Thoughts

In a time when Portugal is facing a severe recession, with several country men moving abroad to greener pastures link, I decided to endeavor myself on the pros and cons of living abroad even thought for a very brief period of time. Under …

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For long I’ve been an evangelist of OSS in the University of Aveiro. First through my involvement in the foundation of GLUA and more recently through CodeUA. In the last 7 years I’ve participated in several EU projects in which …

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Há 2 anos publicava sobre as médias de entrada no ensino superior. De lá para cá as coisas evoluíram (não necessariamente para melhor, pois o nível de preparação dos caloiros é cada vez mais baixo). A Univ. Aveiro continua com excelentes …

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Disclaimer: This post started as a comment to a post in one my friends blog. In the past I’ve tried the Get Things Done (GTD) methodology and quickly dropped it. I found that by focusing in a single task I was missing important …

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Today was a very important day, as I finally defended my Phd Thesis under the title “Resource Optimizations in Broadcast enabled Networks”. I was probably a bit nervous as the defense was about the start, as shown in the above …

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This is something that came up during a talk in my research group, which I would like to share, in order to check if someone agrees: It’s true that I haven’t attended a conference in a while. And my main opinion is that they are …

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European Elections are to be help during the these days around all europe, and a major abstention is unfortunately expected. Most people invoke the fact that they are tired of politicians, and that they can do nothing about it. In my view …

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Flame: ON E se deixássemos de falar da avaliação dos professores e começássemos a falar sobre avaliação dos alunos?

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"Era só para avisar que o Obama ganhou as eleições nos USA" Anónimo in "repetições até ao expoente máximo da loucura" Com esta acho que bateram os floods de posts aquando dos lançamentos da Apple… Estará a blogosfera portuguesa a …

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Would someone please explain to me the rational (because I believe there is one) behind the fact that the Apple TV is the ONLY product in Apple Store whose price in euros in actually higher (50%) then in dollar albeit the weak dollar ? …

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This music has been playing in a loop in my head for more then a month now…

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So I’ve had a Nokia E51 for less then a week, and all I can say is: “Where is the symbian store ?” Compared to the Apple Store where I can get tons of applications for my iPod Touch, or the recently announced store …

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disclaimer: as with everyone else’s post this post does not add a dime to what has already been said by the right people (Google staff). Instead it will focus on the unanswered questions. What is the need for yet another browser ? …

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Today I was driven to an article on time.com about wifi thieves. Point being on the ethics of using someone else’s wifi network. I shall not make any comment on the subject, but instead leave you with some food for your mind: …

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The Telecom Operators that relied in voice services are dead. And today’s operators fight for their own existence in a world dominated by the Web 2.0 where services can be created, combined in matter of day’s if not hours by …

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In the last decade, tech evangelist praised the value of “Content” as the real value in todays and future technological society. The truth couldn’t be any further from those predictions. The value of music has dropped to …

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NoComments, the strip speaks for it self… credits: as seen in Maracujá

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Great single for a great album!

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Guess what… I’ve programmed Prolog in the past, but never thought of my self as “Prolog”

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Are laws made to defend or attack people? no comments……

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What to do ? dgomes@#######:~$ traceroute www.google.com traceroute: Warning: www.google.com has multiple addresses; using 66.249.93.99 traceroute to www.l.google.com (66.249.93.99), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 gtav.it.pt (193.136.93.1) …

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“I’m an idealist without illusions.” *John F. Kennedy *

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Mediocracy is a disease Portugal is under an epidemic

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