Broadband FTTH shopping 2026-01-31...

 In no particular order, what's available for our household at 78572..

  

 

 

 

Tools I collected during my time at Cloudflare...

 

• Created by Alex Mayorga, last modified on 2025-05-16

https://github.com/barnybug/cli53 allows folk coming from AWS Route 53 to create a BIND file to upload to Cloudflare.

https://www.peeringdb.com/net/4224 Cloudflare peering.

https://stat.ripe.net/AS13335 Cloudflare on RIPE

https://bgp.he.net/AS13335 Cloudflare BGP

https://nettools-staging.as13335.net/ Cloudflare NetTools

https://www.dnsperf.com/dns-speed-benchmark check DNS performance for a given domain

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/sharing/ check why content is not shareable on Feishbol

https://www.dareboost.com/en/website-speed-test-http2-vs-http1 HTTP/2 speed comparison

https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly Mobile-Friendly Test - Google Search Console

https://gf.dev/http2-test HTTP/2 test

https://http2.akamai.com/demo Check HTTP/2 browser support

https://eais.rkn.gov.ru/en/#form Check for Russian blocks

https://www.blocked.org.uk/ Check for UK blocks

https://www.denic.de/en/service/tools/nast/ DENIC Nameserver Predelegation Check Web Interface

https://httpstatus.io/ Easily check status codes, response headers, and redirect chains.

https://caddyserver.com/docs/mitm-detection Detecting HTTPS Interception

https://www.comlot.ch/en/gambling-in-switzerland/access-blocking/blacklist Switzerlads's Comlot’s blacklist of domain names of foreign gambling operators to be blocked

https://www.esbk.admin.ch/esbk/it/home/illegalesspiel/zugangssperren.html The blacklist of the Swiss Federal Gaming Board

https://www.radb.net/query The Internet Routing Registry - RADb

https://inforedes.labs.lacnic.net/

https://rdap-web.lacnic.net/

https://netox.apnic.net/

https://bgpview.io/

https://www.ripe.net/analyse/internet-measurements/ixp-country-jedi IXP Country Jedi

https://www.caida.org/services/

https://www.cidr-report.org/

https://www.smartfense.com/en-us/tools/spoofcheck/

https://observatory.manrs.org/

https://check-your-website.server-daten.de/

https://ping.pe/

https://filter.sa/en/unblock Request Saudi Arabia's Communications and Information Technology Commission CITC to remove a block.

https:/trustedsource.org/ McAfee^® provides an online tool that enables you to check if a site is categorized within various versions of the SmartFilter Internet Database or the Webwasher URL Filter Database.

https://asm.ca.com/en/checkit.php CA App Synthetic Monitor

https://bkgtycvd.share.thousandeyes.com/view/tests/?roundId=1595020200&metric=availability&scenarioId=dnsServer&testId=1432487 1.1.1.1 in ThousandEyes

https://wheresitup.com/ Verify Global Accessibility Without Leaving Your Desk

https://wheresitfast.com/ Check your site’s status, DNS results & routes around the world!

https://shotsherpa.com/ View your website around the world without a single customs agent

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/ IBM X-Force Exchange

https://www.linkedin.com/post-inspector/ LinkedIn Post Inspector

https://www.http3check.net/ HTTP/3 Check

https://gf.dev/http3-test Geekflare HTTP/3 Testing Tool

https://beian.miit.gov.cn/#/Integrated/recordQuery China ICP/IP address/domain name information filing management system

https://letsdebug.net/ Let's Debug is a diagnostic tool/website to help figure out why you might not be able to issue a certificate for Let's Encrypt™.

https://sweeps.ai/3rd-party-analyzer/ 3rd-party Performance Analyzer

https://dnsspy.io/labs/caa-validator DNS Spy: CAA record validator

Find the IP Address Ranges Used by Amazon S3

https://cloudflare-pages.manfredi.io/ Cloudflare Tools (Connection Statistics, Datacenter Statistics, Datacenter Map)

https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com/tests/o365 Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer

https://mha.azurewebsites.net/ Message Header Analyzer

https://esnicheck.com/

https://domainbigdata.com/ DomainBigData is a big database of domains and whois records

https://petscams.com/ Petscams.com was created with the purpose of cataloguing the latest websites built by scammers.

https://securityheaders.com/

What is my IP address? — ifconfig.co

Online nslookup — Find DNS records nslookup.io

https://www.boce.com/ boce network monitoring platform (China)

https://dronebl.org/ DroneBL is a realtime monitor of abusable IPs, which has the goal of stopping abuse of infected machines.

https://www.entrust.com/resources/certificate-solutions/tools/certificate-transparency-search Entrust Certificate Search

https://rpki.cloudflare.com/

https://dynamic-dns-checker.tools.wiz.io/ Dynamic DNS Leakage Tester

https://www.nic.cl/dominios/doctorDNS/ doctorDNS, Herramiento de diagnóstico de DNS

https://ednscomp.isc.org/ EDNS Compliance Tester

https://ja3er.com/ This project is about collecting and sharing JA3 hashes.

https://sslbl.abuse.ch/ja3-fingerprints/ A list of malicious JA3 fingerprints identified by SSLBL. SSL Blacklist (SSLBL) is a project operated by abuse.ch

https://host-tools.com/ "online tools to test your Internet Speed, E-mail checker, your IP address, your Hostname, Domain DNS records, Domain Whois Information and more!"

https://www.cdnplanet.com/geo/ Content Delivery Networks per country

https://testlocal.ly/ TestLocally takes screenshots of websites from different locations around the world

https://ixp.cabase.org.ar/estadisticas.html Tráfico Agregado - IXPs CABASE Argentina

https://azurespeedtest.azurewebsites.net/ Azure Speed Test 2.0

http://awsspeedtest.xvf.dk/ AWS Region Speed Test

https://boce.aliyun.com/detect/http Alibaba Cloud's Network Detect Tool

https://cf.sjr.org.uk/tools/

https://otx.alienvault.com/ The World’s First Truly Open Threat Intelligence Community

https://www.robtex.com/ Robtex is used for various kinds of research of IP numbers, Domain names, etc

https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/ The primary goal of Malpedia is to provide a resource for rapid identification and actionable context when investigating malware.

https://opentip.kaspersky.com/ Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal

Bitcoin Abuse Database

https://www.bitcoinabuse.com/

Looking glasses

https://enterprise.verizon.com/why-verizon/looking-glass/

https://ipms.chinatelecomglobal.com/public/lookglass/lookglassDisclaimer.html

https://lg.serverius.net/

http://looking-glass.connect.com.au/lg/ TPG (AS 7545) and AAPT (AS 2764)

https://www.msk-ix.ru/en/lookingglass/ Moscow IX

https://www.cogentco.com/en/network/looking-glass

https://lookingglass.centurylink.com/

https://lg.telia.net/

https://lg.transtelco.net/

https://www.gin.ntt.net/looking-glass-landing/ NTT AS2914

https://bgp4.as/looking-glasses

https://netactuate.com/lg/

http://lg.gldn.net/ AS3216 PJSC "Vimpelcom"

http://lg.bt.net/cgi-bin/welcome  BT Looking Glass site AS5400 and AS3300 networks

https://lg.as3320.analytics.benocs.com Deutsche Telekom AG AS3320

https://lg.aussiebroadband.com.au/lg.cgi Aussie Broadband AS4764

https://looking.house/index.php 378 Looking Glass points from 174 companies in 51 countries

https://www.iptp.net/iptp-tools/lg/ IPTP Networks AS41095

https://lg.twelve99.net/ Twelve99 Looking Glass AS1299 Telia Carrier

https://lg.angolacables.co.ao/prefix_bgpmap/Luanda+Miami+Johannesburg+London+Lisbon+SaoPaulo/ipv4?q=1.1.1.1 Angola Cables AS37478

http://looking.cabase.org.ar/ Looking Glass CABASE Argentina

E: Release file for http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-security/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 6h 16min 9s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.

 If y'all see this type of error while updating a distro on y'all's Windows Subsystem for Linux like so:

~$ sudo apt update

[sudo] password for alex:

Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease

Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease [110 kB]

Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease [119 kB]

Hit:4 https://pkg.cloudflare.com focal InRelease

Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease

<snip>

Reading package lists... Done

E: Release file for http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-security/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 6h 16min 9s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.

E: Release file for http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy-updates/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 6h 16min 50s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.

issuing this command:

~$ sudo hwclock --hctosys

should allow you to update normally...

~$ sudo apt update

Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease

Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease [110 kB]

Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease

Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease [119 kB]

Hit:5 https://pkg.cloudflare.com focal InRelease

<snip>

Fetched 229 kB in 10s (22.1 kB/s)

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

All packages are up to date.

My phone journey thus far:

Palm Treo 600 > Palm Treo 800w > Sony Ericsson K700i  > Sony Ericsson K750i > Sony Ericsson K790i > Sony Ericsson Xperia pro > Geeksphone Keon > Flame > au Fx0 > Sony Ericsson Z3 Compact > Apple iPhone SE > Motorola One Hyper > Apple iPhone SE > Unihertz Jelly Star > ...

These are the phones I've used as "everyday carry" over the years and that had most certainly influenced the way I perceive mobile technology.

"Shaping the Internet: History and Future" ISOC on-line course broken links

On slide 27/60 of the section 01_History of Internet I've found a broken link in the footnotes [12] and [13].

Broken: http://clinton6.nara.gov/1993/09/1993-09-15-the-national-information-infrastructure-agenda-for-action.html
Working: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED364215

On the Additional Reading section of slide 35/60 on the section 01_History of Internet the link for "timeline resource" is broken:

Broken: https://www.internetsociety.org/internet-governance-timeframe-2002-2016-0
Working: https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2013/internet-governance-timeframe-2003-2016/

On the resources section of slide 42/60 of the section 01_History of Internet I've found a broken link:

Broken: http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Webcast&ID=20080128_216
Working: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/whats-in-a-name-the-history-and-future-of-the-domain-name-system/?videos

On the resources section of slide 54/60 of the section 01_History of Internet I've found two broken links:

Broken: http://www.isoc.org/oti/articles/0597/leiner.html
Broken: http://www.isoc.org/oti/articles/0797/leiner.html
Working: https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2017/brief-history-internet/


On slide 57/60 on the section "Technologica History of the Internet" this link "The Internet and the Public Switched Telephone Network: Disparities, Differences, and Distinctions" is broken:

Broken: https://www.internetsociety.org/sites/default/files/The%20Internet%20and%20the%20Public%20Switched%20Telephone%20Network.pdf
Working: https://docplayer.net/18924286-The-internet-and-the-public-switched-telephone-network-disparities-differences-and-distinctions.html

Hack to fix VMware Horizon Client for 64-bit Linux in Debian Sid

If you try to run vmware-view after installing it with these instructions and are greeted by this error:

$ vmware-view
/usr/lib/vmware/view/bin/vmware-view: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

You do this little hack:

# ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0

Inspiration for this hack came from https://communities.vmware.com/thread/545364

Update your Flame to B2G OS in 5 easy steps...

0. Get a GNU/Linux (64 bits) distro
1. Grab Firefox Nightly from https://nightly.mozilla.org/
2. Override add-on signing https://support.mozilla.org/kb/add-on-signing-in-firefox#w_override-add-on-signing-advanced-users
3. Get B2G Installer from https://lissyx.github.io/b2g-installer/
4. Go to about:b2g-installer
5. Follow the 3 easy steps there...

If you get stuck, please ask us questions at https://vector.im/develop/#/room/#mozilla_#fxos:matrix.org

MozPost I'm yet to write...

Given today is a holiday at the daily grind, here I am trying to revive this olden blog of mine...

In my journey to became a hacker I've been contributing to the Mozilla Project since around early 2008 if memory serves me...

Below is a list of the major MozEvents I've participated at and that I still need to write blog posts for:

• MozCamp México 2013, Mexico City, MX, April 26-28
• Mozilla Summit 2013, Toronto, CA, October 4-6
• L10n Bootcamp México 2014, Mexico City, MX, May 2-4
• Campus Party México 2014, Guadalajara, MX, June 25-28
• Mobile World Congress 2015, Barcelona, ES, March 2-5
• L10n hackathon/QA Meetup LATAM 2015, Lima, PE, July 11-12
• Campus Party México 2015, Guadalajara, MX, July 22-26
• ...

twitter hacked and your profile still had a topify e-mail...

don't despair.

As long as you're still logged on the mobile client somewhere, there's hope.

A couple weeks ago, lovely @nelisalr broke the news to me that twitter had been cracked by some evil geniuses. I didn't care much as I didn't get any e-mail notifying me my account was affected.

Anyhow next time I go to twitter.com it asks me to reset my password so I figure my account was indeed one of the 250,000 accounts compromised, the horror!

To add insult to injury, I had set up the e-mail to twitter to be a topify account, a service that's now been dead for quite some time, many moons ago.

Topify being death, all attempts to recover the account's password were in vain.

Your trusty 3rd World Geek regained @alex_mayorga with the following 3 steps:

1. Go to Twitter Help Center | My account was hacked or compromised and fill out the form like this:

2. Twitter support would get back with something along the lines of this message:

Hi,

The email address you're writing from does not match the confirmed email address for this account. However, we've noticed that the account in question currently has an official Twitter client associated with it. If you are still able to access the Twitter account using your mobile device, we may be able to confirm ownership of the account. To do this, please send the following Tweet from the Twitter for Android app:

@support #123456789

Once you've tweeted this message, reply to this email and let us know you've sent it. We will then be able to verify your account ownership and send you a password reset link so that you can access the account and update your information.

Thanks!
Someone
Twitter Support
support.twitter.com
@support

3. Tweet the required tweet and reply back to support over e-mail and you shall receive a link to reset the account's password.

If I ever interview you...

Back at the "cube farm" I've been overhearing interviews for some time now so I started planning my interview questionnaire in case I have to hire somebody one day.

It goes like this:

1. Do you know what RTFM means?
2. Do you RTFM?
3. Could you WTFM if needed?

Am I missing any other important questions? Chime in in the comments below... 

Tarjeta Feria... a half failed NFC implementation

Just copying a couple of comments I put on Milenio in case they mysteriously disappear...

alex_mayorga 11/23/2010 10:42 AM

Enlaces "Inteligentes" recula y remueve la información del reembolso de su página.

La página removida es http://www.tarjetaferia.com/index.php?view=article&id=50 y en ella se leía lo siguiente:
"Los usuarios de la Tarjeta FERIA Ordinaria pueden adquirir su tarjeta en los 13 Centros de Emisión FERIA y en Tiendas OXXO y, a partir del 20 de noviembre, deberán acudir a un Centro de Emisión FERIA a realizar el registro de su Tarjeta FERIA Ordinaria presentando una identificación oficial vigente con fotografía y su CURP, para hacer efectiva la bonificación de $22.50."

Buena forma de crear confianza en los usuarios del tristemente celebre sistema de prepago.

alex_mayorga 11/08/2010 01:01 PM

Y ahora el engorro para conseguir el dichoso reembolso "Los usuarios de la Tarjeta FERIA Ordinaria pueden adquirir su tarjeta en los 13 Centros de Emisión FERIA y en Tiendas OXXO y, a partir del 20 de noviembre, deberán acudir a un Centro de Emisión FERIA a realizar el registro de su Tarjeta FERIA Ordinaria presentando una identificación oficial vigente con fotografía y su CURP, para hacer efectiva la bonificación de $22.50." http://www.tarjetaferia.com/index.php?view=article&id=50

Primero voy y pierdo mi tiempo buscando un OXXO que tenga tarjetas, la pago y luego tengo que buscar un centro de emisión y llevar CURP para que me den el reembolso. Sólo en México =S

Traje a colación a Visa y MasterCard, porque han hecho innovaciones como estas:
"New Jersey and New York Transit Agencies Partner with MasterCard on Tap & Go Payment System to Enhance Commuter Experience" http://www.mastercard.com/us/company/en/newsroom/new_jersey_and_new_york_transit.html
"Visa to Improve Payment Experience for Commuters in Los Angeles and Paris; Working with Transit Operators to Enable Visa Payment at the Fare Gate" http://corporate.visa.com/media-center/press-releases/press871.jsp

Lo cual es perfectamente posible aquí ya que "Los más de 140,000 estudiantes de la UANL ya cuentan con una credencial propia emitida por la universidad. Dicha credencial está preparada tecnológicamente para poder operar en el sistema de prepago FERIA. Esta credencial se debe activar para su uso en las unidades de transporte público de pasajeros que están equipados con el sistema de prepago FERIA." http://www.tarjetaferia.com/index.php?view=article&id=40

Supongo que las credenciales de la UANL son VISA o MasterCard y utilizan la misma tecnología que en New Jersey, New York, Los Angeles y Paris. Una pena que una oportunidad como esta de demostrar que la "regia metrópoli" está a la altura de cualquier gran ciudad del mundo termine en un fiasco como este por la falta de visión o habilidades de comunicación de los gobernantes.

How fast are 2Mbps in .mx?

If you're a 3rd World Geek, chances are you're stuck with a crappy and monopolistic ISP and have all sort of troubles with your service provider.
I've finally got pass the "Wife Acceptance Factor" (WAF) to switch providers.
Below find my Speedtest.net results of said change.

TELMEX "2Mbps" (before)

AXTEL 2Mbps (now)

As you can see, there's actually a way to get the actual service you pay for. Something tells me Mexican consumers are too lazy to do anything more than bitch on twitter and hope things change by themselves.

Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day and my favorite woman in technology

As today is "Ada Lovelace Day" I'll be taking my favorite women in technology and wife out for pizza, a burger a latte or whatever she feels like having for dinner.

Thanks on being supportive and helpful on all my "techie" endeavors, from doing "FLISoLes" to cooking your delicious burgers and pancakes to help get computers for disadvantaged kids and specially for being patient when I just have another bug to report or "great idea" to share on IRC or twitter.

I love you! Even if you still insist on using XP =P

Want to check out what's the buzz is all about?

This one is to appease the twitter following that's going all going crazy begging for a Google's Buzz account.

I got to check it out almost the moment it was announced using these 5 easy steps:

1. Get
2. Install this add-on
3. Click "Tools" > "Default User Agent" > "iPhone 3.0"
   
4. Go to buzz.google.com
5. There's no step five =D

My verdict: I freaked out to give away my location at all times to our Google overlords and was baffled there doesn't seem to be a way to "tweet" your "buzzes", is that the right word?

Please try it out and let me know what you think of this new Google's "killer app".

Ps. As Yahoo! tweeted they released their own Buzz a couple years ago.

Either VAIO VPCCW1FFX/L lasts one month or I got a lemon

I'm publishing this here just in case Sony decides to censor me and as a placeholder on where to continue troubleshooting later.

Pros: 4GB of RAM, discrete video card, looks purple
Cons: HD seems to be faulting after just 3 weeks, no recovery CD/DVD
Review: I saw this one at the Sony store on Las Americas outlet in San Diego and immediately snatched one as its blue color looks purple, it had an NVIDIA discrete card and plenty of RAM.
I happily used the computer for about 3 weeks with no hiccups and was rather happy with it.
Then this morning I was greeted with an un-bootable system, "UNMOUNTABLE _BOOT_VOLUME" BSOD over and over.
I called support and spend well over an hour punching F2, F8 and F10 and selecting different recovery options, none of them worked. In the end I've been told I need to reach a support center (there's none in Zacatecas) and pay for a recovery CD/DVD that Sony "forgot" to put on the box.
I've torrented a "Windows 7 System Recovery Disc" but when booting from it now I see "Status: 0xc00000e9 Info: An unexpected I/O error has occurred".
My gut is the laptop has a faulty HD. I just hope Sony would stand by its product, help me recover my data and get me a new HD or laptop that would work longer than a month ='(

Twitter y suéteres Monterrey 2009

Per request of my beloved wife this entry would be in Spanish.

Desde el año pasado tuvimos la inquietud de replicar la excelente iniciativa"Twitter y suéteres" de @Bumen, @pawis y @jazminfajardo.
El año pasado reunimos 10 suéteres, que ya no nos quedaban o gustaban mucho. Esperamos este año con su apoyo multiplicar ese número.

La idea es sencilla, todos tenemos suéteres que ya no nos quedan, no nos gustan, etc.:

• Encuentralos.
  
• Lavalos (de ser necesario)
• Anóta tu nombre o @twitter, talla, si el suéter es para niño, adulto, hombre o mujer en un papel.
  
• Cólocalos en una bolsa transparente junto con el papel.
• Llevalos a Starbucks Plaza Real los domingos (22 y 29 de Noviembre; 6, 13 y 20 de Diciembre) de 10:00 a.m. a 1:00 p.m. donde @nelisalr, @alex_mayorga o algún otro voluntario estará encantado de recibirlos.

Los suéteres recolectados serán entregados a un asilo de ancianos y/o casa hogar el día 21 de diciembre de 2009, todos son bienvenidos a acompañarnos en la entrega.

Dudas o preguntas pon un comentario en esta entrada, en twitter @nelisalr @alex_mayorga o por mail.

Si tienes un blog por favor republica este post.

Tweet the vote .mx 09 (#ttvmx2009)

While driving for hours yesterday I presented an idea to @nelisalr that said it might not be a very good one because it might discredit IFE I disagree and believe this might bring a bit more of transparency and citizen involvement in the process.

Here's the idea for your consideration: Let's all "Tweet the vote"!

I'm confident that most people in Mexico would indeed go to the polls this coming Sunday. I'm proposing that we not only do that, but keep watching closely when the polls close, the results are tallied and published (this should start around 7:30 p.m. depending on how fast our neighbors can tally our votes).

I suggest that you go check and tweet the results on your poll using the following format:

PAN XXX PRI XXX PRD XXX PT XXX PVEM XXX PC XXX NA XXX PS XXX (CPM XXX CSM XXX) CNR XXX VN XXX EDO DT SEC TC #ttvmx2009

The (2-4)-character acronyms represent the various parties and (coalitions) as they are registered at the IFE CRN stands for "Candidatos no registrados and VN means "Votos nulos".

EDO should be replaced by the 3-character state code that corresponds to you according to ISO 3166-2:MX

DT should be replaced by the 2-digit district code that corresponds to you according to where you vote.

SEC should be replaced by the 3-digit section code that corresponds to you according to where you vote.

TC should be replaced by 2 characters depending to the type of voting poll according to where you vote. (BAsica, COntigua, EXtraordinaria or ESpecial)

For me this would turn into something like this:

PAN XXX PRI XXX PRD XXX PVEM XXX NA XXX PS XXX (CSM XXX) CNR XXX VN XXX ZAC 04 475 CO #ttvmx2009

Obviously you can also snap a picture to "Flick the vote", post this on your wall to "Facebook the vote", blog about it to "Blog the vote" or anything else you see fit.

I'd like to clarify I fully trust my neighbors and the IFE to do a stellar job on July 5th, 2009. I'm proposing this to make the whole process more fun and involving for the citizens not counting the votes themselves.

Nulling your vote in Mexico?... NOT

A lot have been written and said on how "cool and hip" would it be if we all go and null our vote in the upcoming election here in my beloved Mexico this July 5th, 2009.

From the get go I find this proposal nonsensical for a couple of reasons:

1. Our political system is based in the concept of "mayoría relativa" meaning that if every person but one in a district, state or country goofed up their votes and just one got it right; that wise single voter would've singlehandedly elected a deputy for the whole district, a governor for the whole state or even a president for the whole country.
2. The current system won't even make a distinction for your "voto en blanco", as it stands today it just means you don't know how to vote.

I've been "funcionario de casilla" before and that's why I understand this. Seems to me like many "political analysts" might have not been.

As an exercise go read what your neighbors have been trained to do this next Sunday on their "Manual del funcionario de casilla". It varies a bit based on the number of parties' coalitions in your district:

• One coalition (PDF)
• Two coalitions (PDF)

Focus on Chapter V "Conteo de los votos y llenado del acta" if you have to skim through it.

I don't want this post to run any longer so let me summarize. I urge you NOT to null your vote. Know who your candidates are, learn what the different parties proposals are, find your voting poll and VOTE.

I do agree that the system is a bit broken and the offers are lacking but I believe it is due to how we forget about it during 3 years and then try to fix it on election day. Go vote, make sure you remain politically conscious for the next 3 years and keep your elected representatives accountable. Hopefully we can fix it for the next one if we all participate.

If you're still so inclined to null your vote please go check page 72 in the above manuals. Helpful IFE gives you some creative ideas and examples to do so. Or better yet vote "alex_mayorga" I'd love to have more votes other than my own for this election =P

PS: it might look like a lot of reading but is for the greater good. Besides you might have wasted the same time somewhere else on the net =)

Did I somehow turned into a celebrity?

I don't really think so; but I somehow ended going to the last "Reunión Blogger Regia" and would probably be on the upcoming "Posada Bloggera 2008".
Here's the "official announcement":
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Este 18 de Diciembre se llevara a cabo la Posada de Bloggers Regios en el Café Trecelunas (en el barrio antiguo).

Como siempre, estan todos invitados a darse una vuelta a conocer y socializar con todos los bloggers que típicamente se dan la vuelta en estas reuniones.

La anterior fué todo un exito y estamos seguros que esta tambien lo será.

Para esta ocasión debido a la temporada navideña, [...] Qué Comer estará dando algunos regalos como un iPod shuffle entre otras cosas.

Apunten la fecha en sus agendas y por ahi nos vemos."

If this keeps this entertaining, I might even post more often =P

Firefox 3 Launch Party is on

After ages of not posting, I'm back with a revenge...As you might now know Firefox 3 has been kicking for a number of hours now to achieve some impressive numbers and would most certainly secure a place in the Guinness World Records.
Given that achieving such a fine product, with more than 15,000 improvements, is not small feat and my only contribution so far were a few bug reports and vote on bugs; it's only fitting that I take responsibility and host a Firefox 3 Launch event like the ones cropping all over the world.
I've invited people from my day and afternoon job and many have asked what is all this about, so here's my plan for the perfect party for this coming Saturday (June 21st, 2008):

• Given we're probably going to drink heavily, we'll have a vehicle and driver at our disposal for all the transportation needs (obnoxious Flash music playing site).
• A generous amount of beer or beers would be ordered before hand.
• We'll start by watching Netherlands beat Russia out of the Euro 2008 in the quarter-finals.
• Throw some Wii/XBOX gaming after the game while consuming pizza, barbecue or any other fitting "party food".
• Watch Mexico trying to defeat Belize with little or no success; this might be even live if we happen to secure tickets.
• Go to either Megadeth's or Babasonicos' concert(s).
• Have some "menudo" afterwards.
• Catch some sleep.
• Visit Cintermex for some World Cyber Games 2008 action.

All the above is obviously on my wildest dream but it is feasible to some extent.
In the end we might end up being 5 or less people so my only commitment is to provide the place and a couple of beer cartons so we all get a good start; please BYOB and BYOB =)

I'm off now. See you there and please RSVP.
Everybody is welcome, so invite your friends if you feel like.