SAN JOSE, Costa Rica --- Costa Rica, one of the world’s premier sportfishing destinations, has named Herbert Nanne, and Monica Gutierrez to the country’s recently formed Sportfishing and Tourism Commission. Nanne is a biologist and The Billfish Foundation’s (TBF) Central America Conservation Director. Gutierrez is a lawyer and President of Pronature, a sister conservation entity to … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2011
Costa Rica’s Sportfishing and Tourism Commission Adds TBF’s Conservation Directors
08/25/2011 by Leave a Comment
Are Costa Rica’s Internet Service Providers Going to Be Charging Extra for Excessive Bandwidth?
08/23/2011 by 4 Comments
In the last couple of weeks one of our accounts has been having a hard time logging into their server. So after they rebooted the router a few times and then cleaned the ends of the cables the problem still existed. For a while it was driving me a bit crazy why this was happening until suddenly that light bulb clicked on; I remembered the article I wrote back in April, 2010, Net Neutrality For … [Read more...]
Protecting Costa Rica’s Rainforest – Most Expensive ($18,000) Flip-flops – Chipkos
08/15/2011 by 1 Comment
No doubt ecology is a big issue, and no doubt businesses will hype their ecology concern in an effort to increase sales. However, one company takes it to the extreme and hopefully it will benefit Costa Rica. Last week, designer sandal’s guru, Chipkos announced their latest pair of flip-flops. They will be the world’s most expensive, jaw-dropping $18,000 for a pair. WOW!!! - H.Stern's … [Read more...]
Costa Rica’s Internet Future – IPv6, Competition and Fraud
08/05/2011 by Leave a Comment
The world’s most advance technology will have it 20th Birthday on Aug, 8th; thats when the “World Wide Web (www)” first gained a public face in 1991. CERN, which straddles the border between France and Switzerland, publicized the new World Wide Web project, two years after, British scientist Tim Berners-Lee had begun creating HTML, HTTP and the first few Web pages at CERN. The World Wide … [Read more...]
Strip Clubs in San Jose, Costa Rica
Many of the strip clubs in Costa Rica are in an area known as the infamous Red Zone (Zona Roja) of San Jose, which starts just one block north of the Central Market, and continues downhill to the river and old prison. Zona Roja and the Dominican Zone are two of San Jose’s most notorious areas for high crime, like pickpocketing, drugs, assaults, and petty theft, so unless you … [Read more...]