Duncan Mac-Vicar P.

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Yesterday we flew back from Brussels. I was very tired.

• The event was great.
• The curry chicken sandwiches still suck.
• openSUSE developer’s room offered around 18 talks.
• Got some zypp work done. First time I am so productive in an event while carrying a laptop
• Saw a OLPC machine live.

• Met old friends!

Photoset here.

So this weekend my chilean friend Egon visited me with his brother Wolfgang.

I am able know to give you a really nice overview of Nürnberg in a half day and a long night ;-).

After the mandatory visits to the castle, Hauptmarkt and walking around the innerstadt, we stopped for a real german dinner at Geiß Spital.

Then we continued in direction to Wörde Wiese where we had a top in DeroteBar and Weinerei, where we met a bunch of friends.

While in the Weinerei, a guitar player came in and started to play blues.

He asked us for some money and I ended buying his album for 5 euros. Not that I like blues that much but…. lets support art. He persuaded me to play after him. Well, he just announced I was going to play. So I ended playing live in the Weinerei.

After that we did a quick stop at Downtown. They left today, but my feeling is they liked Nürnberg a lot. Complete photoset.

Cortometraje dirigido por Ivan Sainz Pardo (2001) . Vale la pena verlo.

El sueño del caracol (youtube).

Se puede bajar de aquí.

• Preseleccionado a los Oscars 2001.
• Nominado al Deutsche Kurzfilmpreis (Equivalente a los Oscars alemanes) 2001.
• Mejor cortometraje y mejor director en el Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau-Stiftung 2002.
• Besonderes Wertvoll (Excelente) Máxima calificación del Ministerio de Cultura Alemán.
• 26 Premios internacionales al mejor Cortometraje (Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau-Stiftung 2002, Medina del Campo (Valladolid), Elche, Madrid, Alfas del Pi, Barcelona…)
• 4 Premios Internacionales al mejor director (Iván Sáinz-Pardo)
• 2 Premios Internacionales al mejor guión (Iván Sáinz-Pardo)
• 2 Premios Internacionales a la mejor actriz (Julia Brendler)
• 1 Premio Internacional a la mejor fotografía (Sorin Dragoi)
• 1 Mención Especial (PNR Film Festival Madrid 2002)

Robocop vs Neo.

There is also a gold version but I haven’t checked the differences yet.

Robocop vs Terminator.

Robocop vs Terminator episode 2.

Today Sun announced an Open Document plugin for MS Office. I like some quotes:

In other words, we’ve done what Microsoft could and should have done in the first place instead of FUD-ing and fighting. We’ve used freely available open-source code to build seamless, intuitive support for ODF into MS Word. No unmaintainable XSLT. No funky, redundant additional menu items. No tortuous workflow designed to make users treat ODF as second class. No pre-requisite for the OOXML add-in to make it work. Just peer support for the industry-standard file format, using open source rather than building from scratch so the improvements that are made to OpenOffice.org lead to improvements in the plug in.

Some screenshots here.

Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs has a message for consumers and anti-trust regulators claiming the company has locked people into its iTunes music store: Don’t blame us, blame the music companies.

Article in securityfocus.com.

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Dos artículos muy interesantes que presentan dos puntos de vista diferentes con respecto al sistema social Escandinavo.

• The Social Welfare State, beyond Ideology
• The Myth of the Scandinavian Model