From the monthly archives:

October 2006

Parkour Rio

October 23, 2006

You have probably a romantic idea of Cariocas being the kind of laidback “carpe diem” people; and that’s probably the image you’ll also have when you visit for a week. When living here in a day to day routine, you realise how sick this urban jungle truly is. By nature I have a absolute allergy [...]

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links for 2006-10-21

October 21, 2006

Brascan raises 491.7 in IPO (tags: Brascan IPO) Chavez loosing ground and goes hippie “love” Same parallels as in Brazil: the educated smart vote liberal; the ones lacking the comprehension swallow the populistic red. Unfortunately the latter is bigger in quantities. Interesting to see where this will lead to.

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BR predictions

October 19, 2006

Next month Profit features a deep-digging article I wrote on the Brazilian economy and the opportunities of doing business in Brazil in 2007 and 2008. Profit is an investment magazine on the Baltic markets; but unfortunately it’s written in Estonian. I’ve always been a strong believer in the Baltic markets, as much as I’m a believer [...]

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Jajah credits

October 18, 2006

Jajah is a great complementary application to use next to Skype when your contact is on the road (cf. horrible Skype quality oin mobiles in South Africa). The only issue is uploading credits in many countries: Dear JAJAH user, We have looked into this issue and identified the cause of the problem. It appears that you [...]

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Corruption is inherent to humanity

October 17, 2006

Gilberto Gil, Brazil’s light-headed ministry of culure (whatever he understand under that word) last week on television trying to defend the even lighter-headed Lula who pays Gilberto’s monthly cheque for partying around the country and listen to expensive translators on Creative Common meetings in Rio: “A corrupca nao imede a cidadania. Ela e inerente a [...]

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