Debt drama in people's lives
Taxonomy upgrade extras
Yesterday I had the chance to discover and interesting video about the dramatic implications of debt in people's lives.
The documentary is a recent production explaining the economical calamities of different highly indebted people living in Catalonia. This disturbing panorama helps you understand present crisis in Spain, mostly provoked by the frenzy of house owning, and tolerated by administrations as an easy way to earn money with a resulting short-time social progress, but with lasting repercussions (potentially as perdurable as a 40-years mortgage).
Video of Mozilla Labs presentation in Computer Science Faculty (FIB), Barcelona
Thanks to FIB video recording service and UPC Commons initiative, we have an online video of Mozilla Labs presentation held in Barcelona on 24th Octuber 2008, just before Mozilla Camp Europe 2008.
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Fortune and research
I normally enable fortune application in my .basrhc file, so when I log in my remote terminals I can get a welcoming quotation. Even during the busiest times, it can help you smile for a while. That's an example:
Research, n.:
Consider Columbus:
He didn't know where he was going.
When he got there he didn't know where he was.
When he got back he didn't know where he had been.
And he did it all on someone else's money.