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曹 tsao — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:00:40 +0000

As you can see, I update this blog slowly. It happens because I have no much time to write long posts about really interesting things in this period. But I usually need to share little thoughts and moments, and fast news with my friends. So I opened a microblog (in Spanish) at identi.ca, the microblogging service that uses the laconi.ca free software as engine.

I seldom use the web interface to post. To do it, I use the identi.ca emacs mode, and Gwibber (that allows me automating links compression via TinyURL). And I use the identi.ca app for Facebook to inject these microposts as current status.

I don’t know how much time I’ll keep playing with it

Highly connected nodes

曹 tsao — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:50:31 +0000

It’s the leit motiv of my life these days…

I’m a member of GPUL, so I’m a free software activist -> I collaborated with ESF-Galicia (Engineers Without Borders) in their migration to free software and open standards.

I’m a social volunteer of OCV in Portiño->OCV funds some cooperation projects of ESF in Honduras.

GPUL promotes free software -> GPUL has a project of a computer classroom in Portiño

Lucía, is another volunteer of OCV in Portiño-> She got a scholarship to travel and work in a cooperation project of ESF in Honduras.

I’m a worker of CartoLab-> CartoLab, ESF and OCV signed an agreement to develop a custom gvSIG to ESF projects in Honduras->I’ll a developer in that project-> Lucía will process the data she’ll take with the free software tool in which I work.

So, I everyday dive in a dense mesh of same names and organizations…

They were killed looking for freedom

曹 tsao — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:09:35 +0000

A humble tribute in my window. Never forget.

Tiananmen Square 1989-2009

Perfect purity

曹 tsao — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:17:34 +0000

“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood“

Yukio Mishima. Runaway horses, 1969

Only an accident…

曹 tsao — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:18:17 +0000

Since October, 30th I’m the new president of GPUL. It has been necessary because Emilio went some months to investigate at INRIA in Grenoble. He needed holidays too because the great,, amazing work he made leading GPUL the last three years. I only wish I’ll be able to maintain the modernization he began in the Association. It’ll be a challenge for José Millán to replace to our panzer against administration, Chema, as secretary.

With the new configuration we’ll face next months the celebration of the 10 years of GPUL along this academic year. We’ll try to reduce the mean age in the Association in order to reach the 15th anniversary

GIStheresis

曹 tsao — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:20:24 +0000

Some weeks ago I wrote about my work at the Territorial Studies Lab. After two months of a interesting, funny stage I left the Lab. Two doors from there, the CartoLab needed a ~~geek~~ person with some knowledge about GNU/Linux systems and Civil Engineering. I hope to be up to my new bosses’ expectations.

As it’s name points to, CartoLab develops cartography works, especially GIS related works. I think I’ll enjoy the next months

Citius, altius, fortius… bloodious

曹 tsao — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:53:04 +0000

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.

Geeks as we are

曹 tsao — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:40:05 +0000

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 was not resting in peace

曹 tsao — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:31:42 +0000

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.

Always a lot of concrete

曹 tsao — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:11:23 +0000

Around 410 Spanish credits (not ECTS) and many, many years, today I received my last class in the School. Civil engineer Álvaro Vázquez Herrero from Exconsa Ltd. talk us about foundations, project management and the life.

Of course, today I remembered my first lesson and the professor who taught it.