So today I was trying to check if I still had that Fedora Account System login I recalled. So after some back and forth with the recovery system I arrived to the “human confirmation” page:
Now, I like some of The Killers’ songs (this one will give you the context), so I just couldn’t help myself from doing this:
Update March 1st, 24 UTC: Reynaldo Verdejo is ok, the list is complete!
Update March 1st, 16 UTC: Alejandro Valdés, Fabián Arias, Carlos Ríos Vera and Germán Póo-Caamaño have been in contact with others in Chile. 
Probably by now some of you know or are worried about the situation in Chile. I’m not chilean nor in Chile but I’ve been following closely due to the considerable number of good friends I have there, most of them related to GNOME.
From The Big Picture (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)
Juan Carlos Inostroza (blog down) suggested I publish the list of GNOME/Free Software people in Chile that has reported since the earthquake and are fine, here it goes:
Known, found and good:
Not know, nor found, we presume good but without cellphones:
If you have been in contact with any of them, leave a comment, send a DM in twitter (@diegoe) and etc. List is not complete, I probably forgot someone, please remind me. Will update if I get news from anyone.
I usually need to show someone a simple patch from a local git repo, my method was to run git format-patch and upload the result to my gnome.org userdir with a script conveniently called internets. This of course filled my userdir with garbage in the long run and also was a multiple step process.
So today, after a quick apt-cache search, I installed pastebinit, but then my problem was that there is no glue between this tool and git. Some googling took me to mentions of git-porcelains but I didn’t want to install that so I tried something simpler, a git alias.
I crafted this line for .gitconfig:
pastebinit = !sh -c 'git format-patch -1 –stdout $1 | pastebinit -f diff' -
Update: Ray and Pablo shared some ideas in the comments, the alias is updated, thanks!.
That I can use like this:
git pastebinit [commit]
It runs and outputs the url of my new pastebin’d code . I’m happy with it, but open to suggestions. Hope it’s useful for someone.
So for my summer time (that’s freezing time for you all in the northern hemisphere) I’ll be joining Igalia doing an internship working on Epiphany and WebKitGTK+ . I’m really happy and excited about this!
This past weekend I’ve been lucky enough to enjoy the mother of all bacteria, I have a pharyngitis since last Thursday. Turns out the bastard is resistant to amoxiciline so just yesterday I got switched to something different to try to kill it. It seems I’m better now but I’m still ‘infected’.
Bad timing. I’ll be travelling in a few hours to Valparaíso, Chile for the 10th Encuentro Linux and Día GNOME 2009. I’ll be giving a small talk/workshop about some cool stuff you can do with WebKitGTK+. I gotta say I’ve stolen content from Xan López, Gustavo Noronha and Christian Dywan‘s talk at Gran Canaria, don’t blame me, it was a nice talk.
I’m focusing in examples so I hope the code I’m producing will prove helpful as a base for more talks, I’ll try to translate it to English and upload it somewhere visible . Many thanks to Encuentro Linux organizers for sponsoring my ticket and accommodation.
On Saturday, I’ll be speaking jointly with Pedro Villavicencio about the GNOME Community and how cool it is and why you should join. It will have interesting info, comments and, of course, photos 
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This year I’m glad that two new peruvian GNOME contributors are travelling with me to meet with the GNOME Chile people and enjoy their first GNOME-related conference. Sergio Infante, triager and GNOME Hispano IRC talks organizer, together with Juan Rojas, patch maker and tester, will be talking about the good and bad of involving with GNOME: what can we do better, what are we not doing, etc. Their talk is really promising for me, since they have a much better point of view than any of us, since they are new contributors. They are travelling thanks to the GNOME Foundation financial support of DíaGNOME.
So, if you are in Chile be there. And whether you are there or not, wish me better health! :^).
Google continues to lock me out of my account apparently just for fun. NOT A SINGLE ANSWER I have got from their bazillion of forms.
I’m obviously pissed off by this, so far the best I have got have been automated replies from forms spitting standard answers to me, answers also in the GMail web help. Yes, that kind of answer “please check that the router is ON”.
Google: you are making me unhappy, I have been happy to recommend you to friends, but doesn’t seem like I will keep doing it after this.
I have bazillions of stuff rotting in queue because of this.
So, seems like Google locked me out of my account today. Apparently for my own protection. Perhaps they are right and they are preventing me from being harmed.
In case you sent me a million dollar offer or something really important, this is why I haven’t replied.
Sigh.
