We have made things more complex, more unfriendly, if you do not have an “Intermediate” knowledge on computers terms and skills you are not installing your printer! and they say on the box it is plug and play! well as a good friend just mentioned yesterday, < I had a problems with your website “cookies” , She said she was having problems with the cookies she bakes let alone the ones in her computer! >
Year ago, i read that simplicity is the greatest sophistication. the simpler the more advanced. I think we are on the wrong direction.
and if you do not have a credit card, you are nobody here in the world wide web!!! hope i can see the day computers become more simple and more sophisticated…

If it does not have sugar, it does not deserve to be called candy.

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Today I was joking with my wife, we had some Chinese “candies”, but they are totally sugarless, how can you call something a candy if it does not have any sugar? How can you call yourself a person if you don’t have problems? don’t have scars? don’t have hope? you need certain things in life to be called human…
Might sound crazy but life goes trhough with our without you wanting, it goes on an on in this sea of joy and sometimes sea of madness, you can’t stop things from happening, just be aware that in every problem there is an opportunity, in every tear there is hope, in every wonderful moment there is triumph. enjoy your life and forget your sorrows, today what may seems the end of the road is actually a new beginning…

today is a cold rainy day, tomorrow will be summer and someday it will be your day, as I once read, eat more candies, walk around more often, climb more mountians, listen more music, be a little crazier than usual, because someday you will be 80 and would love to go back and do it all over again but there’ll be no more time….

Children of the Google. (Previously posted on Blogger)

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I remember when we used to be unaware of most of everything. We did not know anything at all, we just were, there, around, walking and trying to find mysteries we did not even know they existed.
I remember having to copy cassettes from friends to get the latest imported album, borrowing underground porn, renting copied VHS tapes, and finding the best Slayer album 3 years after its release. it was fun, we were surporised and amazed by everything. I always had this hope of having that bootleg album I had heard of. That song I heard somewhere and I did not have a clue who sang it.
We are now all doomed , we must know it all, if we don’t the common questions comes: “did you google it?? ” and we believe everything that there is, we even trust our health to Google. If we have a pain somewhere, just search it and do what it is said there.
Have a problem, do what that old blog says, need to know the future, consult the online fortune teller, we are so submerged in it that we do not even bother to walk around and meet the neighbors, we just twitt what ever thought is in our minds.
I am not against it, but I am aware of it. We should be more responsible when using Google, twitter, Facebook and all those hundreds of social sites and networks.

When was the last time you heard a record from the first note to the last, when was the last time you spent the day listening over and over to a LP just mesmerized by its cover (Iron Maiden used to blow mi mind) …??

I feel like talking with my granpa and apologizing by not understanding his words when complained about the TV, Atari and Walkman…..

New day, old Blogs.

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During the last few years I have been trying to create a decent blog, I tried some other blogging sites but they are too limited. I am re-posting my old blogs here. they were written and published before in Blogger.com and twitted and Buzzed… Some of the content was written under lots of stress, some during very happy moments and others during some not so good times. From now on i will try to make this blog more positive and useful to others.

I would like to say that writing has always been my lost activity, there are always ideas and thought in my head I would like to write, but I procrastinate. The lack of discipline has led me to lose years of ideas that could have been written and turn useful to others, I believe each one of us is a teacher and student, a lover and an enemy, a father and a son… We are all in this blue bubble floating in space and we forget that we are here for a tiny fraction of time, our brain tricks us to think we are eternal. Thank you for having me in your internet attention, thank you for reading my words, I wish all your dreams come true and time gives you plenty…