Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 76

Little “forest” in the campus

Now, that’s a novel, smart and quick way to add windows to existing buildings without affecting their structure! At the dormitories of Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas; Habana, Cuba.

Two out of four of the invited speakers to the PGDay in Habana, Cuba, missed their planes back (and got it later on, yes… but still) Fortunately, I didn’t miss mine. And strangely, neither did Jaime, even after buying his ticket with this respectable agency.

Meh, I never liked drinking sweetened, carbonated drinks. Still… :-}

For those of you who follow me through anything other than Planet Debian (who will surely tolerate this repetition): Interesting but frightful things are happening in North African countries. We saw what happened in Tunisia some days ago. Now, Egypt is a way larger, way more populous… And, dare I say, way more important country. Also, it is a country which borders Israel, where I lived in for ~18 months, and to which –although I am today unaffiliated– is very important for me. And what happens in Egypt will surely shape the whole mid-East. So, here goes a copy of...

I lived in Israel between 1994 and 1996 — This was just after the signature of the Oslo agreements, the Rabin-Arafat signature. 1994-95 was a beautiful time to be in Israel; there was the excitement of a prospect of real peace with the Palestinians, something that had been just seen as unattainable for the past 50 years. But we also saw the buildup of a huge tension, of real hatred. And the dream of the end of the conflict, of two people living in peace side by side was heavily shattered on November 4 1995, when prime minister Rabin was...