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Monday, 7th o December 1998

Did you know that in the first two photos below, Olaia already weighs two pounds more than in the ones below. Wow. She is an eating machine (she's another kind of machine too, but we won't talk about that). It would suffice to say, Laura is the department of nutrition. and I am the department of sanitation.

Mostly the stuff I could talk about now is job related. Do you want to hear? Well I suppose you could just skip this section if you didn't care. It's mostly computer stuff. I'm installing LINUX servers for companies down here in Puerto Rico. They are grossly dependent on Microsoft for their computing needs. What I hope to do is show them that they can create Puerto Rican solutions to Puerto Rican problems, that they don't have to feed at the fringes of American Imperialistic software companies (Microsoft), that they can use and develop an operating system that belongs to the world (LINUX) that will empower them and embolden the future of non-American countries and bring about an era where the operating system belongs to the world... it's what you do with it that matters. There I've said my piece. As it is now, I've got to get some user's groups going down here. They have little idea that LINUX even exists.

In Spain, there is an incredible push to finish good Spanish Language documentation for LINUX. They are developing, molding, and organizing along with the other countries of Europe to create an operating system for the world (that is free). But over here in probably one of the most prosperous countries in the Spanish speaking world nobody thinks that computers and Spanish go together. This will leave so many people behind. Think of a world where everyone has to do it the American way. Pretty boring if you ask me and beside it will leave out so many people without that elite access to the English speaking world. So we need software in Spanish, and I hope to mobilize Puerto Rican technology professionals. Sound good? Exciting things are afoot.