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Hi5 em “portugês”

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Eu até aceiteva, mas tenho cá um feeling de que eles estão apenas interessados no meu donativo e não na minha amizade ;-).

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PS: será que as comissões de festas se estão a render às novas tecnologias e vão passar a aceitar donativos via Paypal? ;-)

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How to get Billionaire in one day

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Every other week Google Finance has a glitch in their real-time quote, resulting in some random company heading up the top gainers or losers. Usually, the glitch is just a few hundred or thousand percent in the company’s (de)valuation, but today it hit all records: 10,647,115,776.00%!!! One stock went up 10,647,115,776.00% in a single trading day, to a stock value of 8,619,905,024.00

I just which I had bought one single stock of this company yesterday ;-)

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It would be cool if NYSE servers had this type of glitch. The stock market would be much more fun and not so boring and depressing as it has been over the past months.

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Big brother or user customization?

Monday, September 24th, 2007

In a time when more and more person talk about Google Big Brother posture, new examples of their constant supervision of our actions pop up frequently. There are several webpages I prefer to search on google each time instead of bookmarking them. It may look counter-productive, but it is actually quicker, since those sites are the first search result. One of them is the Google analytics website. Today, however, my search had something new on it:

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We all knew that Google saves all the information about our searches, but for some reason, the fact that they even displayed it to me, frightened me a bit, not because of my searches, but because of all the other information that we, sooner or later, exchange in an email, like banking, confidential, login credentials, etc…

I must say that I’m facilitating this task to Goole, as I use Firefox’s GMail notifier plugin, that keeps me logged in all time, giving Google everything it needs to trace all my steps… One must decide whether to surrender to the inevitable or to delay it with counter measures…

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Discovering Portugal

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007


Originally uploaded by Vitor Rodrigues.

This year’s vacations were spent discovering Portugal’s typical villages (Idanha-a-Velha, Sortelha, Castelo-Novo, Almeida, Monsanto, Belmonte, Castelo-Mendo) and also visiting some Unesco World Heritage sites in Spain (Caceres, Merida and Sevilha).

We visited about 60% of the Portuguese villages classified as :”Typical Portuguese Village” and, in addition to last year’s vacations, completed the visit to all but Tarragona in Spain’s mailand Unesco Heritage Cities.

More photos to come on my flickr set: Vacations 2007

 

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Recent readings

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

 Latest articles checked out from my “toread” folder in delicious:

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Smoggy TO

Thursday, July 12th, 2007


Originally uploaded by FireinCairo.
Snow covered in winter, smog covered in summer. This is Toronto.

If you are an outdoor person, Toronto is not the city for you. In winter, people are advised to stay at home due to extreme cold. In Summer, people are advised to stay at home due to extreme heat, smog and high UV radiation (levels 10+ sometimes).

Still, most of people still thinks that the few weeks of Spring and Fall are of such extreme beauty that are worth the cold and heat during the rest of the year.


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yahoooooooo

Monday, July 9th, 2007

Increase your speaker’s volume, go to www.yahoo.com and click on the exclamation sign in the logo :-)

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25 best financial blogs

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

If you are interested in the stock market and/or investing, you will find this article interesting: http://www.247wallst.com/2007/06/the_247_wall_st.html

It’s a list of the best 25 financial blogs on the internet, according to the website 24/7 Wall St. I’m a regular reader of a couple of the listed blogs(1,2), and have discovered some  new interesting reads on this list related with long term investing. 

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No Laughing Matter

Thursday, June 14th, 2007



Originally uploaded by Telzey.
And they did it again! Flickr is now censoring pictures to the users, depending on the user’s yahoo ID country. More info here.


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ATM with pirated windows

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

When even the banks have no money to buy Windows licenses, something must be wrong with its price…

via digg

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