Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 175

Ok, so I am going to be in Bolivia next week - or so I hope ;-) I don’t usually take care to do this, but being it Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano (more on this later), and having heard first-hand and even almost lived stories of ticketing errors, I decided to call the airline to confirm my flight details. …Only that the airline does not have a web site any more - It was grabbed by an online casino. Or maybe… Am I getting a casino ticket? Holy crap, no, it’s a casino evangelism blog, explaining you how fun and interesting...

Ian: I have to agree with you - Google Reader rocks. So far, I’ve been quite reluctant on putting more personal information in other entities hands than what is necessary - specially when those entities are, as Google, expert in exploiting whatever they learn about you. Call me a paranoid, a privacy freak, or whatnot, but after fooling around a bit on Orkut, I decided to withdraw all of my participation there (and never engaged on explicit social network sites ever again - Of course, my participation in several mailing lists is tracked by many Web searchers, and I’m sure...

Less than one year ago, I had had enough. At over 135 Kg, not having done any kind of excercise or diet for too many years, I was on a very sorry shape - and although thankfully I have never had any important illness, I don’t want to bet my life on luck alone. So, by November (to be exact, on the same week Nadezhda and I had our wedding), I joined my University’s obesity, overweight and sedentarism program - Of course, ready to admit defeat. Over the last year, however, my life has changed completely - Many of you...

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Last Monday, I went out to meet Álvaro and the LIDSOL gang. At 18:00, I had surely missed his Cherokee talk, which I have seen already a couple of times… Anyway :) …So I had to take the metro. Two stops only, but I didn’t feel like walking - and they would probably leave if I took ~30 minutes to arrive. Problem: I didn’t have any metro tickets, and I had only a MX$500 bill on me. Very previsive, I stopped by the ATM just by the station’s entrance, and got MX$100. One metro ticket costs MX$2. The $100 bill...

Sigh… Here I go again :) gwolf@mosca:~$ history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -10 81 svn 33 cd 29 find 28 perl 28 ls 27 grep 26 for 21 man 17 export 14 cat At least, it clearly shows that I’ve been teaching my workmates on the benefits of Subversion. Anyway, with only 500 lines of Bash history I’m keeping, it’s hard to make this into a trend. I doubt this would coincide with the pkg-perl sprint a bit over a week ago. Still, I call perl interactively (well, if that’s what “interactive” means) a little bit...

One of the things I value most in my workplace is that, unless I break something, I am barely disturbed. People wave at me and recognize me in the hallway, I even have some corridor chats every now and then - but in my office, quiet. Nobody comes, nobody calls, nobody bothers me. I can mostly work on my stuff. Today, however, I have had two over-20-minute phone calls (I hate long calls - keep’em short, to the point, end of story!) and at least four short ones, three people from the institute have come to request my help to...

Today, as it was widely anticipated, the Superior Tribunal of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF) declared Felipe Calderón, of the currently right-wing governing PAN party, elected as president for the 2006-2012 period. My regular readers will know that my political views are against his party’s, and that I completely oppose him - Of course, being consequent, in June I started, together with some friends, FeCal.org.mx, a site destined to show the incongruencies and incoherences in the official version - and that evolved to a site I am quite fond of, having good and deep analysis of the political...

Raphaël: I mostly agree with your post. Having something closer to a steering committee seems saner than having a single leader for projects such as Debian, due to a single person not able to fully follow everything such a large and diverse mass of people works on. I was among the supporters of Project Cabal^W^Wthe DPL team experiment, and of our 2IC role. However, you state that a release should determine the time a DPL team (call it committee, cabal or whatnot. I like the title, in fact: “I am an Elected Member of the Whatnot of Debian”. Whee!) -...