July 2011
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Friend's Day / Friendship Day →
Yesterday I’ve seen a lot of people from Brazil on my Twitter and Facebook wishing everybody a happy friend’s day, or friendship day. I did not know it was such a day, and this morning I…
Jul 22nd
November 2010
1 post
Kinect →
Yesterday, as promised, my Kinect arrived and I couldn’t wait to play it, but I was good enough to work all afternoon, leave work and go to the supermarket, before I went home to set it up and…
Nov 11th
October 2010
3 posts
The Very First One. Again. →
This post is a reproduction of http://ceottaki.com/node/6 Hello! In April 2005 I was writing this short blog entry I called “The Very First One”, to introduce my then newly created blog -…
Oct 29th
Oct 25th
Rubber Duck Method of Debugging
  Behold the Rubber Duck method of debugging. It goes like this: 1) Beg, borrow, steal, buy, fabricate or otherwise obtain a rubber duck (bathtub variety) 2) Place rubber duck on desk and inform it you are just going to go over some code with it, if that's all right. 3) Explain to the duck what you code is supposed to do, and then go into detail and explain things line by line 4) At...
Oct 19th
July 2010
1 post
Corrupted Nikon RAW (NEF) Files →
About a month and a half ago I had a good friend visiting us for almost a month. Being also a photograph enthusiast, and one with a nervous finger, he took just over 4 thousand photos with his
Jul 12th
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February 2010
6 posts
Green belt
Yeah!!! I’m a green belt now!!! Yuppi!!! :)
Feb 20th
Confused...
I’m so confused with all my networking things that I don’t know where to post things anymore… :)
Feb 17th
My iPhone is bricked
After I posted about my iPhone not working properly right after 3.1.3 update here, here and here, I reboot, reset, restore, and ran out of options. So I took my phone to the shop today, and it seems to be bricked, so it is gone now for repair. :( In the meantime, I have a loan iPhone 3G (not a 3GS like mine) from the shop… I can’t believe Apple bricked my iPhone with a firmware...
Feb 16th
iPhone charged, now let's see.
It took my iPhone 3GS to charge from not to 100% almost 5 hours. Now let’s see if Apple is really “unscrewing” us.
Feb 11th
Apple is "unscrewing"?
After being really disapointed at Apple yesterday, my iPhone 3GS died, out of battery, at around 3pm, so I connected it to my laptop to charge, without syncronizing it (I don’t sync it to this laptop). By the time I had to leave work it had only charged to 85%, so I disconnected it and went home. As unbelievable as it sounds, I kept observing it and it wasn’t discharging with the same...
Feb 11th
Apple screwed me.
Apple released its new iPhone firmware, 3.1.3, some days ago, and the day before yesterday I updated my iPhone 3GS. They said the main correction was related to improving measurement of the battery, which is a good thing. Now, the battery of my iPhone lasts about 6 hours. In standby, almost no use at all. It used to last over 30 hours, maybe more if I didn’t use it a lot. I honestly hope...
Feb 10th
January 2010
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December 2009
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Dec 15th
October 2009
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Oct 20th
September 2009
1 post
Urinal protocol vulnerability →
This is worth reading, especially if you’re a guy…
Sep 9th
August 2009
2 posts
Reasons to Photograph →
Those of you who know me a bit better know that I like photography and that I have no fear in calling myself an amateur photographer. Perhaps I should restrain myself from using the word…
Aug 19th
Did 7-year-old Learn to Drive From Video Games? →
A 7-year-old kid is caught driving a car, he says he leaned from watching his mom and his sister, but police decides he actually learned from video games?!?! Honestly, it just sounds like persecution to me, blaming video games just because it is more guaranteed to make news. :P
Aug 12th
June 2009
3 posts
To Update or Not To Update? →
That is the question really, isn’t it? It has been more than a couple of days that Apple has released its 3.0 update for the iPhone / iPod touch OS, and I haven’t updated my iPod touch (1st gen)…
Jun 23rd
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May 2009
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May 6th
March 2009
1 post
Mar 25th
February 2009
3 posts
Feb 28th
Feb 23rd
Feb 9th
November 2008
4 posts
Not a Good Year for SCI-FI →
I’m going to be brief here, but I have to say that 2008 has not been a good year for science fiction. No, I’m not talking about bad movies or lack of good books or anything like that, I’m talking…
Nov 25th
Nov 14th
Nov 6th
Reviewing Dell Vostro 1510 Laptop →
I have just bought a Dell Vostro 1510 laptop at work for my own use and I thought it would be interesting to write a review about it now that I have used it for a week or so, although my “thing”…
Nov 3rd
August 2008
3 posts
Online Maps Are Good! →
I was reading this article on BBC today, online maps ‘wiping out history’, and I couldn’t believe what I was reading. For me, this is just another example of someone who cannot cope with the…
Aug 29th
Aug 13th
New VisionAire technology from Obscura →
Wow. I had an idea that someone would do it soon, as you can read in my blog here, but still, to see it working is absolutely dazzling. And in the air, not even a glass screen! Thanks Hervan for sharing this news with me.
Aug 6th
July 2008
2 posts
Jul 31st
Jul 4th
June 2008
3 posts
Once Upon a Time There Was Privacy →
Once upon a time there was a little girl called Privacy. Privacy had a rough childhood, having suffered a lot while trying to grow up, and being invaded and broken several times. Her mother, Civil…
Jun 22nd
Jun 11th
Steve Jobs' Wardrobe
Just a quick comment here… Does Steve Jobs owns other clothes apart from that black t-shirt and those jeans? Or does he have a wardrobe filled with black t-shirts and jeans? Check it out. The first photo is from Jan 2007 (iPhone), the second one is from Jan 2008 (MacBook Air) and the third one is from Jun 2008 (iPhone 2). Hehehehe. I’m just being mean…
Jun 10th
May 2008
5 posts
Parents Are Right This Time! →
I just can’t believe that Nintendo did this mistake. It’s just unbelievable that such a great company, in days like today with all these discussions about how games affect our lives and how they…
May 21st
May 19th
TV Ads →
I, together with the majority of the 60 million people living in the UK, watch TV on a regular basis, and I am not here to complain about the declining quality of TV over the years or the general…
May 16th
May 6th
May 5th
April 2008
3 posts
Apr 28th
Stark warning for internet's future →
Interesting point of view, although I don’t usually like pessimistic views. But I’m all for open devices and systems. :)
Apr 25th
Apr 9th
March 2008
6 posts
Mar 28th
Mar 27th
The Arthur C. Clarke Gamma Ray Burst →
hervan:Larry Sessions, a columnist for Earth & Sky, has suggested in his blog that the gamma-ray event whose radiation reached us a few hours before Arthur C. Clarke died, and which occurred 7.5 billion…
Mar 26th