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Finally I can tell you: I'm arranging the glorious Ariel Rot's Milonga del marinero y el capitan, that it's the best pirate song ever. I'm doing this arrangement with new lyrics and music (solo voice plus piano in a caribbean jazz flavour) for a good friend, just for our private use. These are the original lyrics:

El marinero y el capitan se reunieron en un bar
y encargaron otra botella de ron
ese seria el puerto final, y lo fue tanto de verdad
que bajo el mar ahora descansan juntos los 2.

Fue por una rubia loca, que bailaba sola hasta el amanecer
y se movia, pero, tan bien, que fue mirarla y fue perder
todo por ese cuerpo y esa promesa.

Ya no era joven pero era audaz
y bailaba siempre al compas
no le importaba que se la echaran a suerte
llego la noche, llego el champan, llego la hora de la verdad
y esa apuesta, al final la gano la muerte

Fue por una rubia loca ...

Cuando el barco llega a la ciudad las mujeres salen y los hombres solos
bajan a los bares, y esa noche todo vale !!
y sientes tu corazon latir al ritmo de esta milonga que es la milonga
del Marinero y del Capitan

Fue por una rubia loca, que bailaba sola hasta el amanecer ...

Well, I wish I was in New Orleans
I can see it in my dreams
arm-in-arm down Burgundy
a bottle and my friends and me
hoist up a few tall cool ones
play some pool and listen to that
tenor saxophone calling me home
and I can hear the band begin
"When the Saints Go Marching In"
by the whiskers on my chin
New Orleans, I'll be there

I'll drink you under the table
be red nose go for walks
the old haunts what I wants
is red beans and rice
and wear the dress I like so well
and meet me at the old saloon
make sure there's a Dixie moon
New Orleans, I'll be there

and deal the cards roll the dice
if it ain't that ole Chuck E. Weiss
and Clayborn Avenue me and you
Sam Jones and all
and I wish I was in New Orleans
I can see it in my dreams
arm-in-arm down Burgundy
a bottle and my friends and me
New Orleans, I'll be there

Tom Waits

Here we are again! New GNOME, new party! This time we're going to have a _big_ one in Madrid, at wh2001 HackLab. For this party or any other visit the Gnome212Party wiki page.

After two months of too much work(TM) (things like writing more than 4K LOC in a weekend), I got some spare time to hack on GNOME again. Today I updated my cvs copy of most of my gnome.org stuff. When updating Beagle I noticed the addition of libbeagle. So I thought that it was good stuff(TM) and tried to port my old and ugly patch for searching files with locate inside GtkFileChooser to use Beagle instead of locate. So now it rocks, because I can search for the word Onirica and I can get all files related to it (OOo files containing that text, pictures with that title...):

Of course, this is not a good way to do the thing, just a local and custom patch. The real way will be using Federico's GtkFileChooser Extension Interface when it get implemented. If you want to try the GtkFileChooser Beagle search hook patch you'd need gtk+ from gnome-28 branch and beagle from HEAD.
PS: Don't try it with gedit, because the patch is ugly and just copies and old version of gedit_output_window.c code into gtk+, so you will get conflicts between different versions of the same functions.
PS2: Oh, I forget to metion that the only thing I hate of GtkFileChooser is that if you have a ssh:// uri bookmarked or in recent-files, every chooser dialog will try to connect to the remote host just for getting info about its parent (opening an ssh conection, asking for access to the gnome-keyring, etc...