Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 71

Today we had a very interesting demonstration. People who know me for some time know I like to be a part of demonstrations, adding my voice to the people. And even though I know most demonstrations, as massive as they might be, have no real and tangible effect… Well, I try to be there. Today we had a large demonstration in Mexico City of people angry with the government’s tactics on the war on drugs — Have you been to Mexico before 2007? You will remember we have always had our problems, but violence was basically limited to keeping an...

Yay! As others have started posting in Planet Debian, I’ll do my part: Yesterday I finished booking our flights, so if everything goes as planned, Reg and me will be arriving to Zagreb (Croatia) at 21:30, Monday July 18, to take part of the 12th Debian development conference, DebConf11, in Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina! Of course, reiterating this will never hurt: Do you want to support a global-scale, well-recognized, community-based Free Software project development? Be a sponsor for DebConf11!” Want some more DebConf11 banners and posters? Attachments DC11_web_120x120_01.png (10 KB)

I took part in a occupational-health-related thread recently, and wrote a bit of my experience which might be helpful for my readers, many of them avid keyboard users, with usually ≥8hr of typing per day. (…) I suffered not from RSI but from painful back aches. I started using standard keyboards in a different fashion, not putting so much stress on my wrists (and on the muscles connecting them to the rest of the body, of course): I exclusively use US keymaps (with some modifications to allow for proper Spanish input and ffŭₙṅý characters), but instead of making the middle...

Ok, so finally it is official! We just had the DebConf 12 decision meeting. We saw two great proposals, from the cities of Belo Horizonte, Brazil and Managua, Nicaragua. If you are curious on the decision process: We held it over two IRC channels — The moderated #debconf-team channel, where only the five members of the decision committee (Marga Manterola, Andrew McMillan, Jeremiah Foster, Holger Levsen, Moray Allan) and two members from each of the bids (Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva and Rafael Cunha de Almeida from Brazil; Leonardo Gómez and Eduardo Rosales from Nicaragua) had voices, and the open...

<blockquote><em>Querido amigo: Soy la señora Mariam Abacha<a href="#fn-1" class="fn">1</a>, viuda del finado General Sani Abacha, ex-jefe de gobierno de Nigeria. (…) Para salvar a mi familia de una total bancarrota, estoy buscando transferir el total de US$24,000,000 a través de una institución bancaria confiable. (…) Como pago por su ayuda, le ofrezco el 30% de lo que podamos rescatar de la fortuna de mi querido esposo.</em></blockquote> <p>El tema conducente del presente ejemplar de SG, <em>Pagos en línea</em>, cruza necesariamente por el tema de los esquemas de establecimiento de reputación en línea. Cada vez menos gente asume confiable cualquier dato que...

Columnas y artículos publicados en 2011

People enjoy writing with Twitter’s arbitrary 140 character limit. I suffer when I have to write a column with a 900 word limit. Limits suck. Comments JZA 2011-03-21 22:35:12 **Too many words ** Maybe u should recollect your thoughts. Only way I can see 900 words is by doing too much explaining on the process.

Some years ago, I faced a 900 word limit for the first time. My question to the editor: Can I write the column in German?

Quite probably, the best thing got for myself during the last year was my Kindle. I just love it! It has changed the way I interact with knowledge, and saved me from hours of boredom. But it has also taught me the value of scribbling along the book pages and of underlining passages. Yes, I hold a deep regard for my regular (paper) books, and I never scribble on them, not even on text books. In any case, I can scribble on a post-it or something like that. Still, when you underline or comment on a passage in the Kindle,...

What‽ Yes, I have not used this kind of outfit for over 20 years. And I hope it will be 20 more years before I do it again. But today, I was seen like this in public. Why? Well, I won’t explain the whole background yet again — I did it a bit over a month ago in this same space. Much much in short, I never attended university, so –after many years of working without any formal validation for my knowledge– I followed the CENEVAL Acuerdo 286 procedure to get a “Software Engineering” title and the corresponding cédula profesional....