I’m tired of spent a week each six months straightening up my documents spreaded in several disks and machines. So I recently began to use a tool to help me to manage every document that flows in my systems: tracker.

I read about it and Beagle, but I chose Tracker because it’s light and simpler and it’s written in C.

Atheros Communications, Luis Rodríguez,  Madwifi and especially Reyk Floeter of OpenBSD who made the first steps, thank you for working on a free driver of Atheros devices

I always loved sports. I didn’t played a lot because I was too bad and I had no teacher who drived me right. Like most of Spanish boys, I loved football, and I soon began to suffer with the curse on the Spanish national team (and enjoyed with the evolution of Deportivo de La Coruña). So, when this summer Spain reached the top of Europe playing football lovely and wining, I blowed up with happiness.

Now I’m enjoying with Spanish sportmen in Beijing. But I can’t forget the Olympic Games where time for peace. And  there is not peace without justice. I hope Olympic Games help a bit to China to open to democracy, even when the goverment became more oppressorto show a nice face to the world, even when the people that decided Beijin seven years ago had another intere$$$t$$$.

Ther is no peace too when one player in the Games invades the territory of another player, causing hundreds of injured and killed. Russia justified with a possible Georgian attack against civilians, but it’s difficult to prove this when some journalist died trying to show the reality to the rest of the world.

Some books of XIX Century poetry (Espronceda, Baudelaire, Whitman, Poe). Some poems written by us. A 15 years old Johnny Walker bottle.

Do dead poets need something else in a rainy night at the mountain?

I’m always grateful to God for every year we can work at Portiño trying to help to our children to go steps forward in their life. In the previous years this work was difficult because the lack of volunteers, so we maintanied the project in precarious conditions.

But luckily this year we gathered a great group again. Almudena returned from Barcelona and new youngs volunteers came into the group too. So we could work harder and we did more parties and extra activities carrying the children to meet the world outside Portiño

Almudena, Laura, Inés, Lucía, Ariana and Ismael, thanks to you for this maravellous year

I’m getting old. I’m very happy with a gadget that joins cell phone (GSM and UTMS), GPS, digital camera, mp3 player, wireless conectivity. Its name is N95 by Nokia.

It goes against Unix philosophy, but I was tired because my full pockets with gadgets, batteries and their chargers. And, even when it runs with Symbian OS, I can launch a ssh client.

I opened a blog at Vox.com with photos taken with the camera and uploaded with a program to do it directly from the N95. Just for fun

Visperas and Benji got married in June. They celebrated the marriage in Alcalá de Henares, near Madrid. Alcalá was the first planned university in the world by Cardinal Cisneros in the XV Century. Everywhere in the  city you can find cared buildings of stone and brick that evoke the Golden Age of Spanish literature. You can see some photos I took in that gallery.

About the marriage, I’ll preserve the intimacy, but I must write it was  one of the most emotive ceremonies I have attended ever The baquet  had some romantic and geek details too. You can see in the photo an amount of sparse all-around-the-world geeks joined because our past in  GPUL. We were sitted at the Linus Torvalds table. Visperas’ telecom  engineering friends were at the Graham Bell table, and Visperas and Benji were at Alan Turing table

Good luck for the young family

I have not too much time to update this blog. Really, I never had time to do it, but now I’m aware of this fact but I’m not going to give up now. Last months were very hard but results where positive: I passed more exams than ever, and, in two months I’ll begin to work in my final degree project as I’ll try to pass the last subjects.

There was another reason to be busy: I began to work in the Territorial Studies Lab. I’m updating the databases of the provincial GIS. We use GISEiel, a derivate of gvSIG (so it’s free software), against postresql databases. It’s not a very complex work but it’s very interesting to familiarize and reflect about how the territory was built.

Some of the following posts are about the lost events and thoughts in this ending summer.