I’m very happy that my girlfriend recently went to Cuba for work travel, and she brought me back some very nice Cuban cigars. My humidor has been almost empty this year and today is fuller than ever before. I’m normally not a smoker. At least not the regular kind of smoker. But when I’m in […]
This weekend I recieved the sad news that Shyam Karanat passed away. Although we never met in person, he was a good friend. We mostly talked about Emacs Identica-mode, where he made several contributions. Actually, his patches to use url.el were key to releasing the 1.0 version so Identica-mode wouldn’t freeze Emacs anymore while waiting […]
I just saw The Social Network movie. From a geeky perspective, its a very interesting movie. But I don’t know if it will be entertaining enough for the general public. Also I say this with the perspective of having read the book, and as most movies based on books, they missed lots of details and […]
Richard Stallman, the initiator of the Free Software movement, published a very easy to understand video message on what software freedom is about. Your browser does not support the video tag. Use the download link below. If you can’t see the video, you can download Richard Stallman’s video message here. If you wonder why there’s […]
Happy Software Freedom day! In celebration of it, I’ll list the top 5 free software programs I use. – GNU Emacs Very powerful text editor. I do most of my tasks in it, specially using and developing Identica-mode. I recommend it a lot for other tasks other than programming in any language, like organizing your […]
Social media expert books, originally uploaded by gabrielsaldana. By a strange series of coincidences, I turned out to be called the “social media guy” at the office. Now its part of my job to socialmedia-ize company stuff. Although from some developer’s perspective this seems laughable and to others might sound ephimeral, pointless or just dead […]