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January 2009

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Avoid Autovías - Si viajas a Toluca evita Autovías

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If you travel to the city of Toluca, avoid using Autovías buses, their service sucks, the bus terminal is stincky, dirty, no chairs, garbage everywhere. Plus I bought the firts class sercice, and is worst than second class. The bus departed the terminal, not full, so I was happy to have two seats for me... Oh no, the bus drivers stopped like three times picking up people from the street, charging them less money, so now I'm late (because of all the stops) sharing seats, in a full smelly bus. This company is trapped in the 80's bad service bus system.

Si viajas a Toluca, evita usar los autobuses de Autovías, el servicio es pésimo, la terminal es asquerosa, suciedad por todos lados, basura, y no hay sillas para sentarse, lo peor, compre un boleto de primera clase, pero es peor que segunda, al principio pense que todo bien, al menos tenía dos asientos para mi, saliendo de la terminal el autobus comenzó a detenerse y a subir gente, cobradoles menos, ahora no solo estoy en un autobus apestoso, si no lleno, y atrasado por andar subiendo gente, que recibe el mismo servicio que yo, pero que pagó menos.

Hay muchas alternativas, ETN, PRIMERA PLUS, esas si dan buen servicio.

Mexican postal service works!

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I can assure you I'm one of the most surprised persons with this.

Last year someone sent me documents using the mexican postal service, a huge mistake, the letter arrived two months later, even though the distance between cities is 200km.

This year I have received two letters trough the mexican post service, this where sent the day before!!, I notice that they charged more for the delivery, but it was still cheap, $1usd instead of $0.1usd.

By the way, private carriers charge like $5usd for next day delivery.

In November of 2008, the government launch an ad campaign saying that mexican postal service changed to Mexican Mail "Correos de México", and that they where changing everything, to improve, I didn't believe it. But is true.

Smoking


Contaminacion, originalmente cargada por Yorch Arturo.

Our friendly neighbor likes to polute a little, this is a shoot of the parking lot of my work fill with smoke from the other factory, across the street, polluting like crazy, they made "dehydrated food" while we work on chemicals, and we don't polute like them, not even close, we are, in fact, a very clean factory.

I had a huge headache that day.

Rosca de Reyes


Rosca de Reyes, originalmente cargada por Yorch Arturo.

Kings cake or big doughnut is a tradition brought by the spaniards in the times of the viceroyalty.

I ate like 6 of this cakes (not all the cake) with family, friends, coworkers, friends, otehr friends and more family.

It is always fun because inside the cake there are little dolls, if you cut a part where is a doll you have the "baby Jesus" and with the others "lucky" ones that also find the dolls, have to organized a party on february 2th to conmemorate the baby Jesus presentation to the temple, in that party we eat "tamales" and drink "atole" (tamales are some sort of corn bread fill with stuff like meat, chilli, cheese or fruit, atole is a drink made with corn, milk and water)

Yellow Pages


Páginas amarillas, originalmente cargada por Yorch Arturo.

I read in the newspaper of another city (the kind of city that is some sort of rival to my city) that "if prosperity is measure by the size of the yellow pages Queretaro wins"

That is because ours is twice as big as the one in Leon city in Guanajuato, the city has 250,000 more inhabitants than Queretaro, and still Queretaro's yellow pages are bigger. And in many other comparisons Queretaro's pages are bigger than other bigger cities.

The reason is simple, Queretaro joins a good economic profile, ranked among the best cities in latin america to do business, the number one in per capita income in mexico, and a good size middle class (there are more middle class here than any other social class) which translates in good business.

The yellow pages has more than 3000 pages.

In the photo you can compare it to Uruapan, a 300,000 people city in the state of Michoacan.

The office


The office, originalmente cargada por Yorch Arturo.

The view of my office...

My work place is located in the outside of the city, I'm near nothing, not even an Oxxo (seven eleven kind of store in Mexico, located in every corner of the city)

In my previous office I had a view to the ugly polluting factory infront of my work, now I have a view to a garden, with flowers and birds, hummingbirds (like 10 of them) live there, all year long, since we have sunshine every day of the year. it could be like 5°C but still sunshine.

Being here is good and bad, good because is relaxing view, green and no ugly sounds, just birds, and bad, because I'm forced to be inside, like a kid punished doing homework while there is a nice day outside and all the kids are playing.

Still, I like my new office a lot, like some coworkers call it, the marketing chalet.

Sony Ericsson at the mall


Sony Ericsson at the mall, originalmente cargada por Yorch Arturo.

I always liked this marketing efforts, the show room or booth at a mall or public place, where experts will show you new stuff, explain you what need to know, since in many stores the clerks know less than you.

XpressMusic vs Walkman

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Recently I cahnged my mobile for a Nokia XpressMusic. Nokia in many ways is leading in innovation, Sony Ericsson is good in the music, and a few years ago they had the most innovative products, now they are like catching up.

I'm going to compare the music player since I had a Sony Ericsson W960 (walkman phone) and now I use a Nokia XpressMusic phone.

The sound quality is impressive in both handsets, Nokia has stereo speakers so it is a win here in the external speakers, also Nokia has a 3.5mm jack, which means any headphones fit, another win for Nokia, but, the UI of the Nokia player is really bad, they improve little with time, the list of songs is really slow to show, you can not see album art in the album list, you can't see which song will be next in the shuffle mode, there is no magic play list like the "sense me", rated songs or per year or decade.

Also I miss the TrackID, a great function that I loved, and I wanted yesterday while I was listening the radio there was a great song.

The phone has a lot of functions and possibilities, and since it is a Nokia, it has a great support for software, but the player, which is the reason of the phone, has a lot to improve. Kudos to Sony Ericsson doing such a great player for their phones.

I'm wating for Sony Ericsson new smartphone family based in S60 with touch screen capabilities, great cameras and impressive player, to go back with them.

NOKIA


SONY ERICSSON

Nokia Touch Smartphones

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Many believe that the recently announced and launch Nokia 5800 Tube is the first Nokia touch screen phone when in reality is the third, and the N97 will be fourth, although it is the first S60 touch phone.

The first phone from nokia with touch screen was the Nokia 7710 it was based in Symbian Series 90, the second was the Nokia 6708 based in Symbian UIQ (like Sony Ericsson's smartphones)

The communicators could be considered also touch screen phones.


NOKIA 6708 UIQ


NOKIA 7710 Series 90


NOKIA 9300 Series 80 Communicator
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