The black hole…
...my black hole...
I am trying to get rid of a spammer twitter (pigeonpoll) for about four days. Look at the following image. That is what happens. I say I do not want to follow it anymore, and twitter says, ok, you are not following pigeonpoll anymore, but you are still following it. Just because I got enough […]
I see so few movies that I can not remember last time I have watched a movie. Today the hot outside, the air conditioning inside, and the lack of will to produce anything made me watch Push. This is not the kind of movie to be watched by people searching for goofs. There are a […]
Do not know if you know that SWIFT is a company responsible for financial services around the world. They also own the SWIFT codes to identify banks around the world. But they do now know much about database normalization. You can find entries of “JP Morgan Chase” and “JPMorgan Chase”. After searching for the first […]
My music background is Classic (I learned to play piano). During years I just listened to classical music. Some time later I listened to Queen and start listing to some rock. But I would never buy/listen to Within Temptation if it wasn’t the coincidence of watching the Black Symphony concerto on a TV Store. I […]
And as a coincidence, Blizzard just announced the forth character for Diablo III. It is a monk and it seems tough.
Yes, I know that Diablo II has about 9 years of life. Nevertheless Diablo III is taking too much time and I needed some interesting game for vacations. In previous games I finished Diablo II Lord of Destruction only with the Assassin character. This year it was the time to finish it up with Druid. […]
Next week will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, the tenth Yet Another Perl Conference Europe, also known as YAPC::EU::2009. This event was proposed by José Castro and myself, and is being organized by us with Magda Joana Silva. Things are almost ready. T-Shirts were bought, proceedings are printed, badges are ready (not for late registered […]
WordPress includes a plugin to advertise blog posts. This post is just a test for it. Hope I do not need to post more testing messages.
Sapo Summerbits is a grants program similar to Google Summer of Code. Its main differences are the proposing institutions that are Portuguese, the projects that are focused on the Portuguese community and the students that should be attending at a Portuguese university. Thus, this is a tiny Google Summer of Code clone for the Portuguese […]
Dear readers, In the last times I have been moving some posts from the old engine (Movable Type) to the new one (WordPress). I took the chance got clean up the number of posts. I think I deleted most of them, maintaining just movie reviews. This way I know the movies I watched already. Regarding […]