Portugal telecommunications country report

Posted by on Dec 16th, 2009 | 0 Comments Portugal telecommunications country report Thumbnail

I have recently published the Portugal Country Report for Analysys Mason, where I present an overview of the fixed and mobile telecommunication’s market for the given country. It has been a long affair of research, reading and getting up-to-speed with the Portuguese telco market. It has been a long affair mainly because it has been [...]

Spanish peasant paella under the Tanzanian sun

Posted by on Sep 6th, 2009 | 1 Comments Spanish peasant paella under the Tanzanian sun Thumbnail

What do Spaniards tend to miss the most when they leave their home country? It might be the family, or friends, or the hometown. But I suspect it is the food. Their food, the one they are used to since they are kids, the one prepared with love and care by their mothers. That it’s [...]

Femtocells: challenges and lessons from early deployments

Posted by on Jul 5th, 2009 | 0 Comments Femtocells: challenges and lessons from early deployments Thumbnail

We wrote this article for the Analysys Mason newsletter, Communiqué, for the February release. Femtocells are an exciting technology that is getting more and more important. After several launches – Sprint and AT&T in the US, StarHub in Singapore and Softbank in Japan – Vodafone UK has started the first European deployment the 1st of [...]

New look – Update your RSS!

Posted by on Jul 5th, 2009 | 0 Comments New look – Update your RSS! Thumbnail

Please, update your RSS by clicking here. The old ones will work for a while, but might disapear at any moment. Thanks! Well, it took a lot of time, but eventually here it is: The new look of my blog. To be honest, it was mainly a gift for my wife. She wanted to start [...]

Hen in pepitoria

Posted by on Jan 15th, 2009 | 0 Comments Hen in pepitoria Thumbnail

Usually, at least in Spain, Christmas is a time of heavy and expensive dishes. Families meet, sometimes getting as many as 15 to 20 people together, and it seems that the heavier the meal the better. I do guess this comes from the fact that Spain has been very poor during a long time, and [...]

Problems with video in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

Posted by on May 1st, 2008 | 0 Comments Problems with video in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Thumbnail

I have just updated Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron  in my laptop. It is cool, works just great but has, as every new software, a few glitches developers will have to take care of. One of those problems is that I am having problems at the moment reading AVI files. Some players got frozen or where [...]

Black Rice, or Arroz Negro

Posted by on Jan 29th, 2008 | 0 Comments Black Rice, or Arroz Negro Thumbnail

My wife is discovering the pleasures of the Mediterranean cuisine. Although she thinks there is sometimes a bit too much meat, she tends to enjoy the variety, tastiness and the freshness used in the preparation of meals, a mix of qualities difficult to find in other cultures. Common to the traditional diet of Mediterranean regions [...]

Implementing Backup for a home network

Posted by on Oct 10th, 2007 | 0 Comments Implementing Backup for a home network Thumbnail

Backups are one of the least beloved activities in computing. Few people like to do backups, and thus they don’t think about doing them. My motto is, if you think you should do a backup, it’s already too late. And lately I am thinking about doing a backup, so I’m concerned. In order to implement [...]

Pesto alla genovese

Posted by on May 16th, 2007 | 0 Comments Pesto alla genovese Thumbnail

We have spent a few days with friends in Málaga, a nice city in the south of Spain. It has been four days of sun, beach and relax. And, of course, food and good Spanish wine. As good cooks and loving partners, we decided to take care of the food for our beloved ones. Each [...]

LDAP in companies with evolving structure

Posted by on May 3rd, 2007 | 0 Comments LDAP in companies with evolving structure Thumbnail

I am by no way an expert in LDAP, but I have been working with this technology for already a few months. As I’ve commented in other posts, I am working in a company with thousands of users and I’ve been participating in the definition and assignation of users to groups and roles. Of course, [...]

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