2007 8
Two New FON Tools: Gmail Uploader and Fon.gs
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At FON, we are building both the largest WiFi community in the world and a global community of people who share WiFi. But the question here more than sharing WiFi, it is whether there is anything else that this Community’s members have in common? FON believes there is. The CON Community has two main attributes that FON will work to meet. One is sharing and the other is a love of technology. FON has addressed sharing with the La Fonera which is our WiFi router, the instrument for sharing that allows you to pay at home and roam the world for free. But lately we have also been introducing tools to make the life of the Fonero easier. These are: Gspace, the tool that allows Foneros to store their files/documents on the internet in the form of Gmail which is already used by over half a million people, and the Mac and Linux FONspots, introduced last week which has over 4000 downloads so far. And today I am pleased to introduce two more: the Gmail Uploader and Fon.gs.
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2007 7
Neonazism in Russia
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What many people remember as the atrocity of World War II is the Holocaust, the mass-murder of over 6 million Jews. But what most don’t realize is that Russians suffered more than three times that number of casualties at the hands of the Nazis. Why, then, has neo-Nazism becoming so popular in Russia today?
Warning, this post is longer than the attention span of the average blog reader.
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2007 7
Google Alert Invite
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Today I received an invite that is certainly funnier than mine to Menorca. To see it: Username, enter, password, thelobby.
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This is an invitation to the people of Menorca and my readers in general. You are all invited to attend an informal TechTalk that will be held next Saturday May 12th from 5pm to 8pm at 5pm at my farm in Menorca. To attend you need to register sending your name, email and home address to me.
Here´s a picture of the Farm
Here´s a Google Map. It shows how to get there. The event will be held in Binisegarra, the home that is in the middle of the farm.
Here are more pictures of the Farm and of Menorca in general.
Update 9/5/07: Janus Friis of Skype and Alex Straub of Truphone just informed me they will not be able to come to Menorca due to personal reasons. On the other hand, Michael Jackson, COO at Skype, will come to Menorca.
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2007 4
FON is Dropping Microsoft, Adopting Ubuntu
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This is a memo that I just sent to all Fon employees.
Dear All:
As of today Fon will disengage from Microsoft and adopt Linux in the Ubuntu form as our operating system of choice.
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2007 3
Saudi Women
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Everyday life for women is severely restricted in Saudi Arabia, where women enjoy next to no political or social rights. What strikes me as particularly ironic, however, is that the voices are calling most loudly for change in Saudi Arabia are those of radical Islamists like Al Qaeda who want to make the condition of women even worse.
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2007 3
Sun: The New Tobacco
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Despite the warnings, sun bathing and tanning beds are still in style. Although some people are slowly beginning to decrease their exposure to the sun, being tan is still “cool” and too many folks are still overexposing themselves to UV light. UV exposure today seems to be were tobacco was 20 years ago. For many years it was considered sexy and even healthy to smoke, and today it’s looked at as attractive to be tanned. Both fads are bad for your health or, to put it bluntly, have the potential to kill those who choose to make a habit out of either. The danger of tobacco is pretty clear, although there are still people who senselessly continue to smoke. With the sun issue, it’s really a shame that one out of five people will develop skin cancer but still most don´t care enough about sun radiation exposure.
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2007 3
My Former Plane is now at the Bottom of the Sea
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For many years I owned a single engine turboprop called Jetprop. That plane now is in the bottom of the sea.
