“In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different”
Larry McVoy

I read this phrase time after time, because it was part of signature of JJ Quintela’s e-mails in GPUL mailing lists. Because it, maybe I didn’t think about until now.

The last months I have been studying Special Foundations. Our professor is D. Luis Carmona, who is a very experienced civil engineer. I got this subject because even when I’m becoming a structural engineer, I had the impression I didn’t learned foundations enough. I did this reflection one Monday, 8:30 when I took the wrong classroom, but it was a great thought, and I’m very happy now.

Into the classroom, but in the building site above all out we learnt the essentials of the day-by-day of a civil engineer. Of course, we studied theory, but we saw the proper use of that theory.

We visited two works: a road at La Cañiza (South Galicia) and a bridge over Miño river, and a diaphragm wall near the Campus.

More photos in my gallery.

It happened in the first days of December. Everybody who tried to connect to Blogger from Galician universities couldn’t do it. In the beginning we thought about some rare Google trouble. But the reality was very different: CESGA (Galician Supercomputation Center), who are in charge of opening to the Galician universities to the Internet, was blocking every web connection to Blogger. Why?

Since some years ago, in Spain we’re living with a sword over our heads because two laws about digital world rights: the LSSI aproved by right wing Partido Popular (PP), and “LSSI’s 2.0″ , LISI, aproved by left wing Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) last December, 20th. LSSI was the first step to control Internet operations in Spain. LISI reinforces this control and gives the chance to shutdown webs and another Internet services by administrative organizations even without court sentence.

Ok, what happened with Blogger? Some blogs hosted in Blogger encouraged to boycott Catalonian products because great part of Catalonians try to separate from Spain (in the same way I encourage to boycott Canadian products because they allow seal slaughters in this blog). So a court ordered a lien shutting down those blogs. As the blogs are hosted out of Spain, the next step was to block those webs. And, as CESGA could not block only that blogs, they decided to block all Blogger.

The wall was closed around a week. Those days were the wildest censorship case in the the history of the current democracy in Spain. And sadly, it is only the beginning.

Few webs and press published about the incident:

• Hazteoir.org(Spanish):“El centro de Supercomputación de la Junta de Galicia cierra el acceso a los blogs de Blogger”
• Libertad Digital (Spanish):“El centro de Supercomputación de la Xunta cierra el acceso a los blogs de Blogger”
• Vieiros (Galician): “Os universitarios galegos quedan sen acceso a Blogger”

Because family issues I passed the last 4 weeks very stressed, angry, sad and busy. I wrote some fast posts, but I’ll try to recover in the next days some missing questions before the year ends…

Let’s look for things that join us. Then let’s shake our hands. And then, let’s pray for the World.

Peace, Justice, Love: God’s Kingdom.

Tequila+lime+a jazz masterpiece. A nice recipe for surviving to a crushing night.

If you want to understand, you usually must break something.

I don’t understand why now the scandal about the massive illegal abortions in Barcelona (and in another cities in Spain). Some people were wondered because in the clinic denounced by a Danish tv used grinders connected to pipes to get rid of fetuses. It’s a simple standard industrial process. Like abortion in itself is the industrial process of undercovering the misery of our society. I think it’s more serious (and painful, of course) the procedure of destroying the head to kill the fetus.

I’m wondered in fact because every year the number of surgical abortions increase exponentially. About chemical abortions with pills, that’s a not controlled number. But I hear everyday stories about the day after rave-ups and how the bomb of hormones becomes a weekend habit for young women.

DE-information society? Ostrich behaviour.

No entiendo por qué ahora se monta el escándalo de los abortos ilegales masivos en Barcelona (y en otras ciudades de España). Alguna gente se ha sorprendido porque en la clínica denunciada por una televisón danesa usaban trituradores conectados a tuberías para deshacerse de los fetos. Es un sencillo proceso industrial. Como el aborto en sí mismo es el proceso industrial de esconder las miserias de nuestra sociedad. Yo creo que es más grave (y doloroso, desde luego) el procedimiento de destrozar la cabeza para matar al feto.

Yo estoy sorprendido, de hecho, de que cada año aumenta exponencialmente el número de abortos quirúrgicos. Sobre abortos químicos, con pastillas, es un número incontrolado. Pero oigo cada día historias sobre el día después de una juerga, y de como muchas jóvenes usan la píldora del día despues, que es una auténtica bomba de hormonas, com un hábito de fin de semana.

¿Sociedad de la DESinformación? Comportamiento de avestruz.