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New Year’s Day

I had a rather peculiar New Year’s Day, in that I spent most of the night like Dr. Adel Ortega of Bunsen:

You can’t see them here, but the trash bags were off to the right. And yes, that is a police van sliding door you can see on the picture.

Because I took some pictures got [...]

Comments on site

I just noticed Gengo fucks up the permalinks for any comment left on the site.
When you — the visitor — leave a comment you get a “Not Found” error immediately after leaving the comment. Plus, when clicking on a comment link on the sidebar you get the same thing. The original link (which you can [...]

WordPress 2.7

Managed to upgrade without having Gengo bitch out. Here’s what I did:

Backed up both DB and files.
Deactivated all plugins except Gengo
Upgraded
Re-configured Gengo settings and applied changes.
Cleared browser cache.
Viewed site. It worked.

If it doesn’t work, try playing around with the Language settings but remember to clear your browser cache every time you do this. Gengo gives [...]

VirtualBox 2.0.6

Do upgrade. It makes things Just Work.
Right now I’ve got my Nokia E62 connected to a WinXP instance without having to do any additional work than what I did before. So it’s all good now.
Hey! My third gen iPod works too! The halcyon days of Winamp + ml_ipod have come back. No more suffering around [...]

Yeah, me too

When I have to cross the wasteland time and time again to see him. And you.

Ubuntu 8.10 Static IP addresses

It looks like I’m not the only one to have run into difficulties with NetworkManager 0.7 in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex.
Myself I was forced to get rid of NetworkManager for two reasons:

I needed my virtual machine instances to have Real Networking (better known as Host Networking) in VirtualBox.
My ISP’s DNS servers suck. They like to point [...]

The boss

Our ‘boss’ at work isn’t even in the city. He invests time and effort on growing another team in a city in the center of the country, where is cheaper to hire support personnel. No big deal, it’s the very nature of my sector for work to flow into places where labor is cheaper.
The problem [...]

alkhemy

Like I said before, I finally got enough money to build me a new computer. I looked around for what would be the best components for a cheap machine and wound up using the list provided in the Ars Ultimate Budget Box System Guide, except for the case; all components were ordered from Newegg.com. I [...]

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I intensely dislike my birthday. It is a most unwelcome harbinger of doom; the first day of two weeks of tears, distrust and pain lasting until the day the dead go back to their dwelling place.
I lost my son to the unrepentant ignorance and poisonous inattention of his mother the day after it. Such a [...]

Over the weekend

Last Friday we had Naza Space Circus here in Tijuana. Loads of fun, during which I met a special girl who managed to get me into a creative mood. Which itself is extremely strange, as I haven’t got an ounce of creativity in my bones. But manage she did, much to our shared enjoyment.
Got to [...]