Vitor Rodrigues

Porquê que o simples facto de eu ter uma opinião sobre um determinado assunto faz com que eu seja considerado por algumas pessoas quer como um “burro vendado” que merecia ser aniquilado, quer como uma pessoa “não caracterizável sem recorrer a asneiras“?

A mim não me faz diferença que o aborto vença ou não o referendo (sempre fui muito centrista em relação ao assunto), mas incomoda-me que eu não possa exprimir a minha opinião livremente e sem ser alvo de agressões verbais! Será que é assim tão dificil assimilar os conceitos de “liberdade de expressão” e respeito pelos outros?

Nota: o facto de ambos os comentários acima virem de apoiantes do sim é mera coincidência. Apenas de todos os artigos que li sobre o tema até ao momento (quer pelo Sim, quer pelo Não) acho que estes dois comentários são, no mínimo, muito infelizes.

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I was wandering around on the web when I found this curious website. It is called "9 minutes of fame" and it consists in give the users/visitors the opportunity to have 9 minutes of fame in this site. Basically, visitors submit theirs website and the website that gets selected is shown on 9minutesoffame.com during the next 9 minutes. When this 9 minute period ends, submissions are open again and the first website to be submited is the one being shown for the next period of 9 minutes.

Besides the funny part of trying it out for 1 or 2 times, there isn’t much to do on this website, other than wait 9 minutes to see what’s the next website to be displayed. But the reason why I decided to blog this was because of its originality. Nowadays when a new project is successful, lots of people start to build clones of this projects/services, so it is nice to find a completely different idea like this one.

Update: I forgot to put the link, so here it his: http://9minutesoffame.com
 

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I just moved my feeds to FeedBurner, so I can get some statistics of its usage. You can do this by either using the WordPress FeedBurner Plugin, or by adding some lines to your .htaccess file. I have decided to go with the second one, since it takes less time. The changes made to my .htaccess file were:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !feedBurner [NC]
RewriteRule ^feed/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/vitorrodrigues/blog [R=302,L]
RewriteEngine Off

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Exactly one year ago, I was making fun of some friends in Portugal because they were complaining about the cold and rain and I was going to work every day wearing just shorts and t-shirt. This was December!… in California!

Today, one year later, my friends in Portugal have the same cold and rain and I have…. the opposite of last year -8C in the middle of the afternoon and in a Sunny day. My "record" was -13C last Monday, but I’m kind of looking forward to the -20/-30s of January. 

It is a nice experience tough.

For the curious, the Firefox extension I use to display the Weather information is the popular FoxCast.
 

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Flickrfox is a nice Firefox extension that lets you browse Flickr photos and displays them in a sidebar. You can choose to display photos from your stream, your groups, everyone else photos and from the explore/interestingness page. I currently have it displaying the most interesting photos. It’s a nice way of filling up the microbreaks during the day.

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Originally uploaded by SkyShaper.

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I’m sure that all of us that use Gmail have noticed the sponsored links on the right handside of the screen when browsing the our mail on gmail.com. However, what I had never noticed was the appearance of a "Related Pages" section bellow the sponsored links. It also displays context sensitive links, but not to paid ads. Instead, it displays links to news related with the content of your email (or sort of related ). In my case, I was reading an email writen in portuguese and the "Related Pages" entries were links to news in two portuguese newspapers. 

This feature is not announced on the Gmail What’s New page, so I’m not sure for how long it has been there but today it was the first time I noticed it. 

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For the apple fans, here is an article with the evolution of Apple’s website over the last 10 years: Ten Years of Apple.com w/screenshots.

Via: digg.com

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