Flickr in spanish

and in korean, chinese, french, german and portuguese.
That's nice, don't you think?

Just in case you don't know it, almost 50% of flickr's users are from outside the U.S.
So this is not only a good new for all the international flickr users, but also is a sample of how flickr is growing and getting older and mature every day, becoming by far the best photo sharing service in the web.

It's so cool to enter flickr pages in my native language :D

Sorry for the delay...

The reason of this blog's hiatus is the following: I'm the executive producer of a chilean short film called "Crónicas Subterráneas" ("Underground chronicles"). So, this weeks were only to work, work, work, and then more work...




If you wanna see some short film's preview, let´s see this (in spanish, sorry):


Soon this movie will be available in your language ;-)
Stay tuned!

Joost invitations for you!

Hi there.
do you like to be the coolest guy/girl in the net?
Wanna try some brand new experiences?
If both of your answers were YES, then you'll be very pleased to test Joost, the TV of the future, nowadays.
The bad new is that Joost donwloads and try outs only work based in invitations...
BUT THE GOOD NEW IS I'VE GOT THOUSANDS OF INVITATIONS FOR YOU!!!
If you wanna be a joost beta tester, just send a e-mail, including your first and second names to:
quierojoost@gmail.com
(It means "I want joost" in spanish :P)

Write to me and we'll send your invitation in a couple of minutes.

This is a new gift from elreflejo, specially made for you, dear readers.

Courage + Open Source = ...?

...the anwer is a big fat setback in the middle of a Bill Gates' presentation in China.

Is not easy to defend the open source ideals in such a brave way, don't you think?
Now let's see some videos

video 1:


video 2:

TVLINK, better than a remote control

Now I'll share with you a very cool tip from my friend Jorjato.
TV LINKS is a website which gathers in a single place thousands of chapters from famous TV series. They are classified according to different categories (shows, cartoon, anime, movies, music, sports). And all the series' chapters are shown in alphabetical order.
This website is not tended to be a "download-'n-store" page. This is a You Tube-esque site. Just click in any title and a pop up will appear to give you all the visual pleasure you need.

Let's enjoy it, while we can.

To visit TV LINKS, just click here.

SAP Chile sucks!

My thesis (a report which is a requirement to get my engineering degree)is becoming a very difficult task to accomplish.
A lot of obstacles appeared on the course of this investigation. Some of them are:

• I was working and making my thesis in the chilean Bridgestone Firestone plant. 6 months passed and then this tire plant closed.
• I was overworking. So, only 30 minutes a day were left for working on my thesis. No one can progress at that time rate.

My thesis initially deal with ERP software implantation. No, this isn't as simple as download a ISO and install on your PC. To implantate and learn to use this software is a very big task. The Bridgestone Firestone Chile process was taking 2 years.
But this is not the topic of this entry. I wanna write about the typical chilean narrow minded concept, and how is possible to find help out there, in other countries.

SAP is a big fat software company (Indeed is the 3rd biggest company) and they have a lot of local offices. Chile has one of them.
The bad thing, the worst thing about my investigation is that after several attempts to get in touch with the people of SAP Chile they never answered my requests.
Thanks international generosity I found a helping hand, out there, in the UK. A remarkable indian SAP consultant mailed me and sent me some very useful papers.

What's my conclusion?
I think we should be more generous and stay alert if somebody needs our help. Not getting help here in my country and finding a helping hand in the UK is so paradoxical, don't you think? And is so sad too.

A brand new start...

So you thought this blog was about to die?
No!
This is from now on the english version of elreflejo.cl
Let's see if this thing works :P
I'll try to translate all my "elreflejo.cl" entries, so stay tuned!

Me cambié de casa, ahora me leerán en www.elreflejo.cl

Así es. Por motivos que explico en mi nuevo blog es que me voy de Blogger. Ahora leerán todas mis desventuras y comentarios de la vida diaria en elreflejo.cl.
Ya lo saben, esta dirección mantendrá mis artículos hasta hoy, pero de aquí en más me encontrarán en...



www.elreflejo.cl

En plena mudanza

En estos días me la he pasado preparándo lo que será la nueva y 5ta versión de elreflejo. Son muchas opciones nuevas, hay mucho que revisar, mucho código que editar y en esta tarea la ayuda de mi amiga Ymode ha sido tremenda.

Lo que una vez comenzó como una revista digital en la recordada dirección elreflejo.tk se convirtió en un "espacio" de msn, pero ahí las condiciones no eran las mejores y me arranqué en cuanto pude a Blogger, donde este blog creció y se hizo un poco más conocido.
Ahora, luego de estar mucho tiempo sin escribir nada, me siento con más ganas que nunca de seguir contando mis cosas, o dando mi opinión y conociendo la de ustedes. Es por eso que pronto podrán visitar la nueva versión de esta bitácora en www.elreflejo.cl, con más opciones, mejor look y las mismas historias sencillas de siempre.
Atentos, porque pronto comienza un nuevo ciclo. Adiós.

¿y qué pasa con el blog?

La verdad, al contrario de muchos de ustedes, he pasado muy ocupado, actividades como la producción del primer cortometraje de terror sicológico, paseos, camping en el Valle de Elqui, reuniones con amigos, carretes o mi anticipada celebración junto a mi polola del día de San Valentín me han impedido de escribir en esta bitácora como era ya una costumbre.
Debo confesar que estoy barajando la posibilidad de adquirir un dominio *.net, o al menos un *.cl para poder proyectar mejor mis aficiones como la fotografía o escribir en este blog.
Les dejo un saludo, espero que mis compatriotas estén disfrutando de unas buenas vacaciones y nos vemos pronto, con un look renovado, más secciones y probablemente una nueva dirección.

Por mientras les dejo a Alipio, el singular reportero de Paracaídas.
Esta vez logra llegar a la más honda fibra emotiva de su público, al contarnos la esforzada historia de rehabilitación de un conocido lanza internacional, Wenceslao.
NOTA: Este reportaje, así como también este blog, está auspiciado por la Universidad del Río, la nueva universidad del norte chico de Chile.