Chats: Roll over.

(19:50:51) 47: u rock
(19:50:58) 47: se precisares de alguma cena eu faço tb
(19:50:59) 47: eheh
(19:51:04) João - working: roll over
(19:51:04) João - working: sit
(19:51:05) João - working: play dead

Chats: Jay Overload

(18:40:05) 47: é desta que o teu ego vai explodir
(18:40:19) 47: Jay overload... error error

Novo dicionário

BFF

• sigla; Best Friend Forever (in Dicionário Morangos Com Açúcar)
  

BFFF

• sigla; Best Fuck Friend Forever (in Dicionário Mama-mos Com Açúcar)

Amante

• subst. fem.; Vide BFFF

Esposa

• subst. fem.; Instrumento de limpeza

Esposa grávida

• subst. fem.; Instrumento de limpeza com recarga

Momento Zen - Pai Natal

"Era noite de Natal e nem uma palha mexia. Nada mais se ouvia senão os sinos do trenó. É então que o Pai Natal diz «Ho ho ho!» ao cruzar-se com o carro onde seguia a Paris Hilton, a Britney Spears e a Lindsey Lohan."

Música da Semana: The Script - The Man Who Can't Be Moved

Dicionário - Valores

Valores: s.m.plural. Aquilo que devemos convencer os outros a ter para lidarem connosco e que os devemos fazer acreditar que temos.

Música da Semana: Coldplay - Fix You

When you try your best but you don't succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse.

And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

And high up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

Tears stream, down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face and I...


Tears stream, down on your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face and I...


Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you.

Música da Semana: Katy Perry - Thinking of You

Comparisons are easily done
Once you've had a taste of perfection
Like an apple hanging from a tree
I picked the ripest one, I still got the seed

You said move on, where do I go?
I guess second best is all I will know

'Cause when I'm with him I am thinking of you
(Thinking of you, thinking of you)
Thinking of you, what you would do
If you were the one who was spending the night
(Spending the night, spending the night)
Oh, I wish that I was looking into your eyes

You're like an Indian summer in the middle of winter
Like a hard candy with a surprise center
How do I get better once I've had the best?
You said there's tons of fish in the water, so the waters I will test

He kissed my lips, I taste your mouth, oh!
(Taste your mouth)
He pulled me in, I was disgusted with myself

'Cause when I'm with him I am thinking of you
(Thinking of you, thinking of you)
Thinking of you, what you would do
If you were the one who was spending the night
(Spending the night, spending the night)
Oh, I wish that I was looking into

You're the best, and yes, I do regret
How I could let myself let you go
Now, now the lesson's learned
I touched it, I was burned
Oh, I think you should know!

'Cause when I'm with him I am thinking of you
(Thinking of you, thinking of you)
Thinking of you, what you would do
If you were the one who was spending the night
(Spending the night, spending the night)
Oh, I wish that I was looking into your, your eyes
Looking into your eyes, looking into your eyes

Oh, won't you walk through?
And bust in the door and take me away?
Oh, no more mistakes
'Cause in your eyes I'd like to stay, stay

Ask Suricat: Hardware Review TMN Bluebelt

Dado que me tornei recentemente um portador do TMN Bluebelt, e dada a minha passada experiência nas várias empresas em que lidei bastante com aparelhos similares, tenho vindo a receber pedidos para escrever uma review sobre o referido aparelho. Começo por comentar o aspecto. O Bluebelt tem um aspecto muito agradável e sólido, é relativamente fino e mais leve do que os aparelhos a que me tenho habituado. Note-se que de momento uso em permanência um Fujitsu-Siemens PocketLooX T830 com o cartão de outra rede. O posicionamento das teclas especiais é cómodo, mas tive alguns problemas com o teclado principal, dado que estou habituado ao teclado do T830 e ainda falho na pontaria.
Por tópicos, passo a descrever as vantagens e desvantagens que encontrei no aparelho, começando pelas vantagens:

• Preço muito acessível;
• Inclui Headphones com microfone e tecla de atendimento de chamada, que servem também como antena do rádio incorporado;
• Flash Led na câmera de 3.2Mpx;
• Bateria tem uma duração bastante razoável;
• Bastante completo em funcionalidades acessórias ao telemóvel, que incluem o GPS, o rádio FM, leitor de cartões MicroSD (até 8GB);
• Suporte HSDPA 7.2 e HSUPA 2.0;
• Inclusão de uma licença completa do NDrive 9;
• Écran de resolução 320x240 permite fazer com que o Bubble Breaker dure mais tempo :P
• Inclusão de software para imitar rato usando o "joystick" presente no teclado;
• Separação do botão de ligar e do botão de terminar chamada e posicionamento do mesmo (comparando com o T830, é um grande +);
• Funciona espectacularmente como modem HDSPA, a configuração foi fácil, mesmo com o computador sendo Linux;
  

Desvantagens:

• Apenas suportar cartões de 8GB, quando os de 16 já se tornaram comuns há bastante tempo;
• Não ser possível trocar o cartão de memória sem remover a bateria devido à localização do mesmo no aparelho;
• Localização do conector USB para dados/carregamento torna-se incompatível com a existência de um craddle que, para mim, hoje é algo praticamente indispensável, para além de ser bastante incómoda a posição do cabo quando é necessário fazer chamadas e manter a alimentação ligada por estar a carregar;
• Não apresentação da percentagem exacta do carregamento, como é feito noutros aparelhos Windows Mobile, apenas por uma barra;
• Touchscreen é bastante mais "difícil" de activar/clickar do que todos os outros aparelhos que eu já tive, é preciso fazer alguma força. Já verifiquei com outros Bluebelts e não se trata de defeito, infelizmente é feitio;
• Câmera/máquina fotográfica não têm zoom;
• Temperatura de côr do écran é bastante diferente de outros aparelhos havendo menor contraste (nota-se, por exemplo, ao jogar Bubble breaker que as esferas violeta e vermelhas são mais difíceis de distinguir umas das outras, não tenho esse problema no T830, por exemplo);
• Inexistência de conectores para antena externa de GPS e de sinal de telemóvel, para adaptação ao carro;
• No teclado, o uso de maiúsculas é complicado - no caso de usar símbolos, basta carregar na tecla FN, larga, e carregar na tecla que tem o símbolo desejado. No caso de usar maiúsculas, é necessário ou carregar duas vezes na tecla shift, carregar na letra, e depois na tecla shift uma vez para desactivar o CAPS, ou então carregar na tecla shift e na letra em simultâneo,o que impede o uso do aparelho com uma só mão;
• Para usar letras acentuadas e símbolos não presentes no teclado, é necessário usar a tecla Tab/Sym, que ao contrário de outros aparelhos que fazem circular a letra já colocada por todas as suas variantes, apresenta uma tabela navegável com todos os símbolos possíveis. Tal facto pode ser uma vantagem ou desvantagem, dependendo dos gostos pessoais. No meu caso torna-se incómodo, dado que me obriga a procurar o símbolo na tabela, desviando a atenção de outras coisas que possa estar a fazer, em vez de apenas carregar na tecla as vezes que preciso para chegar ao símbolo necessário sem sequer precisar de olhar (quando já se tem habituação);

Posto isto tenho que referir que, apesar das desvantagens listadas estarem em maior número que as vantagens, o mesmo não implica que sejam mais importantes. No fundo, estou bastante satisfeito com o aparelho, especialmente considerando o valor de mercado do mesmo.

Tenho também que relembrar que sou bastante a favor de se unificar os teclados destes aparelhos. Da mesma forma que os teclados de PC são, regra geral, relativamente universais e têm um layout relativamente similar que dispensa grandes períodos de habituação, também acredito que o mesmo se devesse passar nos teclados de PDAs, uma standardização. Caso contrário, todos irão ter sempre grandes períodos de habituação quando mudarem de aparelho ou estarão bastante sujeitos a cometer erros por estarem habituados também ao uso de outros aparelhos em paralelo, quando haja mais que um número de telemóvel a dar atenção. Dúvidas? No sítio do costume.

Prendas de aniversário

Para quem estiver curioso ou generoso, esta é a minha lista de prendas, por ordem de preferência (as T-Shirts são todas em tamanho M):

• Celica 7ª geração, modelo de 1999-2001 (7A)
• http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/popculture/b4d0/
• http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/popculture/aa99/
• http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/78c6/
• http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/popculture/6b6e/
• http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/8f52/
• http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/6e90/
• http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/60fd/
• http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/65a4/
• http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/aa00/
• http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/itdepartment/31fc/
• http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/78ae/

Reportagem: Empreenda 09

Reportagem na Empreenda 09, feira de empreendedorismo organizada pelo IAPMEI em 2009, que decorreu na Alfândega do Porto.

A reportagem, sobre a referida feira, faz referência à Onda Technology e ao seu primeiro produto, WISE, sendo um dos sócios fundadores (Filipe Guedes) entrevistado.

Vendo: Subscrição da MSDN - Visual Studio 2008 Team System com MSDN Premium

Para me livrar de coisas que comprei mas que nunca vou usar, estou a vender uma das minhas subscrições de MSDN. A versão que estou a vender é a Visual Studio 2008 Team System with MSDN Premium, valor "de rua" em Portugal de aproximadamente 13000€.

Está nova, nunca foi activada.

Vendo à melhor oferta a partir de 9000€. As ofertas podem ser enviadas em comentários a este post, junto com o email para iniciar contacto. Os posts não serão publicados, por isso será garantida toda a privacidade.

PS: Quem referir um comprador efectivo, receberá recompensa de 500€ assim que a transacção com esse comprador estiver completa, verificada e assegurada. Apenas é elegível a primeira pessoa numa cadeia de referência, ou seja, a pessoa que realmente entrar em contacto comigo a dizer "eu tenho um comprador" e apenas no caso de a transacção se efectivar.

Quotes: BIG LOL

Source

Chats: Olá.

(19:46:24) Aaron: hello ma friend
(19:46:40) João: O AARON É GAY E GOSTA DE PRETOS GRANDES CHAMADOS CINDY!
(19:46:42) João: olá :)
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(19:47:00) João: XD
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(19:47:02) Aaron: meretriz

Chats: Corrector ortográfico do iPod

(01:29:33) !: Lerda de opôs
(01:29:44) João: LOLOL
(01:29:49) João: não estás a escrever nada direito :P
(01:29:49) !: Merda de ipod
(01:29:56) João: LOOOOOOOOOOL
(01:30:21) !: E isto que corrige. As veZes corrige bem outras até assusta
(01:31:39) João: loool
(01:31:41) João: estou a ver que sim
(01:32:47) !: Fuckuu
(01:32:53) !: Vou dormir
(01:32:55) João: amanhã vais para a fuckuldade? :P
(01:33:01) !: Vou
(01:33:05) !: Pró hum
(01:33:07) !: Hum
(01:33:10) João: hum?
(01:33:11) !: Gym
(01:33:13) João: loool
(01:33:21) !: Dssassss
(01:33:27) !: Dassss
(01:33:44) !: Baralho lá pra isto. Vou me.
(01:33:45) João: looooool
(01:33:48) João: LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
(01:33:53) João: OMG
(01:33:55) João: que conversa linda
(01:33:59) !: Desisto.

Chats: Honra

(00:29:35) João: às vezes tenho honra
(00:30:28) 47: looooool
(00:30:31) 47: yeah right
(00:30:48) João: eu disse "às vezes"
(00:30:55) 47: :P
(00:31:06) 47: disses t poucas?!
(00:31:08) 47: pera ai
(00:31:21) 47: tou a ouvir um "raramente:P?
(00:31:43) João: LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Fundação D. Henrique de Menezes

Em breve o endereço http://www.fdhm.pt/ terá o novo site da Fundação D. Henrique de Menezes. Para os mais interessados em história, obras culturais, espólio cultural de famílias portuguesas, o site será, no futuro, um sítio a não perder, bem como os contactos da própria Fundação.

Chats: Cindy

(23:07:58) João: não gasta tanto quanto vídeos
(23:08:15) Aaron: hmmmmm
(23:08:35) Aaron: mas tb n curto ter alguém sempre a olhar para o que tou a fazer
(23:08:45) Aaron: e o meu pai ta sempre aqui a vir cuscar
(23:08:50) Aaron: flagrantemente
(23:09:15) João: VOU DIZER A TODOS QUE ÉS GAY E GOSTAS DE PRETOS GRANDES CHAMADOS CINDY!
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(23:10:01) Aaron: puta...
(23:10:39) João: LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Quotes: Aim for the stars!

"I aim vor ze starz, but zumtimes I hit London."

Wernher Von Braun

Chats: Egomaniac bastard with a divinity complex

(23:16:08) Rune: if only coding wasn't such a slow process :)
(23:16:15) Rune: i'm so impatient
(23:16:28) João: looool
(23:16:32) João: sometimes it can be slow
(23:16:47) João: other times, when you got those moments of inspiration
(23:16:55) João: it's rolling :P
(23:17:30) Rune: Well, can we agree it takes more than a couple of hours to make a relatively complex program? :P
(23:17:48) Rune: aka. too long time for me :P
(23:18:02) João: yes, it does take
(23:19:29) João: but
(23:19:35) João: it's also amusing
(23:19:40) João: and refreshing
(23:19:48) João: the way you see you project slowly getting life
(23:19:53) João: makes you feel like a god
(23:20:42) Rune: Haha :P
(23:20:56) Rune: Doesn't surprise me at ALL that you describe it like that :D
(23:21:26) João: and why not?
(23:21:37) João: because I'm an egomaniac bastard with a divinity complex?
(23:26:36) Rune: Something like that :P
(23:27:05) João: LOOOOOOOOOOOL

Chats: Mentiras

(04:07:45) Zé Miguel: ela diz que não confia 100% em ti
(04:07:51) João: eu sei
(04:07:56) João: eu também não confio 100% em mim
(04:08:01) Zé Miguel: lol
(04:08:02) João: acho que me minto descaradamente às vezes
(04:08:08) Zé Miguel: looooooool

Quotes: Idade

Ela - "E tu tens na cabeça uma coisa que me mete impressão."
Eu - "O que é? O prepúcio?"
Ela - "Tu achas que já és velho."
Ela - "Erm? LOOOOOOOOOL."
Eu - "Ah, não estávamos a falar da mesma cabeça, então."
Ela - "Ya, lol"

Ice cream

Source: icanhascheezburger.com

Momento Zen Geek: Binaries V2.0

In reply to the comments made off-record to this post, I just have to say that I strip my own binaries... if you know what I mean.

The perfect mobile workstation for me

Screen: Decent quality 17" WUXGA (1920x1200) (with no banding problems or dead pixels)
Dual Graphics: Intel HD + ATI FireGL with dedicated 512MB video memory (to be able to switch between them on the fly in order to select between power saving or performance)
Connectivity:

• Single or dual port Intel Gigabit Ethernet (I'm adamant here)
  
• Intel WiFi 5300
• Bluetooth 2.1 EDR
• IR
• Firewire A + B
• UMTS 7.2 + 5.6
• GPS
• Individual disable buttons for each radio component
• External antennae connectors for GPS, UMTS and WiFi
  

Docking Station
Support 2 to 4 hard drive bays, possibly hot-swappable, for 2.5" hard drives
4xUSB 2.0
eSATA
Touchpad
Fingerprint reader (not really necessary, but it would be nice)
Webcam (2MP)
Card reader
HDA Audio
JBL Pro speakers
ExpressCard 34/54
PCMCIA
Smartcard reader (not really necessary, but it would be nice)
Three power adapters (1 x docking station + 2 x travel)
Hot-swappable drive bay (replaceable by different optical drive or hard disk)
At least 4GB DD3 memory
T9400 or superior, maybe Q9100
TPM
Car power adapter
Kensington lock

A prova de que não foram...

xico: em relacao a XXX.. é melhor perguntars ao ze
João: huh?
João: o Zé tentou saltar para as cuecas da XXX?
xico: ahaha
xico: nao q eu saiba
João: então foste tu?
João: é que se fosse o Zé, tinhas que ser tu a contar
xico: hmm acho q nao s fez a ela..
João: então o que se passou?!?
João: o que é que se passou entre vocês os 3?
xico: muhahah
xico: so tu e q ficast d fora!! e foi tao BOOOOOOOOOOOM
xico: lol
João: e agora a sério
xico: ok. fomos todos para o motel hawai. nao t convidamos pq o teu ego nao cabia no 4o
xico: e alugar 2suites saia mt caro

A prova de que não foram é porque ele não sabe escrever o nome do motel. É HAVAY pá!

Momento Zen: New year resolutions

- So, any new year resolutions?
- Yeah, 2560x1600

Fujitsu Siemens Celsius H250 and H270

Back in the end of 2007 I bought a Celsius H250. I ordered it, choosing every component, including a docking station and extra power adapter and a swappable hard drive. It took about 2 months to arrive. Cost me over 2300€. After less than one month of usage, and little use of the battery, the battery was already only able to provide me with about one hour and an half of charge and, worse, the screen was getting scratched by the the top cabinet (the space around the touch pad). Since I never submitted it to any pressure, the problem was not the result of wrongful usage, but of a conception/manufacture flaw. I contacted support and brought them the device so they could repair. Notice that this device has a 3year collect and return warranty, but I was always forced to bring it myself to the support agency.

When I received the device, with a new screen, the back of the screen was scratched and the new screen had no quality: it had vertical banding problems. Two faded white bands were degrading the image. I once again contacted support. They told me they would order a new part and replace it and assured me it wouldn't take longer than a week. The part never got in time, taking longer than one month. By this time, I had already moved out of my country, to Denmark, to work there for a few months. I didn't even got an apology. And this new screen was getting scratched again. The top cabinet always got scratched too.

By this time I contacted the Danish support. Their reply was nothing more than a dry "go ask for support in your country" reply. I replied telling them that I was living in Denmark and never got an answer back. Mind you, the warranty of this device is, supposedly, a three year collect and return INTERNATIONAL warranty and, according to the information on the documentation, it is valid in Denmark. Because of this I contacted the Portuguese support again and they told me I had to bring the device to them.

So I booked a >500€ flight after talking with the local FSC support team, giving them a one month notice. I went and they replaced my screen again but, this time, not the top cabinet, even thought it was scratched again. No, there was no lower cost flight option to travel from Copenhagen, Denmark to Porto, Portugal.

Later, when I had the chance of testing the device at my home, I noticed that it came with dead pixels. I contacted FSC support again and they told me to inform them the next time I was going to Portugal, that they would have a replacement part waiting for me. I booked another flight, giving them, once more, one month notice. When I arrived, the part hadn't yet. It was a wasted trip. If only the danish support had fulfilled it's obligations in the first place.

The screen and top cabinet were getting scratched again, with nothing more than two careful open and close cycles of the laptop lid per day. Opening after getting home, closing before going to bed, opening after getting to work, closing before leaving work.

I got back to Portugal once more for assistance, me and the laptop had taken one more trip to get it to maintenance. Since that laptop was my only means of communication with home while I was in Denmark, it was all I had to work with, and danish support refused me assistance, I had no other choice.

Later I came back to Portugal for good. I delivered the laptop once more to get it fixed. The support team was taking a long time to fix it, so I contacted the person that sold me the laptop, which was one of the administrators of that place. I told him I didn't want the laptop anymore, because it failed me so many times that I could not trust that model, that I wanted the newer model and that I would even pay the difference, despite the fact that I spent more than 1500€ in flights to get the laptop fixed. According to Portuguese law, I was in my right to even ask for my money back and I threatened with it. He told me he could do nothing without authorization from the regional FSC representatives. I contacted them and told them about my situation. That was 6 months and ago.

After 4 months of calls, and a lot of insisting, I finally got a Celsius H270 for which I had to pay an additional 700€. They ripped me off 100€, because they decided that the difference should be calculated against the current value of the H250, and not against the actual value I paid for it. It was a question of warranty not being respected, so they had no right to do it. I fought against it, but in the end, I needed the machine, I needed to work, so I accepted it anyway but warned them that I would still take legal action on it. But before this, FSC Portugal tried to force me into accepting a replacement machine which was mostly lower spec'd than mine, claiming it was actually higher spec'd and saying that I would only win from the situation. The machine's configuration hardly resembled the configuration of the H250 I first ordered. The point of being able to choose the components is the possibility of better adjusting the machine to one's needs. Having a machine that has nothing to do with what I need serves no purpose. The only thing that the computer actually had "higher" than mine, was the screen resolution. Which, in my case, was actually not an improvement. I work with pixel based imaging. I do GUI development, so I need to be able to analyze images with pixel precision. I also have -5.5 graduation of my contact lenses. Having a 1920x1200 resolution in a 15.4" screen is actually a downgrade from my 1680x1050 original Celsius. 1680x1050 I can still clearly see what I need, even though I have to apply some, but not much effort. 1920x1200 is impossible to deal with, in my case, in any screen smaller than 17".

After one more month and an half I finally got my new H270. But when I tried it, it had two flaws. First, one of the power adapters came with the wrong cable, so I have one useless power adapter, which they still haven't replaced. And, second, the screen had a darker frame all around, about 2cm from the edge. It appeared to be the result of being subject to some pressure from behind, from the cover itself. That flaw seriously degraded the image. That's not admissible in a 3000€ business computer, which FSC advertises as targeted to CAD and design professionals. I once again contacted FSC and took the device to repair. I was without the device for three weeks.

When I got it back, the device still displayed the same frame which degraded the image. The power adapter hadn't been replaced also. I immediately contacted the local FSC representative and told him that, under Portuguese law, I was going to exercise my rights and ask for my money back. The reply I got was "we can't do anything else for you, and it's not the company policy to give the money back", basically the same as saying "it's not the company policy to comply with the law".

The worst part is, because I didn't have the laptop working when I needed it, for a presentation to a potential investor, I was unable to present the prototype for a software I was developing. Something that cannot simply be installed in a borrowed friend's machine, since I'm a low level developer and have precise requirements of both hardware and software, which a borrowed machine wouldn't make viable. I lost a funding of several thousand euros because of this.

I have now set in motion the preparation for a lawsuit against FSC so I can get a refund for the money I paid for the laptop, the amount I spent in the flights, the money they extorted me from the difference between the value of the laptops (plus interest), the gas I used to deliver the laptop to the support team and, due to the huge loss I suffered in funding, probably more, so FSC learns to respect the warranty and to build better products. I am deeply disappointed with FSC's current quality of both product and staff.

A História do Lobo Mau e do Capuchinho Azul-Bebé

Era uma vez uma Capuchinho Azul-Bebé. A mãe da Capuchinho avisou-a para não ir a bares góticos por causa do Engenheiro Lobo Mau. Mas a Capuchinho tinha curiosidade e decidiu ir ao Heavens. Foi lá que deu de caras com o Lobo Mau, disfarçado de Avozinha. Então o Lobo Mau convidou a Capuchinho para ir a casa dele para um gelado de framboesa. A Capuchinho aceitou o convite e quando lá chegou, perguntou:
- "Oh Avozinha, porque tens uma barba tão grande?"
- "Para te foder o juízo, Capuchinho."
- "Oh Avozinha, porque tens umas mãos tão grandes?"
- "Para te tratar do marisco, Capuchinho."
- "Oh Avozinha, porque tens uma pila tão grande?"
- "Para te comer melhor, Capuchinho!"

Looking back on 2008

Em 2008:

- Remodelei o meu Hi5 meia dúzia de vezes;
- Saí da Nonius Software;
- Fui trabalhar para o Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen;
- Aprendi um pouco de dinamarquês;
- Fiz novos contactos de várias nacionalidades;
- Fiz um grande amigo novo;
- Ganhei uma úlcera gástrica;
- Foi-me recusada assistência médica num hospital dinamarquês com a justificação de que... não era dinamarquês;
- Libertei-me de paixões mal curadas;
- Escrevi que me fartei;
- Fui convidado na Embaixada Portuguesa na Dinamarca;
- Aprendi muito;
- Nunca joguei tanto em toda a minha vida (Half-Life Series & Portal yay!);
- Aprendi umas receitas novas para quando estiver a viver sozinho;
- Reacordei amizades adormecidas;
- Mudei de casa;
- Não fui atropelado por nenhum táxi;
- Comprei uma workstation nova;
- Troquei de portátil, mais uma vez;
- Fui eleito conselheiro sentimental do ano (WTF?);
- Mudei e cresci bastante, mas ainda não que chegue;
- Fiquei com um ego ainda mais inchado (é o que dá andar nos transportes públicos Dinamarqueses);
- Envolvi-me com alguém muito especial;
- Andei muito mais feliz mas nunca, nunca conformado, quero sempre mais e melhor e continuarei a fazer por isso;
- Passei o ano a jogar PS3 com o Twininho!

Bem... foi um ano cheio.

Boas entradas!

Momento Zen, Dicionário

C-FOD: sgl.: Carpe Fodum Omni Diem. Vide Carpe Coitum Omni Diem.

Momento Zen

Rules exist to guide those lacking the ability make proper decisions and to be overridden by those fit enough to really make decisions.

Priceless

Priceless

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My ego is so small...

!: eu dava um dj fabuloso...
!: mesmo
João: eu dava um deus fabuloso...
João: mesmo

Priceless quotes and cryptic clues

"Come to the Dark Side.

We have cookies."

Quem se lembra?

Fun stuff: Girls

Needs no further description. I need this one, go figure... Exactly this one...

Momento Zen

"Até quando o caminho parece um instável terreno pantanoso coberto de musgo, pode-se revelar uma sólida ponte de pedra coberta com uma alcatifa."

Música da Semana: James Morrison - You Give Me Something

You want to stay with me in the morning
You only hold me when I sleep,
I was meant to tread the water
Now I've gotten in too deep,
For every piece of me that wants you
Another piece backs away.

'Cause you give me something
That makes me scared, alright,
This could be nothing
But I'm willing to give it a try,
Please give me something
'Cause someday I might know my heart.

You already waited up for hours
Just to spend a little time alone with me,
And I can say I've never bought you flowers
I can't work out what they mean,
I never thought that I'd love someone,
That was someone else's dream.

'Cause you give me something
That makes me scared, alright,
This could be nothing
But I'm willing to give it a try,
Please give me something,
'Cause someday I might call you from my heart,
But it might me a second too late,
And the words I could never say
Gonna come out anyway.

'Cause you give me something
That makes me scared, alright,
This could be nothing
But I'm willing to give it a try,
Please give me something,
'Cause you give me something
That makes me scared, alright,
This could be nothing
But I'm willing to give it a try,
Please give me something
'Cause someday I might know my heart.
Know my heart, know my heart, know my heart