Luminescente

It always amazes me the people who wouldn’t be caught with Firefox (“95% of the web is for IE”, or some other random percentage as they say), are the same people going for pre-release software like IE7.

Aren’t they afraid of the rendering issues now?

É incrível a trafulhice que vai pelos serviços de valor “acrescentado”. Ver isto no queixas.co.pt.

4 euros por semana, durante umas 4 ou 5 semanas até o puto conseguir desligar o serviço (ou até o cartão ir à vida), é um belo modelo de negócio.

Ora bolas! Rais’parta os escrúpulos…

Nunca, nunca, mas nunca mais fazer qualquer tipo de contrato para compra de casa sem ter cláusula de compensação para eventuais atrasos.

As coisas atrasam-se, e um gajo acaba por continuar a pagar renda e a nunca mais ir para a casa nova. E se um gajo soubesse que era para esperar, se calhar optava por outra coisa diferente.

O culpado? Um apartamento na urbanização Terraços da Ponte em Sacavém.

It’s a sad thing that the Mac is only acknowledged not because of being a Mac, but for being able to run Windows.

See [http://www.artsoft.pt/mac](http://www.artsoft.pt/mac).

What’s next? Tampax ads for tranvestites?

This one I didn’t know before:

I wonder if they do a security hardened solution…

The wonders of spam…

At a time Rui Carmo goes through .Mac, here I am enjoying my fastmail.fm account.

Once upon a time I decided my email needed to go IMAP, so considering all the options, I settled on Fastmail. IMAP4, decent storage (600mb, more than enough if I redirect all those “funny” videos to Gmail) and some niceties like a notebook, public web space and DAV access.

I took advantage of a promotional offer and registered for 2 years, and it was the best 30 euro I’ve spent in months.

Being a bit obsessed with numbers, it was nice today to notice two cars on the same street that were the same model as mine, a old-ish but very reliable VW Polo, and had their license plate numbers as the previous and next to mine. Mine being a XX-11-XX, and the others were respectively XX-10-XX and XX-12-XX.

And incidentally, the readout on my Powerbook’s battery monitor is not looking good. 28 minutes at 45% charge? WTF?

Ah.. Nothing like starting the day reading [way on how to commit suicide](http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=manly_suicide). Like a man, of course.

Reminds me of some hilarious usenet post I read a long time ago, leeched from the Reckless Life BBS, in a time where the internet was still something out of sci-fi movies. Not that I’m planning to do it, and never was, but it was a good laugh. Anyone knows where I can get it? I may have it at home on backup CDs, but having it online would be much better.

If you do it, goodbye letters are so old fashioned. Try to [do something a little different](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30903).

I received some spam^H^H^H^Hnewsletter from some portuguese computer store (no, I won’t link to them) and they had a very cheap Via C7 laptop. Upon looking at it’s stats, modest but still very capable machine, I saw this mentioned:

* Sound Blaster Pro compatible

And I wonder, this is some ridiculous claim to make today. Every sound card on the market, even this cheap onboard thingy can be compatible, in features, with a SBPro. How hard it is today to match a 8 bit stereo DAC/ADC at 22.05khz (44.1 in mono) with a OPL2 mono synthesizer? Listing it’s features would be enough. In this day and age as long as there are Windows drivers for it, it’s ok.

But just for kicks, I’d like them to say Gravis Ultrasound Max compatible…

At the Atlantic online, there is a great article, “Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?“, explaining how the De Beers cartel inflated the prices for diamonds.