It's been a while since my last post. After posting it, I got a few mails on the subject (some in agreement, others trying to explain me the situation in the eyes of the people in the other camp of the conflict). I also had a quite interesting IRC chat with Jody, which also helped me understand some facts in the current situation of Jews in general in the world. Jaldhar Vyas also wrote a paragraph on the matter. I won't comment too much on it, because this topic has been discussed to death during years, but just dismissing the accussation of "state terrorism" by Israel just because their attacks are "specific" isn't too accurate. For me, a bomb going off in a public bus and an entire army going into Jenin's refugee camp and destroying houses with their inhabitants inside is equally non-selective. The difference is, the first actions are performed by radicals, while the second was done by the army of a supossedly democratic and civilised country.

In the last two weeks, I've spent most of my weekend in duathlon activities, racing first in Silla, and then in Alicante. Next week, the triathlon season starts, when sea water is quite cold still. Luckily I've got my Orca wetsuit this year, so I'll probably suffer a lot less than last season.

I've also doing some work on the experimental GNOME 2.6 Debian packages, which are quite ok right now. The major issues are caused by a few packages missing from experimental, as they are held in the NEW queue of incoming.debian.org. Hopefully that'll be solved soon, but while we wait, we've created an APT repository which should soon contain all the packages that are needed to run GNOME 2.6 smoothly and are not yet available in the archive. One major issue before we even consider trying to drop the stuff in unstable is to do the gconf transition correctly: the goal is to move schemas files out from /etc. Joss has a plan to manage this both for GNOME 2.6 and GNOME 2.4 (in case it's the version that is finally shipped with Sarge).

Tomorrow I'll be gone to my town until Monday, I really need to stay away from computers for a while. During the vacations, we need to train quite a bit to prepare the upcoming triathlon and the many successive races in the next weeks. Too bad the weather is getting bad again...