McEs, A Hacker Life
GUADEC Day 0
Had an excellent afternoon in Amsterdam with my old buddy Mehrdad. Well, the first officer at the Amsterdam border didn't want to let me although I had a Schengen visa, the second one was happy to do so.
Anyway, got to Gran Canaria last night just before midnight, but my luggage decided to spend a night in Barcelona...
Was in board meeting all day today. Vincent is working on sending out the minutes right away.
Looking forward to meeting everyone at the opening party tonight at 9.
Labels: 2009, guadec
GUADEC: Where are you staying?
Fill it in:
l.g.o/GUADEC/2009/Rooms.
Labels: 2009, guadec
Amsterdam on Thursday
On my looong way to Gran Canaria Desktop Summit later this week I'll have a six-hour afternoon stop in Amsterdam, perfect for grabbing lunch and a walk around town. Anyone interested drop me a line.
Cheers,
behdad
Labels: amsterdam, guadec
Iran is
ON STRIKE
Labels: iranelection, neda
"The Wall"
To the friend or friend-of-friend in Toronto who borrowed my "Pink Floyd The Wall" DVD please return it ASAP. It was gift, and I want to watch it again this weekend. Thanks.
Green!
What a better time to be Green!
People of Iran are asking Google to change their logo to Green for one day, like Reddit and PirateBay did. PirateBay is actually called
The Persian Bay since yesterday. Was also reassuring to see the State Department ask Twitter to postpone scheduled maintenance downtime by 24 hours.
Thanks,
behdad
Labels: gr88, iranelection
How to Help Iran, #2
There are three different ways right now that people can help Iranians stay connected to the outside world a little longer:
- Setup a Squid proxy: HOWTO (read even if you know how to setup Squid, it has Iran-specific info)
- Setup a Tor bridge: HOWTO
- Setup a Twitter relay: HOWTO
After you set something up, it's important NOT to make the info public. Email to gr88proxies@googlegroups.com. Helps if you clear-sign with their PGP key and/or attach other evidence that they are not insiders. Anything, for example hosting it on a server that is clearly not run by AN supporters, etc.
Thanks bunches!
behdad
Labels: gr88, iranelection
The Times They Are A-Changin'
"The line it is drawn, the curse it is cast,
The slow one now will later be fast,
As the present now will later be past,
The order is rapidly fading
And the first one now will later be last,
for The Times They Are A-Changin' "
--Bob Dylan, 1963
How to Help Iran
Simply change your Twitter timezone to that of Iran (UTC+4:30) such that filtering Iranian twitters becomes harder for the authorities.
Just a reminder, you can follow up-to-minute happenings by following @lotfan. For photos and videos checkout the instructions at
http://lotfan.org/.
Thanks,
behdad
Labels: Iran