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Nuevo Año
01.09.2008
Buenos Aires itself is technically on the water, at the mouth of the River Plate, but access to the river is blocked by a fairly new riverfront park called the . The helps provide the city with the copious amounts of wetland acreage required to breed sufficient mosquitoes for a population ...
Rosario
01.12.2008
When I had finished the steak, the same steward floated by to find out what I would like to drink. Right away, sir!
Buses serving Buenos Aires leave from a bus terminal in Retiro, a long snake of a building hidden behind three train stations.
Rosario is a city 300km...
The Second World
01.17.2008
The defining characteristic of a Second World country is the non-absorbent napkin. From Moscow to Valparaiso, if your café napkin is a square of waxed paper that takes grease from your lips and spreads it to the rest of your face, you can be certain of encountering the whole constellation of other t...
Sleeping Is Giving In
01.24.2008
Bedbugs, of course, are the retro parasites now proving that there second acts in American lives. They started their comeback in the provinces before hitting the big time in New York City a couple of years ago, with feature articles in the , the , and the hipster press. Even after ...
Controlled Tango Into Terrain
04.01.2008
From a Buenos Aires travel guide:
Spice up your life!
A few weeks ago I walked into a tango studio that I had been passing daily, just down the block from my apartment. San Telmo is a tango-rich environment and there are many studios advertising instruction, but this one see...
The Great Porteño Smokeout
04.23.2008
The smoke attack is a kind of model Argentine crisis. It affects everyone, its underlying causes are obscure even though the immediate causes are clear, the government has done everything it can to pretend it's not happening before taking ineffective half-measures, a...
Elevators I Have Known
05.03.2008
I have already written about the I've ever known, in a pink residential apartment tower in Beijing's Haidian district. My life there was bookended by another elevator a few hundred meters away, in a glass box office tower where I worked.
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Using Google App Engine With Amazon Web Services
08.13.2008
For example, I have been building a little search engine that can import and index a complete list of bookmarks from a account. Depending on how many bookmarks the account contains, this import can take a few dozens of seconds.
This workers + queue setup is a very common wa...
Oh Indeed
11.01.2008
She tells me she is willing to make and sell pieces like this to order; if you would like one please for details.
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Bosphorous
12.01.2008
The is an overnight train from Bucharest to Istanbul, with a detachable portion that goes instead to Thessaloniki in Greece. I found out about it thanks to a man named Mark Smith, a British railway enthusiast with a of interesting rail journeys and how to book them. The rolls out o...