http://elementalidad.com a seven syllable word for *think* Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:25:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Women are the key influencers in about 80% of all consumer product sales in the United States. (Source: Why She Buys - Amazon) Related Posts B Alaska coastline http://elementalidad.com/2009/11/03/consumerism-in-america/ More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska. Related Posts B Consumerism in America http://elementalidad.com/2009/10/12/alaska-coastline/ An excellent short video about Couch Surfing from a Berkeley journalism student and new CS Member, Alba Mora. Surfing the world wide couch. from Alba Mora on Vimeo. Related Posts B No related posts. B http://elementalidad.com/2009/03/13/surfing-the-world-wide-couch/ While DreamHost certainly has its problems, I prefer them over a host of other web hosting providers for a variety of reasons, but it mainly boils down to turn around time. A colleague of mine, Matt Keith, had emailed me asking why I prefer DreamHost over Verve hosting, and my response got so long ... http://elementalidad.com/2009/03/12/dreamhost-satisfied-customer/ [caption id="attachment_150" align="alignright" width="180" caption="The Sacajawea Dollar coin - popular in Ecuador."][/caption] Within the past month, a lot has been going on here in Ecuador. President Correa has imposed a new tax levy on a large number of imports in order to develop and stir interest in buying local goods, and ... http://elementalidad.com/2009/02/07/ecuador-import-tax-levy/ Anyone looking for premium web hosting services, Carpathia is an absolute joy to work with. http://carpathiahost.com Disclaimer, I'm in no way affiliated with the host; just a very satisfied customer. Related Posts B Web tools for travelers http://elementalidad.com/2009/01/21/145/ Teh internets play a big role in business, and personal communications. How did we get to where we are today? It all started in 1957.... History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo. See also, the definition of teh internets on Urban Dictionary. Related Posts B No related posts. B http://elementalidad.com/2009/01/15/the-history-of-the-internet/ The exit polls of the September 28th election showed a wide margin of support for approval of the new Ecuadorian constitution, in what President Rafael Correa claimed as an "historic victory".  There are indeed a handful of interesting chapters of the constitution that not only reform Ecuadorian's state institutions and ... http://elementalidad.com/2008/09/30/ecuadors-historic-victory-gives-explicit-rights-to-nature/ Fellow expat Gary Scott has an intriguing article about investing in the excellent beach area known as Bahia, just north of huge port town of Manta. Unfortunately, AFAIK right now Bahia is pretty much the farthest beach area to reach in Ecuador from Cuenca. It **should** be soon remedied when ... http://elementalidad.com/2008/09/11/cuenca-to-bahia-ecuador/ For fun today I learned how to run a bash script from PHP, and implemented everybody's favorite command line utility: fortune! The script takes advantage of php's exec() command, and ended up looking something like this: http://elementalidad.com/2008/09/08/stephen-wright-aphorisms-fortune-cookie/