Today at lunch i felt taken by this concept once again. A long time ago it came to me that software, au contraire of living beings, does not evolve; the best description for it, in my not-so-humble opinion, is of a big tower of LEGOs building blocks: You start stacking them up and, when a [...]
I have to say i love the concept: A USB plug that becomes a USB slot itself, when connected. Check it out, here.
I just realized i haven’t posted in a while. The reason for that is threefold: i have been working a lot, jumping a lot more than i used to, and searching for a new house. That’s right, i finally decided to actually buy a house, mainly because i’m tired of moving my stuff around all [...]
A new study has found that a specific gene (P21) is directly linked to regenerative properties that you typically find in reptilian creatures, such as salamanders. Apparently, when deactivated, this gene allows mice cells to behave more like stem cells and fully regenerate wounds without leaving any scars. Are we close to super fast regeneration, [...]
This is probably the first useful mass email that my mother sent me in a long, long time In any case, it shows how to put a nail into a really hard wall without ending up bending the nail. I know i had this problem before in more than one occasion.
Following up on my post about RAM (or lack of it), i decided to install a proper wordpress plugin to cache most of the stuff in static HTML files. It’s called WP-SuperCache and i’m hoping it’s really super But now i cannot but wonder if i shouldn’t – somehow – find a way to have [...]
I know what you are thinking: “Well, duh Pedro, how come you didn’t know that?”. I’ll explain: Recently i started having some service shortages on my blog. From times to times the CPU usage would just go rooftop and then nginx and apache both stopped serving requests. I am using Linode as my host, where [...]
Yesterday, against all odds, we went to Évora, Portugal again – praying for some holes in the low clouds. Somehow the universe did hear us and we ended up being able to jump 4 times. It was the first time i was recording video and i have to say it went really well. The GoPro [...]
I have to say i felt completely exhausted. Humans were just not meant to spend 22 straight hours inside a car, much less sleep in one. In any case, i really needed to get my stuff out of the Netherlands and the alternatives were more expensive so it had to be done. Here’s roughly how [...]