July 5^th, 2007 will be the 10^th anniversary of the Debian Social Contract.

Also, on July 5^th, 2007, I will be flying to Dublin to start a new job at Google Ireland the following Monday.

Today (well, technically yesterday now) was my last day at Allenta. It’s been several good years, with nice and funny coworkers (and friends), learning and doing lots of very varied stuff. However, after several years I felt a need to do something a bit different. It appears that working at Google is all the rage now, so I decided to jump on the bandwagon ;)

Oh, yeah, I’m excited about living in Dublin, and about working at Google. I already have so many plans, I’ll be happy if I manage to undertake ¹/₁₀ of them ;-)

If you live in or near Dublin and want to meet, feel free to call or email me. My Spanish phone number is in the Debian developer database or in all of my domains’ WHOIS records. My email addresses are all easy to find.

As I don’t know what kind of Internet access I’ll have outside of work (assuming I will not be out exploring the city when not working), it’ll probably be a bit hard for me to keep up with mail and with the Galician debconf template translation stuff. Today I’m in the 12^th position in the ranking, with only 12 strings left to catch the Brazilian Portuguese team. I know that the Catalan team wants revenge from when I overtook them. It’s your opportunity, nois! :-)

For several days now, I have been seeing messages like this in my logcheck output:

Jun 27 19:24:07 maestro postfix/smtpd[14339]: warning: malformed domain name in resource data of MX record for neolookups.com: *.mx.*

Obviously, the MX entry for the domain “neolookups.com” (and all its subdomains, apparently) is “0 *.mx.*”.

It turns out that you cannot search for “*.mx.*” on Google, so I ask you, dear Lazyweb, is this one of the latest tricks spammers use to try and thwart antispam countermeasures?

I had prepared a modified version of this photo, making each bike shed door a different color, and with labels on them saying “KB”, “MiB”, “Tb”, “Gib”, etc.

(It was in reference to this thread, in case you were wondering).

But then I noticed that the original photo had a CC by-nc-nd license, which means that derivative works are forbidden without permission. I could have asked for it, but when/if I received it, it would already be too late for the joke.

So, no modified photo for you. And how does something on which you cannot base your own work be a part of any sort of “Creative Commons”?