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fer, ferulo, that crazy man

I have started today a new job at Tecsidel. Interesting stuff is coming.

I love undocumented protocols, as MSNP9 is. You have to poke all your friends via IM running Windows at strange hours in the morning.

I also love One, Two, Three a masterpiece by Billy Wilder.

A long long time ago (bah, one year and a half, this is not American Pie) I listened to a song that I loved. During six months I asked all my friends about it: "Dude, do you know that song... oh na na na?". Google didn't work. Finally I found it: Vaya con Dios "Nah Neh Nah". I really love this song and I've played it in every party at my home, however I hadn't listened to any other Vaya con Dios song. Finally I got "The very best of Vaya con Dios", and I'm loving now "Puerto Rico" and "Johnny"

Two days ago, my friend Luis said to me that he used amsn instead of gaim just because with amsn he knows if he has blocked a contact and if a contact has removed him from his buddy list (usually that's because has no interest on talking with him or has blocked him). So I've done it (gimping some ugly icons and fighthing with diff+patch to get the pngs in included). But the important thing about this is that my friend told me that after playing Trivial Pursuit and drinking some beer: he is not a hacker, he is a normal user and he has different needs from the software than hackes do have. Gaim developers tought that buddy icon support was not important and maybe it isn't for hackers, but it's for users, so please, listen to them instead of saying "using big buddy icons is lame", "changing personal buddy icons 3 times per hour is insane", "who wants to block users?", etc... Here are the patches:

• Gaim: Patch to show blocked status and not in list
• Gaim: show a message when an user invites you to a audio/video conference

jfleck; Can you watch the Vuelta ciclista a España? It's begin the most interesting cycling ride in the last years!

Oh, I clubbed again:8 1/2, wow!

Wow, thiis song wow! I have 12 different versions of these two songs. This one is a life concert in the Picasso Hall. Good ending for a day of music, songs and tries to cry

Yesterday I was using google to search Maciej weblog, and I noticed a little change: instead of presenting direct links in the results page, it showed me redirention links via google, like: http://www.google.es/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://subtlesweetness.com/&e=747. But I was the only person on #gnome-hackers seeing that. Some days ago I began to see a Google alerts link in the google main page, and when following it it detected my gmail address, I though it was using my gmail.google.com cookie (same domain) to recognize me. So main www.google.com can also read the cookie that contains my ID, and if clicking on a result is managed with a internal redirector it can store things like: "User fherrera went to this Bartok webpage". That really scared me! Is google just trying to collect more popular results to improve its search? Maybe... or maybe not, and that make me nervous. This morning I cannot see any rest of that redirection thing and google search is, as used to be, with direct links. Beta testing? maybe... If anyone has more info about this or has seen the same, please, contact me :)

PS: I know, I'm blogging to much

tbeman complanained that I wrote a patch for MonoDevelop without a ChangeLog entry. That's true, but the reason is that I'm very used to Maciej old script for generating ChangeLog entries, and it only supports cvs. So I hacked it a little bit and now it also supports svn. Next step for any perl hacker volunteer would be write function to extract C# functions names (currently it only works with C and java), and arch support. Here is a svn aware prepare-ChangeLog script. If you love perl, feel free to improve it adding arch and .cs extraction

Existe alguna posibilidad, por pequeña que sea de salvar lo nuestro?: that was the original title for La flor de mi secreto, another wonderful film by Pedro Almodóvar.

The perfect drink:

• take a long glass
• put three big pieces of ice rocks
• grease a piece of lemon by the border of the glass
• put another piece of lemon inside the glass
• throw gin (Tanqueray or Bombay Shaphire) until the middle of the glass
• mix with water tonic until the top of the glass
• Three dry blows with a rod

and you have the perfect drink. Now put wonderful music, and enjoy.

I'm doing some job interviews these days (exactly one per day), about 1-2 hours each one, and I'm enjoying them. I'm feeling like a handsome boy with 7 possible girlfriends :)

I am suitable for very technical jobs as well as consultory and commercial ones (the fact of having founded and directed a small company several years ago help to this) so in these interviews we talk about lot of different stuff.

Some things I'm learning for an interview:

• Don't pronounce the work hacker at all. Human resources people don't read ESR and it scares them
• Using the name miguel is always good :)

Here we are again. We are going to relase GNOME 2.8 in a week, so let's party!. Please join one GNOME 2.8 party or organize it yourself.

Enjoy

Some time ago I read that hackers should try not to use the terminal for a time and doing every task via graphical applications. I've realized that I'm really used to do this when opening a file:

• click on the open dialog
• Go to a terminal and type locate -i mycoolfile
• copy that text
• go back to the file selector dialog
• press Control+L
• paste the full location

So if I want to use only UI apps, I need this patch for adding search to GtkFileChooser (it is against gtk-2-4 brach because I'm very lazy). It uses the gedit output window again, and I'm finding it very useful. Maybe the UI part is not good, but what do you think about the whole stuff?