Labels

What happens in our lives is not really good or bad, are just events that happen because of what we choose to do or not.

At the end, things are not good or bad in themselves. Those are just labels we apply to them depending on how we perceive them. And that perception is affected on many things, like what is our mood or what were our expectations.

Yes, things happen for a reason. But the reasons why those things happen, are the consequences of our actions before the event. Nothing happens just because, or as an isolated event.

What affects the outcome of any event, can range from really simple reasons to various degrees of complexity. All depends on how simple, or complex, the event leading to anything is. The amount of people participating, what or when anything is said or done. Most of the time is really hard to measure how complex any given situation is, until later on. And even if you are inside, or outside, can have an effect on how easily one can judge what's going on.

Even your world view has a great weight on how you are going to label any given situation. What for a person can be the best possible outcome, for another can be the worst possible one. Sometimes, the time when it happens can have a great effect on how the same individual judges the outcome.

At the end of the day, events and things are just that. They are not good, bad, great, sad, or any other label that could be applied. Labels are just the glass through which we view them.

Modern wold

The amount of information at our fingertips has grown so much, that now the hardest part is not getting it. Now, the problem is actually filter good from bad information.

Even finding relevant information can be a problem, since the shear volume it can be overwhelming.

To be able to actually find the information you need, or want, requires time to actually look and process a lot of data. One must read, or watch, articles from several sources to be able to compare and verify that the information you are getting is actually useful, and what you are looking it for.

One must have the criteria to be able to discern what information is relevant, and useful, for what are you going to use it. And it's important to get it from as many different sources as possible. This is actually very helpful to create your own opinions and try to get a bigger picture of what is going on.

No one has the whole truth, so getting a sense of why and what is going from several places helps to get a better understanding of our world.

If you get a better understanding of what is going on around you, it'll help you make better decisions. And also, it'll make you a valuable asset for those around you.

Knowledge is power, and is quickly becoming a valuable commodity in our world. So, find an area that interest you, and where you are good at, and acquire as much useful information as you can.

Keeping in touch

I've been paying more attention on what tools I mostly use to communicate with my friends and family.

And I mainly been using Twitter, Facebook, MSN, and SMS to keep in touch with them. Even when I'm on the move, I use this tools on my smart phone to see what my contacts are up to.

It seems that it's much more practical to keep up with how is everyone is doing though this tools. Basically I only place phone calls when it's necessary, or is Twitter or Facebook if the idea is to reach as much people as possible. If I only want to reach one person in particular, I use a SMS or an e-mail.

In a sense, I feel more comfortable communicating through what I'm up to and how I feel this way. In a sense, I feel that interacting with my love ones this way is satisfactory. Specially when meeting in person is not always possible, so this is the next best thing.

Standards

I find it to be sad the way we expect women and men to behave. For most of it, we hold women and men by different standards.

What I find most sad is that, in most cases those standards shouldn't be different at all. For me the worst part, is when smart persons know that they shouldn't be held by these and yet they act by them.

How can we expect to live in a society in which women and men live in equality, if we don't apply the same rules to both sexes.

Many times I feel that we are making progress, only to feel disappointed when a woman, sometimes a man, have to make a choice not based on what she wants or need, but on her gender.

In most cases, this choices are forced by men to women. But it's far worse when this choice is forced by other women. It seems that women react more violently to the treat by other women, then men react to the same treat.

At times, it seems that women are women's own worse enemy.

Change day

Today is the day I change from mobile service carrier, and it's a day I've been looking forward for some time now.

For a while now I haven't been felt comfortable with my current carrier, and have been meaning to change as soon as the contract expired. And another thing that I get from this change, is that I get to completely leave the past behind me.

Thus, I hope that this will help me to move ahead with my life a lot easier.

I already selected my new carrier, so now all is a matter of making the contract cancellation and buying the chip with my new number.

I know that it will be for the best.

Disappointment

I've been feeling really sad and angry about how things ended between my ex girlfriend and me.

What I bugs me the most, is the fact that even though she said that she wanted to talk and finish things in good terms it ended not being able to look me at the eye and talk to me.

Even though she says she trusts me, I find it hard to believe that she does. She avoids meeting in person, and told me that she it scares her that I keep insisting to her about meeting in person. I can't help to think that she is hiding things.

I now that I should stop looking after her, but it also bugs me not being able to resolve things with her face to face. It might sound odd, but I need the answers to be better able to move on.

But I guess that I simply wont get them.

Feelings

I'm quite angry at how sometimes it's to easy for women to shield themselves behind the idea that they are supposed to know better about feelings.

I have come to really dislike it when a girls says to a man that she doesn't want to meet and talk in person because she doesn't want to hurt his feelings, saying that she knows better. That's a big fat lie, she doesn't want to meet in order to protect herself and her feelings. What the man feels, or wants for that matter, is totally irrelevant for her.

But, the man must understand and be thankful that she is having his feelings at heart when she says so.

And to make things worse, if the man says this he is labelled as jerk, that just doesn't want to face her or his own feelings. That somehow, he just used her for his own wicked ends.

It seems that every time I question this, the girls seem more eager to avoid or simply dismiss this. It seems that they are somehow exempt from having to face any emotional consequences, even though she was the one who wanted to talk about it in the first place.

Why don't they just act as they want us men to act, and face us even when it hurts.

Law

It makes me sad how some people demonstrate in Mexico.

The do things in way that they hurt other people rights, and they expect that everyone else to take their side. Also if the government does something about it they call it repression.

But, if their rights are hurt by some other people demonstrating they call foul and expect the government to use the same measures that when used against them are repression.

It seems that many people have come to expect the law to apply everyone, but themselves. Which is not how it's supposed to be, the law is to be applied to everyone in the same way with the same force. If you don't agree to play by those rules, then go somewhere else or don't play at all.

As a society, we need to be more participative in not just living according to the law. But also, we need to participate in making the law to be fair, and changing or eliminating the laws that are not fair. At the end, no law is perfect.

Ubuntu

I must admit that I've become a fan of Ubuntu. I've found it to be user friendly, and I like it's user interface and ease of use.

Besides, it comes with all the software I use on regular basis. And what's best, all my favorite programs run on it. Specially Firefox and Open Office, which are the ones I use the most often.

Also, Skype runs well. Which is important for me, since is the tool I use to keep in touch with family. Also, the fact that all the IM protocols I use to keep in contact with friends are supported makes it easy to keep in touch with them too.

One of the things I like the most of Ubuntu, is how easy is to configure the user interface to suit my tastes. And the fact the are a lot of options to choose from. I've found support for users to be more than adequate, and easy to use and find.

I don't think I'll go back to Windows unless I've to.

Down town

More than ever I'm convinced that one of the places I enjoy the most of Cuernavaca is it's down town.

I like the ambient that you feel, it's not to hot most of the time and you can enjoy walking, or just hang with your friends, and there is something to do for everyone. The weekends is when I enjoy down town the most, since there are a lot of cultural events, which most are for free, that I enjoy attending to.

Mainly, the concerts and the used books market. There is a lot more to do, one just need to poke around to find something to suit your personal tastes. And it really helps that it's easy to find a way to get here.

I really invite everyone to come and visit Cuernavaca.

Tablet

Yesterday I found the tablet I want. I saw it at the Plaza de la Tecnología, and it's ideal for what I want from it.

It runs Android 2.2, it has 512MB of RAM, and has a 1Ghz processor. The has a 10.2 inches display. I tried it out for several minutes and I fell in love with it. It's not that expensive, at $2807.00 pesos is quite accessible.

I really feel that it's the right complement for my needs, when I want to browse around the Internet and watch some videos, with out having to turn on my computer.

What I like the most, is that it runs on Android. Personally it's important because I prefer that my gadgets, and computer related stuff, to run on open source software. That's the main reason why I wouldn't get my self an iPad, even tough it's a great product.

So, for now I know what I want for my birthday this year.