Month: April 2005

I’ve just added the RSS of Paul Graham essays in the RSS agregator. Reading the essay The word “Hacker” it was exciting to see a picture of the garage where Jobs and Wozniak built the Apple computer.

Here are some of the books that I’ll probably buy soon (I hope in the next months…) for my mastering research:

– Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution
– Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software
– Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution (O’Reilly Open Source)
– Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
– Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
– The Future of Ideas : The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
– Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity
– The Success of Open Source
– The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System
– Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing
– Open Source Licensing : Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law
– Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
– Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
– Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
– A Hacker Manifesto
– Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
– CYBERPUNK: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised
– The New Hacker’s Dictionary
– The Masters of Deception : The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace
– Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
– The Hacker Crackdown : Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier
– The Hacker Ethic

Some of these are available on the Web.

Here are some photos of my graduation cerimony.

Today is is the day I’ll oficially become a bachelor on computing science at Federal University of Bahia. :-) I’ll be the orator of the cerimony. I wrote a speech (in brazilian portuguese) about the role of technology for the cultural diversity.

Glynn cleaned some old zenity bugs from bugzilla like the line wrap issue and UTF-8 strings problem. Cool!

On saturday I gave a talk about Hacker Culture at the Hélio Rocha College. My desknode didn’t work and I had to give up from my OO.o slides right on time of the session. Desknotes are terrible. I need to buy a tiny laptop to carry with me anywhere I go.

I found an amazing gnome app to manage book collections. It’s called Alexandria. With Alexandria, you can retrieve book main information by just providing its ISBN number. For this task, It uses some book info providers like Amazon and B&N. It was not translated to brazilian portuguese but now it is! :-) Now I’m the maintainer of the brazilian translation of Alexandria.

I’ve just begun to work on a simple patch to make Gnome System Tools give more than one auth trials. I think I’ll have some more time to work on it from now on.

Yesterday, i watch two great movies: 21 Grams and The Magdalene Sisters. The former brings interesting thoughts about life and human relationships. The second is a real history about three irish women that are forced to live in convent to correct their “sinful” behavior. Paralelly, it brings a picture of the 60’s Irish society.

Reading: Culture and Technology (Murphie and Potts). Interesting analysis of the mutual and dynamic relation among society, culture and technique mainly from the viewpoint of the media technologies.

14h32 pm: I’m here in Assim and I’m a sleepy man! That’s the result of not speeling well for three days…

I had begun to work the GNOME User Guide brazilian portuguese translation but Shaunm warned me that he hasn’t finished it yet. So, I’ll wait for him ‘cos I don’t want to waste my time translating an out of date doc

Here is a cool photo of the samba-funk-rock band I play called Pã (in portuguese). I’m on the drums.

I’ve been reading Leroi-Gourhan, Simondon, Mílton Santos, Heidegger and other for my mastering stuff.