Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 177

Reading Jordi’s blog, I cannot but agree with him (in most points): I plainly cannot understand Israel’s actions in the last weeks. I can sadly understand how some people defend them, specially people not living in Israel - I was talking with a friend today, a friend who does not share a single political viewpoint with me, but still… The world seems to be completely polarized. Some have the impression that Israelis live under constant shelling, that life is unsustainable in that poor country, the last corner of civilization in that mess called the Middle East, and that the Arab...

I’ve spent a couple of weeks half-working my way towards an application to capture, recode and stream media, much in the fashion of what the very fine video team managed to do for Debconf6: Recording, encoding and streaming a live video feed via an Icecast server. Why didn’t I just follow the easy path? Basically, because it’s not friendly enough to be used by our camera operator at the Institute. So, I’m working on a simple GUI that will wrap the process, and provide feedback on its working. Feedback? Yes. We streamed the Mexican economy seminar using the simple commands,...

Means the office where the coffee machine usually sits is closed. Fortunately, that is easily fixed. Now, how healthy will it turn out? I’ll tell you in two more weeks.

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Coffee without having to go fetch it! Attachments (0 KB)

Yes, this is one of those postings I’d like to make in Spanish. However, a long time ago I decided my blog should be in English, as many of the people I write it for don’t speak Spanish, so don’t bug me with that ;-) Besides, I do think it is very important not to leave this information inside the country. International pressure has proven fundamental to stop some of our government’s flaws. So… What happened with our elections? Nothing yet. As many expected, and as we all hoped it would not happen, the results are too close to call...

From the 2006 Mexican federal elections

We voted and left, and the queue was growing Attachments (0 KB)

After I voted, they checked -by mistake- my brother’s record. Well, anyway, he is not in Mexico, so he is not voting anyway :-/ Attachments (0 KB)

My thumb turns brown! Attachments (0 KB)