The black hole…
Punisher: War Zone is a typical Hollywood movie. There is nothing new. There is a hero. There are bad guys. There is violence. The plot is the usual. There is action, there are shots, there is blood, there is a woman with a kid… Then, what is new? Why this movie was recorded? Well, I […]
Received today the invitation to join Google Wave project. Sincerely, I had no idea about what was Google Wave when I asked a friend for the invitation. But Google has nice projects and I like to know them (and use them when I think they can help on my everyday life). I did not have […]
I have a gmail account. In my new job, the institutional e-mail is a customized gmail e-mail account. Trying to simplify things, I am forwarding the institutional e-mail do my gmail account. That was simple. The next step was to make the generic gmail account to compose e-mails both as standard gmail and the institutional […]
These are two CDs that I woul not buy if I was unable to hear before. Not hear in the shop. Not hear in the radio. Listen to it when my mood is to do that! For that I need someone to lend me the CD, or I need an MP3. MP3 are piracy. But […]
Finally (not sure how long ago, but I just found out about it three days ago) the tar unix utility (gnu version) can guess what the compression method to use. Now I can forget that -j is used for bzip2, -z is used for gzip, and some other for xz. Just use ‘tar axf’ for […]
Quiki 0.01 was released last night. It can’t be considered a stable release. While it is usable (in fact Quiki homepage is hosted in Quiki) we know that a lot of details are missing to make it a real wiki system. The truth is that the Request Tracker queue created automatically for CPAN modules is […]
In the last days I have been developing a Restful API for Dicionário Aberto. While Dicionário Aberto is a dictionary for the Portuguese language and therefore most users are Portuguese I prefer to describe the API here in English. You can use a JSON or XML approach. URLs are the same. You can just change […]
Jonas Nielsen twitted about Book Hunter, a Mac OS X application to organize your library. It is cool because you add the ISBN or title, ask it to autocomplete, and it fetches all the missing information from the Web. I did this to some of my technical books (not all, yet), and I discovered I […]
This graph was prepared after a talk by Enrique Alfonseca, from Google Zurich. He shown usage of Google tools for various Natural Language Processing tasks. Probably I will post about some of them later. For now, here is a simple graphic of Google Trends showing Halloween, Christmas and Easter trends. Do you think it is […]
I just wanted to share this logo, from a Mercedes. I really enjoyed that little detail of the I and D make a plug. Brilliant.