Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 126

Having recently become an Unicode (ab)user, in great part due to Kragen’s .XCompose, I took again the mission to convince people that resistance is futile, you will be assimilated into the multilingual world of UTF8… …And given the recent thread in debian-devel regarding how a globbing or similar functionality should be implemented (specifically, given Giacomo’s message pointing out that our beloved «/» directory separator is subject to the locale rules)… I cannot help but to send you to this old piece of MSDN beauty: When is a backslash not a backslash? In short: If you are surprised because in East...

Three weeks ago, 23 year old Liliana Castillo, student of the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas at UNAM was killed while driving her bycicle, at the Avenida Universidad and Real de Mayorazgo corner, in Mexico City, less than 3Km north from my house (and from the University). I have crossed that spot several times, also driving my bike. It is not a corner where you would expect a careless, speeding driver coming out of nowhere and killing a girl, a student, an artist. I am reproducing this letter, that is being passed around in the University. I will surely be...

Next to my usual bike, for comparison

Just bough a foldable bike — Here, Nadezhda rides!

Today I went to the La Merced area to finally buy a foldable bike. There were basically four options: Benotto’s 20” Utopia, Alubike 16” Foldingbike, Alubike 24” and a custom-made bike at a smaller store, Bici Universo. In Mexico it is also possible to buy a Brompton, although they are not available in larger stores and their pricing is prohibitive. Sergio Mendoza advised me to look for the Dahon bikes at Benotto, but they have discontinued them in favor of their own making. I ended up buying the Bici Universo one. I must say this: I sincerely hope not to...

The cats get acquinted with our new foldable «Universo» bike Comments 2009-06-06 22:02:51 ¡Esta fregona Gunnar! hace ¡Esta fregona Gunnar! hace años que busco uno bici doblable hecha en México. Me encanta que tenga la rejilla para carga, una alforja hubiera sido de lujo. Supongo que la pequeña escuadra del marco sirve para darle estructura y tener de donde tomarla. Felipe 2009-06-08 08:28:33 WoW Está muy chida. Siempre y cuando no decida “doblarse” en un momento inoportuno. Envidia de la buena…

Today I attended RubyCamp (schedule available), organized by my friends at Instituto de Física, at my University. I presented three plugins I made and regularly use. The organizers followed a short, more informal scheme than most conferences I am used to — Talk slots range between 5 and 15 minutes, so we attended a whole day of semi-lightning talks. Of course, many people have run late, and although there was quite a bit of free space in the schedule, it has been practically non-stop — I was thinking on also giving a talk on encodings (as many people really still...

I prepared this for a short presentation at RubyCamp UNAM. I present the three Rails plugins I wrote in 2008, acts_as_catalog, real_fk and acts_as_magic_model Attachments LaTeX sources for the presentation (5 KB) Presentation, PDF format (269 KB)

Yup — Over a month ago I was contacted by Norman García (who I met via the various EDUSOL activities), and René Mayorga (who I met thanks to his Debian involvement) inviting me to join them for the First Central-American Free Software Encounter. I had insisted to several Central American friends on setting up such an encounter for several years, and I am really glad I was invited. So, if you happen to be near Central America between June 17 and 21, don’t miss it! They are even organizing a bus (which still has place for more travellers!) going from...