Infinite Pig Theorem

I have received several comments on why am I writing my blog in English, since many of the Mexican guys involved on free software who own a blog and use to blog periodicly, don’t. Obviously I had to talk about this some time because it is not usual.

• i18n. Do you really do not understand English? Or probably my English? If you do, who cares?
• Reach. It is widely know English reaches more people than only a few people. I have the crazy idea that some, at least one, non Spanish speaker, would read my blog.
• I can. I write in English because I can. WYSIWYG.
• Anonymous. While I get anonymous posts about writing in English, I will keep on doing it. If you really can’t tell me things face to face, then I don’t give a shit about cowards.
• Why not? Why not write my blog entries in English?

Isn’t it annoying  to syndicate a feed, any kind (RSS, RDF, OPML, Atom) and the new is only a few lines long? It is not the entire blog entry, only a few words. I hate that, it makes you decide between:

1. Get the RSS reader to the Trash bin and visit the website.
2. Piss off the coder of the feed.

If I’m using a reader, I obviously will prefer the second option. So, why would I be using a damn feed reader?

This incoming week will be madness. Two main things will happen.

I’m giving a talk at Festival de Software Libre in Gualadajara, on thrusday. It will be about colaboration in free software projects, focused on Debian.

The other important thing to do is a physics exam on Friday, so it will be madness to cover both things, and try to not lose more classes than the ones I will, so this is my plan:

Wednesday 29 th.
Watch Tacvbo’s talk about Gentoo and scream about its disadvantages . The entire day, I would spend it finishing my presentation.

I just moved from LiveJournal to my own house, a nice blog powered by jaws. It is comfortable to be here, really.

This is my last entry on LiveJournal. I finally moved my blog to my own website at damog.net. There is where my new weblog is installed.

If, for some reason, you were syndicating these lines, you can grab my new blog at:

http://www.damog.net/xml/blog.rss
http://www.damog.net/xml/blog.atom
http://www.damog.net/xml/blog.opml

Thank you for reading.

Current Mood: blank
Current Music: Fobia - Hoy tengo miedo

The Dalai Lama, one of the most important moral and spiritual leaders in the world, Peace Nobel Price in 1989, will be in Mexico next 3-8 October.

He will be here mainly because, the University will give him an Honoris Causa doctorate. That’s greatly unbelievable, to have it here, in the college, next October 7th, I bet this will be madness, I hope I could get into the main auditorium that day.

The sad part is China has warned Mexican government to not allow him to give any political speech, nor leave him with a government surface. What does this mean? China does not want Latino America to know what The Dalai Lama have to say for Tibet freedom. China is worried about him going out to several countries speaking about Chinese repression.

Kong Quan, Chinese exterior relationships speaker said that The Dalai Lama is in a political exile whom does separatists activities against their mother country. Pretty hard to understand, right? That is sad, a Peace Nobel Price, being accused of trying to destroy China. I really don’t think so. This speaks very bad of Chinese government.

Anyway, just to know a little bit more of Dalai Lama, he was born in 1930’s, ran out to exile in 1959, after a failed civil revolution against Chinese fascism, since then he lives in the north of India, instead of Tibet, although he is the religious and spiritual leader nowadays of Buddhism, a sacred descendant Siddharta Gautama, of Tibetan community.

Current Mood: infuriated
Current Music: Vicentico - Los caminos de la vida

So, lately I’ve been over IRC spending lots of time.I started using xchat-gnome but it really seems to young, it doesn’t implement much features and crashes lots of times.

So, I continued using normal X-Chat, and the madness is all the channels I’m logged in anytime.

So, Martin Michlmayr, the current Debian Project Leader, sent an email for debian-project mailing list inviting to donate to FFII:

FFII supports the development of public
information goods based on copyright, free competition, and open
standards.  Some of their current activities are directed against
software patents in Europe, and given that software patents are
potentially a big risk for free software and Debian, I think this
effort should be supported us.  I see this donation only as a first
step and feel that Debian should actively speak out against software
patents.  I encourage members and users of Debian to get involved
with or donate to FFII and tell others about the dangers of software
patents.

Smooth. That is hugely interesting. If you are able, please support.

Current Mood: grumpy
Current Music: System of a Down - Sugar

Today, actually yesterday (September 16th), was Mexican Independence Day. A day like today, almost 200 years ago, 1810, Mexicans began their way to freedom. This year also, it is the 150th birthday of the Mexican Anthem, composed by Bocanegra and Nunó.

Obviously, that day is, nowadays, an excuse for drinking and celebrating. I really didn’t do anything on the eve. I stayed at home working on several things. I remembered, one year ago, ion came to Mexico City, from Chihuahua, and I took him to a party I was invited, stupidly far away from here, near to the exit to Cuernavaca, a city 80 km to the south of the city. That was one of the worst parties ever.

Anyway, happy anniversary, free Mexico.

So, today was a holiday and nobody does anything on September 16th, so Raquel and I went to the movies. We watched La Mala Educación by Pedro Almodóvar. That is a wild film, pretty cool, crude, rude, gay, twisted. A great movie, who else can make movies like Almodóvar? And the funny part: Gael García Bernal speaking Spanish accent all the time

So, tomorrow, because of today’s holiday lots of people do not work neither. They take the jump holiday, but I’m working tomorrow, besides, I couldn’t stand being on my house all day long.

There is no money anymore, so I think this weekend will be a calmed down one.

Current Mood: exhausted
Current Music: The 5, 6, 7, 8’s - Bomb the Twist

Well, it is almost 5 am, but I did it Evolution 2.0 running over Debian.

You probably may not heard about Evo2. Evolution 2, AFAIK, was intended to be released with GNOME 2.8 (out today), but didn’t make it. It is not officially released, but it exists as stable in GNOME ftp’s. I’m going to do a couple of packages for running normally Evolution 2 over SID, libgtkhtml, evolution-data-server and so.

Here is my Evolution 2 screenshot:

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Rancid - Ruby Soho

Well, different things from now. I have some different things to blog that I don’t really know where to start.

School
It is refreshing sometime when you have plenty of things to do. A couple of projects, homework, studying, but specially when you really like your career. Obviously this is my case now, although tons of things to do for the next week.

Work
Apparently next week will also be a very tired one: Giving some courses of Moodle to some teachers become a heavy and dying work. It is not the same administering the server than giving technical support.

Mozillion
I want to thank Paul van Tilburg for reading my blog, as he said in his last journal’s entry He is a nice guy from Debian project which I met in the Debian Ruby packaging team. He is my sponsor for the libgtk-trayicon-ruby package, and hopefully also for libtermios-ruby very soon
Ultrasónicas at Multiforo Alicia
So, las Ultrasónicas, a very nice punk/rock/garage/surf girl band will convert noise into music next October 2nd at Multiforo Alicia (a very underground and tiny rock bar in the downtown of Mexico City). Here is the flyer:

Triangle Problem

So, I was very glad several people tried to solve the triangle problem in the last entry. George and Wieland dare to give a result
The answer is: There is not answer.
If the “inscribed” circle has a radius of 1, it has a diameter of 2, the same length as one of the “triangle” sides. If you try to draw a circle with a tangent segment equal to its diameter, there are two possibilities, either the point of tangency bisects the segment or it does not. If it does, two other “sides” tangent to the circle will be parallel and no triangle will be formed. If the point of tangency does not bisect the 2 cm. line there is no way that a 4 cm. line connected to either end can form a second side that can be joined by a third side. Impossible conditions unless I’m overlooking something!

Yes. Put another way, put the side of length 4 in a horizontal position on the x-axis. So either the left or right side of the triangle is length 2. This means the altitude of the triangle is less than 2. No way can you inscribe a circle whose diameter is greater than the triangle’s altitude.

GParted
I just got engaged with another package for Debian: GParted, which is a graphical front end for GNU Parted. Sven Luther, libparted’s maintainer accepted nicely to work together and sponsor it.

I think that’s all for the moment.

Current Mood: quixotic
Current Music: Ultrasonicas - Vente En Mi Boca