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This is the journal of The Southron, an American Emigrant from Florida who has spent the last decade living in the West Indies, former Yugoslavia and Costa Rica. He moved to Montevideo, Uruguay at the end of February 2006...

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Archive for March, 2008

ANTEL is WORSE than Costa Rica’s Telecom!!!

Posted by southron on March 31st, 2008

I never thought that I would ever find any telecommunications company anywhere that was worse than Costa Rica’s state owned company called ICE, the Costa Rican Institute for everything electrical (probably including the static electricity you generate by shuffling your feet on the carpet). ICE is responsible for electrical power, telephones, cellular telephones, Internet […]

Summer’s last hurrah…

Posted by southron on March 16th, 2008

Despite the fact that Uruguay is the least Christian country in South America, I am amazed at the increase in piety whenever there is a Christian holiday to be celebrated. Its seems that even communists and atheists are converted, at least for the duration of the holiday. To show this piety, the majority […]

Health insurance? What’s that?

Posted by southron on March 15th, 2008

It has been more than 17 years since I was last covered by health insurance. Because of the brain tumor I had removed in 1990, I was considered “uninsurable”.
Providentially for me, I enjoyed decent health until the accidents that crippled me in 1998. By that time I was living outside the United States, […]

Spring forward, fall between the cracks…

Posted by southron on March 8th, 2008

About six months ago, the time change was easy: the US and the EU went back to standard time, while Uruguay simultaneously started using summer time. The net effect was that we became two hours farther from the US, and two hours closer to the EU.
At two o’clock tomorrow morning this process will […]

Technology update: Internet is getting better!

Posted by southron on March 1st, 2008

One of the things about which I am most pleased is the fact the Internet service provided by Antel is getting much better. The bandwidth has increased, while the prices remain the same.
Last year, in a desperate search to get sufficient bandwidth we bought an expensive router that would aggregate Internet bandwidth from two […]

Buying a pig in a poke: the language bait-and-switch.

Posted by southron on March 1st, 2008

As much as I love living in Uruguay, there are some things that I don’t like. (Of course, I might even complain about the choice of music sung by the heavenly choirs in the celestial realms…)
Nevertheless, it is my responsibility to report both the good and the bad, so that you don’t make some […]


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