Posible fraude del gobierno chino con gimnasta

Este es un artículo que me encontre en digg, donde utilizando buscadores como Google o Baidu, han logrado encontrar unos documentos de una página web de deportes del gobierno chino, en la que se puede apreciar que a una gimnasta china le han cambiado la edad para que pudiera competir (He Kexin). La gimnasta tiene presuntamente 14 años cuando la edad mínima para competir es 16, la cual sí aparece en su pasaporte.
Me imagino que no tardarán en hacerse eco los medios de comunicación, aunque al parecer ya estuvieron investigando los del New York Times.

Aquí os dejo con un pedazo del artículo original:

There's been some widely publicized controversy regarding the competition age of the Chinese women's gymnastics team recently. I have an Internet connection, that means I should be able to verify the age of the gymnasts in question with primary state-issued documents and find out for myself if someone's cheating, right? Right. Let's go to work.

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El artículo en inglés aquí: http://strydehax.blogspot.com

Cambio en mi blog

He decidido dejar de escribir en inglés y empezar a escribir mis vivencias en español. La idea de empezar a relatar mis aventuras en la vida, los viajes, las fiestas... vamos, lo mismo que antes pero en Español y con el añadido de linkarlo directamente a mis redes sociales (facebook, myspace).

A ver si todo resulta como espero y le doy un poco más de vida a mi blog.

Un saludo!

Is Linux Finally Ready For The Desktop Takeover?

Everyone with even a minor experience in computers knows what Linux is. It is a remarkably complete operating system and is one of the most prominent examples of free software and open source development.By attacking from the bottom, where Microsoft can no longer successfully compete, Linux will finally cut itself a large slice of the desktop.

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VLC - More than playing videos

Check out this article about VLC and it's other capabilities. Article by Adam Pash (senior editor for Lifehacker).

Cross-platform media player VLC is often referred to as the "Swiss Army knife of media applications" for good reason: Not only does VLC play nearly any file you throw at it, but it can do so much more. From ripping DVDs to converting files to iPod-friendly formats, let's take a look at the four coolest things you can do with it...

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Gaming Linux live DVD

This is an interesting article I found on Digg today. It was written by Jeremy LaCroix on July 01, 2008. You'll find the original article (complete) here: http://www.linux.com/feature/139589

LinuX-Gamers Live is a live DVD from Germany based on Arch Linux that includes nothing but games. Version 0.9.3 was released in June and provides an excellent means of sampling Linux games or setting up a home arcade, although a few of the games wouldn't run on my machine.

There are no productivity tools, Web browsers, or package managers here; this disc is all play and no work. Because it's a live DVD, no hard drive is required to run the games. Once you burn the downloaded image to a DVD, you have a portable arcade that will run on any x86 system with 512MB or more of RAM. A 3-D accelerated video card is also required for most of the games. Proprietary drivers for Nvidia and ATI-based video cards are included, so you can enable acceleration for those types of cards by simply answering a few dialogs during the boot process.

Games included here are Boswars, Nexuiz, Bzflag, Sauerbraten, Savage, Treeworlds, Thunder & Lightning, Tremulous, Vegastrike, Warsow, Openarena, World of Padman and Warzone 2100. All of the games in this collection are top-notch open source treasures that should prove fun for even the casual gamer.

Contrary to popular belief, there is no shortage of games on the Linux platform. While the LinuX-Gamers compilation includes some real gems, there's no way all of the noteworthy games in the Linux library could fit on one DVD. For that reason, I hope that compilations of Linux games on live DVDs becomes a trend that will continue, and additional volumes will be released with different game sets.

LinuX-Gamers is perfect for those who want to build a portable arcade or try out Linux games without repartitioning a hard drive. There isn't any desktop functionality here, but that's OK -- this is a gamer-specific distribution that isn't intended to help you get your work done.

Jeremy LaCroix is an IT technician who writes in his free time.

20 Ways to Attack Shyness

Can you remember wanting to ask someone out, but was too shy to do so? Here are 20 ways on how to overcome this shyness.Get off your computers and get practicing!

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Got it back again

I did it! After many months without being able to write something decent, I finally composed a new song. For now I am going to call it "Away from me" and it's inspired in last weekend experiences.

Once I have done everything I need to do with it I'll think about sharing it with the world.

I'm back!!!