La marea humana

Es un ejercito, una masa tan grande de gente que debido a las obras en el centro camina desde la estacion de la jimenez hasra sus sitios de destino. La cantidad de gente se vuelve tan grande que simplemente es una marea humana ocupando los mismos carriles que transmilenio. Dejo unas fotos para que juzguen ustedes mismos.

Saludos,

Cami Velasco

P.S.: y por las tardes son los vendedores ambulantes los que toman posesion de la via.

Los bloqueos de Transmilenio: los usuarios.

Ultimamente quienes me tienen en Facebook deben estar mamados de tanta posteadera y comentarios acerca de Transmilenio, el cual he de reconocer, es un excelente sistema y ayudo a resolver muchos problemas de movilidad de Bogota sin embargo varios factores han causado que este sistema se degenere.
Para empezar debemos ver algo que absolutamente nadie ve, los usuarios. Estos simplemente no tienen cultura de transporte masivo ni de pensar en los otros. Para esto les doy unos ejemplos:

- Al salir de los articulados los usuarios que van a ingresar bloquean la salida de las personas que quieren salir y asi impidiendo el mismo acceso de quienes entran.
- Por la misma linea, las personas que estan esperando que pase el servicio de ellos no dejan pasar a los que van a tomar el servicio que esta recogiendo y dejando pasajeros por el hecho de no perder ellos su posicion en la fila.
- Dentro del bus los usuarios se hacen en la puerta limitando la capacidad del articulado, impidiendo el libre transito de los usuarios y generando un caldo de cultivo para los robos, chalequeadas u demas dentro de los buses, ya que esta altamente comprobado que estos robos se dan generalmente cuando se entra o se sale del sistema.
- No falta el pasajero que lleva objetos que pueden incomodar a los usuarios, le prohiben ingresar a Transmilenio por llevar un objeto tanto incomodo para los demas como peligroso y ademas se atreve a entutelar. (www.corteconstitucional.gov.co/relatoria/2010/T-508-10.htm).
- Ahh me faltaba la ultima, los mismos usuarios muchas veces bloquean las puertas para impedir que entren mas personas al articulado.

Sin embargo como la cuestion no es quejarse porque si y ya, propongo soluciones para que sigamos:
- Las estaciones en el piso tienen demarcadas las instrucciones para el ingreso, entrar por los lados, salir por el centro. ¿Que pasaria si los usuarios nos enfocaramos en armar una fila ordenada (de acuerdo al servicio que fueramos a tomar) para el ingreso al bus al lado de las puertas en vez de bloqueandolas? Los tiempos de entrada y salida del bus se verian reducidos facilmente a la mitad, adicionalmente esto haria que simplemente no hubiera bloqueos o las atropelladas horribles que a uno le toca meter (o sufrir) a veces porque alguien necesita salir.
- Gente, movamonos al centro, se sentira mas comodo, mas personas podran moverse y tendra menos probabilidad de ser robado.
- Si tiene paquetes grandes, abstengase de llevarlos; y para los que llevamos maletas grandes en la espalda, cuando entremos al articulado quitemonos la maleta de la espalda y pongamosla entre las piernas, de esta forma la tendra mas segura y respetaremos a los que nos rodean.

Para finalizar un consejo, esa disculpa de por lo que los demas lo hacen yo lo hago o que son los bobos quienes son decentes y que en la jungla de transmilenio uno tiene que ser el vivo es lo que tienen atrasado a Colombia. Extraño esos periodos de Mockus quien nos enseño civismo porque menos de 10 años despues ya nos volvimos unos completos animales. No podra hacer algo la policia (digo la policia porque en esta jungla de cemento no existe alcalde que la mande) o amigos de transmilenio o cualquiera de los grupos de apoyo en transmilenio para educar a los usuarios? Estoy seguro que si empezamos por ahi podremos mejorar el sistema.

Escribo este articulo en respuesta a los multiples bloqueos establecidos por los usuarios al sistema en sus diferentes portales, bloqueos que apoyo desde la "pluma" de mi celular que sin embargo invito para que tambien miremos el otro lado de la moneda, nosotros mismos. Continuare desarrollando este tema y regresare a una posicion mas activa en este blog.

Saludos a tod@s,

Cami Velasco

Normas de las empresas y la Rede Wicca

Durante un tiempo estuve estudiando la religión Wiccana, la cual es una "versión moderna" de las antiguas religiones paganas que existían anteriormente a que la religión católico cristiana las aplastara a todas. y es una religión que tiene elementos muy interesantes, entre esos esta la Rede Wiccana. Hoy en la empresa en la que estoy trabajando, la cual busca que uno sea simplemente un mono entrenado y donde el único derecho que uno tiene ademas de contestar llamadas es de respirar de una a dos veces por segundo (lo cual puede ser bueno a veces, pero también muy aburridor, lo de las condiciones claro esta, lo de respirar es un placer que pienso hacer hasta que este 10 metros bajo tierra o convertido en ceniza).

Seguir las leyes Wicca debemos,

en perfecto amor y perfecta confianza

Vivir y dejar vivir, Justamente dar y recibir

Me pregunto en este punto de este dilema, que seria si los empleadores buscaran en las reglas invocar aquellos elementos de esta rede como estar buscando estar en perfecto amor y perfecta confianza, saber que al dar van a recibir, que todo lo que hagan (bueno o malo) lo recibirán por triplicado. Cuantas veces no han tenido un(os) jefe(s) que a veces pareciera que se la pasan maquinando en formas de

como hacer la vida de sus empleados imposibles o que simplemente son irracionales muchas veces en sus conductas o que simplemente se olvidan de considerar al empleado y su condición de ser humano y comienzan a verlo mas bien como una maquina?

Cuantos empleadores dejaron hace tiempo de hacer las cosas con perfecto amor y perfecta confianza y se dedican a estar vigilando que uno se mantenga en un cuadradito perfectamente estructurado donde la creatividad y la libertad no existe, donde el amor es en lo ultimo que uno pensaría, y se consideraría mas la frialdad del trabajo por algo tan impersonal como el dinero y donde las relaciones valen tanto como efectivo te puedan producir.

Árbol, arbusto y flor cuida

Y por la Señora seras bendecida

Tira una piedra en el agua y veras

Como las ondas te diran la verdad

Aun cuando tengas una Necesidad

A la codicia ajena no servirás

No pierdas tiempo con el tonto juzgado

O su amigo seras considerado

Feliz encuentro, feliz partida

Tibio el corazón, brillante la mejilla

Diría uno que hablar de arbustos y lanzar piedras al agua no aplicaría mucho a la empresa, sin embargo si uno considera que el agua es una forma simbólica de indicar una acción, un deseo y el agua el infinito del tiempo, del espacio, podríamos considerar el hecho de lanzar los deseos, las acciones hacia un infinito que nos permitiera liberarnos de ataduras y dejar que las ondas nos determinaran el camino en vez de tener que buscar desesperadamente esa necesidad de control absoluto no necesitada por el hecho de buscar transmitir amor en lo que hacemos y hacia las personas con las que trabajamos. Podemos trabajar como tontos buscando codiciosamente recolectar mas y mas de ese frio dinero o podemos buscar las verdaderas riquezas que se encuentran en las buenas relaciones, las buenas amistades, en darles la mano a aquellos que la necesitan.

La ley del 3 tendrás presente

Tres veces mal, Tres veces bien,

Cuando la desgracia este en tu mente

Una estrella azul lleva en la frente

Siempre fiel a tu amor debes ser

A menos que tu amor fiel deje de ser

Siete palabras la Rede satisface :

Has tu voluntad y A nadie dañes

Que seria si a los empleados todo lo que dijeran o hicieran se devolviera por triplicado, entonces que las ordenes sin justificaciones fueran devueltas hacia ellos en tres ordenes de sus superiores sin justificaciones. Que seria si aquellos momentos en que un empleador niega a su empleado una peticion facil de cumplir por simple capricho o que fuerza al empleado a hacer cosas altamente inconvenientes o busca armarle un asunto a un empleado que no tiene realmente asunto y se le devolvieran estas cuestiones por triplicado? Esto pasa porque se rompe la cuestión de ser fiel al amor de uno...

... pero que seria el amor? La Real Academia lo definiria como:

amor.

(Del lat. amor, -ōris).

1. m. Sentimiento intenso del ser humano que, partiendo de su propia insuficiencia, necesita y busca el encuentro y unión con otro ser.

2. m. Sentimiento hacia otra persona que naturalmente nos atrae y que, procurando reciprocidad en el deseo de unión, nos completa, alegra y da energía para convivir, comunicarnos y crear.

3. m. Sentimiento de afecto, inclinación y entrega a alguien o algo.

4. m. Tendencia a la unión sexual.

5. m. Blandura, suavidad. Cuidar el jardín con amor

6. m. Persona amada. U. t. en pl. con el mismo significado que en sing. Para llevarle un don a sus amores

7. m. Esmero con que se trabaja una obra deleitándose en ella.

8. m. p. us. Apetito sexual de los animales.

9. m. ant. Voluntad, consentimiento.

10. m. ant. Convenio o ajuste.

11. m. pl. Relaciones amorosas.

12. m. pl. Objeto de cariño especial para alguien.

13. m. pl. Expresiones de amor, caricias, requiebros.

Lo se, un reguero largo pero nos da una idea muy clara del amor desde una perspectiva algo mas amplia al simple amor de pareja y menciona muchos otros elementos como la voluntad, el cariño, entrega, union, esmero.

Regresando a ese ultimo parrafo de la rede Wicca, hablamos de:

Cuando la desgracia este en tu mente

Una estrella azul lleva en la frente

Siempre fiel a tu amor debes ser

A menos que tu amor fiel deje de ser

Que es esa estrella azul, que es ese fin ultimo que debemos alcanzar. No pasa muchas veces que por enfocarnos en bobadas nos olvidamos de cual es esa estrella azul que nos guia hacia donde vamos?

Siete palabras la Rede satisface :

Has tu voluntad y A nadie dañes

Siempre consideremos que muchas veces hacemos daño aunque no tengamos la intención en absoluto, como a veces hacemos daño cuando dejamos de hacer las cosas, como hacemos daño cuando permitimos o prohibimos pequeñas bobadas. Como todos los seres que viven en este planeta tienen un lugar en este circulo de la vida:

Ahora, esto aplica para empleadores como empleados, las moneda siempre tiene dos caras.

Felicidad,

Cami Velasco

Bibliografia:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rede
http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/ Palabra Clave: Amor
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/429652
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/67791

Los metodos de enseñanza y los errores de este.

Definitivamente la metodologia de enseñanza en occidente esta muy equivocada, porque primero buscan que uno maneje toda la teoria y despues se enfoque en la practica, eso causa que la persona no encuentre pasion en lo que esta estudiando. Esto debido principalmente a que la teoria es fria y calculada y los seres humanos somos seres sensibles los cuales reaccionamos a estimulos. Seria interesante verificar como es el proceso educativo de oriente, asi como analizar tambien como se realizaba el proceso de enseñanza antiguamente.

Si consideramos historicamente la evolucion de la enseñanza (viendolo desde el punto de vista de las profesiones originales, herrero, carpintero, etc) es que siempre se esta haciendo una educacion mixta en la cual se desarrolla un pequeño componente teorico y un gran componente practico. ¿Que causa esto? un mayor interes de parte del estudiante en el proceso "investigativo" de como desarrollar mejor la labor, ¿por que? porque somos perezosos. Queeeee!!!!! Como asi que perezosos, si, pues siempre queremos hacerlo de la forma mas rapida y facil posible, pero hacerlo de la forma mas rapida y facil no necesariamente significa que sea con menor calidad, sino todo lo contrario, siempre buscando superarlo. ¿Por que? por que somos altamente competitivos y nos gusta siempre superar lo mejor que se haya establecido antes, incluso si eso lo establecimos nosotros mismos.

Entonces porque la educacion hoy en dia se basa en una gran cantidad de teoria y en poca practica? Estaremos fallando en alguna cosa? Deberiamos hacer una revolucion educativa en que repensaramos como regresar a esos modelos educativos en que se premia al que tiene verdadero interes y que esta HACIENDO COSAS, como se le premia? pues con la satisfaccion del descubrimiento y con el aumento de la sed de conocimiento.

Quarter life crisis

One must ask at least once in a life, what am I doing with it, have I
taken a good path or have I done a lot of mistakes?

Definitely I've done a lot and can't be happy with the outcome so far,
'cause even though I've learned somethings that could be a little
insightful and have had various life teachings these haven't turn into
tangible things. And the worst thing is I lack someone to tell it.

--
Saludos Cordiales,

Alvaro Camilo Velasco
Correo-e: acamilov@gmail.com, acamilov@iocomputingla.com
Cel: 3016704818
Fijo: +57-1-4714245
Skype: acamilov
MSN: acamilov@hotmail.com

Sigue tu corazon

Este Post (como otros que he tenido otras ocasiones) salio de una conversacion. Es corto pero aqui lo dejo:

Cuando la mente no sabe a donde ir tiene al corazon para mostrarle su destino

Jose: hey buena frase

Alvaro: si, ya la estoy colocando en mi Fcbk, de vez en cuando me sale una inspiracion buena

Jose: haha

si

eso parece

Jose Luis Martinez Clavijo

compadre gracias!!!

6 minutes ago ·

Alvaro Camilo Velasco

Always

5 minutes ago ·

Jose Luis Martinez Clavijo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WJrtms8EoQ

2 minutes ago ·

Sent at 9:39 PM on Wednesday

Alvaro: si, pienso mucho en esa cancion

Personalmente creo que una de las razones por las que estoy aca en este mundo es para ayudar a hacerlo mejor

y tengo la certeza que si todos ponemos un grano de arena en absolutamente todo lo que hagamos y a todos los que impactemos podremos hacer cosas grandes

Por esta razon considero vital que nos dediquemos a hacer lo mejor que podamos en nuestro camino y cuando ya hayamos hecho lo mejor siempre nos acordemos que podemos hacerlo mucho mejor.

We are deities sent to learn, love and care

Avatar is a 2009 fictional film created by James Cameron. I'd talk about the movie but I guess you have seen it and if you haven't then you really should 'cause it's pretty amazing but not only because of the production but because of the message it has, and that's what I'm talking about today.

To Pandora arrives an Avatar brought up by the deity to save the Na'vi and Eywa from destruction by humans. But regretfully the only thing fictional about this movie is the planet and the Na'vi, everything else is real and happens everyday. We came to earth as humans and we keep destroying it everyday, doing our best to take all of its resources without any consideration and the earth is feeling the consequences and it's reacting against it. It is of the utmost importance that we transform into Avatars to start taking care of the earth 'cause right now it needs us and not only to take care of it but to restore the destruction we've made so far. to make that it's of the utmost importance that we start by listening to the earth spirit and begin to learn from it, to really care of the resources and every living being without any consideration to what natural kingdom belongs. If we don't get moving with this not only it will mean the destruction of the eco-system but also the destruction of human way of life as we know it. The time is Now!

The way of the Samurai

Samurai is a word referred to the higher ranking military in Japan in the old times, but basically it means a server, someone who serves others (usually nobler than himself) and that's what life should be about, serving others.

If we cared for others deeply and did our best to serve as best as possible we could also find pretty easily other people serving us and it would form a infinite chain of people serving one another.

And what if we served a higher purpose? What if we served to improve ourselves, to make the earth shine more, to learn how to take advantage more wisely of the earth resources without destroying it, to understand each living creature regardless of where would they or it came from.

We should definitely think of living a Samurai way.

The Rat Race and the life race

We constantly struggle through life to earn money, an important
position in a big company, loads of degrees, fame recognition, etc. To
do this we spend lots of our time working as hard as possible, lots of
time enclosed in a office in front of a computer, giving up lots of
concessions, kissing lots of asses and doing things we dislike.

There is a chance that after running this Rat Race we finally get to
the important position we were expected to have, to get the degree we
are asked to have, to earn enough money (for those in pursuit of money
is there really enough?) to be satisfied. But were we happy? Did we
enjoyed the road we had to cross to get there? Did we took enough time
to learn about it?

We should stop running the Rat Race and start with the life race, a
race to learn all those skills we'd like to have, to start enjoying
time with our friends, family, partner, etc; to take time for the
culture, go to a concert, the museum, the theater, read lots of books,

At the end... To be Really Happy taking into account that, in life,
what you'll really enjoy is the path, not your destination

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Linux, Windows and more little things

I wanted to get the last post before this one to clarify the importance of those little things, because those little details are the ones who has made me return to Windows back from my Linux Experiment. This are this little things:

- Power support: I have both the advantage and disadvantage of having an HP tablet PC, this computer due to heating issues can never go to it's highest speed 'cause it gets really hot and shuts down (and most likely it is damaging the internal parts in the long effect). To get over it I have to be rally careful regarding the Power management issues and in Linux I have to keep looking for the computer to keep the processing speed to the minimum on a regular basis 'cause I had some times the problem I configured the processor to use minimum resources and from one moment to another it just got to use maximum power resources.

- Flash player in Linux Sucks: Nothing more to add.

- OpenOffice can't read completely accurately any doc, docx, xls, xlsx file and Office 2010 can read any odt file without problem. On the other hand the user interface needs to get updated to a different more simplified way.

- User Interface: It has some nice effects, Compiz is way better than Aero but windows right now has a better overall look and feel than Gnome which i think still need to be a little more polished, though it is better looking than the traditional Windows 9X look and feel it doesn't heightens to the current Windows L&F

- OneNote support: I have all my university notes in OneNote, I think it is a really good way to take notes, specially with a TabletPC and I haven't found the suitable replacement. I know there exists Wikidpad and Zim but they can't read my previos OneNote notebooks but I can't blame the other applications but I also have to blame a little bit Microsoft on that one, 'cause it is most likely that the restriction is due to Microsoft having it as a closed format unable to be read from other sources.

There are really amazing things I have to recognize to Linux:

- The Ubuntu Software library is really amazing, though it shows just a tiny little bit of the open source software there must exist.

- Compiz is really amazing

- It can do a lot of stuff with minimum resources (despite the weird way it handles the system speed) and it doesn't seem to get slugish as sometimes you feel a Windows machine feels.

I still have to give it another shot when I get more time 'cause I'm still a believer that it is a great alternative for those people who don't want to spend much money in their software (I say not much instead of free 'cause i profoundly believe you should pay for the job a person does).

It's the little details

Little details is what life is made of and you have to learn to enjoy both the good little things and the bad things and learn from them. Afterwards you grow beyond each of this things.

You know, the big things seem always too much but if you get to see them in truth they are nothing but a recollection of small things or the conclusion of little steps you make along the way.

Third day of Linux Experiences

Hey Folks,

I'll start by saying that one of the first things I did today was to open up my computer using Windows, just because I had to do one annotation in OneNote. Afterward I switched back to Linux and been working since.

The first thing I did was to attempt to open my personal life goals journal (done in Word ooxml format) using OpenOffice. Bad Luck. The formatting of the document (had pictures, text boxes and all that stuff) was really messed up, so I started looking out for a way to install Microsoft Office 2007/2010 on my Linux OS. The idea of this experiment is not to get 100% open source (after all by the Open Source Purity standards I shouldn't even have Ubuntu Restricted Extras and the propietary drivers installed, after all) but to get a computer in a really good condition for a regular user to be able to use it without having to put up a lot of effort. After all the Ubuntu idea is to have a computer to be able to be used by everybody and we have to take into account also that there are a lot of things that are propietary/company made.

On the other hand I had a particular problem yesterday, I started using my computer on battery and without the cooling board (it has fans connected via USB) to check out how long would the battery last. It lasted about the same as using it with windows and seconds after I connected it back again to power the computer shot down because of overheating (This HP Tablet PCs really have a overheating problem). and using it today I've felt it warms up as much as using it on windows. So there I have one mith debunked, Linux computers can use the same resources as Windows ones.

So far the experiment has been really good. I haven't had the need or desire to get to windows far beyond the OneNote (and posibly any job I HAVE to do with MS Office and can't be done with anything else (Sorry folks but though OpenOffice does a nice job I receive lots of ooxml type files that just don't open right on OpenOffice).

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For those who ask what kind of job I'm doing to know how much power I'm asking to my computer:

To quickly resume what has been my work so far. I've worked with three virtual desktops provided by the compiz interface, managing both (at first just one) of the cores on a on demand/power save energy profile and listening to music or having a movie played in one desktop; chatting via aMSN (really cool program) and browsing the time loss pages (facebook, mail, etc) on the second desktop and using a browser with 5 to 15 open tabs on the third desktop.

Think Different

That's what the Mac people said some time ago, and that is a really true statement regarding Operating Systems and one of the first things to take into account when you are entering into an unexplored territory.

This past Saturday I installed Ubuntu Linux in my computer and had a very good impression of it. At first I had a lot of trouble installing the wireless driver, attempting first to make work an open source driver I ended locking it up to the system and being unable to remove it to put the right one, so by being am ignorant on the issue I took the easy path and reinstalled the system.

Beforehand I must say I've been a Windows user pretty much my entire life and been a little far from Linux so far, due mainly because of my past job experiences. Nevertheless I truly think that you must really commit to following the rules also regarding software and that's quite an issue in a region where over 50% of the software isn't legal. Though I have all of my software legal (except one or two games, they're really expensive) I know for a fact lot of people don't have legal software and don't mind not having it, and as part of my training as a computers consultant focusing on the little user I should really get to try Open Source alternative for those people who can't afford proprietary software.

Once this issue was sorted out and the correct drivers got installed I started Experimenting

with the system, first getting the so acclaimed Compiz visual effects to work (they're really cool by the way), later putting the system a little bit more like I'm used to (Have a confession to make, love the menu bar on the bottom and the desk as clean as possible, Windows Style).

So far I've had really good impressions. among those are:

• Compiz: really cool effects. Have to keep on browsing all it's options.
• Less processor use, thus less computer overheating (I have an HP Tablet PC and they suck with the heating issue.
• More responsiveness: I have a 2.1 Ghz processor, I'm limiting it to only 5252 Mhz and having the same response, even better considering the computer isn't overheating.
• Loads of software, free, ready to use and really easy to install. Even easier than the windows software (when using Ubuntu Software Center or debian packages, so far what I've been told is that installing without one of these installers can be a real pain in the ass.

And some issues:

• Initially the problem with the wireless driver (hate being on cables nowadays)
• A little bit of confusion with all of the Compiz functions. (A brief side description of the functions would be great)
• Lacking to address the issue with the other peripherals (tablet, fingerprint, etc)
• Ubuntu restricted Extras. Thanks to Zack Whittaker experiments and the readers comments on my second install that was one of the first thing I installed. This should be default in the installation (and leave the Purist Open Source crap behind, both propietary and Open Source can co-exist).

On overall effect I really enjoyed the Linux experience and it gives me the chance to keep using the files stored in my Windows partition, so the most likely thing is that I'll keep using the system at least for a week having an intense use. Though I don't commit not to get to Windows from time to time I'll be using Linux most of the time, and I guess I'll be having a good experience. On the other hand I'm starting semester right now and will attempt to keep using Linux as most as I can. It's good for my personal experience and good for my computer (less overheating).

On a final note, thanks for Zack Whittaker for doing the experiment and giving me the push to start doing this experiment and loads of thanks to his readers for giving me the chance to receive third-hand experience advise.

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On a separate note for those techies who wonder what's my computer's configuration:

• HP Pavilion tx2500 Tablet PC
• AMD Turion x2 64 2.1 Ghz dual core processor
• 3 Gb RAM
• 250 GB hard drive, 60 Gb dedicated to Linux, 190 to Windows.
• Ati Radeon 3200 HD graphics card, using ATI/AMD propietary FGLRX graphics driver
• Wacom active passive integrated Tablet (not working the passive part yet)
• Digital persona integrated fingerprint reader
• Multi-card reader (not tested yet, though it appears to be detected by the system)
• Multimedia Buttons (working most of them to my amazement)
• Multimedia infrared control (not working)
• Iomega 1 TB driver (mounts and dismounts perefectly)
• Broadcom Wireless card using Broadcom STA Driver
• Installed OSs: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 and Ubuntu 9.10 x64

Thinking about User Interface

Zack Whittaker is doing an interesting experiment that is going for 48 hours fully Open source. That got me thinking about the Office suites issue. Being extremely simplistic you can either go for Microsoft's Office 2007/2010 or go for OpenOffice 3.2 (I know on both ends, open source and propietary, there are lot's more suites and those will also have part on this post).
The major difference between this two suites is the User Interface, on one hand we have the office fluent interface (a.k.a Ribbon) and we have on the other hand the old icon and toolbar based aproach of OpenOffice (and most of ther office Suites). reading about OpenOffice's Rennaissance project got me thinking what would be the ideal User interface for an office suite, taking into account all the functions this type of programs have and what are User Interface paradigms that were a good option in the past but nowadays are old fashion.

When you get to think of that you see some new User interface ideas that have started to take shape, one of this is the removal of the menus on top of programs to be replaced by other type of functions (Windows Vista/7, office 2007, Google Chrome, etc) the minimalistic approach of some other programs, like Google Chrome, you see they are fond to the users, 'cause user just want to work on the stuff the program is supposed to do and not be bloated by all the characteristics the program has to offer.

Taking this into account, what would be your ideal User interface for a Office suite? Which rules should you follow?, which should you leave behind?

Birth Statement

Today us the first day of the rest of my life, anything I did right or wrong in my past life stays there and I bring with my only the teachings these experiences gave me. Now is the time to break the bonds that tie me to that past 'cause in front of me there's only an unexplored road ready to be ridden. So I'll get in my horse called today and I'll conquer this way.