New Zenity “All night long” (2.11.1) release for GNOME 2.11.5 Development Release. The news are:
You can get it here (md5sum: 3c8fa30d6621686cbce5a7593310bb5c)
Enjoy!
I and Carol watched a movie called Taking Lives with Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland and others. Not great, just cool. In fact, most of the american movies I’ve seen were just cool or worse. They seem to be all the same! There are exceptions of course! :-)
I’ll begin to write an article called “The Ciber-sociality in free software development communities” as part of my mastering research. Sociality (I don’t know if this english translation fits) is a Maffesoli sociological concept to define the new tribal, hedonist and vitalist social aggregation form that arrises in the post-modernist society. The empirical reference for this article will be the GNOME community. So, I hope you all help me with some semi-structured interviews on IRC or e-mail.
I have uploaded some oggs of my band here. This a demo so the record quality is not that good. The band is called Pã (Pan in english) and we play the sambafunk+rock style. Pã is a greek god. See wikipedia for more info about Pan (mythology). Here are the files:
The author of these songs is Carlos Libório, the Pã’s singer and guitarist.
Enjoy! :-)
Scheiße! What a hell is going on in this world? I know, I know, we’re in hell… Is it possible to reach peace with some many stupid people in Earth?
My sincere sympathy to everyone in UK… Peace!
“Caruru is delicious” (2.11.0) is the first development release of zenity. It brings a bunch of improvements, cleanups, bug fixes, new and updated translations and features. Most of the improvements has been made on List dialog:
Research
Mastering classes has been quite cool with readings about ciberculture, technique phylosophy and virtual reality. I’ve been populating my research wiki with more and more content. I’ll be writing with the great Vicente Aguiar (!) an article about gift culture, hacker culture and free software development communities.
“Forró” on june parties
Here in Brazil, mainly in the northeast region, on 24th june, there’s a very popular party devoted to Saint John. We dance “forró” and eat a lot of baked corn and peanuts and fruit liqueur. I and Carol went to a friend’s house at a district of Feira de Santana (a town near Salvador, the Bahia state capital where we live). Here are some photos:
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Lots of delicious cakes |
The house where we were |
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I and Carol |
This weekend I and Carol prepared a special lunch: spaghetti!
 Look at this wonderful sauce! |
 Hummmm… ready! |
On sunday, soccer game on TV: Brazil vs Mexico. I’m not a sports fan but It was no good to see the brazilian team playing so horribly and losing to Mexico.
I finally began to post my mastering stuff in GNOSIS TWiki (in portuguese).
Last night was valentine’s day. So I and Carol watched two movies: The Day After Tomorrow and The Terminal. The former is a movie from the same director of Indenpence Day, so it’s just boring! The second is more interesting with a great Tom Hanks performance. Today we watched Vanilla Sky, a interesting movie but the end was too “didatic”.
I’m very happy because Glynn invited me to maintain zenity module. Zenity is a tool for displaying GTK+ dialog boxes from command line and shell scripts.
I’ve been very busy with the mastering readings. Aurelio has just setup a TWiki Web for my research stuff. I hope to be putting all my work there…
The new GNOME Planet design is great!
Reading Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Modernity. In fact, I began to read it a month ago but I had to stop because of the post-graduation stuff.
I decided to invest my time to learn Python. It’s a wonderful programming language (“Oh! What a surprise, han?”).
Unfortunatelly, I haven’t had time to dedicate myself to the projects I’m involved because of my mastering stuff.
We’re 7 days from the sixth FISL and I’m very excited! I’ll give a talk about PEAR.