beat and tweet

i have recently become an avid listener to trance and progressive radio shows like a state of trance, trance around the world, global dj broadcast, etc. every week i hear new tracks through these and since the programs are two hours long its really easy to find lovable and ignorable tracks.
i was keeping my mind busy on how to keep track of my favourite tunes, and after some thinking and ignoring the issue i realised that i could finally put some use to my twiiter page, that i created before just to keep my username safe. i actually do that now in websites that might be of use in the future because when i came up with my nickname i was a 12 year old signing yahoo games. at the time my nickname resulted in 0 google results, but now it is all over forums and places i have never visited in my life. so if you want to listen to some really good tunes (or figure out what i define as good tunes) just follow my twitter.

why i still need the mouse

i was checking the old release pages from mozilla firefox, to check out when i began using firefox, but it looks like the guys at mozilla aren’t too much worried about history and having the old builds in the ftp. anyways, it’s not that important. i remember that i have used firefox before i even switched to linux, and it was around version 0.9, somewhere in 2004. i remember at that time it was a fast browser, far from bloated, and i already had that feeling that microsoft didn’t suit me that well. i used it as my primary option until 2-point-something, but then version 3 disappointed me somehow, or opera just attracted me better. i’m writing this post from opera 10 rc2, but i have been using firefox again since 3.5. and will be.
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é impressionante como banalidades…

… do dia a dia podem ser tão complexas. ao escrever uma pequena página para me recolher as previsões meteorológicas parei um pouco (pela n-ésima vez) para pensar na quantidade de informação que viaja milhares de kilómetros em meia dúzia de fios numa fracção de tempo pouco longe da imperceptibilidade humana. o mesmo quanto aos browsers, pois hoje foi a primeira vez que li como trabalhar com cookies (a página guarda a última cidade visitada para acessos posteriores) e aprendi que tenho de procurar o meu par “nome=valor” no meio de tantos quantos o browser guarda para o endereço, todos amontoados em strings. um browser realmente destacado da concorrência devia ser mais do que suficiente para fundar e lucrar uma empresa…

the world’s bug inventory…

… grows every day. yesterday i was trying to import a formula anywhere from (la)tex to inkscape, so i could render it to any size i wanted. in the (failed) process i encountered several applications that didn’t work correctly or simply just didn’t do the trick as i expected. also when browsing some of the application’s websites i had a “page not found” answer. yesterday seemed like everything in the world that wouldn’t work correctly dropped at my browser step.
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certo partido político…

… inova criando um sítio acessível a todos (ou quase todos, obrigado pt) para discutir política e partilhar ideias. certo partido, menos dado à participação no sentido estrito, decide também criar um sítio que serve de ferramenta não para discutir, mas para disfarçar política em redes sociais virtuais.

esses partidos não precisam de apoio em matéria política. o que fazer com o poder nas mãos eles sabem bem, mas não discutem com os eleitores. o site devia chamar-se “loiras & trolhas social networking”.