O Crominho do Técnico



Bruno Afonso's babbling and seldom refreshed views of the world

Famous last tweet: Wish I was in Barcelona. I mean, at the embo meeting in Barcelona...

Shifting the bookstore paradigm

“I’m in favor of anything that brings traffic in the store,” said Ms. Reidy of Simon & Schuster. “If it’s toys or games that brings a family into the bookstore, then I say fine.” Ms. Reidy from Simon & Schuster echoes to the New York Times what is happening with major bookstore chains. The e-book [...]

No wifi is the new rage

Hey Starbucks, looks like you’re trailing as far as trends go. No wifi is the new rage at coffee shops :)

Portugal’s clean energy efforts

The New York Times has an article on Portugal’s use of renewable sources. The most striking thing on the article is the following graph: Besides Iceland, which will show no increase in their renewable energy source share, Portugal is only behind Denmark in Europe. This is great news for Portugal as long as big profitable [...]

OkCupid data is now officially Systems Biology

Data displays an oscillatory behavior, so therefore, it is Systems Biology. [from here]

From macro economy to Scarlet Johansson

Gotta respect a famous blogger (Barry Ritholtz) that links to Things I Would Do to Bang Scarlett Johansson. ps: also, read this.

iPad can be creative at many levels

Ever since the iPad was released it has been controversial. One of the biggest claims a lot of naysayers cling onto is that it is not a creative device: It is a device that dumps information/data on you, does not push you to be creative. I believe this idea has stemmed from two sources: (1) [...]

Ansel Adams negatives found!

Not the biggest Ansel Adams fan but CNN has a story on some negatives that were believed to have been destroyed in a fire in 1937 have now turned up. Great news for photographers around the world.

R.I.P. Fiji

A different take on Uruguay’s handball

Simplified computing

After playing again on friday with a friend’s iPad for 20 minutes I started thinking about simplified computing. Sure I love my command line, matlab, perl, python, you name it. But I also love to pick something up and not have to figure out stuff I don’t want to. I want to be productive. Quickly. [...]