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From Goran’s website:

For those who heard about Goran Bregovic’s accident and worried…

Please DON’T WORRY.

Goran’s legendary good luck has protected him again and some time second week of July Goran should be on stage again -apologies to the audience of nine cancelled concerts between June 20 and July 7.

(He has also solemnly promised to give up climbing cherry trees)

Goran has asked us to sincerely thank all those who have written and wished him well.

Via Goran’s official website.

It’s said that we are living an information revolution, just like the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago, and this revolution is affecting the way we look at the media, the entertainment, the society overall, and of course, the productivity.

In the IT world (IT is a concept that was born to the information revolution) this is kind of a cycle looking to benefit the productivity: We achieve great technological developments motivated on the need for better tools to manage more information, and the data flow becomes wider every day because we can deal with more loads of data. Then, if we can manage and understand more information, we can manage more resources to do more things.

The personal computer clearly has played an important role in this cycle during the last years, and there are just a few smart men leading this development, like Bill Gates.

I don’t say Bill Gates is the author (or the big hero) leading the modern phase of the information revolution, but I think that much of the world as we know it today is the consequence of his great and early vision.

Bill Gates co-founded and during the last 30 years has conducted the company that defined how is composed the modern office desktop, and much of the automated business processes. He thought computers would be in near every place, and he acted as a facilitator to reach that idea.

He is a dreamer, and when his dreams have not been reached, he certainly has transformed the world in that hope.

The work he is doing now in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is remarkable; now he is following other dreams, those of a mature Bill Gates compromised with the part of the world that could not evolve on his past enterprise; that’s an example we all should take too.

Here’s to you Bill, thanks for your vision and your passion.

Wikipedia states:

In computing, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication (read the full article).

ESET Latinoamérica has reported fake invitations to Facebook; when you click on the links in the invitation mail, you get a page that looks identically to the Facebook website, but is coming from another source, and expects to get your credentials to gain access to your Facebook account and profile. This would compromise the personal and private information stored in the profile of the user being attacked.

We are used to know about these phishing attempts with banking websites, eBay, Paypal, etc. but I think this is the first report of a phishing massive attack to social network users.

The solution to avoid this attacks is to keep eyes wide open: Always look at the address bar of your browser, and identify if the shown URL really corresponds to the website you are supposedly visiting. Also you could use web browsers with anti-phishing methods, like Firefox 3.

Last friday AFP reported Goran Bregović had an accident: He fell from a tree while picking cherries; he was at his home in Belgrade, and was admitted in the emergency area of a local hospital with a severe injury on his spine (a broken vertebrae).

The good news is he is in the way to full recovery; we have the word of one close friend of him, who sent this message to the manager of a fan group:

Goran hopes to stand and walk today - it should be OK in the next weeks.

Maesto Bregović, get well soon. Here in México (and in many places around the globe) we hope to see you soon again, playing and singing as always.

Thanks for the information, Oscar Miklos.

UPDATE (23/06/08): Today I received a message from Goran’s manager, who told me:

Goran is getting better every day… Hopefully we resume concert activities from July 8.

Great news.

Looks like my journey on finding a decent PIM sync solution is becoming to an end.

Today I have a very heterogenous setup:

• iCal, Address Book and Mail (Using IMAP) on OS X Leopard.
• A Treo 750, running Windows Mobile 6 and ActiveSync-ing my mail (sometimes active-stinking, like Phil Schiller just said some minutes ago).
• Zimbra Collaboration Suite account, hosted at 01.com (for the push-email).
• MarkSpace Missing Sync, for:
  1. Transferring my multiple calendars to the Treo, because Zimbra can send only one calendar due to ActiveSync technical restrictions. Most of the time, updating my calendars shoud be done on the Mac, and not on the Treo to avoid uncertain results.
  2. Syncing my address book. Zimbra does not transfer pictures, and sometimes it randomly changes the tag of the phone fields, say “business” to “home”, “other” to “fax”.

  Missing Sync works well, but you should keep an eye on it… it’s not good to leave this guy unattended.

• A Google Apps account hosting my domain, and my mailbox forwarding all email to the Zimbra account. Google has the best antispam filters I have seen.

In the past I have tried Exchange Server (It was a good solution while I was using Microsoft Entourage on the Mac side), Kerio Mail Server, and of course .Mac, and all of them had been far (very very far) from perfect.

Now with the “pre-launch” of Apple’s new Mobile Me I can see some light… I hope all the promised features are true and transparent. It would be perfect if they allowed you to use your own domain name (A-la Google Applications for Domains), but I don’t think it will be possible (just as they did with .Mac).

Of course, I will need an iPhone to evaluate the service, so… Anybody interested on giving a new home to a young Treo?

What matters to you // me? is one of the 3 winners of the Vancouver Film School and YouTube challenge on the theme What matters to you.

The author is Jorge Rolando Cañeda Estrada, 17, mexican, and now he has one full scholarship in VFS.

Muchas felicidades, Jorge; tu talento nos motiva a quienes estamos relacionados de alguna forma con el diseño digital.

Via Vivir México.

Here in the place I work almost all of the people have experienced it. It’s very frequent in meetings, or in conversations in the hallways.

It consists in pretending there’s a floating computer keyboard in front of you, and you are typing on it, to illustrate a past moment when you had an IM chat with someone else. For example, when somebody says: “And I told him: Please come to this meeting”, while “typing” on this inexistent keyboard.

I think it looks weird, or at least funny, but it appears I am the only one who thinks that way, because nobody else notices.

Maybe I’m the weirdo for noticing that kind of stuff.

Last night we went to see the new Indiana Jones movie. It’s a great adventures movie, shows Indy just as he used to be, and most of the time makes you think you are watching an 80’s production.

And I found this today in Matt’s blog (via the Wordpress Dashboard):

Otto Rahn, the original Indiana Jones.

Hold on, this can be tricky if you use Google’s Jabber service (aka Google Talk) and don’t want to corrupt your Google Talk buddy list and complete address book in one single step.

Apparently, both lists are linked very closely in Google, so the first sync can be disappointing (and more than just that).

If you aren’t an address book freak, you are already on the safe side (not my case).

Via Håvard Sørbø.

Update: Mac OS X Hints has published a hint on this theme.

Sweet. You will need the 10.5.3 update.

Via Official Google Mac Blog

Update: Be careful; read on.