Wannabe a web site

Tonight I was thinking about one idea I had sometime ago. What would happen if I leave the computers work professionally?
I love the computers. I spend all day in front of my iMac with Debian GNU/Linux. I cannot say I have an active social life, but I'm not bored after a full "computer" day. Sometimes, I miss somethings other "normal" people do like meet every day in the street or all weekends going out to dinner and dance. Of course, I have friends and I go out to dinner, theater or cinema but only one or two times every month.

After all this stupid thoughts, here you have my crazy rhetoric questions...
What would happen if I just look for a job out of computer programming or system administration?
What would happen if I ask for a job in a BurgerKing or a McDonalds?

We are in a bad situation here in Spain with technical jobs. If you don't live in Madrid or Barcelona you can get easily more money working as a waiter or things like that than as a computer programmer. I'm used to see jobs that ask you more than 3 or 5 years of experience as programmer, with all programming languages you could imagine and when you look at the salary you can see: between 6000€ and 12000€ yearly (of course they always give you 6000€ when you start the job and "in the future" they will review your salary)
Sometimes you are a lucky man and you see a job with a salary of 12000€ or 15000€ but then your life is your job, because you start working more than eight hours every day, just because you have an "high" salary.
The best thing about all this is that if you accept those "wonderful" jobs you will get a job for six months, a year or perhaps, if you are a lucky man two years, but then they kick you out and get someone new so they cat pay less money for a new worker.
After all this I only see three solutions:

• Move to Madrid or Barcelona trying to improve the situation (it's better there but it's not ideal, I did it already three years ago, but I don't like Madrid as a city to live).
• Look for a job out of Spain (I had already an option some months ago, but due some personal problems I lost my opportunity).
• Create your own company.

The last option is the one I'm working on since long ago but it's not an easy task.
I think that all I can do is try all options until I get the "joker" option, :-) to win as much money as possible so I have my life solved and I could do anything I want with my life, for example create software, create Free Software.

It's time to sleep, I think I said already enough stupidities and tomorrow I should restart my university studies.

Good Night

After a week finishing a Java application for one of my university subjets, today is the "the day", when my teacher will look at it, but I will not be there just because Java is doing funny things like mixing the windows contents when I'm doing some animations. I suppose it could be due doublebuffered Components and some bugs inside my code but it's too late to fix it, thus last week was lost. Better luck in June...

This is the "best" exams start you can get, I did not go to the first exam (yesterday) just because I was finishing the Java Application and now, the application is not ready :-(.

This is my last year in the university (I hope it), but I think I must begin to study sooner or next year I will be here again.

I cannot believe it, I'm online again!!!.

When you need something urgently, you will not have it available.

My ADSL connection died yesterday with my phone line, I don't know why.
I only know that I need it to finish my university homework today and I'm not able to do it :-(

My phone company told me that it will be fixed in about 24 hours, that was about 13 hours ago, I hope they said me the truth...

Today I was with all my family in my parents' house, and my sister showed us a photo with the best Christmas present that she and his husband got this year:

I would like to know what my niece will say about this when she begins to speak... :-P

The capplet seems to be finished now, with some changes suggested since the initial screenshots. We have now Up/Down buttons to sort the language list.
Tomorrow I will prepare a patch against gnome-control-center.
Now it's time to add the needed lines to nautilus and gnome-panel so we can enjoy this new feature and also, I will start the keyboard layout move to this new capplet. I hope Jody loves my proposal and accept my changes :-P.

Good night

The GNOME International capplet has been renamed

After an hour or so of comments and suggestions from Kenneth we changed some strings and the name to improve the new capplet.
The original screenshots are updated with the new strings and here you have another screenshot to try to show the behavior of the capplet (sorry Sergey, I don't know how could I do an animated GIF, I tried it but I did not found the GIMP option).

Here you can see that new languages selected from the "Available languages dialog" are added at the end of the old list:

The GNOME International capplet is almost finished

Here you have two basic screenshots:

Hi people,

What's the best thing to do with a new year?
Start a new life, a better one. And also start a website and a blog :-P.

This old 2003 year was not a good year for me:

• The relationship with my girlfriend ended this summer.
• My grandmothers died (yes, both), one on September and the other one the day before Christmas.
• And Chema Celorio also died. He was someone special for me, he motivated me to improve my GNOME work. I really love the (small) work we did together with glade-3 and gnome-print. I had the hope that someday he could be my boss. That's impossible now, but I will never forget him. I think he did me a better programmer.

As you can suppose, I was unable to concentrate on my work with all those things.

Luckyly, I had also good news, my niece Lucia born in November:

Now it's time to look at the future, we are starting a new year and I want to start a new life, but now it's time to sleep.
The new website and the blog took me too much time tonight. Tomorrow will be a better day :-)