Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 91

I opened Slashdot’s «Looking back from the 1980s at computers in education» article because I am quite convinced of the point some of the commenters argued before me, (and it’s good to know others think as you do ;-) ) — When I got close to computers, learning computing for children basically meant learning programming in a fun way. For years, my hobbies included Logo and BASIC. At age 7 (by 1983), typing TeX and using Emacs at the computer of the institute where my father worked, I started walking the path I took for my professional life. When I...

…And for Grouchesque representations Comments gwolf 2010-03-10 19:47:45 Obviamente… Se nota: Fueron trenzadas con mucho cariño! reg 2010-03-09 14:44:18 lindas trenzas, lobo vikingo! lindas trenzas, lobo vikingo!

So I finally got off my lazy butt and started the paperwork to get a formal recognition of studies equivalence for a undergraduate studies (Licenciatura en ingeniería de software) via CENEVAL’s Acuerdo 286 (licenciatura). Part of the paperwork involves filling the form I photographed and attached to this node. This is the utmost example of über-redundant paperwork… Where it requires my personal data, some of the fields are: CURPClave Única de Registro Poblacional, Unique Populational Registration Key. This is a string composed by:WOIG: First letter and first vowel after the first letter of my first family name, first letter of...

Nobody cares about me, I thought. Whatever I say is just like throwing a bottle to the infinite ocean. No comments, no hopes of getting any, for several days. Weeks maybe? Not even the spammers cared about me. Until I read this mail, by Thijs Kinkhorst commenting to my yesterday post: (…) (BTW, I was unable to comment on your blog - couldn't even read one letter of the CAPTCHA...) And, yes, Drupal module «captcha» introduced in its 2.1 release (January 2) feature #571344: Mix multiple fonts. Only… no fonts were selected. Grah. Comments Roadmaster 2010-01-29 07:53:03 Duh? FAIL. At...

New guidelines for periodic publications' websites at my University favor the different journals we have to use a standardized system — And it makes quite a bit of sense. It is quite hard to explain to the people I work with that the content is not only meant to be consumed by humans, but also by other systems; the reasons behind rich content tagging and deep hierarchies for what they would just see as a list of words (think list of authors for an article, list of keywords, and so on). After all, aggregator databases such as Latindex and SciELO...

Nota: Este artículo lo comencé a trabajar para publicarlo como parte del trabajo del Seminario Construcción Colaborativa del Conocimiento. Al ver que era pertinente e indicado para su inclusión en mi columna para la revista SoftwareGurú, lo utilicé ahí también — Pero tuve que reducirlo a menos de la mitad de su extensión original. Aquí lo presento completo, en una versión muy similar a la que será publicada como resultado del Seminario, refiriendo hacia aquí a los lectores interesados de la revista. Como archivos adjuntos (al final) encontrarán también la versión de SoftwareGurú. <h1>Voto electrónico</h1> <p>La postura que ante las...

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Columnas publicadas en 2010

Beautifully snowed Popocatépetl, 2010/01/18, taken from Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City

Our beautifully snowed volcanos, Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl, 2010/01/18, taken from Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City