Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 44

…Mate! Just by the hotel door

In the background, St. Dunstdan’s basilica

I found the following news item; if you can read Spanish, you will most probably prefer the original version in the Proceso magazine’s site. The subject? The federal police (PGR) and army arrest 17 artisans for «making money out of» Spiderman. The following translation is mine. Done past midnight, and being quite tired, and translated so this news item can reach a broader audience. All errors are mine (except those carried out by the security forces, that is). June 13, 2013 Cuernavaca, Morelos. Policement from the General Republic Attorney (Procuraduría General de la República, PGR) and the Army entered and...

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I like Drupal. It’s a very, very flexible CMS that evolved into a full-fledged Web development framework. Mind you, it’s written in PHP, and that makes it a nightmare to develop for (in ~6 years I have used it for all of my important websites I have only got around to develop a set of related modules for it once). PHP programming sucks and makes my eyes and fingers bleed, but happily there are people who disagree with me — And they tend to write code. All the better! Minor upgrades with Drupal are quite easy to handle. Not as...

After my first full semester of classes, there is at least a little tangible evidence that I didn’t skip even one day of attendance.

Wouter still does not like the 3.0 (quilt) packaging format. And as he writes on his blog, I shall answer on mine. And what if one of the blogs becomes unreachable with time? Aha! That’s one of the weaknesses, Wouter, on yuor closing comment: I have all my packages stored in git with a proper Vcs-Git: header; if people really want to look at individual patches, they can just use debcheckout, kthxbye. I am aware this would not be so much of an argument, or so much of a change. But the way I view a shipped package is that...

Voto electrónico. La sociedad en general espera que nosotros los tecnólogos seamos los primeros en apoyarlo, sus principales promotores e impulsores. Lo que es más, por lo que he visto en diversos países… ¡Parece que la sociedad en general lo apoya! Pero… ¿Qué es lo que apoyan? Hablar del voto electrónico así, como de un bien abstracto, no nos aclara lo suficiente el panorama como para entender cuál es la motivación real — Cuál es el problema que plantea resolver, y por qué esa respuesta se antoja deseable para la sociedad de nuestros países. Y mientras resolvemos esa pregunta, probablemente...

Some weeks ago, I contacted Rosa Martínez, a tech journalist with some questions regarding what I regarded as a trick interview with an e-voting salesman. Well, not only she offered me to publish an answer to that interview, but she also offered me to write another article on a second site she also works with. So, I accepted. Being quite time-deprived, although I managed to send her the first answer quickly, by April 22, I only sent the second article yesterday night. Anyway, the links. The texts are published in Spanish: Lo que muchos no saben del voto electrónico —...