Categories
Events Photography

25th Anniversary of the Nutcracker ballet by the ESMDM in Monterrey

A few weeks ago I was invited to the 25th Anniversary of the Nutcracker ballet by the ESMDM in Monterrey. As I’ve done for the last 3 or 4 years (maybe even more) I’ve been attending to the Nutcracker (and other events) by the ESMDM and took some pictures of it. Instead of just sharing […]

Categories
personal

Goodbye Christopher Hitchens

Yesterday (Dec. 16, 2011) I read in the news that Christopher Hitchens passed away after a long struggle with cancer. Although I didn’t know the man personally, nor I’m familiar with all his journalistic work, his books, talks and speeches on atheism and against religion illustrated and influenced me a lot on recent years. I […]

Categories
personal

Grant’s Tobacco shop

While walking in the financial district of San Francisco, I stopped by Grant’s Tobacco shop. It’s a traditional tobacco shop that’s been around since 1849. I usually don’t stop by any tobacco shops in the US because cuban cigars are illegal, and most of the cigars I smoke are cubans. But I got curious about […]

Categories
Photography

Some days at San Francisco

I went to San Francisco last week and after the few things I had the compromise to do, I decided to walk around the city and practice my photography skills. I stayed at a very cheap hotel, not knowing well the surroundings, let’s just say that 9th and Mission street is not a very touristic […]

Categories
Events Photography

Occupy San Francisco images

Last week I went to San Francisco to do some business, and having some extra days I decided to get outside and take a few shots around the city. Little did I know that there was an Occupy San Francisco movement over at the Federal Reserve bank building. It was an interesting and shocking thing […]

Categories
Emacs GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source

Identica-mode 1.2 with OAuth support released

The time has come to set up a new stable release for Emacs Identica-mode microblogging client. It’s been almost a year since last release, but many people have been following the project’s progress through the git repository updates. Download Download the identica-mode 1.2 The two most relevant features of this release is first, support for […]