If you are elligible to vote for the election taking place in the United States of America, please excercise your right to vote. Go out and vote to your candidate OR to whomever you feel will do their best to represent your community’s best interest! Also, if you live in California and meet the requirements to vote, please consider voting against Proposition 8! Today marks the first time I participated in any presidential election ever in my life!

Kudos for everyone involved with the translation of open source software out there, specially for those understand the different between QUANTITY and QUALITY! The following is for your enjoyment: When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed. Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated”.

A few years back I created the irc channel #tradutores (translators in Brazilian Portuguese) on the Freenode server, a place where anyone involved with the translation process of open source software could hang out, chat, ask questions and share their experience with other fellow translators. A place with no association to a given project or distribution, where you could find people working for several groups such as GNOME, KDE, XFCE, Fedora, Foresight, Ubuntu, all sharing the same goal: improve the quality of open source translations for Brazilian Portuguese!

I’ve been a GNU/Linux user for quite some time now, but it wasn’t until 2 years ago that I became a fulltime user. Being a .NET and Oracle developer by day working for the Department of Education of NYC, I had a standard developer environment at my desk and nothing else. That means that I could not install anything else on my system, due to some extremelly archaic policies put in place by the employer (I couldn’t even search for information online and was told I should do it from home and bring the results to work the next day!

With last night’s VP debate still fresh in my memory and the entire “rescue plan” that is about to rape us all, I went through all the comments that people have added to my latest posts and wanted to make a few comments. First off, I was one of those who up until 5 years ago wanted nothing to do with politics… not only that, I was also happy with being a green card holder and saw no advantages in becoming a citizen.

… let your US Congressmen know your opinion. I just did! Also, a couple of interesting bits in the news: Report cites partisan manipulation in voter Student voter suppression in Virginia

This is disgusting! If you’re still one of those who think that the bailout plan is for the good of the entire nation with no hidden agendas, think again! Bundled in the bailout plan there are several ridiculous provisions that will cost you and me several billion dollars! Sure they’ve added a few sweetners to the deal, but why not then create a single, clean piece of legislation to deal with the major issue?