Juan Valencia's website

I have been doing some additional modifications to the platform-something that I use in this website because Thingamablog, which was the original system that I had in place, just can't handle galleries, not that I know off, and while I considered to just install a gallery system in here, I do have a certain vision and a set of features that I want in the platform of this website. And as this is my personal website I don't mind taking the time to build the system as I like it, even if it results in longer times to post while I build it.

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Categories: Announcements, Photography

To call the last couple of weeks "hectic" would be an understatement. The one year anniversary of the website came and went, and everything that I was preparing for the day was superseded by the need to eat, by getting sick, running my first 10km race (while still sick), a family project, a friend's project, and the project of a couple of friends. I have been here and there and what little time left I had was directed towards finishing the system of this website rather than invested in the unfinished content.

But I am not abandoning this website, in fact I have several guides that need to be polished and more thoroughly tested in order to publish them. And the personal side of this website is just about to get interesting thanks to a trip that I will be taking very shortly. I am hoping to get some content for the photography section of the website (this trip is the reason it was created). Of course, all of the material will be offered under a permissive creative commons license.

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Categories: Announcements

I know that this year I haven't post as many new articles as I wanted to, it particularly hit me when I made the new sitemap. With the past month busy writing the Screenplay for this year's Script Frenzy, and this month split between programming a replacement for Thingamablog, making the site Lynx friendly, the big Slackware posts that I am preparing, and learning to use Cinelerra for the cinematography workshop I am currently in, the free time has fly away. I am going to do what I done the last year, posts smaller articles while the big ones are being prepared, so this website doesn't look inactive.

So anyway, why bother to make the website Lynx friendly? In one word: Accessibility.

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Categories: Announcements

License change

Since yesterday, the contents of this website which are not attributed to others are given under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. Yes, I removed the NonCommercial clause, this means that you can take the contents of this website and make derivative works and sell them, provided that you give me proper attribution and that you distribute it under the same terms. I do hope that if someone other than me profits from the contents of this website, he or she would share some of that back as some form of donation, if only for ethical reasons, but I am aware that this is not necessary under this license. And, for a different license with different permissions you can always contact me and we could talk.

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Categories: Announcements, Thoughts

I was working on a new post covering the issue of using rsync for backups, and its use in combination with cronjobs to automatize the backup process, but I realized that the first rsync post could be much more informative, so I reworked it.

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Categories: Announcements

While right now this looks like a regular blog, the idea of this website is to have a series of articles about different subjects, and yes, maybe a little blog updated occasionally, but mostly articles, and some of them can definitely be expanded.

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Categories: Announcements

Concerning references

I made a practice of document every new thing that I learn or do for future personal reference. I write what I understand in a way that will be useful to me for later use, and this have been going on for many, many years. This is what I love to do, learn, try, experiment. I have spent so much of my time and resources on this and I barely have anything to show for this. What I have is a lot of .doc, .odt and .txt files lying around in a folder.

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Categories: Announcements

When I bought this domain several years ago, little did I know that when I finally would get around to publish something here, it would start with a common layout that was not designed by me, using a little system for offline publishing that wasn't made by me either, portraying a small welcome message. Nevertheless, here is it.

Welcome, traveler, to my little online space, I hope that you can find here that which you are looking for, or at the very least that you can find a new business partner, or, who knows, maybe even a new friend.

- Juan Valencia

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Categories: Announcements