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GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source Programming & Web Development

How to test your website on Internet Explorer with GNU/Linux and Virtualbox

As a web developer, you are always required to test your website code on Internet Explorer. And everyone knows how much of a pain that alone can be. But for GNU/Linux-only users the fun starts even before taking a look at your code on IE. The trouble starts with how are you going to run […]

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GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source

Electronic voting machines

My friend Gunnar Wolf has been tracking the e-voting machines progress in Mexico (and other countries) for quite a while and recently gave a talk about electronic voting in Peru. I share his concerns about using them and I’m completely against their adoption in this or any country. Recently we just had a very muddy […]

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Photography

Mexico’s nation-wide protest against presidential elections

The presidential elections in Mexico had lots of dubious activities mostly from the Revolutionary Party (PRI) and everyone went on the streets to protest against the results that favor that party’s candidate. Protests like the one photographed in these images took place all over the country in big and medium cities (where the cartels and […]

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Photography

Sexual Diversity Parade in Guadalajara

The LGBT parade/protest took place in Guadalajara and I didn’t miss the opportunity to get my camera and snap some pictures. For the first time I went to a gay parade in Mexico. Popular culture says that Guadalajara is the city with the biggest gay community, although I would question this, as Mexico city has […]

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Photography

I’ve joined Instagram

After long time avioding the hype, I decided last week to finally join Instagram. I’ve been trying to get more involved with photography and reading several good photographer’s blogs and some recommended to get into that. Also that after reading that it is powered by Django, I had lots of curiosity. Among the things I […]

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Events Photography

#YoSoy132 protest and Mexico’s 2nd presidential debate events

Last weekend was Mexico’s 2nd presidential debate in Guadalajara. Lucky for me, I’m now living in this city so I had the opportunity to witness several of the events and protests around this event. On Sunday there was the protest against the PRI candidate Enrique Peña Nieto, the so called anti-EPN protest. Later in the […]