On September 23, 1868, my ancestral hometown in Puerto Rico became the only town in the island and all other spanish possessions at the time to declare its independence from Spain. The revolt lasted 24 hours and nobody got executed (or spent more than 4 months in jail), but it brought into the spotlight many [...]

I am either suffering from a combination of cabin fever and claustrophobia, plus a little writer’s block thrown into the mix just for the hell of it. Today I decided there was no way in hell I would spend the day locked up at home writing (I have to choice to either work on my [...]

Overtime is an issue that specially affects many of my tech worker friends. Many of us are getting royally screwed by being salaried, which means our 50-70 hour weeks are paid just like we worked 40. Comp time almost never happens, and due to some bullshit accounting rules sometimes we work overtime from home and [...]

As a long time Tom Clancy reader, I could not figure out what the hell he would do with the Jack Ryan series after The Bear and The Dragon. I thought Red Rabbit was a cheap way to postpone the resolution of the Ryan saga and I stopped thinking about it. Well, now I know. [...]

(adult language advisory, sorry for the potty mouth) I don’t know what the hell is going in at macslash.org but they are making slashdot seem almost reasonable. I don’t believe in karma whoring but goddamit, I am getting my posts marked as trolls for mickey mouse bullshit. And I mean it for real, we are [...]

I am a book addict. I read no less than two books per week. Because I don’t drive to work anymore I automatically gained an extra 10 hours per week that I can read at the bus and metro rail. This is on top to the few hours a day I was already reading at [...]

It is with great pleasure that I would like to introduce our new channel operator: Pytte! #asp already has a huge list of operators, but due to individual circumstances some of our most popular ops have not been able to show up as often as they would like, so we needed a couple more channel [...]

So there I was, trying to count how many diet cokes I had left at the office fridge yesterday, when I realized that regardless of the count I had to take a different exit out of the metro rail station so I could go to CVS and buy more. I spaced out a couple times [...]

It has been two years since the September 11 attacks. Osama is nowhere to be found and we moved on to take over Iraq without finishing mopping out the mess in Afghanistan. One of Osama’s victims in the USS Cole attack was the kid brother of one of my ex-employees. One of the branch offices [...]

8:02 AM: VP-bofh: on the front page of cnn.com: Top Secret Satellite launched from Florida 8:02 AM: VP-bofh: thanks a lot, assholes 8:02 AM: VP-bofh: I guess it is not a secret anymore