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3 Feb 2005 (updated 8 Jun 2005 at 23:24 UTC) »
2 Feb 2005 (updated 9 Jun 2005 at 22:41 UTC) »

Today I joined the GNU Spanish Translation Team. I will help translating the GNU project web pages to Spanish. Well, at least those that haven’t been translated. :-)

8 Jan 2005 (updated 9 Jun 2005 at 22:40 UTC) »

Here is my opinion on the Newsforge’s article on Debian and Hot Babe

The Debian community should not be discussing whether a package is "politically correct", or "offensive", or "against someone's moral", or "lack of values", or something like that. The main Debian folks scope is to deliver the best Free operating system they can. As long as the software works and is Free, they should not be concerned about anything else, unless it includes illegal or extreme offensive/dangerous content.

I think there is an easy solution to this "problem": Look for a workaround to print a message warning about the nature of the images immediately after Hot-Babe installation finishes, something like:

WARNING: The images used by this program may be offensive to some people, are Not Worf Safe and should not be viewed by a minor without parental advice. If the package bothers you, just uninstall it as soon as you can.

Maybe in this way Debian avoids legal problems and everybody should be (at least partially) satisfied.

Come on, if a nude girl drawing offends you, just don't install the package.

And if the program is found illegal in some country, just remove it from Debian (the Universal Operating System)

1 Jan 2005 (updated 9 Jun 2005 at 22:37 UTC) »
Happy GNU year!

Good news to begin the new year: Venezuelan government will switch all their ministries computers to Free Software.

23 Dec 2004 (updated 9 Jun 2005 at 22:36 UTC) »

Well, the validation fever continues. Today I modified all my .html files (yes, again) to make them validate as XHTML 1.1.

As with the previous validation, I had to change some data in DOCTYPE and the <html> tag, but also had to substitute all my <b>'s, <i>'s, and name's with <strong>'s, <em>'s, and id's, respectively. I also had to remove all the <hr />'s, though this wasn't too harmful.

23 Dec 2004 (updated 9 Jun 2005 at 22:34 UTC) »

Today I modified all the .html files of my website to make them validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict. I used to have them validated as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, but I realized, while reading the W3C website, that my webpages only needed minor changes in order to validate as Strict. So I made those minor changes, mostly in the DOCTYPE, although some needed placing data inside <p> or <div> tags. Well, it's done.

Follow standards, please.

I've been learning some CSS basics. It's very amazing to see how CSS can produce high-quality layouts and still be completely standard. And not only that, but it eases the management of the ``look & feel'' of a complete website: the only thing you have to do is to link your CSS file to every XHTML/PHP/HTML file you have, and every change made to the layout will be automagically reflected on the entire site.

And those aren't the only advantages. All this CSS thing makes you separate the content (XHTML) from the presentation (CSS), a golden rule in software (and Web) development.

And it's not as hard to learn as I thought, so I've been playing a little with my website layout. I like it.

2 Dec 2004 (updated 9 Jun 2005 at 22:31 UTC) »

I will be posting my geek life here. This is intented to be more a devlog than an ordinary (and very possibly boring) blog.

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