A couple of years ago I sustained a knee injury while snowboarding and, although not very dramatic, it did leave kind of a light pain that comes out every now and then, especially when I put a lot of effort in my left leg. After not giving it much thought for some time I recently [...]
So apparently my iPad’s smart cover will be delivered on the 6th of April. Today is the 21st… But i’m not complaining. Not about that, at least. You see, they split up my order in two because the iPad is to be shipped later (25th of April). The problem is that an iPad cover is [...]
Let’s start with the question: Who the hell can live happily in negative temperatures? Maybe i’m biased, given my warmer origins but – man – there’s no way i could be happy living in a dark, cold place. It’s no wonder people who work in dark places (miners, underground train drivers, etc) tend to be [...]
Disclaimer: I’m not complaining specifically against the way the Indian embassy works so, before calling a xenophobic or some crap like that, keep in mind that i’m just venting out something that could have happened in pretty much any other Portuguese public bureau. Where should i start? Ah, yes, the motivation: In about a month [...]
When i think about my mind’s typical excuses not to write on this blog, the one that pops up the fastest is usually the lack of a good blogging desktop client for mac. I know, i know, i should just shut the hell up, use WordPress’ web admin interface, and quit whining. But i have [...]
This is my fourth time in Amsterdam since i started working remotely. Obviously, once i moved back to Portugal i took all my belongings there and gave up my house in Holland so, every time i come to Amsterdam i have to stay at an hotel in the city. I have experienced three, so far: [...]
Am i the only one who is pissed off by this? Aren’t RSS feeds supposed to be the awesome way of consuming information? And for what? Web page hits? Here’s a newsflash, dudes, your website isn’t that good looking Here’s what i mean: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/.rss
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 [...]
With less than 20 days until my return to the country where the sun does shine (Portugal), i can’t help but thinking more and more about these 3 years in Holland. With that in mind, i decided to write a really long post on my experiences here in the Netherlands during this time. For the [...]
I recently found myself wondering about what would be the reasons why most IT companies don’t like the idea of having its employees working remotely. From the top of my head, and playing a devil’s advocate role, I can come up with: Working remotely gives you an excuse not to work; You are more easily [...]
How can this be?
Google announced today the immediate availability of their first mobile smartphone, the Nexus One. For the US only, that is. If you happen to live in third world countries like Germany, France, Spain, etc. you will be greeted with the following sentence in their home page: Sorry, the Nexus One phone is not available in [...]
I previously mentioned how dumb it was for someone to have to wait 10 minutes to be able to post a comment on a different thread on Reddit, but this latest discovery is just delicious. Just tried to post a comment on a post where the submitter clearly forgot to add the link to the [...]
For those who happen to have a blog (and who doesn’t these days?) you are probably aware of intensedebate. It’s basically a system of threaded comments that you can plug into your site and take advantage of… well, now that I look back after uninstalling it I really don’t see an advantage, but I’m sure [...]
Did you ever feel the need to unplug from your online life? I’m referring to the range of social networking tools that we have around us, like facebook, twitter, posterous, plaxo, linkedin, hi5, pingfm, just to name a few. I know I have, in more that one ocasion, and today I finally started thinking about [...]
I’ve always been curious about experimenting with different seats inside airplanes so, in this entry, I will try to sum up my conclusions about traveling on the 30th (the last) row of a Boeing 737-800, from Amsterdam to Lisbon with KLM Airlines (now AirFrance). I would assume I was going to get less stress and [...]