Too fast and too flawed

Yesterday I bought an incredible digital piano, with not only a grand piano sound, but also its feel -- it actually feels exactly like playing a piano, to the extreme that you can swear you hear the hammering noise of its keys. But once I turned it off and on again, it wouldn't work. I had to repeat pressing the switch until it finally worked.

Last year, I had a laptop die fifteen days after the warranty expired, and my daughter has a digital camera from a reputted brand that randomly requires removing the battery and inserting it back in order to work -- and it also happens with a friend's camera from the same brand.

So what is it with all the advanced technology that seems to forget the basics? Is technology advancing too fast? In that case, how will companies where technology is crucial deal with flaws (Can you imagine NASA dealing with a faulty camera from the brand I mentioned... in Mars)?

OK, so it's time to play! I found a very appropriate book cover generator and couldn't resist:

http://www.oreillymaker.com/link/16467/go-public/

Amazing flower

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Originally uploaded by exoquiet

From my new Flickr account: this is an incredible flower that I found hidden where I used to live.

RSS

For those of you who liked the idea of having news gathered in the form of RSS feeds, there is another form of reading those without having to go to any specific sites: I use a program called RssReader that can be downloaded at http://www.rssreader.com/ and which, after installed, puts an icon on your task bar (the Start bar) that can be clicked on to open the feeds. It can be configured to show pop ups when updates are made and also to sound a warning along with those.

The 7 & 1/2 Habits

View problems as challenges have always been a problem to me, specially if I don't like what's involved. Hopefully, there won't be any problems -- hey, that's a good thought to begin with!
As a web designer/developer, constantly learning new things is part of my job, and using technology to my advantage is obviously my daily routine; to teach/mentor others is part of my job description and something I have been doing online for quite some time, but to do it in person is a new thing for me, although so far I've been successful.

One interesting aspect in this case is that the range of technologies I have to learn and update myself with is so wide that I frequently have no time to try new ones when not job-related. And that's when I'm grateful for working at HPL: I have the chance to be familiar with things that are made available to the public and which interest me to be aware of, and hopefully to know more about them. Yes, it's possible to know how to build web pages and, despite that, not know how to use some of the web services made possible through them -- it's too much info for too little time!

By the way, for you getting familiar with the Web 2.0 stuff, you will notice that so many interesting places to go and do things require more than the 24 hours we have a day...

The Learning 2.0 list of 23 things

I'm late, very late. I should probably have been one of the first to go through the list, but I've been as busy as I can doing web updates and creating new stuff for both the library and the city. But I finally was able to begin yesterday, and hopefully I'll reach the end of the list by May 7.

Following directions

That was easy enough! I confess choosing a title and subject was the hardest part. But there's always that feeling like sending a bad e-mail that you can't take back -- when you realize what happened, it's too late. Fortunately, that doesn't apply to blogs :)