The box hosting this website is showing signs of weakness. While I've had a “spare”, shared with davux, for several months, I can't let myself say goodbye to that good ol' freebsd OS. Anyway, the hard-drive's dying, and if you were hosted on this box, you should receive an e-mail with a new IP soon (meanwhile, rest assured that your data is archived daily).
I think I wrote a few time about disconnecting. I've been on an Internet-diet those past weeks: partly due to moving to a new home and waiting for Telmex to acknowledge that (3 weeks), and partly due to vacations to a “No Service” zone. The latter being the more radical approach since I'll turn the phone's airplane mode to save on battery life.
While I'm not as organized as a certain danah boyd might be, you may enjoy reading a few things from her on this particular topic.
Things are now back to “normal”: which mean I'm reading e-mails, tweets, dents, whatever you could send to me, and still not answering in a timely manner.
I'm slowly unpiling a sh*t-load of unread blog posts. The good thing however is that given the amount of data, I'm now filtering things like a spam-assassin on LSD. That's a very sane way of reading news, and avoiding every new-aweseome-pattern-cool-tech rant will make you more productive in the end.
Ok, new house rented... Hamac setup. Waiting for the internet, again: since the cable operator does not cover the new home, we had to break our contract with them, and have it the Telmex way. Telmex being the leading provider in pretty much every forms of communication (landlines, cellphones, satellites, ...) in Mexico with an abusive monopoly, and prices. meh.
At the moment, I'm sitting in a public library where the net is free, and I can plug my laptop all day long. However, I'm so fond of a few coffees around there, that I can't really stay all day long. Caffeine levels must stay high. :)
Working, traveling, programming. Seems like time well spent to me. Oh wait, I'm still not posting photos from Oaxaca, what a bad person I am. Will do that. Soon. Or not. :)
Earlier this morning a woman called on my cellphone in Oaxaca. She was actually trying to call an office at the Police headquarters of... Paris. I felt sorry she was off by ten-thousand kilometers. :)
My cellphone is connected to a voip number in France, which make the confusion quite possible.
I'm wondering who will have total control over my next phone: Apple or Google? How can we call these smart phones when you only choose which vendor will transform your hardware in an extension of your credit-cart? That's mass-market at work: where everyone care about the number of cores or the size of the screen.
Anyway, there's only so much time a geek can cling to his N900 ; the N9 is running a dead OS supposedly superseded by a “tizen project”, which is still vapor-ware (hopefully some information will escape on this from the next LinuxCon in Brazil).
I'm feeling quite disappointed by the phones out there: they're all the same. Don't start me on tablets. :)
I really like this philisophy page at gun.io. It's about how our sedentary life (as coders) is a little bit off, considering the technology and opportunities that we now have to move.
I'm settling for a while in Mexico which means I'm trying to apply these guidelines to the letter. I'm not sure how it will work in the end, good I hope. What is certain is that the world is not that big. For example Mexico is just twelve hours from french-land: add airport friction to the equation, it's just a one day trip. Instead of taking your car/train to commute to the same place for the rest of your life, grab a plane and start exploring ; while you have time. I guess it is that simple.