We failed to stop the comet but then, it simply sank into the crust. We were relieved until a year later, Earth split in two. Then four.

My code worked in test, still worked in integration and failed in prod after 4 hours with no complains. Oh my.

gravity has failed and nature has to work by sight in the meantime↵you set up mirrors in the garden, it confuses the hell out of the rain

Thesis: It is better for the building of a Tower of Babel to fail, than it is to succeed. This applies to any such tower.

Took home flowers from fairyland / lost them in my garden / now it gained a dimension or two / and the postman fails to deliver my packages

Where are you from?
In the States, looking different and/or having an accent will get you asked “Where are you from?” It doesn’t fail, it happens all the time.

Why are we so concerned about knowing someone’s country of origin? What difference does it make? If anything, it might be a knowledge we do not want to have. Knowing from where someone is from might spark stereotypical comments and behaviors that would jeopardize an otherwise perfect encounter.

“I know these questions often come from w … ⌘ Read more

Dragons can be killed

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”

— G. K. Chesterton

“By confining your child to blameless stories of child life in which nothing at all alarming ever happened, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable. For … ⌘ Read more

Host hunting
I had had all my websites —this one, and many other test ones, etc—, plus my self-managed DNS on ServerBeach (now part of Peer1) for a very long time. They all reside on a dedicated server, which has, sadly, reached it’s end of life (EOL).

Although I can keep it as it is, doing so represents a liability problem, as I will be out of luck, should it decide to fail. The problem is, ServerBeach isn’t offering anything right now similar to the serv … ⌘ Read more

Only in Russia

Drunk Russian sleeps off knifing – A Russian man trying to sleep off a night of after-work drinking failed to notice a six inch (15 cm) knife in his back - until his wife woke him up.

Yuri Lyalin, 53, took a bus home, ate breakfast and apparently slept like a baby before his spouse noticed a handle sticking out of his back.

He was rushed to casualty but doctors found no vital organs damaged.

Amazing, isn’t it? ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Security Bulletins
This is the second time that I receive a Microsoft Security Bulletin and, since Microsoft uses PGP to sign their bulletins, I have decided to check their signature validity. I don’t know if this has been a flaw in the past as well, since I delete those bulletins without even reading them most of the time, but in the two occassions I have checked them, they had failed to verify, since the signature is bad.

[-- Begin GPG Output (Wed Jul 13 08:30:48 2005) --]
Sign ... ⌘ [Read more](https://collantes.us/2005/07/13/microsoft-security-bulletins/)

Britons, our brothers and sisters
Once again some (insert some lots of bad words here) terrorists have tried to affect the civilized world by detonating bombs and killing innocent people. They’ve cause pain, allright, but their final goal has failed, as it will always do. Britons are not afraid, civilized world is more united because of those dumb (some more bad words here).

We are more united than ever. United Kingdom of England and North Ireland, all our love and support from the other side … ⌘ Read more

The three of us
For one reason or another, we have very few pictures on which the three of us are present. Even today, went I tried to snap one I failed. Don’t get me wrong, photos we have, but none of them pleases us –Kim– to put online for the viewing audience (the very small one we have here).

A couple of days ago I took one photo that I decided to put online, because I like they way KM eyes look and because it represents the priority level in our family: kid goes first, then us.

What’s the “pr … ⌘ Read more

The never-ending story
I am living the never-ending story with this website. It all comes down to lack of time. It could be also that the little time I have free I am dedicating to my family, but then again, that’s also lack of time.

Just a recount of the things that had occurred since the last time: we got cable for the first time (mainly for the enjoyment of Kent Martin and mother); our TV is kind of failing, so we go another; Kim got her first job interview, which she graciously flunked (hey, job sear … ⌘ Read more

A short and tiresome weekend
This has been a short weekend and I am tired. I wish I could talk about the great things I did, but it was mainly staying home, going to mom-in-law house and being with baby (and wife), of course.

I can tell I am growing old at a fast pace. You see, we are all moving towards elderly, that’s nothing new, but it does normally happens slow, or doesn’t it? Well, if that is the case –that is, it happens slow–, I do not know what failed on me. It seems like the years w … ⌘ Read more