Site update!!!

I'm about to finish updating the site. I'm trying to improve some sections (mainly the blog, including my personal profile) and give it a new look for next year, although I'll probably publish it next month.

I have decided to freeze the mirror sites until I have them ready. There is quite a lot of work to do so I have disabled the links from this site. But this does not mean that they are not up and running, for they in fact are. If anyone knows the url they can perfectly access them as usual.

My second greatest discovery!!!

I'm not very fond of social networks. They are entertaining and fun but they are a highly time-consuming activity to little or no avail. Last week I signed up for Facebook  since I was curious about this famous network. It's not bad, but I do not think I'll continue with it for long.


I have also signed up for last.fm I was amazed to discover such an incredible site. It is similar to an online radio station. Only that you can choose what you want to listen to. Yes it's true, you type the name of any group and then you are presented with a series of groups of the same style. Each song is accompanied by the cd cover plus a short biography of the band. Registered users can comment on the songs, get recommendations, join groups and also build a personal audio library. 

Simply that, 24/7 without pauses or ads. Simply awesome!!! Again, I'm still amazed. I can assure that this is the second greatest discovery after years surfing the net. My first one was GNU/Linux.

Hallowe'en!!!

Rain all day long!!! I have to update the site a bit, upload some new photos and start working again in the English activities section. There is a plan to include Halloween and Christmas activities or pastimes and also finish and upload a new section which is a series of grammar class notes. There is a lot of work to do though!!!

And good news: After a year or so I've finished my happy feet penguins collection. You can see it here.

Lenny Frozen!!! (On July 27th)

No doubt this is good news for Debian users worldwide. Lenny 5.0, the next stable release, has been frozen. This means that no new packages can be uploaded to the servers and that developers will concentrate their efforts in fixing critical bugs.

Lenny is scheduled for September 2008

A bit too late maybe ...

I'm not sure any of you have noticed yet, but this month I have improved the English activities section by including print-outs of all the interactive activities, this way students can easily print the activities to carry them anywhere (the swimming pool perhaps???)

Anyway it's an excellent idea.

I just couldn't help it!!!

Only two weeks after getting my eeepc I wiped it out and installed Debian lenny with the help of Debian Wiki. Nothing like pure Debian inside!!! They provide a nice network installer of appoximately 13 mb that you can copy into a pendrive and boot from it.

I have been trying it for a couple of weeks and everything seems to work just fine. I think that Lenny has not yet been frozen but I suppose it is about to in a few days. Here is a screenshot of lenny in the eeepc.

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It's so cute!!!

No blog entry for weeks, I know. But I've recently bought an ultra portable, an Asus eee and it's such a nice toy that I just can't give it up.

It ships with a linux distro called Xandros which is based on Debian. I have been playing with it quite a lot and what impresses me more is its integrated wifi card. It detects nets from a long distance.