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If you fancy Zope getting up and running on Ubuntu takes no time. Install in the usual simple and lovely way:

sudo aptitude install zope3

 
and you’ll get Zope 3.3.1, and of course, all the dependencies. To create an instance run:

/usr/lib/zope3/bin/mkzopeinstance -d instancename -u adminuser:adminpass –service-user=youruser:youruser

 
The first two parameters are optional. It is going to ask interactively […]

If you need or want to know why learning Esperanto is a good idea, visit Why should I learn? at Lernu.
If you believe Esperanto is dead it is only because most of the time esperantists communicate in Esperanto and the huge vibrant community remains hidden to non Esperanto speakers.
Done with the preamble of my first […]

Recently my friend Juanjo pointed out how much activity my blog has been having recently. Thinking about it, he is right and there are two reasons why this may be the case:

I’m more inspired than usual. I’m not sure if this is the case, and even if it is, it’s not helpful for me to […]

Randall Munroe evidently lives in a world of 12-hs clocks (instead of 24-hs clocks).

Or maybe there’s a message beyond my understanding skills.

I wanted my wife to have a long for a long time. We tried it a couple of times but it didn’t work. Now, I made some "folders" for her events and her news that work like a blog, so she can have news and events with RSS, technorati and all that. At last!

Suppose you own a business. And there’s some good, like bottles of vodka, or some service, like massages, that you can sell to your costumers (I wonder what can of business that is).
One fine day when you arrive you start opening your shop, turning on the lights. You turn the cash-machine and instead of the […]

Just a short post to let everybody know that I am safe and sound in Dublin, Ireland. I do have Internet access now, after a week… a long week. At home with wireless broadband and at work as well (obviously).

Linux Journal has just published an article I wrote title Programming Python, Part I. It is obviously an honour to have an article on such an important publication.
Thank you Ramiro for letting me know it was already published and write about it.

I have just learned about Tramp. An extension to Emacs that let’s you edit file remotely. Very nice. Kate can also do it through the fish KIO, but sometimes Emacs is such a good editor.
If you normally edit files on remote server and you like Emacs, check Tramp. I don’t have special attachment to any […]

Tired of people smoking right in front of the no smoking signs. State your opinion with a nice shirt:

Or a sweatshirt, babydoll, baseball jersey, etc.
Also in Spanish (tambien en español).