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A day like this, in 2004...

In a day like this, in 2004, I was posting about how a Sony Clie would be a much nicer ebook reader than my palm m100.

Really. This:

http://www.pdaexpertos.com/modelos_pda/imagenes/modelos/SonySJ30.jpg

A sony Clie SJ-30

Was, indeed much better than this:

http://www.pdaexpertos.com/modelos_pda/imagenes/modelos/Palmm100.jpg

A Palm m100

And I was happy that I could get the Clie for only 100 dollars after trading my m100. And it had a battery life of a whole 2 days. Nowadays, for the same 100 dollars, I got a Kindle touch, with a battery life of, like, forever.

OTOH, at night I read on an android phone, which is about the same size and shape as the Clie and has even shorter battery life (much better screen of course).

So, the more things change, the more they stay the same, I guess.


Syndicated 2012-05-07 17:52:00 from Lateral Opinion

PyDay Luján 5/5/2012

This saturday I attended Pyday Luján. I don't know if other places have such things as PyDays, so here's a brief summary:

  1. It is a day-long event
  2. It usually takes place in a university
  3. It has one or two tracks
  4. It's about python
  5. It's fun

This time, it took place at the Universidad Nacional de Luján which is a biiiiit too far from my home:

In the near future I will do a better post about this explaining the code, etc.


Syndicated 2012-04-27 18:52:00 from Lateral Opinion

Alva

Alva is almost the opposite of Nikola. If Nikola is about making static sites, Alva is a dynamic site. However, as Hegel suggests, from the thesis and the antithesis comes the synthesis.

So, Alva is about dynamically creating static sites. If you want to have Nikola in your server instead of in your own computer, and have the convenience of an online tool, that's the niche Alva tries to fill.

So, you would install Alva, and use it like any other web-based blogging tool. Yet, behind the scenes, you would have Nikola, and all the performance and security benefits of static sites.

And maybe someday, I (or someone) will put up a multi-user version of Alva, and you will be able to get hosted blogs, knowing all the data is yours and you can leave anytime and do your own thing.

This is very very early stages. So early it does not work yet. But here's a teaser:

http://lateral.netmanagers.com.ar/galleries/random/nikola-admin3.thumbnail.png

There is no firm timeframe for this, it depends on a ton of other stuff and may not even happen.


Syndicated 2012-04-24 22:46:00 from Lateral Opinion

Lanata, largá el faso.

Spanish only!


Ayer Jorge Lanata, que siempre me cayó bien, y a quién siempre acompañé en sus aventuras editoriales (¡Compré su libro de relatos! ¡Extraño Crítica! ¡Me gustaba Silvina Chediek!) dijo una pelotudez bastante importante.

Lo chicanearon con aplicarle no sé que multa por fumar en un estudio de televisión, lo que está prohibido por ley. Entonces hizo un berrinche y dijo "voy a dejar de fumar cuando ustedes dejen de robar", seguido de explicaciones de cómo él no le hace mal a nadie, etc etc.

Supongamos que no le hace mal a nadie. Supongamos que "ellos" roban y no paran. ¿Y? ¿Qué pasa? No pasa nada, excepto que Lanata se da el gusto de no tener que parar de fumar dos horas. No hace ninguna diferencia excepto para él. Y mientras tanto seguiría rompiendo la ley, que es tan ley como la que prohíbe robar, ya que estamos.

Decir esa boludez que dijo Lanata es como hacer una huelga de morfi, o sea lo opuesto de una huelga de hambre. Es prometer no prenderse fuego hasta que los yanquis se vayan de Vietnam, es prometer comerse un chori todos los días hasta que el Tibet sea libre, es comer ensalada de cetáceo hasta que se salven las ballenas.

Si uno se va a poner en adalid de la ética (cosa que yo trato de no hacer porque es un laburo jodido, justamente), no puede dar pie, no puede dejarla picando, porque si la deja servida se la mandan a guardar. Lanata, la dejás servida. Largá el pucho. Pensá un rato. Después criticá.


Syndicated 2012-04-23 09:44:00 from Lateral Opinion

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