Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 157

Ok, so two people replied to yesterday's post about triple negations - Dato (by email) and MadCoder. Both, said basically the same thing: || false and && true are silly noops. And yes, knowing this, I added them. Why? Clarity... At least having them at the end of a test shows the statement is of conditional nature (and not just another obscure attempt to do ${DEITY}-knows-what). They at least look cleaner than a one-line-squashed if block in a makefile. To me, at least ;-) But... If you noticed this post's title, it goes beyond this comment - One of the...

Yes, yes, I know I already said so, and surely in a more visible site, and even he also announced his victory over DAMnation… But still, having more Mexicans in this little project I call home makes me very happy. So, welcome on board, Rodrigo!

I'm packaging Ruby's PDF::Writer module for Debian - It is a simple module and (almost) ready for upload. But anyway, it carries some issues I had to bring to debian-legal's attention, mainly, five files licensed under Creative Commons licenses (specially two of them, which are under its NonCommercial variant - clearly non-free), so I'm repackaging the .orig.tar.gz into a +dfsg version. But I know I'm a lazy and sometimes stupid bum. Even more, the package will be group-maintained by the pkg-ruby-extras team, so we must be as careful as possible not to forget to remove the non-free material - To...

As of late, I've shifted quite dramatically my sysadmining/development activities. On the development front, although Perl is still my mother tongue and I maintain many systems I wrote with it (and my main involvement in Debian is through the <a href=""http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-perl/>pkg-perl group</a>, of course), I've been largely switching over to Ruby - both under the Rails framework and doing standalone stuff. But somehthing that's new to me (well, relatively - it has been observed I have been playing with the idea in and out for some more time) is entering this maze of twisty little passages, all alike called Drupal....

Last weekend, Nadezhda and me went to the the San Nicolás Totoloapan park, a beautiful area in the slopes of the Ajusco mountain. We cycled only for a short while, as we are not really used to slopes nor to non-paved roads - But all in all, it was very fun and a very nice time. But, only now I realize, thanks to the oh-so-always-nice Rodrigo, that, because of having fun while being at the Ajusco, we completely missed November's Ciclotón. Crap. Cycling over 30 Km in Mexico City is very fun. Nadezhda loved it when she did it in...

Yesterday I went with Nadezhda to the always interesting teatro/bar el Vicio. as she found that Klezmerson were going to play there. We tried to get some more friends to join, but gave too short notice, and ended up having a great night out just by ourselves. Just as a side rant: I just hate that places I want to refer to, and I want other people to get to know, have Flash-only sites! You can read some more things about Klezmerson at -ugh- their MySpace site, even get some of their music there. Their name give away their basic...

Yay, the club seems to be getting bigger and bigger. While I’ve been mostly away from this blog, Bubulle has joined the group. Also, the long-disappeared Evan promises to be back, and running as well. I didn’t get to see him, but Gaby told me she saw Mauricio (making a IMHO very nice 0:51:33 time for 10Km) on last week’s Nike race. Of course, I was also at the race, with a 1:07:36 total time. Not bad for such a strange period!

Ok, this is the first time of the year also for me - H0lger was the first to remind me that, as proud inhabitant of the not-precisely-warm tropic, once again this year I won't get a chance to get my first snowfall yet (although the volcanos around the city do get their share of snow, and as a child I've been there to play with it... Imagine a city of then-almost-20 million people rushing to the three nearby volcanos just to get a taste of what snow feels like - Yes, heavy traffic is the foremost sensation I remember)... Sigh......

Is there a causality relation between Lucas’ posting and ries.debian.org’s (a.k.a. ftp-master.debian.org) sudden demise? Grmbl… Comments … 2007-11-11 16:34:45 TETET! shuold it be sth like “IMYATT”? JA! (TETET) Kevin Mark 2007-11-05 18:54:22 Re: Lucas killed ries! TINC!

Over one year ago, still at DebConf 6, the Latin American Debian people (and by people I mean just interested people, regardless of whether they were/are official DDs or not) held a BoF session. One of the ideas we discussed there was that, in order to increase Debian presence in our region (which is by no means small - Let alone the geographical aspects, I'm guessing we are about 350 million people, roughly split in half between [officially] Spanish- and Portuguese- speaking countries). Yet, this is an area with very little involvement in Debian in particular, and with Free Software...