Archive for the 'rants' Category


the blue screen of twitter

I’m not going to talk about the way social networks (Twitter, mostly) have gradually killed blogs as personal publishing platforms. Simplicity. Flexibility. Ease of use. Limited formatting. Networking.
I’m not going to talk about the fact that it’s by now proven that social networks (Twitter, mostly) often become the first source of breaking news (lacking accuracy [...]

consciência tranquila

Nos idos de 1998, baldei-me ao referendo do aborto para ir ter com uns amigos à Expo’98. Eram favas contadas, o país era prá frentex e aquilo estava ganho. O referendo não passou e eu arrependi-me desde então de não ter exercido o meu direito de voto. Felizmente, o referendo viria a passar uns anos [...]

gmail themes

So half the geek population on the face of the Earth has its panties in a knot because Google Mail has themes and because the “Terminal” theme is so nostalgic. Believe me, I’ve done all sorts of things in front of these thingies back in the days when all the interwebs we had were gopher [...]

back on track

So, you’re not quite sure of what the hell “laziness” means?
Let me google that for you…