<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399</id><updated>2011-12-18T10:30:46.248-08:00</updated><category term='desenlace'/><category term='tour'/><category term='hibernate'/><category term='nunca'/><category term='walking'/><category term='guide'/><category term='corporacion'/><category term='uprising'/><category term='gestacion'/><category term='toefl'/><category term='desnuda'/><category term='ida'/><category term='550'/><category term='bob marley'/><category term='everything'/><category term='C#'/><category term='zapato'/><category term='techos'/><category term='welcome'/><category term='herrumbrado'/><category term='upload'/><category term='orm'/><category term='ella'/><category term='amar'/><category term='.net'/><category term='radiohead'/><category term='performance'/><category term='vuelta'/><category term='dal'/><category term='1980'/><category term='nyc'/><category term='despich'/><category term='ftp'/><category term='madison square garden'/><title type='text'>Fred on life, the universe and everything</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>30</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-937943969770561351</id><published>2011-10-27T15:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-28T07:00:24.774-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Befruchteter Kaviar</title><content type='html'>Hallo, kann ich bitte 10g von dem befruchteten Kaviar bekommen??? Ich habe gehört, es soll ausgezeichnet schmecken! Zum Mitnehmen bitte!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Von wem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; haben Sie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; das&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; denn &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; gehört?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Der Herr, der gerade aus Ihrem Geschäft rauskommt, der sehr dünn ist und ein unbestimmtes, &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;kriminellähnliches&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Lächeln&lt;/span&gt; hat, der hat mir das erzählt. Soll sehr gut zu Straußeiern passen!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eigentlich beinhaltet Kaviar aphrodisierende Pheromone; unser Kaviar ist da besonders &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;hochwertig&lt;/span&gt; und hat einen großen Anteil an solchen Stoffen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Mit dem Ton einer jungen &lt;b style="font-family: &amp;quot;Trebuchet MS&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;alten&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Dame&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;, ca 1877)&lt;/i&gt; Bitte verzeihen Sie meine &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;Unwissenheit&lt;/span&gt;, aber ist das gesundheitsschädlich?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Absolut nicht! Ganz im Gegenteil! Es fördert die Gesundheit, und grade bei Frauen, die unter &lt;u&gt;Über&lt;/u&gt;nervösität leiden, kann dessen Verzehr&lt;br /&gt;zu einer &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;kontinuierlichen&lt;/span&gt; Minderung ihrer Anfälle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ^&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; +-------------------+&lt;/div&gt;führen. Es wird sogar von den wichtigsten&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; |&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Psychoanalytikern&lt;br /&gt;unserer Tagen empfohlen!&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; |&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;  &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;aber sag jetzt endlich&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;  &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;mal, ob eine Heilung damit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;möglich ist!?!!?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Gut, dann nehme ich gleich &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;20g&lt;/span&gt; mit!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br style="font-family: inherit;" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-937943969770561351?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/937943969770561351/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=937943969770561351' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/937943969770561351'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/937943969770561351'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2011/10/befruchteten-kaviar.html' title='Befruchteter Kaviar'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-8064900438666377327</id><published>2011-10-27T14:39:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-10-27T14:41:08.871-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A veces se lo recuerdan</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;A veces se lo recuerdan, que no se conocen. El otro dice algo, ya tal vez&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;se pasa en su intromisión fantasmática, y, claro, como consecuencia viene entonces la reacción:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;- Pero, por qué tratás a Pepe como si fuera un desconocido??&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;- Bueno, - y esto es Pepe quien lo aclara - primero porque aquí no hay ningún Pepe, yo me llamo Juan, y segundo bueno, - y en ese momento es cuando el otro está esperando ya sea ver en sus ojos una complicidad que culmine en un medio abrazo, de lado, como de colegas, - es que no nos conocemos...! - con una sonrisa, ya una embriaguez es evidente, pero ella es de palabras, desde luego húmedas en vino de Borgoña, pero palabras a fin de cuentas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;- Apenas hoy, jajaja&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Ya desde el inicio, la gente esperaba ver el momento, en que ellos se conocieran y pareciera como si se hubieran conocido de toda la vida. Espectro desconocido y aún infinito de posibles interacciones,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;tan desconocidas como a la vez anticipadas. No cuenta tanto la reacción, al final fue un evento.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;- Quiero tanto que conozcas a ...! ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-8064900438666377327?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/8064900438666377327/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=8064900438666377327' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/8064900438666377327'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/8064900438666377327'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2011/10/veces-se-lo-recuerdan.html' title='A veces se lo recuerdan'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-7059825307701299150</id><published>2011-06-05T14:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-05T14:17:36.270-07:00</updated><title type='text'>La signatura del tiempo</title><content type='html'>Sabía moverse bien en círculos donde lo apreciaban. Esa tarde, por ejemplo, se encontraba en la universidad V, en una actividad de arquitectos que contaba con la presencia de varias personalidades. Entre los invitados estaba su gran amigo K, un reconocido urbanista que visitaba la ciudad.&amp;nbsp;Se saludaron cordialmente y, por alguna razón, en pocos segundos se encontraba como centro de la atención de todos los arquitectos y estudiantes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Había estado fuera recientemente y no era la primera vez en poco tiempo que se le cuestionaba acerca de su orientación sexual. K fue esta vez quién hizo la acostumbrada pregunta. Los arquitectos y estudiantes se congregaban en especie de semicírculo a su alrededor, y les habló de esta forma:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;Compañeros,&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;Frecuentemente, durante mis viajes, o cuando estoy de visita donde amigos, en universidades, o, en fin, en cualquier situación en la cual tengo oportunidad de conocer nuevas personas o de revisitar pasados conocidos, me encuentro con la pregunta de, dada mi sexualidad, ¿qué prefiero? ¿Me gustan más los hombres o las mujeres?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;En este aspecto hoy quisiera recalcar, que para darle respuesta a la cuestión de la bisexualidad, así como para casi cualquier otro problema, debemos recordar que &lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;las cosas se inscriben en un determinado tiempo&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;Así como los hechos ocurren en un determinado lugar, espacio físico, sea circunstancial o no, el cual podemos ubicar por medio de las conocidas coordenadas, en su sentido más simple, alto, ancho, largo; así como en compañía de determinadas personas, también circunstanciales o no, inscribimos nuestra vida, nuestros momentos, en un tiempo determinado. Un tiempo que entendemos de dos formas: primero, como una otra dimensión que agrega identificabilidad más allá de las que ya hemos mencionado; como una medida, sí, también de sincronía y concurrencia, pero sobre todo de finitud que pesa sobre todos nuestros actos. Más allá entenderemos este tiempo también como un fenómeno colectivo y podemos asignarle entonces el sinónimo: época.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Los presentes escuchaban con atención, haciendo ademanes que indicaban aprobación. Esto lo fascinó, y por ello continuó:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;L&lt;i&gt;a signatura del tiempo como dimensión, marca la bisexualidad, al menos a mi entender, como un fenómeno limitado, finito. Dirán: “como todos”, pero perderían el sentido que quiero darle aquí, que es que una determinada preferencia, no importa cuál sea, no es eterna, nunca lo es, y por ello es mucho más simple pensar en ella como una determinada fase, más que como una preferencia absoluta, signataria del sujeto y que pesa sobre él eternamente, para bien y para mal.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;No, a mi entender cualquier preferencia es transitoria por naturaleza; me pregunto si esto no es obvio incluso para los más jóvenes, ya lo saben, mis favoritos, hasta para quienes ya en este punto será obvio que no se enamora uno en la vida de una sola persona; que aún un “amor de la vida” es transitorio inclusive en el caso de que realmente durara toda la vida, porque sabemos que en ese caso no habrá realmente sólo uno.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;Y entonces, pregunto yo, ¿qué diferencia hace si en estas transiciones el objeto de mi afecto, de vuestro afecto, cambiara, pero no solamente en tanto el individuo que amamos, sino entonces además en su signo sexual?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;Y yo sostengo entonces, al menos desde mi entender, que aparte de un par de adaptaciones fisiológicas evidentes, cambios en la forma de gozar -que hacen precisamente la vida entretenida- no hay ninguna diferencia en lo absoluto.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;Regresemos entonces a la pregunta del tiempo como época en la cual se inscribe nuestra sexualidad. Y en ese caso tengo que decir, simplemente desde la observación, que debo determinar que tal orientación bisexual parece bastante frecuente en esta época. No tengo, por ahora, una gran explicación para esto. Tal vez tenga que ver con el discurso capitalista y el imperativo del consumo, que nos acostumbra a no querer perdernos de nada. Escoger un objeto de afecto implica descartar otro (u otros), y no estamos quizás dispuestos, en este momento histórico, a dejar pasar ningún goce. Tal vez es puro hedonismo tal cual lo describo, pero sinceramente lo dudo.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;En este punto su público se encontraba distraído. Las voces de los arquitectos acallaron la suya. Reconoció entre las personas a alguien muy deseable, M. Dejó de hablar, frustrado, mientras las otras conversaciones ganaban terreno. Al salir, K le gritó que no debía enojarse por tan poca cosa. "No estoy enojado", le respondió, y siguió su camino.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-7059825307701299150?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/7059825307701299150/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=7059825307701299150' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/7059825307701299150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/7059825307701299150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2011/06/la-signatura-del-tiempo.html' title='La signatura del tiempo'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-9154308909192204450</id><published>2011-06-03T17:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-03T17:22:07.507-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>y, después de tanto tiempo los volví a ver, esta ves con una mirada de deseo, en lugar de resentimiento, y la pregunta: cuándo tendré tiempo para todos????&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-9154308909192204450?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/9154308909192204450/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=9154308909192204450' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/9154308909192204450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/9154308909192204450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2011/06/y-despues-de-tanto-tiempo-los-volvi-ver.html' title=''/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-7136040018802163990</id><published>2011-01-01T21:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-01T21:20:25.076-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Heisenberg</title><content type='html'>Al final, la única forma realmente fehaciente de saber si un secreto era secreto o no es revelándolo. La reacción de quienes lo escuchen demostrará la verdad absoluta de lo que la mente paranóica no hubiera dejado de maquinar un segundo, sin resultados.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entonces claro, se rompió un secreto. No hay forma de saber esto sin romperlo. Es la paradoja. Y el instante de placer que nos reservamos, a veces, por años...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-7136040018802163990?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/7136040018802163990/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=7136040018802163990' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/7136040018802163990'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/7136040018802163990'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2011/01/heisenberg.html' title='Heisenberg'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-7501207392296649362</id><published>2010-10-20T20:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-20T20:51:46.611-07:00</updated><title type='text'>a piece of my mind</title><content type='html'>"It's only incidental that computers execute programs. (...) The important thing about a program is that it's something you can show to people, and they can read it and they can learn something from it. It carries information. It's a piece of your mind that you can write down and give to someone else, just like a book."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Steven Levy, &lt;u&gt;Hackers&lt;/u&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-7501207392296649362?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/7501207392296649362/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=7501207392296649362' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/7501207392296649362'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/7501207392296649362'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2010/10/piece-of-my-mind.html' title='a piece of my mind'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-3957897624520392780</id><published>2010-10-05T22:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-05T22:14:24.305-07:00</updated><title type='text'>¿Quién quiere perder el tiempo?</title><content type='html'>Entró por la puerta principal al lobby inmenso del hotel. Subiendo las escaleras automáticas se abrían sobre él todos los niveles de habitaciones, que se desplegaban como balcones concéntricos sobre el nivel principal. Se acercó rápidamente al mostrador, y, finjiendo compresión y manteniendo la compostura a la vez, le dijo a la recepcionista:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Vengo a entregar algo a alguien que trabaja aquí. Su nombre viene escrito en el sobre.&lt;br /&gt;- Su departamento se encuentra al final del pasillo a mano derecha, puede dejárselo ud. mismo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se había prometido antes de salir de casa que no iría a dejárselo él mismo. Si ya todo esto era una pérdida de tiempo, mirarlo al rostro, en fin, estar ahí con él lo haría algo mucho peor. Algo capaz de despertar sus más inconvenientes emociones. No.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero tampoco insistiría a la recepcionista a este respecto. Debía confesar también que se había vestido antes de salir para estar listo para este caso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Caminó, entonces, por un pasillo en el cual se situaban todos los nuevos restaurantes del hotel. Les pasó en frente, uno a uno, mientras se acercaba al final, que era en realidad otra entrada al hotel. Cuando llegó ahí, dobló a la derecha como le habían indicado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vió una recepción al poco tiempo; se preguntó si ese era el lugar, si tal vez tendría que dejarlo con otra recepcionista, con un encargado, y luego solo largarse... Pero no, no era ese el lugar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sigió caminando, al tiempo que se percató de que, al final de ese otro largo pasillo, todo en línea recta, se encontraba el departamento que buscaba. Y recordó, entonces, que él probablemente estaría en la recepción. No habría marcha atrás: tendría que verlo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Caminó determinado y con su mejor cara de poker. Conforme se acercaba notaba, cada vez más inequivocamente, que la única persona en recepción era él, a quien buscaba. Vestido como empleado del hotel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Continuó su camino, con unos pasos fuertes que, le sorprendía ya estando tan cerca, no lo hicieran a él vovlerse para verlo llegar, a ese recóndito y aún así conocido rincón del hotel. Pensó que tal vez todavía se encontraba él en su dominio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entonces se acercó tanto que tuvo que volver su mirada del mostrador de recepción y tuvo que notarlo. Su sorpresa fue casi instantánea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Caminó igual que como venía, sin modificar nada, excepto una ligera sonrisa, entre cortés e irónica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lo vió a los ojos. Literalmente tenía la boca abierta. Volvía a ver para todos lados y no atinaba a decir nada. Lo miró sólamente el tiempo suficiente para disfrutar de su sorpresa, entonces sacó el sobre y lo tiró sobre el mostrador. El sobre cayó de forma tal, que tenía hacia arriba la cara donde había escrito el nombre de él.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El otro no salía de su asombro. Se dejó un segundo para contemplar la estocada que había propinado, y entonces, con una determinación que ignoraba que tenía, le dijo:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Cuidate! :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dió media vuelta y se fue, resistiendo, hasta el final, la curiosidad de volver a ver atrás.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-3957897624520392780?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/3957897624520392780/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=3957897624520392780' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/3957897624520392780'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/3957897624520392780'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2010/10/quien-quiere-perder-el-tiempo.html' title='¿Quién quiere perder el tiempo?'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-2704662112402350542</id><published>2010-08-30T21:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-08-30T21:01:37.890-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Crédito terminológico</title><content type='html'>Si el objeto señanalo por un término, en el presente tiene menos valor en la realidad de ese objeto que lo que el término hubiera designado, hay que pagar por esa diferencia. La diferencia entre el valor real del hecho, y el valor que el término transmite, se paga con crédito... a futuras referencias a ese término. De entrada serán comprendidas, con base en la nueva experiencia, como menores, como devaluadas respecto de aquello que el término designaba. Entonces el término se devalúa a futuro, dejando dos opciones: devaluar el siguiente término superior en la escala de valor, usándolo para referirse a una realidad en este caso también menor que lo que este otro término indicaría. La segunda opción es aguantarse, y, por esa vez, crear expectativas menores y luego demostrar superar con creces tales expectativas, probablemente revalorizando el término, o al menos contribuyendo a lograrlo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;¿Por qué la segunda es tan difícil?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-2704662112402350542?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/2704662112402350542/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=2704662112402350542' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/2704662112402350542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/2704662112402350542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2010/08/credito-terminologico.html' title='Crédito terminológico'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-813756594281361430</id><published>2010-07-27T20:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-27T20:17:01.076-07:00</updated><title type='text'>where is unix?</title><content type='html'>I looked at /, there answer was right there:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;unix -&amp;gt; /usr/lib/boot/unix_64&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-813756594281361430?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/813756594281361430/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=813756594281361430' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/813756594281361430'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/813756594281361430'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2010/07/where-is-unix.html' title='where is unix?'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-5361183389600667944</id><published>2010-05-23T00:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-23T00:22:39.536-07:00</updated><title type='text'>los sueños veinte años despues</title><content type='html'>la vida está tan lleno de tantas cosas (todas!) que no controlamos. Nos hostinan, nos ahuevan, nos vuelven neuróticos. Y sobre todo lo hacen cuando aún no han ocurrido. Una estupidez. q.e.d.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He cumplido uno de los más grandes sueños de mi vida. Y en cierta forma, lo digo por justicia, estoy seguro ya lo había cumplido antes. Pero ahora lo sé claro, lo vivo claro, y por más inseguridad que tenga, porque siento una enorme inseguridad, no puedo sino sentirme pleno por ello.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mi mejor amigo me llama su mejor amigo. Mi mejor amiga me llama su mejor amigo. Si soy justo con la vida, ya no puedo pedir más.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-5361183389600667944?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/5361183389600667944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=5361183389600667944' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/5361183389600667944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/5361183389600667944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2010/05/los-suenos-veinte-anos-despues.html' title='los sueños veinte años despues'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-2097615512007908126</id><published>2010-03-30T20:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-30T20:45:15.287-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>No podría expresarme con más desprecio frente a una sociedad que se organizara de forma que alguien, contribuyendo únicamente al afán privado de lucro, consiguiendo con ello únicamente sus propios intereses y despreciando las desdichas de la mayoría, le recompensara con la posibilidad de actuar con tanta indiferencia frente a su propia vida y seducir a una 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href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2010/03/no-podria-expresarme-con-mas-desprecio.html' title=''/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-7358373883301654519</id><published>2010-03-17T22:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-17T22:49:39.406-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='toefl'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='despich'/><title type='text'>English test</title><content type='html'>Preparación para el TOEFL:&lt;br /&gt;You reckon it is a big despich you are doing here...?!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-7358373883301654519?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/7358373883301654519/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=7358373883301654519' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/7358373883301654519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/7358373883301654519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2010/03/english-test.html' title='English test'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-1738311055735618326</id><published>2010-03-01T14:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-01T14:15:45.032-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ftp'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='.net'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='C#'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='upload'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='550'/><title type='text'>Uploading a file using FTP in C#</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Uploading a file to an FTP server from a program written in C# can be a tricky task. Even though there are plenty of examples in the Web about how to achieve this, those examples were not working for me, despite careful verification of both, the code and the FTP server settings.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;My problem was that I was getting the following error:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;The remote server returned an error: (550) File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access).&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Of course I verified that the remote location was there on the server and that the location was writable by my user. Finally, my code was basically copied from an MSDN example, so not much of a chance that anything could go wrong there. After a while I noticed that the problem only happened when I was trying to write to a location different that root, like:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;ftp://myserver.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;location&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;/NewFileName.txt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;didn't work. On the other hand:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;ftp://myserver.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;NewFileName.txt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;would work as expected.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;So if I were to remove &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;location &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;from the URL, it would work perfectly. After quite a while of looking for the answer, I found a &lt;a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netfxnetcom/thread/5d710310-e637-4b19-8f99-3d1ac3919094"&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; which described the following solution: you should prepend an escaped slash character (%2F) to the &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;location &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;portion of the URL to make it work. Much to my surprise did this not only work, but it also works for multi-level directory structures, having to prepend this prefix only once.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Your remote location would then look as follows:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;ftp://myserver.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;%2F&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;location&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;/NewFileName.txt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;Here is a rough scrap (not compilable as is!) of the code that I'm using that is finally working as expected:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;// obtains the file name in a fully qualified&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;// file path,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;// e.g. for path=C:\Public\test.txt&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;//&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; file name=test.txt&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;private&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;string&lt;/span&gt; GetFileName(&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;string&lt;/span&gt; path) { }&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;// the base URL for the FTP sever,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;// e.g. ftp://myserver.com/&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;private&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;string&lt;/span&gt; _baseUrl;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: green; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;//&amp;nbsp; credentials&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;private&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;string&lt;/span&gt; _userId;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;private&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;string&lt;/span&gt; _password;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;public&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;void&lt;/span&gt; UploadFile(&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;string&lt;/span&gt; localFilePath,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;string&lt;/span&gt; remoteLocation)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;{&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="color: green;"&gt;// create a request URL, with the URL pointing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: green;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; // to the new file's location&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;string&lt;/span&gt; requestUrl;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;if&lt;/span&gt; (remoteLocation != &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;null&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;&amp;amp; remoteLocation.Length &amp;gt; 0)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; requestUrl = _baseUrl + &lt;span style="color: #a31515;"&gt;"%2F"&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; + remoteLocation + &lt;span style="color: #a31515;"&gt;"/"&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; + GetFileName(localFilePath);&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;else&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; requestUrl = _baseUrl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; + GetFileName(localFilePath);&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="color: green;"&gt;//&amp;nbsp; create a web request using that URL&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; FtpWebRequest request =&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(requestUrl);&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; request.Method =&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; request.Credentials =&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; new&lt;/span&gt; NetworkCredential(_userId, _password);&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="color: green;"&gt;//&amp;nbsp; read the local file as a byte array&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="color: #2b91af;"&gt;StreamReader&lt;/span&gt; src =&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; new&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: #2b91af;"&gt;StreamReader&lt;/span&gt;(localFilePath);&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;byte&lt;/span&gt;[] fileContents =&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #2b91af;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Encoding&lt;/span&gt;.UTF8.GetBytes(src.ReadToEnd());&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; src.Close();&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; request.ContentLength = fileContents.Length;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="color: green;"&gt;//&amp;nbsp; write those bytes out to the request&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="color: #2b91af;"&gt;Stream&lt;/span&gt; requestStream =&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; request.GetRequestStream();&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; requestStream.Write(fileContents,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 0,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; fileContents.Length);&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; requestStream.Close();&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="color: green;"&gt;//&amp;nbsp; check the server response&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; FtpWebResponse response =&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; response.Close();&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;}&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;I hope this helps somebody! :-)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;BTW I'm using the .NET framework version 2, and a Windows FTP server.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-1738311055735618326?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/1738311055735618326/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=1738311055735618326' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/1738311055735618326'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/1738311055735618326'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2010/03/uploading-file-using-ftp-in-c.html' title='Uploading a file using FTP in C#'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-6653723410537149237</id><published>2010-02-26T11:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-26T11:38:23.396-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='radiohead'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='everything'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='walking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='desenlace'/><title type='text'>Everything in its right place</title><content type='html'>De pronto se encuentra circulando, como mil pensamientos, un millón de recuerdos lo bombardean, pero en ellos, en ese pensar, circula. Y se siente rodeado como de un aura, como si entre el montón al fin fuera por completo diferente, como si, igual que siempre supo, no perteneciera ahí ni a ninguna otra parte. Pero hoy tiene total sentido, le da lo mismo, ya sabe que podría estar en cualquier lugar y sería el mismo desencajado, &lt;i&gt;misfit&lt;/i&gt;, pero hoy brilla con una luz de cambio, con un dolor profundo que lo hace sentir más vivo que nunca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Por primera vez es dueño de sus recuerdos, por primera vez su pasado es suyo y es algo que realmente ocurrió. Y él es parte de ese pasado. La cantidad de sentimientos que ese pasado alberga es abrumadora... Pero al fin, al fin es suyo! Este ya no se va a escapar...!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Llegan a su mente tantos momentos, son como un tren arrollador, pero él, a la vera de la vía férrea, resiste. Mosaikos. Tribal. Conocer a alguien, enamorarse, besarla, amarla, dejarla, todo una y otra vez, pero esta vez sí ocurre, si tiene desenlace, sí tiene sentido, sí es suyo. Estudiar lo que estudió, no las mil otras posibilidades que no estudió, en el lugar donde lo hizo, disfrutando como lo hizo de los lugares comunes que significaron algo todo este tiempo. Hoy te diste cuenta recién, de que en realidad sí perteneciste a todo eso! De pronto puede ver todas las conexiones, de pronto todo tiene sentido y claro también nada lo tiene. Pero por una vez nota que todo aquello le pertenece para siempre. Nunca nadie se lo va a quitar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quiere llorar, quiere gritar, quiere correr. Pero camina. Pero calla. Y aprecia ese silcencio profundo. Hay tanto contenido en él!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;También aprecia el poder que tomó la música. Cuántos meses o años puede pasar buscando sentir una pieza así! Cuánto podría haberle tomado encontrar un disco que amara tanto! Pero sobre todo, que poder experimentar tal intensidad en cada acorde de casi cualquier cosa que se proponga escuchar, que eso, y está seguro, es el sentido mismo de su existencia, que en esas notas y el desgarramiento que provocan, deviene vida.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Keep walking&lt;/i&gt;. Ya casi estás ahí! De lo único de lo que no duda, es de que pronto habrá un desenlace. Al fin...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-6653723410537149237?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/6653723410537149237/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=6653723410537149237' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/6653723410537149237'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/6653723410537149237'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2010/02/everything-in-its-right-place.html' title='Everything in its right place'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-9012609114369016623</id><published>2010-02-08T19:55:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-23T20:31:09.437-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>Ahora ella espera algo, que con cada día que pasa siente menos que va a llegar. Prefería mil veces cuando un atraso era no hacer una tarea; quedarse en un examen y tener que presentar. Como hacía tan poco, que, presentando, había logrado salir del cole. Casi podía decir que todavía tenía goma de la fiesta que se pegó cuando finalmente lo logró.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y la vida la había premiado con alguien que consideraba especial. Al fin, pensaba, alguien me va a tratar como me lo merezco. Atrás quedarán los días de dolor; atrás los golpes, los insultos. Atrás quedó montarse en una moto, irse a dar una vuelta, y pagar la gasolina en especies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ella se sienta, en su cama, debajo de un bombillo pelado, escuchando la canción que la hace vibrar, que dice lo que siente. ¡Cómo le gusta que la admiren, pero cuánto más deseaba que la respetaran por la persona sensible que es!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y aún así, siempre tropezaba. Ella no lo entiende aún, pero es por su edad. Porque cuando te das cuenta de que la edad cuenta en algo, más allá de si te salieron tetas o no, cuando te das cuenta de eso es que ya pasaste por ahí hace rato.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se nos olvidan sutilezas. Como que la vida es una espiral recursiva, y no una mera repetición. Cada vuelta, cada giro, cada regreso, es regreso solo hacia un punto nuevo, un comienzo de la siguiente iteración. Todas diferentes aún en su similitud.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pero ese no fue su olvido. Ella olvidó que la vida se abre paso, a como sea. Sí, la vida se vale de su propia juventud, de su cuerpo hermoso, de sus labios tibios, de un abrazo tierno y a la vez apasionado, de recorrer su espalda, palmo a palmo, de descubrir cada rincón de su cuerpo...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pensaríamos que la vida nos juega una trampa. Pero la trampa está, más bien, en pensar que estamos fuera de ella para mandarla.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sentada en su cama, mira por la ventana... Por favor, ¡que pase esto, que pase esto ya! Cierro los ojos, me tapo los oídos, me meto a la ducha, me voy a comprar pan, no hay forma de olvidarlo. No hay forma de no angustiarse cuando mami pasa, de evitar que cuando me pregunta algo siento el corazón que me va a estallar. Andar por la casa como un fantasma, por favor, ¡quiero ser como antes otra vez!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-9012609114369016623?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/9012609114369016623/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=9012609114369016623' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/9012609114369016623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/9012609114369016623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2010/02/ahora-ella-espera-algo-que-con-cada-dia.html' title=''/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-3965914170437893427</id><published>2010-01-24T20:22:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-24T20:22:44.191-08:00</updated><title type='text'>mensaje en la contestadora</title><content type='html'>...hola don Mario, llamaba (se escucha reggae de fondo) para contarle que me he tomado unas vacaciones de la neurosis...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-3965914170437893427?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/3965914170437893427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=3965914170437893427' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/3965914170437893427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/3965914170437893427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2010/01/mensaje-en-la-contestadora.html' title='mensaje en la contestadora'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-592979391040461536</id><published>2009-12-24T14:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-24T18:10:56.453-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Reflections towards an ethic for software development</title><content type='html'>I find it very valuable to think about the philosophical implications of what we do. Even though I would not define myself primarily as a software developer, I have been working as one for quite some time now. Recently, I started thinking about the implications that the moral teachings of Kant would have on software development.&lt;br /&gt;The next posts will summarize the main aspects that interest me about the subject of ethics in software development. My main questions are:&lt;br /&gt;1. What is the moral (ethical) implication of design? Does it make a difference whether one designs well or not (provided the end-result is, in both cases, a working system)? What, if any, is the moral or ethical worth of design?&lt;br /&gt;2. Are we free when we are working for a corporation? Is there a possibility of freedom within the contraints of the enterprise?&lt;br /&gt;3. What does it mean to design well? Ethically, what can be considered 'good design'?&lt;br /&gt;Since these are philosophical questions, I can only promise to attempt to provide my position, but, of course, no definitive answers. I will sacrifice some academic rigour in favor of publishing my ideas somewhat faster. I don't claim to own the truth, I'll just make my attempt at writing my version of it :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-592979391040461536?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/592979391040461536/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=592979391040461536' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/592979391040461536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/592979391040461536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2009/12/reflections-towards-ethic-for-software.html' title='Reflections towards an ethic for software development'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-1587770672096048091</id><published>2009-12-21T22:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-21T23:07:32.510-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Passacaglia</title><content type='html'>En el fondo, saber que algo de eso es mio, que en verdad me pertenece, es quizas lo mas importante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Los guardianes defienden algo asi como un castillo, pero no entendamos su acepcion un poco estilizada, sino mas bien como una defensa absoluta, completamente infranqueable, pero a su vez clasica&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;para llegar al centro, tan sutil de una belleza que ni siquiera hubiera podido ser sospechada, de una paz, una paz absoluta, insinua ese tema, tal vez el tema al final lo fastidia, tal vez lo hace infeliz, pero en ese momento lo logra interpretar como si fuera el canto de angeles, disculpen la cursileria y mira, y ve nevar por la ventana&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;desata su fuerza contra todos aquellos que no sirven para nada. Tambien es cierto que sus posibilidades de ataque pueden parecer risibles, pero, si tenes oidos, si tenes alma, pone atencion a como te esta liquidando, que despues de esto no queda nada de vos, pero cuando digo nada me refiero a nada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Liquidame, eliminame, pero que sea con estos acordes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perdon. Perdon. Perdon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-1587770672096048091?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/1587770672096048091/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=1587770672096048091' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/1587770672096048091'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/1587770672096048091'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2009/12/passcaglia.html' title='Passacaglia'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-3489113572500428923</id><published>2009-12-16T12:05:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-16T12:05:38.652-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='performance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hibernate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='orm'/><title type='text'>Is performance the main concern when choosing an ORM tool?</title><content type='html'>&lt;P&gt;After yet another discussion in the office about ORM, and why it is a waste of time doing DALs manually, I was assigned the task of benchmarking Hibernate’s performance against using stored procedures (SP) and prepared statements. While I was looking for data out there, as well as trying to imagine what test case I could implement that would be representative, I did some reading and thinking about the assignment itself. If you think about what Hibernate has to offer, it is clear that measuring its performance advantages requires real-world problems and situations that are hard to invent just for benchmarking. Features such as lazy loading, caching, etc., are really hard to simulate in a lab experiment, as many variables must be taken into account (of course not the least of them is how the system will actually be used).&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The question then arised: how important is performance when choosing an ORM tool?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Let me first state that I have experience with Hibernate, and that in this case the decision would be whether to use an ORM tool (NHibernate) or just do everything manually. It is not about choosing among ORM tools.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I like to take decisions based on data. Having worked (and still working frecuently) as a Business Analyst I think the data is fundamental to decide whether some feature is worth it or not. But when it comes to ORM tools, are numbers really that defining a factor?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;What has happened to design? If I was to choose just one thing that I liked about Hibernate it would certainly be how naturally it is incorporated into the programming language. I think they call it idiomatic persistence. Being able to design your business domain using only one idiomatic paradigm, namely object-oriented design, is a great thing. It greatly reduces the effort to keep everything up-to-date as well as the time you need in order to have your application working.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have always thought that, if you design something right, then you will have at least decent performance to start with. Another important aspect about performance: let the bottlenecks show themselves before fixing them! I’d rather have a &lt;b&gt;stable &lt;/b&gt;and &lt;b&gt;functioning&lt;/b&gt; system at the end of a development sprint with passable performance, that an incomplete system with very efficient algorithms that doesn’t work from the end-users’s perspective.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;But coming back to Hibernate and performance: there are many optimizations that Hibernate performs “out of the box” which are not trivial to implement. I recommend that you read &lt;a href="https://www.hibernate.org/15.html"&gt;the Hibernate's Performance Q&amp;amp;A&lt;/a&gt;, but let me quote the highlights:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Caching objects.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Executing SQL statements later, when needed.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Never updating unmodified objects.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Efficient Collection Handling.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rolling two updates into one.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Updating only the modified columns.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Outer join fetching.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lazy collection initialization.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lazy object initialization.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;P&gt;Of course, one could argue, we need numbers to prove that these optimizations are worth something. But it is difficult –if not impossible- to prove how much of a performance gain you would get e.g. by caching objects in a non-productive setting. It is much easier to understand it when you have the application running, and then you switch to using caching on your actual workload. Optimizations are generally very specific to the environment that you are writing your software for, meaning that benchmark data may not always apply to your situation. Quoting from the same QA mentioned above:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;The first category of benchmarks are trivial micro benchmarks. Hibernate of course will have an overhead in simple scenarios (loading 50.000 objects and doing nothing else is considered trivial) compared to JDBC. (…) these numbers are meaningless for real application performance and scalability.&lt;i&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have to agree with that statement. What good is it to prove that Hibernate is slower than SPs retrieving objects from the database in a trivial scenario? This kind of performance is not the one I am looking for when designing a DAL, as the development cost of manually assembling all objects, relationships, etc. generally speaking exceeds the small performance penalty that you incur by using an ORM tool.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The services that Hibernate provides go way beyond loading and storing objects in the database. It is not just what you do (since in the end of course a lot of CRUD operations will, of course, occur) but how it is accomplished. I’d like to see a benchmark about development effort, using Hibernate and doing the DAL manually. That would be interesting. Or benchmarking design, code readability, and maintainability. Those seemingly intangible things that, in the end, actually make the software work rightly.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The reason to choose an ORM tool over manually implementing the DAL is not primary performance, but design. The ability to write clearer code and make it more understandable, and resembling more closely the business domain can out weight small performance penalties. Hibernate does offers important optimizations out-of-the-box and generally performs very well, if used correctly.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-3489113572500428923?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/3489113572500428923/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=3489113572500428923' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/3489113572500428923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/3489113572500428923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2009/12/is-performance-main-concern-when.html' title='Is performance the main concern when choosing an ORM tool?'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-5722994524071388636</id><published>2009-11-16T20:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-16T20:26:35.795-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nunca'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ella'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='desnuda'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gestacion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='amar'/><title type='text'>Recuerdos de lo que nunca pasó</title><content type='html'>Ya pasó, eso es definitivo. Es inalcanzable, un lugar que nunca existió, pero que ya pasó al mismo tiempo. Y ahelarlo, sensación exasperante de impotencia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ahora lo sé, que cuando lo pienso existe. Que cuando escucho esta música y lo siento en realidad está pasando.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sobre todo: que si me voy anhelaré volver porque estaba más cerca y que si me quedo desearé haberme ido porque lo olvido.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿Y todo con tal de no saber del presente? Porque a veces pienso que tal vez en 1980... A veces pienso que tal vez en otro ambiente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entonces puede ocurrir que me acerco. Y lo odio. Y aún así, de afuera, todo parece tan deseable siempre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The grass is always greener on the other side.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y tal vez, con el paso del tiempo, he hecho mi propia historia, mis propia vida parecida a mis recuerdos de lo que nunca pasó. Llevo años escuchando Caifanes, su música vive en mi cuando la escucho y aún así yo no soy quien sueño en esas fantasías de lo que nunca pasó.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aunque creo que sí pasó.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Me duele tanto sentirme así. No puedo hacer mucho ahora, pero me duele mucho. Y aún así es el dolor que me gusta. El que me hace vivir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿En el pasado que nunca ocurrió?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No. En la promesa. En la promesa de vibrar así. Tan solo otra vez más. Porque nunca es suficiente. La promesa de amar de nuevo bajo ese cielo, de descubrirla de nuevo, encarnada en otra, claro, pero ella, la mítica, que siempre se me escapa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Igual que la vida que quiero tener.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y esa promesa, de amar así, de contemplarte, desnuda, en la cama, de conocer tu cuarto, de descubrir esa candela que te regalé en tu mesa de noche, de no cesar de encontrar esos pequeños detalles que te hacen mía. De esos lugares. De esa forma tan inocente de enamorarse. Y sí, de que seas tan bella también. Sí, es esto lo que me hará regresar aquí, no importa cuanto tiempo pase ni donde esté.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-5722994524071388636?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/5722994524071388636/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=5722994524071388636' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/5722994524071388636'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/5722994524071388636'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2009/11/recuerdos-de-lo-que-nunca-paso.html' title='Recuerdos de lo que nunca pasó'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-1623861499076087966</id><published>2009-09-02T18:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-02T18:25:25.026-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ida'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vuelta'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='herrumbrado'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='corporacion'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='techos'/><title type='text'>Microrrelato: Ida y vuelta</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"&gt;Recorría  los mismos lugares, día tras día. Conocía la combinación perfecta  de techos de zinc herrumbrados, lluvia, y esa música que imaginaba  que le daban la sensación de profunda felicidad juvenil. Y claro, pensar  en ella. Mandarle un mensaje. Anticipar su respuesta. Y esperar el tren.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"&gt;Pasos  perdidos, sabía. Regresaba de una jornada de más de lo mismo. No va  a ninguna parte. No cambia. Tampoco tiene sentido. Pero en la corporación  todo parece justificado de alguna forma.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"&gt;Es  cierto, no le faltaba nada. Pero se sentía completamente carente de  una energía vital, de algo que le hiciera vibrar. Sí, esos techos.  Sí, esa lluvia. El sueño de tenerla a ella. El sueño de estar en  otro lugar, también con techos herrumbrados, pero donde esa música  que le gustaba sonaba todo el día.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"&gt;¿A  quién podía pedirle de regreso todos esos días? ¿Todas esas jornadas  cuando solo esperaba que fuera la hora de salir? Entendía su situación  privilegiada: no le tocaba vivir bajo esos techos. Aún así, reclamaba  fieramente todo este tiempo, energía, toda esta vida que se le había  arrancado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"&gt;Tal  vez sino supiera que moriría… que el tiempo perdido nunca regresa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"&gt;Se  enojaba más cuanto más pensaba que todo era su decisión. Una decisión  camuflada de obligación, de deber, inclusive, de mérito.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"&gt;Al  final del día sólo podía alegrarse de no vivir él bajo un techo  de zinc herrumbrado también, a la vera de la vía del tren. Aún así  amaba profundamente esos techos, esas lluvias, esas chicas despreocupadas  sentadas en las casitas. Así como amaba imaginarlas en sus brazos.  En ese instante, y solo por un momento, vivía. Aunque él estuviera  en el tren y toda la vida, aufera, mojándose con la lluvia, como los  techos herrumbrados.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-1623861499076087966?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/1623861499076087966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=1623861499076087966' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/1623861499076087966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/1623861499076087966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2009/09/microrrelato-ida-y-vuelta.html' title='Microrrelato: Ida y vuelta'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-8823346363813554014</id><published>2009-09-02T09:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-02T09:33:27.756-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='zapato'/><title type='text'>zapatos a tu zapatero</title><content type='html'>...entonces pensé, desde el abismo del aburrimiento profundo, que tal vez eran mis zapatos quienes llevaban la peor parte del día? Andar, andar, andar, siempre dejando un poco de sí en cada paso, y ni siquiera poder decidir ni cuánto de sí dejan atrás ni si ese desgaste tiene sentido. Se me ocurre como una triste metáfora de mi propio andar, cada día, a lugares inútiles que toman demasiado de mi y me devuelven tan poco. Y aunque que sé que lo decido, todo está estructurado de modo que parece una obligación, qué dios nos ayude, parece incluso algo meritorio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Al menos mis zapatos podrían tener la ilusión de que, si no caminaran, si se quedaran en casa, si los metieran en una cámara cerrada, vivirían para siempre. Yo no. Para mi el tiempo pasa, no importa qué, y nunca puedo volver atrás. Para mi desgracia y para mi dicha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;¿A quién le reclaman mis zapatos tantos pasos perdidos, llegando a ninguna parte? ¿Y a quién le reclamo yo todos estos meses, sí, quizás, años, de andar y andar, ir y volver y no llegar nunca... a tus brazos?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-8823346363813554014?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/8823346363813554014/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=8823346363813554014' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/8823346363813554014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/8823346363813554014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2009/09/zapatos-tu-zapatero.html' title='zapatos a tu zapatero'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-886986803486864010</id><published>2009-08-30T02:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-30T02:51:54.252-07:00</updated><title type='text'>reto a (la) muerte</title><content type='html'>...y todavía a esta hora, poder escribir, pensar, volver sobre lo mismo, planear y decidir sobre ese futuro como si fuera cierto. Definitivamente me encuentro frente a un reto, no a, sino a la muerte... me vencerás, pero por hoy y tal vez por mañana tampoco, no me importa...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;bueno, y si tiene que constar, entonces ella es más importante. Sí, más importante que todo, porque me hace sentir en la playa en SJ así que no me importa que logre o no, siempre y cuando pueda probar la dulzura de su mirada tan solo una vez más...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-886986803486864010?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/886986803486864010/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=886986803486864010' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/886986803486864010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/886986803486864010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2009/08/reto-la-muerte.html' title='reto a (la) muerte'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-7068352698296003628</id><published>2009-07-10T00:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-10T00:25:01.042-07:00</updated><title type='text'>1980 B&amp;W</title><content type='html'>Si viajo es para dejarme cambiar. Rindiéndose a la experiencia se hace vida... Y luego uno ve atrás. Y sí, se ve un poco como 1980...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-7068352698296003628?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/7068352698296003628/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=7068352698296003628' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/7068352698296003628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/7068352698296003628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2009/07/1980-b.html' title='1980 B&amp;W'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-2813647741703898613</id><published>2009-03-30T13:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-30T13:54:41.014-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Triste destino</title><content type='html'>El destino más triste del ser humano es dejar de ser animal, domeñando lo que entonces se llamaría pulsión y dejando atrás el instinto, únicamente para volver en su contra los resultados de aplicar su recién ganada "voluntad". En otras palabras: dejar de ser animal sólo para ser infeliz.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-2813647741703898613?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/2813647741703898613/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=2813647741703898613' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/2813647741703898613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/2813647741703898613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2009/03/triste-destino.html' title='Triste destino'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-1156041301052558524</id><published>2009-03-11T21:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T21:22:51.319-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Españoles en París</title><content type='html'>Me siento a comer algo en un café, en el aeropuerto. Lucho con el francés para darme a entender de alguna manera. Aún así, me estafan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Veo entrar una pareja. La mesera los recibe diciendo "Bonjour", y ellos, sin dejarla terminar, responden a viva voz: "Somos españoles y hablamos español."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-1156041301052558524?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/1156041301052558524/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=1156041301052558524' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/1156041301052558524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/1156041301052558524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2009/03/espanoles-en-paris.html' title='Españoles en París'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-5036496457181334625</id><published>2009-03-11T20:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-03T21:03:29.682-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Life itself in "Redemption song"</title><content type='html'>The power it has, it's just astonishing. A single voice, backed up by a guitar; one would never suspect that it could be so mighty. In a way, it is as mighty as the higher man being praised by the music. Or is it praising life itself?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One should not fall into the temptation of excessive exegesis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Redemption song", as performed by Bob Marley &amp;amp; The Wailers (BMW) at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh, PA on 09/23/80: it is an epitome of the year 1980. It is the most mature BMW possible, showing what would be the latest of their musical styles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Pittsburgh show was, in my view, an appendix to the Uprising tour. It couldn't be the same because the group had to face a harsh reality: Bob' life was in danger. In a way that is very difficult to imagine with a different outcome than death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Musically, there are elements in the style of the lead guitars as well as the rhythm sections (the newly introduced electronic drums) that had been present since the beginning of the American leg of the tour. But I think it is far more pronounced in the Madison Square Gardens and Pittsburgh shows. I imagine it like being kind of a forced evolution: it would probably be your last chance to play new stuff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder in how far the interpretation of "Forever loving Jah" in NYC in 1980 was influeced by that factor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back to the song, in its latest interpretation it had three very clear phases. During the first one Bob sings while playing on his acoustic guitar. This performance is given with such candor, it is very impressing. The voice seems more powerful than ever, with a very different and hard-to-define energy (1). Seeco would join him later on, with a brotherly accompainement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second phase is when Bob is singing along the drums. This is the best performance of that second phase. His strength is amazing, so many feelings can be passed on by this music! This time he goes into the third phase (when the band enters) on tune (2).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This second phase is probably the most spiritual one. Bob is shouting his message on the one song he probably liked the most (3).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last phase, with the band entering, is no less interesting than the previous ones. First of all, Bob is perfectly on tune when this parts starts. It really shows the evolution of the Wailers' sound of what would have probably been the style for the next album (4), and would have had probably influenced (although at a less rapid pace) the rest of the American tour that year. More American? I think so. But not for that less roots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Redemption song" summarizes important aspects about the band at that time. It also shows an evolution forced by Bob's diagnose with cancer. It is, without a doubt, the most interesting song of the Pittsburgh show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;(1) For an example where he lacks of energy, you can listen to the Desside 1980 "Redemption song". He seems very tired there.&lt;br /&gt;(2) An opposite example of this would be the "Redemption song" in Dortmund, 1980.&lt;br /&gt;(3) Given that he played it many times at the interviews in the Essex House hotel. It is to be noted that it was absent from the MSG shows in NYC.&lt;br /&gt;(4) Listen to the "Confrontation demos". The drumbox style goes heavily in that '80-like vibe.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-5036496457181334625?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/5036496457181334625/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=5036496457181334625' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/5036496457181334625'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/5036496457181334625'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2009/03/life-itself-in-redemption-song.html' title='Life itself in &quot;Redemption song&quot;'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-2286165969814644224</id><published>2009-03-11T20:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T20:45:49.027-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Probabilidades</title><content type='html'>A veces uno se pregunta ya no, si existe una vida después de la muerte, sino más bien por las probabilidades. ¿Qué sería más probable? ¿Que nuestras vidas tengan un sentido último, y éste, por acción de fuerzas innombrables, se transmitiera más allá de nuestra existencia? ¿O será, más bien, que es nuestro contacto con los otros, de cualquier manera, que los impulsa a seguir con aquello que defendimos? En una forma u otra, se entiende, o si no la vida sería una inútil replicación de cromosomas sin posibilidad de mutaciones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es más probable que esa fuerza innombrable seamos nosotros. En ese caso, es una suerte tenernos. Por mientras vivamos... y más allá.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-2286165969814644224?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/2286165969814644224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=2286165969814644224' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/2286165969814644224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/2286165969814644224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2009/03/probabilidades.html' title='Probabilidades'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-4031577674519087696</id><published>2009-01-28T14:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-28T20:34:03.357-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='guide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='welcome'/><title type='text'>Reader's guide</title><content type='html'>...or what the hell is this all about?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nothing in particular. I just think that there could be some things that other people might be interested in, so I decided to start this blog. If you're expecting a focused one-topic blog, you'll be very disappointed. I will write about very different topics that have only one thing in common: they make up my life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For starters, I expect to be writing a lot about Bob Marley. This, of course, does not mean that you won't find posts about software development, or music, or haute cuisine or psychoanalysis. There is just so much to say sometimes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I appreciate your taking the time to read any of my posts. Please feel free to stop by and comment or contact me. Above all, I hope that you enjoy reading through this blog!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fred&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-4031577674519087696?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/4031577674519087696/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=4031577674519087696' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/4031577674519087696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/4031577674519087696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2009/01/readers-guide.html' title='Reader&apos;s guide'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5537943947127137399.post-7853927182040191062</id><published>2009-01-28T00:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-28T22:21:56.879-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nyc'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bob marley'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='madison square garden'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uprising'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1980'/><title type='text'>Bob Marley at the Madison Square Garden '80</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oRQ7sa2_eRo/SYFK3jKwxKI/AAAAAAAAAA8/WGMrir6fNNE/s1600-h/bmmsg80-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oRQ7sa2_eRo/SYFK3jKwxKI/AAAAAAAAAA8/WGMrir6fNNE/s320/bmmsg80-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296596954958054562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;You will hear me talk about Bob Marley's shows at the MSG in 1980 a lot. And this is because I think these shows hold quite some relevance within the context of the Uprising tour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When talking about the Uprising tour -Bob's last tour- one cannot separate the music from Bob's illness. During this tour, Bob's deteriorating health is more apparent with each show. This is not to mean that the shows have a lower quality because of this. In fact, the Uprising tour -and album- are by far my favorite work by Bob Marley and the Wailers. The music reaches a stage of maturity that is amazing. And it is quite different from the albums that were published in the previous years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the European leg of the Uprising tour, Bob's health was declining rapidly. Understanding this evolution is also understanding an important part of his work -not lastly because of the sacrifice he is offering by performing despite his condition. This sacrifice can be seen as martyrdom, as an act performed for the sake of him delivering his message. It gives a strong background to the values that Bob was singing about: he means it, because he offered his own life for his cause. "I like suffering, if it is for the right cause", he once said in an interview. In this regard, Bob Marley presents himself as a savior and a sufferer, not too different from Jesus Christ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To understand more about Bob's health decline and how he dealt with it during 1980 is as important as understanding his final months in Germany at Issels clinic. Why? Because his decision to go ahead with the tour and try to ignore his condition is materialized in those shows. Look at the Dortmund video, for instance, to see him struggling with his own pain and keep on singing. The Uprising tour is his personal sacrifice, and a sacrifice that must not have been without a conflict: While he was under strong pain and disconfort, he had to deal with new plans and an exciting future. For instance, only shortly before collapsing in Central Park, he said in an interview that they would be touring until December that year. Plans were set for a tour with Inner Circle in 1981. Quite a contrast, if you think about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What fascinates me about the Madison Square Garden '80 shows is the fact that they are such a strong turning point. Both, musically and personally for Bob, these shows mark the end of the Uprising tour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It has been proposed by Freud and others that an illness often has an unconscious background. In other words, it is a way through which unconscious feelings, otherwise repressed, return in the form of a physical symptom. Even if the unconscious is not the cause for an illness, the physical symptoms quite often have an unconscious background.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having said that, why would Bob Marley collapse after the second night at the Madison Square Garden? And I don't mean why he would collapse, because that is clear. I mean why exactly then? After months touring Europe in exhaustingly tight schedules, why would this happen until September?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to propose that not only the physical aspect played a role in this. Contrary to denying the importance of having a brain tumor, I want to add another aspect to the equation: Bob's desire to go on until (at least) this point. Let's take a look at some clues about this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is well known that when Bob was singing, he would seem to improvise lyrics that had an actual "private" meaning. One famous example happens during "Jamming" in the "One love" peace concert in 1978. After a guitar solo, Bob shouts "watch what you're doing", words that were actually addressing the guitar player who had just hit the wrong note.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, in the second night at the MSG in 1980, at the end of "Crazy bal&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oRQ7sa2_eRo/SYFKE2N41bI/AAAAAAAAAA0/qXhDXqayBXs/s1600-h/bmmsg80-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oRQ7sa2_eRo/SYFKE2N41bI/AAAAAAAAAA0/qXhDXqayBXs/s320/bmmsg80-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296596083898111410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;dheads", Bob sings (almost whispering)&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Don't feel it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Gotta feel good now&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;These sad words give us some hardly gained insight into what Bob was feeling at the time. It seems to me like he is resisting, during the whole European leg of the tour. Resisting through the first dates of the US leg of the tour. See the interview he gives together with Tyrone Downie the night of the Boston show, Bob seems devastated. But he resists, until the MSG shows are over. And then he collapses in Central Park.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The point I want to make is, that given his health condition this could have probably happened way before. The fact that it didn't demonstrates that these shows were very important for Bob, because he chose to give them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Musically, these shows also mark a departure from the European leg of the tour. The electronic drums used in Jamming and Exodus were introduced in this show. The sound was getting more and more americanized. Also: they played "Forever loving Jah" during the first night at the MSG, a song never played during another show of tour (at least that we would know about ;-P ).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did Bob know what was about to happen? Nobody will ever know. I think that he did not imagine the extend that it would have. Having survived an assassination attempt, and the operation of his melanoma in 1977, his illness was probably something he thought he would be able to survive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The MSG shows are Bob's last Uprising tour shows and the Pittsburgh show is an epilogue. After the cancer diagnosis there was a reality that had to be faced with however means he had for that. Before that it was just the tour. Within the tour these shows have a great importance, shown by the fact that Bob gave those even in his critical condition. This has a great impact on the music and also in the significance that these shows have.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5537943947127137399-7853927182040191062?l=fsauter.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/feeds/7853927182040191062/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5537943947127137399&amp;postID=7853927182040191062' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/7853927182040191062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5537943947127137399/posts/default/7853927182040191062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://fsauter.blogspot.com/2009/01/bob-marley-at-madison-square-garden-80.html' title='Bob Marley at the Madison Square Garden &apos;80'/><author><name>Fred Sauter</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00821374461717232244</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODwerSlWZYg/Tu4xT3NcY2I/AAAAAAAAAGY/g26d8a_vr0o/s1600/391931_10150437302822219_541557218_8828721_224183841_n.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oRQ7sa2_eRo/SYFK3jKwxKI/AAAAAAAAAA8/WGMrir6fNNE/s72-c/bmmsg80-3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
