I’ve been the web editor for the ACM Crossroads student magazine for the past 4 years. Since I’m no longer a student, the time has come to step out of that position and let someone else take the job.
So since issue 16.2 the ACM Crossroads website is in charge of Malay Bhattacharyya of the Indian [...]
Archive for the ‘personal’ Category
Goodbye ACM Crossroads, Hello GNU
January 6th, 2010
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My resolutions for 2010
January 1st, 2010
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This 2009 has been a good and busy year. Lots of things have happened: I switched to a new job, I got a DSLR camera I’ve been wanting for a long time, I visited San Francisco and the Sillicon Valley, I went to LibrePlanet and met Richard Stallman and many others I look up to, [...]
Mac OS X from a GNU/Linux User
November 23rd, 2009
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The Mac OS X slogan I’ve heard from several mac fanboys is “it just works”. Well, being a GNU/Linux user for quite some time and coming to OS X, that is not the case for me. There’s a lot of little things that “just don’t work” on my particular usage.
Recently I’ve been given a 17″ [...]
Blog Updates
November 14th, 2009
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Photo by DanBrady
There’s been a lot going on during the past months and I haven’t posted much on this pages lately. But finally I’ve come to choose a new blog theme and doing a bit of clean up around here.
It all started with me doing lots of house chores and cleaning, washing clothes, picking up [...]
FISOL 2009 was great
October 16th, 2009
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I started the month of october at the FISOL 2009, in Tapachula Chiapas. I got invited to give several talks about free software and I have to say it was a great event.
First of all, the place was crowded with more than 1,300 attendees. That’s the largest audience I’ve addressed on a free software talk! [...]
Sillicon Valley trip
September 27th, 2009
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Last week I’ve been visiting my work office at Sillicon Valley. I didn’t take my personal computer, instead I took my work computer, since I was there for work and I didn’t want to be carrying around like 10kg in my backpack.
Its been an exciting experience. I got to see the outside of companies like [...]
