No, this is not a post about that old problem with the same name, this is about a new Website

I've been beta testing for a few days Jeff Atwood's new venture, and I must say, it's promising. It is a site made and maintained by programmers, for programmers... kind of like a wikipedia meets experts-exchange, but free.

The beta is supposed to end at the end of the month, so that means that it will open to the general public (at least that's the current rumor) next month.

In the meantime, here are some screenshots

I have migrated my feed to Google, so if you are subscribed to the old feedburner address through google reader or any other feed program, please update the adress to http://feedproxy.google.com/juanformoso

The old one will continue to work, but the new one is preferred.

Como prometí hace un tiempo, acá les dejo las ppts usadas en el primer mix de Argentina.

De paso estoy probando SkyDrive, y estoy escribiendo este post desde Windows Live Writer (antes usaba el Word). Esta bastante buena la plataforma live...

Ya estoy más tranquilo que ayer… igual ver esto hace que se me caiga una lagrimita =)

Hoy fue el primer MIX en Argentina, en el cual se hicieron unos sorteos muy buenos al final...

En este orden se fueron sorteando: Libros, cubre notebooks, teclado, mouse, cámara web, y una fabulosa XBox 360

Fueron saliendo los nombres de los afortunados... se llegó a la cámara web, sale sorteada una chica...

Situación:

No está?
Uy, no está... saquemos otro nombre... a ver... "Juan Manuel Formoso"
...

No se dieron cuenta, no?

Si hubiera estado esa chica... habría salido sorteado para la X-Box!!

Mi destino es tener una X-Box, pero por favor, señor destino, deje de pegarle en el palo...

Mi amigo personal Ezequiel Glinsky trató de consolarme recordándome que según la teoría del caos, el solo hecho de que la chica hubiera estado, podría haber generado que mi nombre no saliera siguiente... pero la verdad que ese consuelo no funcionó mucho...

No da...

PD: Cuando se me pase esta sensación hago un post-review del evento que estuvo muy bueno la verdad... lástima el final

I've been checking out social networks more than before, and I came across shelfari, it's a service to publish what books you own, what you've read, write and read reviews, etc.

I have just started using it, but it looks promising, check my shelf so far (I have yet to finish building it)

I live in Argentina, and we speak spanish.

I chose to blog in english because I love the language, I can practice, and I'm aiming in the future to be an internationally read blog.

But I also do a few things here (like organizing and teaching 2 contests based on project hoshimi (yes, 2 different contests), and teaching a class in my university), where the audience may very well not speak english, so posts directed to them with resources or information will be in spanish.

This post will be linked to in the header of those posts as an explanation to my millions of english-speaking readers.

I've been reading a lot about xfn and the semantic web, and I really like it... I love the idea of creating a web of connections between everyone I know, of centralising relationships, and all that.

So I've created an endpoint in my blog, in order to exchange links with bloggers and extend this network of relationships, check it out, let me know what you think, and contact me if you are interested in being added to the list.

Oh, and start using xfn in your blogs.

I wasn't going to comment on this post, because at first it didn't seem interesting... but after I read the following excerpt I was so surprised that I had to share it

Out of 33 keyboards swabbed, four were regarded as a potential health hazard and one harboured five times more germs than one of the office's toilet seats.

Microbiologist Dr Peter Wilson said a keyboard was often "a reflection of what is in your nose and in your gut".

During the Which? tests in January this year, a microbiologist deemed one of the office's keyboards to be so dirty he ordered it to be removed, quarantined and cleaned.

It had 150 times the recommended limit for bacteria - five times as filthy as a lavatory seat tested at the same time, the research found.

Ewww... literally dirtier than a toilet seat! 

I have a couple of pop3 accounts besides my primary one, and I don't like to be checking them all the time, so taking advantage of the fact that the primary account is a Gmail account, I use its extremely useful feature, which is the ability to check other mails from within it.

All you have to do is go to Settings -> Accounts -> Get mail from other accounts

On a completely unrelated matter, I always had problems with Outlook's spam filter… every now and then a valid E-Mail found its way to the spam folder, no matter which setting I used… so I ended up disabling it

I like using it, but that was really annoying…

So what happens when you join those two facts?

You get a clean inbox, because you are inadvertely using Gmail's spam filter!

Isn't that cool?