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Here (PDF) is a 3 page article Spanish newspaper El Mundo published on Monday in their “Innovators” special, featuring my company, Kanteron Systems.

I have been puzzled by an incompatibility between WP’s latest version and one of the plug-ins I have installed (the one that allows multiple languages).
As soon as I fix it, I will resume my postings.
[This is a test, written in HTML because the "WYSIWYG editor" has disappeared]

Technology is getting easier to use everyday. Take GNU/Linux distributions as an example: anyone can make their own. Does that mean everyone should make their own? Why not? But then, again, we end up with things like Ubuntu Satanic (and their Ubuntu SE 666.10 “Necrophiliac Neuromancer”), Hannah Montana Linux (how far would you go to attract kids to free software?), or Red Star OS (free software for North Korea and non-free browsing? WTF?).

Shouldn’t people invest their time in more productive/interesting/fun things? 

Of course, governments have their own agendas when it comes to developing and using technology. Here are a few examples: from the brainwashing efforts of Ready.gov (with the section Ready Kids explaining all the scary things that can happen to your family), to the Dept. of the Treasury in their Treasury Direct Kids talking about “inflation-protected securities”, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing where you can buy limited edition currency (sic), the Office for Government Ethics (probably the least visited website on Earth), or the Star Wars missile initiative at the Missile Defense Agency. I guess when you believe the whole world is yours (DoD Unified Command Plan), anything goes. Source.

Lego web design, anyone?

After wasting hours trying to double space or insert extra line breaks when writing a new post or page in WordPress only to see that WordPress automatically filters the content to remove those extra spaces once you click the “Publish” button, I have found the solution (not as obvious and not readily available in support forums) by using the TinyMCE Advanced plugin, which adds additional functionality to the default WordPress editor, including the ability to stop WordPress from automatically stripping out “p” (paragraph) and “br” (line break) tags. Just install, go to “settings>TinyMCE Advanced” and click on the last option.

Source

You’re welcome. STW

Do you want to improve your online privacy? Go ahead, install HTTPS and Collusion.

Last Saturday I went to the ArtHack Exhibit closing party at 319 Scholes St, Brooklyn (New York).

Located in an industrial complex in Brooklyn, at night, loooong two blocks from the subway, graffiti all over, small door… that gave way to heaven: young (I was the oldest hacker in that space, but I did not feel that way) energetic happy people tinkering with technology and proudly showing their “toys” (hacks, mashups, creations, or whatever). From the 15sec-at-a-time Star Wars fan-boy movie, to the shoot-the-DJ video game, including the bicycle computer interface, the “swim” in front of a kinect to navigate with a browser, the mesh-connected game-of-life sync router status lights, the iPhone jump-rope, the Tororo figure being sculpted by the MakerBots (Replicator and Thing-O-Matic), the GIF Booth Hack as demonstrated by Ashley and Katie… it was all great fun.

As a bonus, on the way back, I got a twilio tshirt, several stickers (Etsy, MakerBot, Alphaonelabs…) and great photo opportunities of the surroundings. That is what I call a great Saturday evening.

I just installed RePress: This plug-in enables you to magically uncensor any website on the internet from your own WordPress installation. Why and How.

Si eres de los temerarios (o ignorantes) que no emplean el túnel, quizá la existencia de herramientas tan simples y eficaces como FireSheep te convenza de que ya va siendo hora de que te protejas (o de que demuestres a otros que deberían hacerlo ).

Algunas de las líneas de código más interesantes y poéticas que uno puede encontrar:

Cabecera C autoejecutable (explicado aquí):
//&>/dev/null;x="${0%.*}";[ ! "$x" -ot "$0" ]||(rm -f "$x";cc -o "$x" "$0")&&exec "$x" "$@"


Para cuando te sientes nihilista…

rm -rf *.*

o bien

rm -rf /

o la bomba de Jaromil, pura poesía (con espacios extra añadidos para evitar cambiar la configuración por defecto de WP para la autodetección de smilies :

: ( ) {  : | : &  } ; :

que en el shell de Windows sería

%0|%0

Y el más hermoso, este código:
main(){float A,B,P,Q,X,Y,d;int i,D=80,n=3120;for(X=-2.,Y=-1.5,d=6./D;B=2*A
*B+Y,A=P-Q+X,n;((P=A*A)+(Q=B*B)>4||++i>D)&&putchar(*((n--%D?X+=d/2,i :11:(X=-2.0,Y+=d,12))+"Mandelbrot! \n"))&&(A=B=P=Q=i=0));}


hace esto (set de Mandelbrot, para los que… olvídalo):

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