A deja-vu moment

Here I was reading up on how to install software on the PVR box we bought (a dream 7025). I find the developers information corner and read the ipkg documentation. Talk about a deja-vu. I feel I'm going to get along just fine with ipkg creation.

In other news I've uploaded a new version of slime to main. Yeah. Many thanks to Luca, Marco and the other slime developers!

on GR's

While I battle FTBFS problems with my packages I barely notice the -tank and GR emails flying past, so when I see GR I always think it means GR. Which is something positive, healthy and nice to do, unlike following debian-vote/debian-legal. It must be the effect of my 'think positive' project :-).

Oaxaca teachers strike

During the post-debconf6 trip we stayed in Oaxaca and in my flickr images you will have noticed the striking teachers. People that visited the place may be interested in the fact that Indymedia reports that the government removed the sit-in with force.

stupid CL errors

• Do not assume :always does a check on an empty list:

  [1]> (loop :for x :in '() :always (oddp x))
  T

  is the correct result. But deep inside logic involving "have all entries that property?" it can be surprising.
• 0 is not NIL. Stop laughing, it took me 2 days to find that one part of the program thought it was talking T/NIL while the other talked 0/1 or 2. One (declare (type boolean result)) and a few runtime errors later the program gives sane results again.

Pictures sort-of-up

I've uploaded the Debconf6 and Post Debconf6 trip pictures to flickr.

There is still a time-shift problem with almost all the pictures from the trip, I'll have to explore the flickr API to shift the timestamps forward 41 hours. I already corrected my local copies, which I now need to upload to the debconf gallery :-).

Then I'll write a report on the trip on LJ.

s3cr3t blog message

Tonight we meet some others in front of the Santo Domingo church/museum at 22:00 in Oaxaca.

The formal dinner

I talked about the dinner in my non Debian/lisp blog and put the pictures up on flickr but I think some things need to be said even if there should be no need to say the obvious.

(I'll try to use Enrico's guidelines here so I've deleted 2 pages or rant )

Being part of Debian is more then packaging and flamewars on Debian-devel, it is about working together with respect. In general Debian people (not only maintainers) are intelligent, strong willed people. This makes for some interesting (and strongly worded at times) debates, but we should never lose the respect for the other person and to act when the respect of others is violated.