Discover Buenos Aires

“Spring forward, fall back.” - Yep, it’s that time of the year again, and even though it’s October, it’s officially the start of spring in the Southern Hemisphere, so it’s time to move the clocks forward by one hour.  The time change happens this Sunday, October 19th, 2008 at midnight -the earliest it has ever occurred. This [...]

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Argentina’s Travel Guide is a site that I’ve had in my Google Reader for awhile now, but in recent weeks the site has really picked up the pace with a slew of interesting new stories and events happening in Buenos Aires (and beyond).  Here’s a quick description from their site:
Argentina’s Travel Guide is an online guidebook [...]

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A lot of people were interested in our post about using the Slingbox to stream your TV over the Internet and watch it overseas, and while it works fairly well, it requires some setup, including having a cable and Internet connection in the States. Unfortunately, not everyone has this luxury. So, what do you do when [...]

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We don’t watch a lot of TV, but before we left for Buenos Aires, we decided it would be nice to watch some U.S. TV stations and shows while we were here. Watching our DVR would be great too, and I also wanted to be able to watch Michigan football games this fall. Luckily, The Slingbox comes to [...]

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Today I thought I would start a series of posts about technology solutions that I have found to help deal with a number of common problems that we have encountered.  These are some technical ways we’ve been dealing with issues that we have run up against.
One of our ongoing issues is not speaking or reading [...]

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Yes, it is with a heavy heart that I must announce some really horrible news that befell us recently..
 
 
 
We have not had an Internet connection at our apartment since Thursday! Yes, it is probably one of the worst things that could happen, and I’m starting to wonder if I shouldn’t have been so greedy. You [...]

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While I realize that this is not going to be a part of most people’s planning process, being the Internet guru, I started looking for BsAs domain names as soon as I decided to make the move. I figured, who knows what I’ll be doing or what’s going to interest me, but it might make [...]

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When we decided to make the move to Buenos Aires a few months ago, we also decided to start switching as many of our accounts to e-bills as we could.  This resulted in an immediate reduction in the amount of mail we received (other than junk mail and catalogs). However, not everyone has an e-bill option yet and [...]

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I’m a firm believer that one should know as much as possible about their new country before they move there. A great way to keep on top of local news and stories is to subscribe to Google News Alerts for Buenos Aires. Google News Alerts deliver all the top stories related to your search term directly [...]

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