Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 93

Every year, for Día de Muertos (November 1 and 2) the Mexican tradition is to set colorful, beautiful offerings for our deceased loved ones. The offerings often have the very vivid orange color of the cempalsúchitl flower, and have pictures, food, and whatever our loved ones used to like. The offerings are traditionally set up at home and at some offices and public buildings. UNAM, Mexico’s largest university, where I am very happy and proud to work, has set a yearly offering for many years already. Every year they select a base theme around which the invited groups base their...

A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to travel to Colombia, where I delivered a talk at III Encuentro Internacional de Seguridad Informática in the city of Manizales (photos available, of course. I travelled with Colombia’s nacional airline, Avianca. On completely unrelated news, today I entered Avianca’s website to check my miles. To my biggest amusement… Turns out I am now a resident of Bamiyan, Afghanistan! (I swear I didn’t select that) …Seems they do beard-based georeferentiation? NP: Hey, mister Taliban, tally me bananas daylight come and me wanna go home! Comments Anonymous 2009-10-29 09:58:57 Presumably you already know...

Copied from http://www.sciencehumor.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/sign_brain.jpg — Had to do it :) I should fix this to every computer in my workplace.

There has been a lot of buzz recently in Mexico after a tax increase that has been announced for next year. The two main points I have seen criticized are: Value Added Tax (IVA) increase from 15% to 16%There was a great improvement regarding the original proposal by our de-facto ruler (why de-facto? Because it is still unclear whether he won the popular vote. He has about the same legitimacy as George Bush during his first term: Legal but illegitimate): In Mexico, there is a category of items regarded as fundamental, which are exempt of IVA (tasa cero). This category...

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Every now and then, people ask me why Debian? Why, among so many projects to choose from, I first liked, then got into, and finally I got committed into Debian, and not anything else? Of course, one of the main points —back in 2000-2001 when I started using it, and still to this very day— is a strong identification with the ideological side. Yes, I am a strong Free Software believer, and Debian is what best suites my ideology. Still, I did not only get into Debian because of this — And I was reminded about this by an article...

…And in front of Jimmy, and his camera