Been suffering from a nasty stomach flu since yesterday and, needless to say, it hasn’t been fun for me. Spent the entire day trying to get some rest but was too restless to fall asleep. I don’t know how many times I checked my email or browsed my rss feeds! Out of the many tabs I opened and closed in my browser, one remained open at all times: a link to a book called Essential SQLAlchemy!

Amazing! There’s no other better way to describe the turn around for the translation progress of BillReminder after yesterday’s post/pledge! In less than 24 hours there were 8 new translations available bringing the total of available translations now to 17! Awesome! I want to thank every single person who took the time to lend me a hand! During the course of merging the new stuff into the repository, I was a bit confused as far as the work flow for people who have their projects hosted on Launchpad but not necessarily host the source codein their bzr servers.

I need your help to get BillReminder translated into as many different languages as possible! Up until now I have relied on a list of collaborators who know how to work with a message catalog template (i.e. pot file) and use it to generate a translated message file (i.e. po file). I’m aware that a lot of people probably don’t know what I’m talking about and/or may feel uneasy about working with text files and what not… so I decided to set BillReminder up for translation via Rosetta, which can be reached here.

My friend devnet told me today as we got some coffee about what was possibly one of the very first micro bloggers in history… when he finally gave me the link to this guy’s site I laughed so hard I almost had coffee (my precioussss) coming out of my nose! With posts such as “Tidying some pencils”, “Standing in the middle of the room” and “Looking at a wall”, it was really hard not to laugh!

Unfortunately the match between Brazil and Argentina was not broadcasted here in the United States (well, at least not here where I live). Out of nowhere my dad calls me from NY to tell me he had just seen this guy plug the TV in his pub to the net to watch the game. I quickly wrote down the url to the site: http://www.justin.tv The feed wasn’t the greatest (quality-wise) from the Peruvian TV, but for those who really wanted to watch the game it was bliss!

I would like to dedicate this book to my good friend nixternal. :)

So today is my birthday and I’m now 34. It is also my mother’s birthday, and as she’s been having some health issues, I decided to surprise her and drive up to NJ/NY. For the first time the trip went really smooth and it only took me 8 1/2 hours to get here. The very first thing I did, and you’re going to laugh at this, was to buy some Chinese food!

As everyone knows I’m very involved with the translation efforts of several upstream projects and try to keep up with what’s going on with every single one of them. Starting about 3 weeks ago I realized that I relied too much on statistical information that wasn’t always up to date and sometimes there would be a program that would get newer code (sometimes resulting in changes to the translation strings) and go unoticed.

[10:29:10 AM] Dude: there’s way too many “social” networks to keep track of nowadays [10:29:51 AM] Og Maciel: hehehe [10:30:01 AM] Og Maciel: I’ve been using Tweet these days [10:30:10 AM] Og Maciel: but not as aggressively as some people [10:30:22 AM] Dude: the one that says what you are doing every hour? [10:30:25 AM] Og Maciel: sheesh, they “tweet” for every &%^$&@ thing they do [10:30:32 AM] Dude: yeah… [10:30:34 AM] Og Maciel: every minute even [10:30:42 AM] Og Maciel: “taking a crap” [10:30:42 AM] Dude: people spend more time tweeting more than doing what they are tweeting about [10:30:51 AM] Og Maciel: “out of tp” [10:30:53 AM] Dude: “reaching for toilet paper” [10:30:59 AM] Dude: “toilet paper ripped” [10:31:04 AM] Dude: “reaching again” [10:31:07 AM] Og Maciel: “turd is too compact… blockage” [10:31:12 AM] Dude: rofl [10:31:17 AM] Og Maciel: :)

Dedicated to my wife… "Let My Love Open The Door" Written by Pete Townshend When people keep repeating That you’ll never fall in love When everybody keeps retreating But you can’t seem to get enough Let my love open the door Let my love open the door Let my love open the door To your heart When everything feels all over When everybody seems unkind I bring you a four leaf clover Take all the worry out of your mind