Eazel officially shut down today.

A number of people wonder what this means to GNOME and whether this is the end of free software.

Ximian will of course contribute to Nautilus in the future, as it is part of our desktop strategy. It is sad to see Eazel go, and we will miss the guys, but we will continute working with their code base.

Andrew posted bits of my reply here

more-gnome

Jacob is currently working on the new file selector for GNOME, using the gnome-vfs and wondering what this means: GLib-ERROR **: could not allocate 2080374800 bytes

Woke up really late, and kept reading `Smoke and Mirrors' a fascinating book on the history of the war on drugs in the United States.

I was prompted to read this book after I read the chilling description from John Gilmore on his web page.

After reading the book, there are few things worth mentioning:

• The US begun as a very idealistic country with a set of very idealistic core rights for every citizen that seems to have been dismantled by either political agendas, corporations, lobying and a few individuals in strong positions. Like various ammendments gave people a number of rights that no longer exist, which brings into consideration why would you even keep them if they are not valid.

• That corruption happens everywhere, and that Mexico is not alone here.

• Propaganda is used in a different form in democratic countries, as it needs to improve over the simplistic Orwellian basics (cool Chomski article on the topic here: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/3761/prop.html. I wish I could find the original link, but I cant right now.

The reading triggered some interesting discussion with Michael Meeks at the office yesterday and we did some looking around the web, there are a number of interesting sites discussing various pros and cons of marijuana and advocating its legalization or its complete banning. NORML is one. There is also some interesting reading here:: http://www.ecstasy.org

reading

I have been reading The Noam Chomski Archive and the Bad News: Noam Chomski web sites.

I also got my hands on an interview with Richard Stallman on Copyrights and Globalization. I have been trying to remember where I got the link to it from, and I can not find the article again, but I will post it here when I have a chance.

dinner

Today Daniel Kornhauser and I cooked mexican dinner at home, and invited a bunch of friends over. We did some meat with adobo which was just absolutely tasty as well as black bean soup and had nice tamarindo water and crepas con cajeta.

Ok, finally finished the Linux Magazine article, and I am pretty happy with the results. Now I need to bounce it back and forth a few times until all the rough spots in my written english are gone.

I have been listening to some nice Indian rock that I bought a year ago in Mexico at Mix Up.

dancing

Around midnight I went dancing to the Axis with Alex and Iain. The music was so-so as usual, but we can not go anywhere else as Alex is not 21 yet, and wears these white "please watch that I am wearing" sneaker anywhere.

Later when the club shut down we went to the Blue Dinner and had some cheese omelette. Ran into a friend, and Chris Lahey joined us as well.

Came back to the office, tried to keep up with e-mail, tried to keep up with my web reading experience, and ended up going to sleep at 6am again.

A single goal today: to write the Linux Magazine Article that I have been putting off for so long. This goal which seems so simple and trivial to achieve did take me all day, and by the end of the day it was obvious I was not happy with the result.

I asked Jon at Ximian if I could deliver my article to Monday.

haircut

I got a fresh, crispy and perfect haircut today at Newberry street with Maite. I look perfect.

clothing

Arturo finally shipped my new, hip and cool new clothing to the US, so I got to try on my new jacket.

stuff

Nat is back from his trip to New York. Apparently the trip went really well. It was CRAZY according to some reports.

More C# code work. This is amazing. Got e-lahey to write a pretty complex routine for me (because I am dumber than I look)

ximian

Wrote a reply to the article on LinuxPower on Ximian, Eazel, GNOME and the FSF.

I also got to have a long talk with Chema about the future of the Ximian Setup Tools: they are now tackling a couple a few more projects: A simple `Make my Linux machine a home router', Font installation and Xfree configuration. Discussed how it integrated with SOAP and stuff.

More work on my C# compiler as usual. Lots of progress, I think I can start working on the semantic analysis phase really soon now.

gnome

Joakim got the GNOME TODO system up again, I added a few more tasks here and there for new volunteers and asked people to send their favorite requests there.

I keep working on my C# compiler. All looking good.

Wow. I am tracking now fully interfaces. Looking good, looking good.

life

Woke up late, made some breakfast, and figured `MAN I GOTTA HACK'. So I went hacking

Woke up really late (3pm) as the night before I managed to go to sleep really late again.

I did some nice breakfast today, I decided to make some crepes, and as it turns out, I made some magnificient crepes, I did not expect the job to be so easy.

Nat came back from the New Hampshire: he missed his attitude re-adjustment class (he overslept) and came back. He went directly to do some drinking with the now-21 Assbarn CEO Joe.

movies

Went to see Platoon to the midnight show in the Fenway, this is the first time I see this movie. This is increasing my Oliver Stone set of movies I have seen. I failed to recognize if he was trying to tell a different side of the story of the vietnam war, or not.

reading

Continued reading ` Smoke and Mirrors' a book about the War on Drugs in the United States. How it begun and the politics behind it. I originally got interested in the topic after reading John Gilmore's web site.

The whole war on drugs thing is pretty sad, because legal and medical uses of Mariguana are discouraged by a combination of panic, miss-information on the general population and the politics behind it.

music

I keep enjoying my new aquisitions: Hola and Chao from the Fabulosos Cadillacs.

hacking

I keep hacking on my C# Compiler

Got inherited classes working, interfaces and a few more things being parsed. Constants are recorded and dumped as well as block variables being dumped to the C# backend of the compiler.

Spent all day at company meetings outside Boston.

work-hide

Went to an AOL meeting to discuss possible involvements of Ximian and AOL: an AOL PC and an AOL Media Console. The people involved in the meeting did not think the AOL PC is a worth project to pursue (mostly from the AOL TV and Instant AOL projects), although the office of the CTO seems to think that a proper response to .NET must be done.

life

Went to Harvard Square for dinner with Alex after I came back from my trip, we had lunch at the eastern restaurant and hanged around the place watching people play. Of course anything that is not typing in a keyboard makes Alex uneasy, so we had to leave after his repeated nodding.

Dragged Alex home, hoping we would hit some of the dance clubs where this under-21 year old gentelman could dance, but ended up in my appartment dancing with Abby.

Nat went to New Hampshire to an `attitude re-adjustment class' which will teach him not to speed. He might have gotten a better deal if instead of showing up to court with a lawyer to defend the Yupi boy with a BMW had just shown up alone.

Board of directors meeting of the GNOME foundation.

hacking

More work on my C# compiler.