Hacking for fun and profit

Hi, my name is Gustavo, and I am a Civilization junkie.

I have sad news for the computer industry: Firaxis and Sid Meier released Civilization IV yesterday and this time they added multiplayer capabilities 3D graphics and customization with Python scripts. What were they thinking? Sid Meier is some kind of video game drug lord, he is responsible of MILLIONS of man-hours wasted on endless cycles of the “JUST… ONE… MORE… TURN…” syndrome. This is WRONG. Here is my story:

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There has been a lot of things going on since I updated the blog for the last time.

I don’t work in the bank anymore. My friends made a goodbye toast for me. It was a very nice moment and I’ll miss them all a lot. In the night we went out for some drinks.

March 23th was my first day in Americatel Peru. I started in a win98 box (argh), but now I’m in a Debian/Unstable box in a Pentium4 with a 21″ screen. I named it elysium (my home box is valhalla).

On the community side, I made some hacks to Planetchicha and It will be soon out of beta. I’m also the new coordinator of the technical group that will implement a peruvian national encyclopedia for the Plan Huascaran project. More info about this in the Peruvian Association of Free Software.

It’s bzflag time, more posts soon :-)