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.
This weekend was very nice. On friday I played with Paroano Sai Milhó in the Vitória da Conquista carnival. On saturday, I played with Pã. Both shows were diferently nice.
Me and Carol watched three movies in a raining sunday: I, Robot, Heist and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The first one is interesting but not that good. The second has a good story full of turnovers. The third is great! Very exciting! A great work of Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet.
I’m The Skin of Culture by Derrick de Kerckhove (the director of the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology). He presents interesting thoughts about our “relation” with television and other media. The concepts of psicotechnologies and technopsicology are very interesting too.
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.