Category Archives: Etcetera

That’s what I’ve got for you, in case someone still doesn’t have a Gmail account yet

Are they planning to open registrations to the public? Are they going to stop giving it for free? The whole Gmail invitation thing lost its sense quite a while ago when everyone noticed it’s tiring to find 6 new friends every week. But today Google went even more absurd by giving away up to 50 Gmail invitations to almost every user. And here they are. If you want one for you or for your mom or for your pet, just leave a comment below and I’ll send it away. No need to put your email in the comments field, just fill in the email field and say hello. What if their plans were to expect massive giveaways like this?

This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.

There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.

Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.

Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job.

Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it.

It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done .

Writers are an intriguing race. They seem to have a special interest in helping each other work better, more efficiently. They’d be happy to know they may be actually helping everybody

Myself, I love writing; I really enjoy essay-writing tasks in my english classes. But when it comes to writing for myself, I’m all lazy. Some months ago I bought a book with a very appealing title and more interesting content: Julia Cameron’s The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life (in Spanish, The Pleasure and Right to Write); an easy-reading bunch of advices and strategies that encourage the shy writer start a career or just a vital hobby. Here’s the exciting part of it: I’m all lazy for EVERY SINGLE aspect of life and I found out that I could mentally change the books’ sentences by swapping words like “write”, “writer”, “writing” into things like “draw”, “designer”, “do the washing”, “work”, “be nice to your girl”, etc., and the advices/strategies still kept the meaning/usefulness!!!. This other list of 50 Strategies For Making Yourself Work —also targeted to writers— [via Jenneth] also works as an insightful source of help no matter if you are an idle writer, business advisor, industrial designer, artist or tennis female player (…oops).

Why haven’t I been checking Gearbits.com more? Entries like this one about the great decision about either consuming or producing information justify adding this blog to my regular visits

It’s okay if you don’t bother to do the same but at least do read The Great Decision: Consume or Produce, a story with which I feel very much identified.

The latest kind of blog-attacking spam just revived passions in my heart against/for this industry

I’m sure the automatic notification email sent to AVTG’s suscribers will go directly to the spam folder due to the awkward repetition of the word spam in this post about spam. You are free to stop reading if you feel spammed at this point. Gearbits.com (Craig Froehle) is the first blog I’ve heard of receiving trackback spam attacks (just after myself). This happens when bloggers around the world seemed to have eradicated comment spam attacks. I’m experiencing all this drama too but apart from the obvious I’m-highly-annoyed rant, I have to say that I feel the same morbid interest for the people/strategy/technology behind the spam industry as I have always felt for the virus/antivirus industry. I mean, it keeps freaking me out that they are actual industries with big money involved. There’s nothing I’d love to see more than Michael Moore’s approach to the topic . Seriously!