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Hah! Targetted memes have hit again - Arareko decided I should talk about myself. I will do this, but I won’t point the finger at five others - Lets see just who bites ;-) Besides, having left this post rot as a draft for over a week already, it got a bit more interesting: The meme bit from two sides. Arareko (as well as Ion) was bitten by Cicloid, from the mx.planetalinux.org-derived side of reality, and then Hanna bit Wouter on Planet Debian. Ok, time to get this message out from the freezer… So… Five not very well known things...

I’m officially on vacation. That basically means there is nobody at my office. This time, though, it does not mean I will be the only sentient being in the building - I’ll take most of the three weeks at home. I hope to be able to do some Debian work and catch up with some other projects… Anyway, part of not being at the office means I don’t have my usual dose of coffee. At home, I very seldom drink coffee, although I really love to have it home-style (i.e. not made by the easy-to-massify drip coffee machine). In fact,...

Many people have recently posted in Planet Debian regarding the use, usability and usefulness of having comments enabled in blogs, of using comments as the right way for following discussions, of dealing with spam, and so on. I’m sorry I’m not linking to more of them, but I’m too lazy to look them up. This is one of the down-sides of not using comments - Ideally, if I were interested on commenting on a topic, I would just leave the comment on the blog that started it. It goes somewhat against Joey’s logic of posting both the comment and the...

Thanks to H01ger for linking to one of the coolest map-like things I’ve seen in a long time: Yet another map of Internet - this time, an IPv4 allocation map. Useful? Maybe not, having tools such as Geo-IPfree. But quite nice to print and have as a poster ;-)

I’ve been working a bit over a week on writing SmbGate, a simple and quite braindead Web app giving my users web access (read-only for now at least) their home shares in a Samba server from outside the Institute, which will be basically closed for vacations/moving to a new building for over a month. It went quite smoothly. Even using a quite ugly API (Filesys::SmbClient - It works, but in an ugly fashion), getting the basic app to work took me only two days, and I’ve been beautifying bits of it for around a week. I even got around to...

I was very happily surprised today. Some weeks ago, walking in downtown Mexico City, I found the Interactive Economy Museum (Museo Interactivo de Economía - MIDE, for which I had seen some posters at my workplace (of course, as some of you know, I work at UNAM’s Institute for Economics Research (Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas)). MIDE is one Mexico’s youngest museums (opened about two months ago), and it is… Frankly impressive and well done. When I first heard about an interactive economy museum, I could only think about entering a room with buttons that would cause economic or politic crisis...

I came across Adam’s post inviting everybody to participate in a simple meme propagation speed and path tracking experiment. Well, I bite. Here I am. Some points to consider (for Acephalous, who started and tracks this meme): If people like me read Adam’s blog via an aggregator (Planet Debian), and when I post I I get syndicated at the same aggregator, won’t this disturb your metrics/readings? Or if I know I’m syndicated at least in two aggregators (Planet Debian and Planeta Linux México - If there is another one, please tell me :) ), won’t that also influence somehow?

Wow… The amount of press/coverage inside the FS community (not necessarily good press) the Ubuntu people are receiving lately is huge. I smell the possibility where Canonical might face what many people call the ugly side of Debian - But what we, the insiders, call it the most important part of it: Our people’s devotion to the Free Software ideals. Of course, even inside Debian there are all kind of opinions (to the point that Debian’s main activity seems at times to be debating rather than coding), but the general perception is that we are the fundamentalist zealots. It’s only...