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best. xmas. musak. evah.

Tired of listening to Kenny G throwing up the usual Xmas tunes every single year? Gregorian chant is so last century. And the classics? The classics are boring.
There’s an alternative for us enlightened ones. The 3rd edition of Santastic is out. 22 bizarre and unusually cool Xmas mashups and remixes. Here’s a sample from […]

some thoughts on file explorers

This post is based on a usability rant I shared with Pedro which in turn ended up on one of his posts about the Mac Finder. My initial take on the subject was based on my daily use of Ubuntu (with Gnome as the default Desktop Environment) when compared to Windows (probably any flavour).
Say […]

Firefox não entra

Se eram precisas provas que alguns programadores e web designers precisam tirar rapidamente a cabeça de onde a tem enterrada, eis uma prova.
Há já algum tempo que o webmail da IOL não funciona com Firefox. Fica-se ad aeternum a assistir a uma mensagem “A ler: Aguarde um momento por favor…”. Ver o email com outro […]

Dress code

If you think your corporate dress code sucks, just think it could be a lot more worse than it already is.
Meet the Burleson Consulting Dress Code. Or check this one, 80 something years ago: