Fer's blog

Last Sunday I flyed to Berlin with a friend just for a concert, the best concert of the best musician: Tom Waits. We spend there 4 days and enjoied a lot the city. We took some beers with murrayc.

. Remeber, tomorrow is a gnome love day!

Nat: I had a patch for burning playlists with muine. I think I finished the last issues (checking for enough free space on hard drive for temp files and on the blank disc). The only problem is that I don’t have any blank CD so I cannot test it 🙂 Can anyone test it and pretiffy some dialogs?:

• Muine burn playlist patch

While trying to get bluecurve gtk engine sources I realized that fedora finally has a public cvs:

export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@rhlinux.redhat.com:/usr/local/CVS

Yesterday I hosted a party: “Fiesta Almodovar”:

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 Espa

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