Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 79

Going back to Mexico City, with Regina, March 2010

DrupalCamp Centroamérica 2010 was held at INTECAP, a very nice capacitation center in Guatemala City. But they have this highly aggressive “prohibitions list” prominently displayed at the entrance. Not only that, they even (try to) enforce it – At least Felix Delattre was once requested to remove his earring in order to enter the premises. Of course, once the door was behind us, he put it back on. So anachronic!

This morning, my laptop was stolen from my parked car while I was jogging. I do not want to make a big deal out of it. Still, even though I am sure it was not targetted at my data (three other people at least were reporting similar facts in the same area), and the laptop’s disk will probably just be reformatted, I am trying to limit the possible impact of my cryptographic identification being in somebody else’s hands. GPG makes it easy: I had on that machine just my old 1024D key, so it is just matter of generating a...

Asheesh posted When “free software” got a new name, which mentions about the transition period where the Free Software movement started its quest towards being understood by non-geeks, and when people started finding terms better suited for general (and specifically, business-minded) audiences. We are talking about facts that reached concretion 12 years ago, when the term Open Source was coined and divulgated. That is already far in the past to try and change it – Still, during DebConf I was talking with several friends about it. In my opinion, there was never really the need to choose such an ambiguous...

I have always liked learning and understanding history. Since I discovered him, for a couple of years already I always try to catch Javier Garciadiego's program Conversaciones sobre historia, Saturday 9AM in the Horizonte 108 radio station (can be listened to online). This program started by going over the events just before the beginning of the 1910 revolution in Mexico - and along slightly over five years, one hour per week and following different threads, the program has reached the end of the Cristiada, in the early 1930s. Garciadiego has a very nice, followable, amenable way of telling history, and...

I have been wanting to post for several days already, at least since this last Sunday. I have repeatedly bragged about taking part in the Ciclotón: The last Sunday every month, the city’s government closes to automotive transit a ~33Km circuit, for cyclists to enjoy. And by cyclists, I mean people from all expertise ranges — Well, the very elite bikers will not take part of such a massive thing, but there are people pedalling a couple of blocks, people taking their small kids to drive a bit, and I recognized an amazingly large proportion of people doing the whole...