So it's mid-winter here in Buenos Aires. I am looking out the window, and all is grey and wet. It's been pretty bloody cold lately - well, some 5-10 degrees celcius is pretty cold for me these days. Seems I am not used to winter anymore. Whenever I have to live through a German winter again, I will drop dead on the street, frozen solid. Latin life makes us Europeans go soft...

So what new is there? Well, I am missing proper heating in my room (yes, it doesn't have any, other than a pathetic electro thingy) but then I don't wanna spend big bucks on getting bigger stuff because the cold only lasts a few days, and then you have a few warm and nice ones, and you think "Ok, now it's getting better" and then it isn't, oh well...

Still, life is not bad right now. Thanks to Internet in my girlfriend's house I am not going into the center anymore everyday, so I have been able to cut down on the buses and subways etc, less noise, less center stress. I am working from home, in a relaxed pace, it's so much more quality of life, really. I have a new German client and a few paying Argentina NGOs, so business is not too bad.

Personally, I have been practicing yoga for some 5 months now, and I am very, very happy with it. Got invited by a friend (thanks Eleonor! Hope film school is going well! :-) and stuck with it. The physical changes are fast and amazing, I am fitter, with better posture, lost fat and gained muscle, and the meditative parts do calm me and give inner peace. Really worth trying for anyone who has even a bit of interest in that stuff.

Ah, yes, the book etc. Well, it finally did get published, so I am a certified and published expert on electronic voting security now. Having said that, I have not been able to capitalize much on it so far. Getting to work for the government agencies who deal the cards in the field is practically impossible without personal (the "we've known each other since kindergarden" - type) contacts. And the NGOs are largely uninterested in the technical aspects of the topic - it's actually quite scary. Even my own NGO, who edited "my" book, has decided not to get involved in the security audit of the open source software that will be used in October. The funny thing is that it has been published excatly for that very purpose - so that civil society can analyse it. Only civil society doesn't seem to care all that much. One can just hope that there are no malvolent people writing code there. *sigh*

The other project, where I was working with congressmen and senators, is finished on my part; their new site will be launched in a few days, and (amazingly considering the nightmare "never-get-back-to-you" developer team I had to endure) turned out ok.

So much for now... I will soon put up some more (long delayed) pictures from my Patagonia Trip with Mom, and the Mendoza Horseback Riding expedition.

Saludos....