Another banner to protest. I’m thinking about create an special section in my homepage 
Minister of Industry of Spanish govern, Mr. Montilla, some press near Catalonian nationalism and the Autonomous govern of Catalonia are attacking the Spanish Catholic Episcopal Conference Radio, the COPE and its journalists. They are making administrative (they are writing dossiers) and economic (they are pressing to Catalonian enterprises that advertise in the radio) pressure on this station because journalists are critizing the reform of the Autonomy Statute of Catalonia.
Remember former Autonomous govern of Catalonia closed COPE’s station at Barcelona, but justice courts forced them to allow COPE broadcast again.
I don’t know if COPE has reason to his critizism, but I think is dangerous a govern that tries to shut up journalists. There’s a campaign to send e-mails to Catalonian Audiovisual Council in hazteoir.org.
“I don’t agree with that you say, but I shall defend your rights to say it with my life”
–Voltaire
updated 4/11/5: Josep Antoni Durán i Lleida, nationalist and democristian (¿?) put the blame on Cope in his speech in the Spanish Parliament. He seized his intervention in the debate about Catalonian statute.
Bad times for freedom of expression…
More about inaccesible web pages: Spanish Govern page about avian flu is made with flash. You know, blind people, you can die like chiken:“Best prevention against avian flu is information”, President Office says (but you can’t read it).
(You can find this an another funny examples in this column of Daniel Rodríguez Herrera at Libertad Digital (in Spanish))
In this my new home in the Paradise I decided to build my homepage. I was trying to do it some time ago (actually three years ago, when I began Linuxbeat with Bille), but I nerver had time to do it.
I saw Jacobo Tarrío’s home page, he took Mediawiki, the Wikipedia engine, and customized it. “It was perfect”, I thought, “I can translate my math expressions with LaTeX”.
I tried to copy the idea, but I couldn’t do it. I have no php knowledgement nor time to waste. I could make my own web writing the html, but I have no sftp connection to the server when I am at the Campus. I was too looking for an easy way to create web pages to my neighbour Belén, to avoid her using the stinky frontpage .
So I began to look for another wiki engines. I started with this interesting article about comparison of wiki engines in the Wikipedia. I tried with phpWiki but I have some problems with my hosting (I’m not the root). Then I tested MoinMoin, I liked it because it didn’t need a database, but it was to big to my disk quota and I couldn’t overcome some configuration problems.
Finally I found WikkaWiki, and I saw opened Heaven: small, easy to install and use, good security, customizable by CSS and very important XHML 1.0 compliant. Then I got it. You can verify it at Tsao in the Paradise home page (in spanish).
I’ve just begun my protest against unaccesible web pages in Internet. I’m raging against web that doesn’t follow neither the Wide World Web Consortium standards nor accesibility guidelines of WAI. I’m tired of meeting web pages that I can only read “Macromedia Flash plugin required” or so, they are barriers to individuals with disabilities in the www.
You can read the list in Lista Negra in my personal homepage
You can contribute to the list with an e-mail to tsao _at_ enelparaiso_dot_ org
We have a lot of work today with our work to the Territory and Town Planning subject. My friends Silvia and Rocío and myself are in the same group, we must investigate the growing of the city centres in our area.
We use ours School maps, but we wanted to use another resources in Internet. We had very unpleasant experience. Let’s see this links:
- GIS service of CESGA(Galician Supercomputation Center): I couldn’t see anything because it requires the Flash plugin (obviously it sucks a lot)
- SigPac, dependent on Agriculture, Fishing and Food Office: it requires flash too but finally I downloaded the stinky plugin because I began to receive killing look of my friends. I could find no more information than Google Maps (and this doesn’t use flash and it’s faster)
- Urbanistic Planning of Xunta de Galicia and Official Association of Architects: this is the worst site I ever saw! The site were I must read the urbanistic law of the whole Galicia spits out me a message: “Microsoft Internet Explorer required” and don’t give us any information more!
Why we pay taxes to the govern ?
(We could find a decent web page, the Virtual Land Registry, it is fast, give the right information, and doesn’t require no plugins, congratulations to the authors)
Update: SitGa: several maps servers of Xunta de Galicia: I installed the f*ck*ng flash plugin, the propietary and *bad documented* svg plugin of Adobe. It didn’t work, I only could get a web that says “IE 6.0 recommended”
I was backing home today, and I met this lot of holes in the concrete road at San Agustín street
“Maybe Aquagest (the water manager enterprise in my village) is looking for Bugs Bunny”, I thought… (more…)
Mundo Negro, the magazine published by Spanish section of the Combonian Missionary Order, reached the number 500 of their monthly publish. Their important work in Africa and another countries with underdevelopment problems began a century ago with the Italian Daniel Comboni. The magazine is giving us the news about forgotten countries and wars since the post-colonial age, in the middle of 20th Century. Today we can read the magazine online in their web. Congratulations, and go on!
In my first post in this blog I suggested part of my crisis were some problems that I had with my LUG . Deja vu, I repeat the problems with another project I love too.
Some years ago I began to help with studies to gypsy children that live in a shanty town near La Coruña, the Portiño. It was built down of the former rubish dump of the city, today it’s regenerated area (it was sealed when thrash fell down the mountain), and in the near future the 3th great, luxury avenue will cross over there. It’s a poor but exemplary neighbourhood where there are not drug traffic problems but labour and some sanitary problems remain.
I followed to María, a friend of Faculty of Computer Science because she was the leader of the project that was pushed from the former OAS (Solidar Action Office of the University of la Coruña), she had very few people to help her. I was trying to back to volunteer projects I left in my first year of university, so it was perfect. I loved this work at once. Finally in that year we were working 8-10 volunteers, was a very good year.
Today we back to the initial situation, people end their studies and begin to work. María is working and programming her degree final project , so she left the leadership of the project. It’s a hard fist (altough she still come with us), and the actions of new leader seems to point to break the group and leave the Portiño.
It’s said anarchy is utopic, but I think anarchy (non libertarian anarchy) is not only utopic, it’s necessary. Maybe OCV (the current OAS) will leave away the children. I won’t do it.
When I’m bored, I like to look for regularity patterns in text or number streams. Yeah, I’m a little like John Forbes Nash, the starring of A beautiful Mind, but I’m not a schizophrenic, I’m only a simple paranoid 
Today the problem was simple: I saw the funny date writing it in my class notes, so I thought inmediately the main term of 20/10/5. I often, make the same exercise with more complex streams, street, day-by-day streams. It’s an instinctive reaction. Maybe I like programming because it. Maybe I like steganos because it.
It’s near 3:30. I’m in the OpenWifi meeting in the Metropolitan Forum in La Coruña. Some friends decided to come here neither to get movies nor music. I’m working in the Necromantux documentation, David involved me to it. At the same time, I’m installing again Debian in my old Compaq Armada 4131T. Manty lend me his laptop’s floppy disk unit (he has the same model laptop) because my unit blowed up some months ago. Here are Carlos, the another great Necromantux developer, Ana and Manty.
I though I would keep eyes open, I usually am awake until morning in the weekend days, but this week was very hard. I would talk about the stinky road transports strike (people travel by train, this XIX century train that takes more than hour to run 40 km, only three times in one day between the two most importants cities around; food is dissapearing from the markets), but I’m very very tired.
Maybe tomorrow I’ll upload some photos to the gallery.
D-Day +2. I had still been two hours more installing Debian in the laptop, I must change the kernel (2.6.8-i386) to a lighter one. As we can see in the album, Sunday morning I was asleep by David and Ana and we went to have breakfast (oh, what sweet cofee!) over 10 o’clock. They didn’t sleep because they were improving their programs and draws to the contests. Today I knew they smashed
I went away the meeting about 2:00 pm. because the bus strike, meeting ended 5:00 pm. But I had sufficent fun . OpenWifi I was a little, kind party. We took advantage of NCX project, maybe it was the push we need to the 1.0 release, Heaven knows.
Greetings to ATARI(Mele, Vader, Xaquín…) for made it possible!
Since I gave back my key of the GPUL’s office in the Faculty of Computation Science, I need some new resources to my laptop. Unfortunately, University of La Coruña’s wireless net goes out to Internet through a nearly blocked proxy. There’s only opened ports to http, ftp and… MSN messenger (yeah, Rector J.M.Barja had promised to spread free software when he was ellected two years ago).
Benji (half part of Cosas de dos) gave me some solutions to my communication problems:
- To talk with open protocol jabber, use Meebo. It’s a maravellous AJAXapplication to use like web-based IM client
- Well, I need too IRC access, CGI:IRC is perfect. You hang the little server in outer machine, then you can connect with it using web browser
- The great star to use is httptunnnel. Benji made a demo in the II Workshop of Applied Cryptography. We bursted out laughing
. I still have no permanent machine connected to Internet in my home, maybe soon
And, because pop3 and imap are blocked too, and proxies are not well received in my webmail service, I do a forwarding from my own accounts to gmail, another great AJAX application. To read RSS,thunderbird, it’s obvious
Days are passing, newspapers nearly forget the tragedy in Melilla’s Spanish frontier with Morocco. Spanish government send off lots of subsaharian inmigrants, then Morocco got them and another inmigrants near the frontier in his side and tried to leave them to his fate in the desert near Argelia.
MSF, SOS Racismo and priests of Company of Jesus follow the convoy of death, then reported it. So, Moroccan government got again inmigrants and scattered them in militarized Western Sahara, so nobody know what happen with men, women (some pregnant ones) and children in the cars. Latest images they haven’t no food nor water, some were injured in the assault to the frontier.
Spanish Foreign Office’s Mr. Moratinos had some meetings with Moroccan government in order to get of them more active actitude in the fight against illegal inmigration, but they didn’t reach encounter points nor proofs they are taking care of inmigrants. But they congratulate themselves (why????).
European Union stepped in with the so called “new Marashall’s plan to Africa”. Well, they could begin stopping the robbery they make through dictators they help.
UPDATED Oct.16th:International Amnesty worried because is not clear Morrocco are respecting legal rights of inmigrants in this new; latest news of MSF here; there is a ciberaction here to ask for Spanish Government to respect and protect human rights of refugees.
I recovered from my former blog, Linuxbeat, the campaign against Yahoo! for their betrayal to the human rights. Follow the link in the banner to know the story(in Spanish) of a Chinese journalist in the jail because Yahoo! revelated to the communist govern of China his private data in mail account.
Today I talked about my different point of view of functionalism sense in civil engeneering with Dr. Carlos Nárdiz. He teach us about straightening the territory and urbanism. He talked about critics civil engeneers beared in middle 20th century ‘we were said human bulldozers’, he said, ‘professionals were sole functionalists’.
I speaked him after class. He said me ‘We must be functionalists. But we can’t be only functionalists’ He was aiming to usually left behind aspects of civil engineer work: environment, landscape, society ‘these aspects must be in equal conditions’.
But I think it’s a wrong view. Environment, landscape and society must be factors of a wider functionalism. They must be integrated within functionalism, they can’t be faced up in between and against structuralism. They must be all factors, interdependent factors, of one same solution to each problem.
Just my first post in my work-in-progress site.
Some years ago, my friend Alicia said me “crisis is in China synonym of chance“. On my sorrow, I’m back to that years again.
I’m an old member of GPUL, the Coruña(Spain) GNU/Linux User’s Group. I spent a lot of time pushing the free software in university and enterprises. I don’t know if my work was important. I’m only know I’m sad and tired.¿Reasons? I’d rather talk no more about.
So, in my crisis, I want to left behind last three years. I must end my university studies of civil engeneering. I won’t live anymore in our neighbour’s Computer Science Faculty in the Campus of Elviña, it has been cause of dissapointment too. I will leave the domain and blog that I shared these years with friends of the CSF (thanks Bille for your teaching about web and hosting). And I begin my new life in my site: tsao.enelparaiso.org (tsao-in-the-paradise, like Brian de Palma’s “Phantom of the Paradise”).
Of course I will work in free software, but I’ll do in more interesting projects to me.
(Why a blog in English? It’ll help to my taiwanese family know usually about me. And it’ll help me to unoxidize my English speaking)
(Maybe I’ll write comments in Spanish sometimes, too)