O Crominho do Técnico

Happy 30th birthday to me! :-)

That’s what Dee Dee Bridgewater calls him. Hear the full set here or just click play below (is it working?). It’s amazing. He never ceases to make me smile after the initial chords and notes. I always know I’m in for a treat.

For those of you interested in reading the full version of the article and do not happen to have access here’s the PDF.
I will write a bit more about it when I have some time!

Due to my computer abilities I have been appointed the lab’s internal IT manager. It basically entails nothing with the exception of communicating to the real IT people what the lab needs or fixing up some code in our PHP system for ordering and some databases.
One of my duties is to administer the mailing lists [...]

Part of my life is pretty much exposed to everyone. I’m registered and active in social networks sites and I have a couple of websites. One of them is this personal blog and the other is a very public blog aggregator for science blogs written in Portuguese called Divulgarciencia, http://divulgarciencia.com.
Being exposed, public and fairly vocal about [...]

When you’ve played and watched soccer for well over two decades it’s hard to get impressed. This past weekend Real Madrid player Cristiano Ronaldo scored an amazing free kick. It is amazing because it is beautiful to watch but also because we can witness how soccer can still be re-invented. This player has re-invented how [...]

NYT wants to put blogs behind their new upcoming paywall. It seems that not even they know what is going to be happening with it and the rules. Interestingly, they may exempt famous blogs like Freakonomics and Paul Krugman’s (recent Nobel prize winner) from being behind the paywall.
Let me get this straight, they will put [...]

In Portugal, the opposing parties prefer to let the current government die slowly and painfully (in portuguese) than try to dissolve it and put a new and (hopefully) better one in place. This decision represents the current politics in Portugal: It’s a country where politicians care more about themselves instead of their country.
It’s a sad [...]

Until the iPhone arrived in 2007, software developers didn’t really care much about mobile applications. Sure, there were some, but the mobile computer in a pocket wasn’t a reality. With the arrival of the iPhone, the way users interacted with an application were fundamentally different, still tied to the mouse and keyboard paradigm. Even on [...]