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Caiga Quien Caiga ha vuelto y, como buen admirador, no me quería perder el primer programa de esta segunda época. Además, tenía que comprobar si mi escepticismo ante la manera en que Telecinco y Cuatro Cabezas afrontarían la continuidad de este clásico tenía razón de ser.

Pues bien contento que estoy porque los nuevos reporteros le dan frescura a un formato que, al final de la etapa de Wyoming & Cia., estaba dando sus primeros visos de agotamiento. Incluso Deborah Ombres interpreta su papel con una naturalidad que no me esperaba.

Lo echaba de menos.

Por cierto, el reportaje sobre San Kanuto me ha parecido un alarde de naturalidad admirable y valiente. Más tonterías como ésta no estarían de más.

A veces me sorprendo estupefacto, admirando lo lejos que pueden llegar el ingenio y la inteligencia del ser humano. Es curioso en lo que varios millones de años de evolución pueden convertir a una celula eucariota.

A cincuenta metros por debajo del nivel donde transcurre la vida de los meros mortales, se construye, día y noche desde hace doce años, el nuevo alcantarillado de Tokio (東京都). El proyecto se llama G-CANS y su objetivo final es evitar las inundaciones en la ciudad durante la estación de lluvias, que en Japón, cuando llueve, llueve de verdad y las inundaciones se habían convertido en un problema periódico.

El proyecto consiste en una red de más de sesenta kilometros de tuneles que llevarán doscientas toneladas de agua por segundo al rio Edogawa. El resultado tiene un siniestro parecido con las minas de Moria, de El Señor de los Anillos. Si algún día voy a Tokio y bajo a las alcantarillas (el proyecto incluye la explotación turística de la red), espero no encontrarme con un Balrog.

A couple of days ago, I went cat sailing with Angel and Balder, from Yaco. It was a Hobie Cat 15.

I can’t express how wonderful it is hanging from a little harness upon the sea at 4 or 5 knots.

Summer came into our life:

A couple of weeks after my last blog, many things to blog about.

Work

We’ve been moving to a new office because the old place was too small for the new people we are hiring. The two places are not far, just five minutes on foot. Anyway, we’ll miss you, Albareda street.

Life

My life is still going on. I try to study for the next month of exams, which will be here REAL SOON NOW. Also, I’m having less time with computers: when I get home after a long day of work/university, the last thing I want to do is hacking something. I ussually just turn the laptop on, check private mail and listen to music. Not much more.

Of course, this week (and I mean the whole week) I will be in the Feria de Abril of Seville, my city. This is one of the most wonderful popular party that you can find in Spain.

Free Software

However, I’m following the projects I’m involved. The next week, I will be in Valencia for the Libre Software conference that the Valencia regional government is organizing.

Good race to be the first one. Alonso, with his promising third place, is going to give us a lot of fun this season. Finally, Spanish Formula 1 fans got an exceptional driver with a good car to support.

Next step, Malasya.

My ADSL line at home doesn’t work well. I think the router has gone

So, I only have net access at work, which means not too much time for blogging, reading email, Debian, etc…

The good thing is that thanks to my Internet abstinence, I finished The Da Vinci Code last night, and today I’m starting Quicksilver. Can’t wait any more!

More Da Vinci Code, it’s amazing. Also, yesterday finally got my copy of the first book of Quicksilver, the first volume of the Baroque Cycle. Yes, the first book of the first volume, in Spain one volume, which is equal to one book in USA, becomes three books. That is much money .

After two weeks of fighting, I got a Promise ataraid to work properly in Linux 2.4. I would prefer a 2.6 kernel for that box since it is going to be a webserver for one of our clients but I read that 2.6 does not support IDE RAID yet. If you have one like this, this HOWTO is really helpful.

Just come from the dentist, not too bad. While I was waiting, I read twenty more pages of The Da Vinci Code. I’ve already read about 140 pages since yesterday afternoon, and, although I can find some typical details of a movie, it’s pretty amazing. I’ll write more when I finnish it.

Last weekend I went to Chipiona, in Cadiz, for the Carnival night and I had a lot of fun, more for my friends than for the carnival itself.

After a time of fighting with Zope, I managed to make a subfeed to syndicate this blog in Planets. So, I will be able to write in this blog more often and about some random stuff.

For example, I would not like an entry about the next Spanish general election to be included in PlanetDebian.

It wasn’t a really hard week, though at work we are reaching a good limit of per week hours of stress. But the weekend withouth family at home contributed to reduce that. Reading a lot and listening to good music. Hmm, I should implement The Pila

Last Wednesday, we uploaded a new revision of Mono, because the last one depended on libicu26 which is not in SID yet. Also, monodoc is already in NEW, and a new upstream revision of gtk-sharp was uploaded too. Wish blam! will be soon up there, it rocks the blogs.

And next week, the OpenSourceWorldConference will be a hard but really fun event. Heh, we’ll even have a royal presence, our sacred Spanish prince will open the conference. Take a look at the congress center

See you there!!!

Today we had 23 degrees Celsius (27 directly under sunlight) in Seville, what is really nice to be February. If we hadn’t 50 in July, I would see the global warming with different eyes.

In the Debian world, today I joined the Mono Packaging Team, which has a project in Alioth. I believe that a well done and agile mono packaging in Debian is critical, we need many .NET applications in the archive soon, as others are doing.

blam! is the first step, then f-spot, etc. To start getting involved with .NET apps and GTK#, just apt-get install gtk-sharp-examples