It seems jazz is beating in my hometown, Pontedeume. Through this Summer, El Futbolín cafe organised some lives in the street.

Tomorrow until Sept.11th we have feast in the village in honour to St. Mary of Virtues and St. Nicholas of Tolentino. So the 7th, El Futbolín organises the D. Ulpiano Jazz, in the Lombardero Gardens, at 22:00. Some Galician groups will play jazz: Sol de Farofa, Casa Seoane Cuarteto and Carmen Rey Grupo. The 8th at 22:00 too, I Festival de Jazz Pontedeume, in the Calzada Square, groups that will play: Unión Costa Oeste, Hot Kawa Club y Mr.Dixie Jazz Band.

Via Pontedeume.org

Updated,Oct.2: Finally I could escape and I went to the sessions. We enjoyed a lot, Javi Calvo came from Ferrol to hear Mr. Dixie. I specially keep with the sweet voice of Najla Shami, the female half of Sol de Farofa. Photos of the first and the second day in my gallery.

Some weeks ago I joined to my friend Peer’s project Musiqueando, a blog (in Spanish) about all related to all styles of music: musicians, groups, instruments, events… and, of course, luthiers.

So, there is an interesting interview (in Spanish and Galician) with the humble Toxo, one of the few Galician luthiers who repairs guitars and builds customized and replicas of famous ones.

You know, maybe you’ll need his services, even if you don’t live in this little piece of Spain (he receives jobs from all around the world).

Nice day before September tests. Talb0t and me went to Bille’s home to join him in supporting the Spanish basketball national team in halfs against Argentina in FIBA World Championship.

We had Cokes, popcorn and now we have our team in the final match.Who miss the yankees?

(More photos of the event in my gallery)

Updated, Sept. 3: WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, MY FRIENDS!!!!!

Yesterday I read a kind article in IBM developerWorks by Tim McIntire about the goodness of NetBSD, one of the great BSD operating systems. Its main goal is an portable OS to the most plataforms. So, i.e. it’s very valuable in embebed systems.
But today I read in kerneltrap an email of Charles M. Hannum, one of the project founders in the NetBSD mailing list, in which he make a sad reflection about the current state of the project: “most readers are probably wondering whether I’m just writing a eulogy for the NetBSD project”, he writes.

He puts on the board the factors that differentiate the GNU/Linux sucess and (what he thinks) the dying of NetBSD. Not economical factors as could happen with OpenBSD, rather inner policy.

I admit I didn’t tasted yet NetBSD because I’m still improving my OpenBSD. But, what I learn testing some OS’s and distributions, is every project has its place. And NetBSD has an important place: you can install in a PC, adapt it to work in a mobile device, a VAX, even in a toaster.

Updated,Sept.16:Federico Biancuzzi interviews Hannum at ONLamp
Updated,Sept.24:Bitter letter to NetBSD by the Spanish developer Julio M. Merino Vidal