Was just now looking at google analytics for my blog and got some surprises, especially when it comes to the browser people use to access it. Seems that Chrome is leading and Internet Explorer is dead. Long live Internet Explorer Also, very interesting is the fact that i’m Portuguese and Portugal is not on the [...]
Is it me or people are respecting each other less and less every day? You see it all the time: someone trying to get in line in front of you – at the supermarket, people yelling at their kids in the middle of the street (and the kids yelling back at their parents), you name [...]
Some random notes i scribbled down in my little paper notepad, on my trip from Bangalore to Goa, this weekend: Saw 10 people inside a car that could normally only hold 5; Took me 2 hours to drive 17Km inside Bangalore; Saw a movie theater that was only showing Indian movies; Products usually have a [...]
After reading a post in PCPro.co.uk, about the dual core ARM phone that can run both Android and Ubuntu at the same time, i can’t help being excited about the possibilities that the near future holds for us, mobile-wise. I’m pretty sure that – at some point in time – we will not need laptops [...]
Just some notes i might update while going through the procedure. To start with, gem might complain that bundler requires a higher version. Something like this might happen, when you run “sudo gem install rails”: ERROR: Error installing bundler: bundler requires RubyGems version >= 1.3.6 ERROR: Error installing bundler: bundler requires RubyGems version [...]
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 [...]
It’s funny how the greatest revelations come to us in thee strangest places. I’m having dinner in a shopping mall and all of a sudden, while thinking about why humans get bored, it strikes me that we are the ones who make everything boring. It’s our brains, all the time! Consider this: how many times [...]
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 [...]
It has been exactly 3 years and 4 months since i set foot on the Netherlands and – as i get ready to leave this place – i can’t help it but thinking about all the things i found, done, and learned while being here. This is my attempt at summarizing it, in no particular [...]
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 [...]
Outsource + web = company ran by monkey #dilbert http://feeds.dilbert.com/~r/DilbertDailyStrip/~3/mFAySTJ2aJs/
I recently came across this when I tried to add my digg.com to my.peoplebrowsr.com. Something wrong happened in the server and I got the reply in the first picture. After clicking the “homepage” link in that screen Peoplebrowsr loaded a second full site in the popup. Neat stuff
One of the cool things about having a meal in a restaurant by the Amsterdam canals is the boat show you are exposed to. There is all kinds of interesting, freaky, psycho, old, new, crazy, and obnoxious styles for your viewing pleasure. There is, however, one constant: The 80s music that everyone in Amsterdam seems [...]