{{{ 4 de Julio / 4th of July }}} HOROSCOPO de hoy:  Entre fiestas que frecuentes, es posible que conozcas a alquien que te caiga como petardo, y hasta que te ponga a fuego, pero resiste! Terminar encendido en un día como hoy, no es buen pitído. No importa lo que pase, resiste las ganas de explotar – y sal volando tan rápido como un cohete, o ignora el fuego como mecha mojada!

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“Don’t give it the benefit of the doubt, take the doubts away from the benefits.” ~ Gustavo R. Olmedo ~

(Excerpt from “The Will” – an essay by Gustavo R. Olmedo)

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facebook usernames opened up for the grabs at 12:00 AM Saturday, July 13th, 2009.

With 200+ Million users in facebook, you should probably hurry up if you want to grab your preferred username before someone else does forever! Once they have been taken, they are gone for good!  facebook stated that usernames dropped by other users in the future, will not be recycled – for security reasons.

Some “rules” I did see posted:  the username must have at least 5 characters, dots are allowed. New accounts registered after the first announcement about the usernames was made ( just a few days ago by email to all users), will not be eligible for getting one of these usernames, to avoid current users from creating new accounts / extra accounts – just to grab another name…

…Of course, of the 53 “Gustavo Olmedo” guys on facebook – WHO DO YOU THINK GOT “GustavoOlmedo” ?????  Are you kidding me?

…Just got facebook username “GustavoOlmedo” at 1 AM – just an hour after opening – so my URL there is:  http://www.facebook.com/GustavoOlmedo

I admit that my Last Name is not even too common – even less when combined with my First Name – yet, there were 53 “Gustavo Olmedo” guys / “facebookers” – acording to the facebook search results when I searched today out of curiosity!

I don’t know how fast these usernames will go, but it’s maybe around these numbers: 1 out of 100 to 150 people per every combination of Name + Last Name (rough estimate according a few searches of common names and not-so-common name combinations – but of course, there are lots of users that never came back for over a year – after they first created their account = even more chances to you).

Who knows, depending on how common Your Name + Last Name combination is, you might have a few days, since some facebook users log into their account once a week or even less often, but if you wait to long you might have to settle forever with a “not-so-cute” name!  So why wait and take the risk? (unless you do not care about a shorter / “prettier” URL to your profile – like some people don’t).

…Sorry my friend, but if your name is something like:

“John Smith”, “Sarah Davis”, “Steve Johnson”, “Jose Garcia”, “Juan Perez” or “Maria Rodriguez”, etc. – GOOOOOOD LUUUUUUCK to Ya’ !!!

(Here you can see the most common “surnames” in the U.S.A.)

So, HURRY! Grab your preferred username fast!  There are 200+ Million facebookers hungry for a nice username of their choice. You don’t want to end up having to grab something like:

“http://facebook.com/leftOver$ProcrastrinatorShOOT123″

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^facebook.com V.S. myspace.com at Compete.com Traffic Data (04/2008 – 04/2009)

Even though this has already been coming along in progress for a while, some public traffic data (estimates) show how facebook.com has been catching up with myspace.com in the last year. But specifically on May of 2009, some interesting numbers have resulted for the last 12 months of data:

The results for April 2008 to April 2009 for what is known as “Unique Visitors” (including an image from Compete.com), show how facebook.com has gone from about half the traffic of myspace.com – to nearly double the traffic – in the last 12 months!

Those of you who have used Compete.com and know that the data is estimated very different to what is gathered directly from a server, you should already know that numbers in Compete.com are significatly lower than the actual traffic – and not so accurate (real numbers can expected to be 3.5 to 4 times higher than what shows in compete.com, but still can vary up or down from that).

However, for the purpose of this comparison, we are “comparing apples to apples”, since we are using the same system to compare websites – so keep in mind that the ratios of the data would then be relative.

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Como poeta que ya lo era,
Decidió crear una canción,
Y escribió con música en mente,
Lo que fue el Himno de ésta Nación.

Le fue fácil escribirlo, no porque era poeta,
Y no sólo porque su país lo llenaba de emoción;
Tampoco fue porque la islita bella inspira a cualquiera,
Pero fue porque el Borinquen vivía en su corazón.

~ Gustavo R. Olmedo 05/21/2009 ~

Esta es mi propia versión de como se creó el Himno de Puerto Rico (”La Borinqueña”), el cual es acreditado a Manuel Fernández Juncos en 1903.

Lo dedico a Puerto Rico entero, y a toda su Gran Gente que ama su Pequeña Islita.
Ese amor, se lleva en el corazón, donde quiera que uno esté, por tan distante que sea.

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I have to admit that twitter.com is a great concept, but with 25 people in their staff and diverse areas of talent, there are no excuses for still not having fixed the bug for weeks for the Profile Picture Upload feature and the profile Design Settings.

I have created 3 accounts for different sides of the business, and have had issues every time.

With 3 different browsers that I have tried:  Firefox = ERROR!, Google Chrome = ERROR!, and even with the sucky Internet Explorer = ERROOOOORRRR!

It is very upsetting that after I have carefuly selected my colors for the Design Settings to customize my twitter page – and even uploaded an image, after clicking on the “save settings” button, it reports  and ERROR saying:

“There was a problem saving your profile customization.”

…and the same goes for the profile Picture upload feature. I choose an image of only 5KB and after uploading it, it reports an error, and it even dares to have a generic message come up saying:

“There was a problem with your picture. Probably too big.” ..5k too big???

When they even state there “Maximum size of 700k. JPG, GIF, PNG.”

…And by the way, it happened with all accepted formats (JPG, GIF, PNG.) – tested repeatedly and will the major browsers repeatedly too, but all having the same outcome!

So after trying for my new account at twitter, and getting error after error, I had to just leave my profile / page like it comes when you sign up and just keep waiting for them to fix it, so I will try later but the colors in it are totally not what I was looking for. I had all the colors to match this blog but “no dice” with them.

They know about these issues, and they have posted about it in their help section and FAQ section. But a few weeks down the road – nothing gets fixed. I understand if it is a website that is being run by 1 guy = then you have al excuses in the world to even never fix bugs, but 25 people in a staff?  Idon’t think there are any excuses, unless…

Are the 25+ employees working out of the cafeteria?

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…nació de los polvos lejanos,
Creció a Dios muy cercano,
Aprendió de sus primos hermanos,
Con cálido amor a traves de los años.

Siempre soñó desde pequeño, a todos servirle,
Pues desde muy temprana edad, contaba con mucha energía.
Así que día tras día, nunca se cansó de a Dios pedirle,
Que le diera una oportunidad de iluminar con su vida.

Dios con su sabiduría, sí muy claro sabía,
De su cálido corazón que tan rápido crecía.
Siempre determinado a hacer lo que tanto quería,
E incansable que siempre fue, nunca dormía.

Pensando en ninguna otra cosa que lo que muy bien ya hacía,
Siguió pidiéndole a Dios -día tras día,
En tener una misión en la que algún día emprendería,
Y prometió de darle su amor, a aquellos que tuvieran vida.

Propuso crear un horizonte en donde todavía no existía,
Sin ningún miedo de ir a un lugar que aún no conocía,
Y ofrecerlo -sin falta- a los necesitados de energía,
Para iluminar el paso a aquellos en su vida.

Entonces Dios le asignó un lugar, en el cual lo puso solito en aquella era,
Y le confió una responsabilidad que hasta el momento, en el Universo no había.
Solito en su esquina, calentaba sin cesar, esperando por que la primera vida apareciera.
Y por tan Solito en tanta distancia, su nombre entonces fue “El Sol”, porque pequeño ya no era.

~ Gustavo R. Olmedo ~

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Let’s ask ourselves, answering firmly and without hesitation – and with all sincerity, as the doubt vanishes the essence of the purpose, and dishonesty destroys nations, friendships, families, and ourselves;

Let’s set an ebarkment towards what is considered impossible, not just open opportunities to what has already been done;

Let’s hope for what Will definitely happen, as the sense of doubt makes a huge difference between reality and nonexistence;

Let’s not give it the benefit of the doubt, let’s take the doubt away from the benefits;

Let’s leave the options open, and ask ourselves The Question – but where the only answer is YES;

Because NO is just a distraction – a Test we get put through – one that we take over and over, as if we had never seen or heard of it;

Let’s stop making excuses, as they are only tickets that buy us extra time, but time is limited, and the least thing we can ever buy;

Aim for everything, so that if you fall short and out of breath, you still catch Something,

As the last time I heard, Something was still better than Nothing;

But focus on Something, as Everything will otherwise spread yourself too thin;

Let’s try it. …For a lifetime!

…Before you know it – you have already done it – over and over again, and know it, as we ourselves know our own name.

~ Gustavo R. Olmedo ~

In the hopes of that it can inspire someone – at least 1 person in the entire world – that is already “something” positive

Sharing is Wonderful!  Do you share?

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…It covers areas throughout the entire Universe, and It has the ability or potential to reach every corner of the Universe at any time, in any amounts, although such events are normally not known in advance.

Yet, it does not take away from anything, nor does it occupies any space – or at least, it is thought as being that way.

It’s name has been repeated trillions of times – if not more!  Every fraction of a second It is being referred to.

In fact, It has been called by It’s name so many times, that we don’t even think of it consciously, unless we feel like including It in our miseries.

We use It all the time, but we don’t consider It to have much value, technically – none!

To the point of that we have come to make It nothing and consider It nothing – not giving It any recognition.

And we do that so much, that while It’s often around us at any given time, we cannot see It, we mention It often – but most often, it is our unconsciousness the one that thinks of It.

However, sometimes, It is all we have in our minds.

Where is It at?  It is everywhere but nowhere to be found.

It must exist, and It does, as It has a very important role in the Universe, but It’s really never there or anywhere else.

Calling It Everything is very inaccurate;

Calling It Something is totally an opposition;

Calling It Huge is an understatement because It’s even larger than that;

But calling It Small is pretty close.

We may come to believe that giving It no name, should be understood by It – because of It’s nature;

But just calling It nothing as in giving it no name – is an insult,

As for It’s name by what we know it as, is “Nothing”.

- Gustavo R. Olmedo – 05/16/2009

*Note:  This is an “Amateur” work, written rather quickly and spontaneous about a subject I just thought of. I never read books, poems, or do anything like this in my profession, and I always avoided in school and college – anything having to do with poetry, literature, articles, etc. And I do not ever write my thoughts on paper or computer files. But today, I decided to do something else different in my life – once again, like I have been doing especially in the last couple of years, which has turned out much better for me. So for the first time ever, I decided to not only write, but to also publish it online. Where did I learn to write? That is the question of the 20,000 Pennies! …And by the way, I am a College Dropout, self-made Entrepreneur and Artist, self-made Programmer and Web Designer, and self-made pretty-much everything else – so if that serves you as inspiration, I’m glad it can help …So keep all of this in mind before judging a “newbie”!

…In looking to write about Something, I came up with something about Nothing!

I hope you enjoy it. At least if 1 person does – that already means “Something”

Much Love,

~ Gustavo R. Olmedo ~ 05/16/2009

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May 16th of 2009 – Today, I just launched my personal website + portfolio + blog + hobbies + diary + everything in between – all to be shared with you. I have limited time to work on it due to the other web projects I have always going on.

…But I promise I will update it regularly, so that you can get to know me in a more personal level. Than You for understanding and for visiting.

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