Jan
06
2007
BrasilTelecom is the most popular (and hated) phone company in South Brazil, with a very large market share, thanks to the fact it was a state-owned company that was sold for a dime (that’s another story).
Since it was announced that Brazilian authorities were tending to ask for the backbones controllers to block access to a specific YouTube video (more details here: Where no China has gone before: Brazil bans YouTube), BrT customers are totally unable to access any YouTube contents.
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Nov
01
2006
Meu Bloglines (leitor de feeds RSS online) está uma loucura, bagunçado, entupido de material, com muita coisa para ler, e muita coisa se perdendo por falta de tempo para dedicar à leitura. Particularmente, os itens arquivados que ficam ocultos da minha vista graças a um script Greasemonkey (Bloglines HAI) são uma preocupação, na medida que compõem um potencial gigantesco de informação útil, mas que não sei como aproveitar.
Estava justamente vendo um dos blogs cujos feeds acompanho, mas que não tem postagens novas muito freqüentemente, e vi que tinha dois itens arquivados, sendo um deles Right Now, de Van Halen.
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Jul
08
2006
Este texto em Português e em outros idiomas, bem como informações de inscrição no curso: www.energiamc2.com.
FROM SUBJECTIVE CREATION TO OBJECTIVE ACCOMPLISHMENT THROUGH MC2 ENERGY:
MOTIVATION / COHERENCE / COHESION
To be able to act upon the world, it is necessary to know its laws.
The world of science, or the world of religion, cannot escape this rule.
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May
02
2006
My parents were not used to take photographs from us, neither was easy to find pictures from anyone at our home. So I grew up, with no habit of taking pictures, but with a kind of “lack” that lead me to be addicted to photographic cameras.
Oddly, I always had cameras, but I can’t remember of actually making use of them. Except for the very first days, those machines of mine tend to be misused, forgotten. Right now, for instance, I have an old Web Cam Go Plus, which I can’t install on Linux, a Samsung S-301, and two cell phones with built-in camera (both Motorola, C650 and Razr V3). Besides it, I have a Zenith monoreflex that I love, because… well, just because.
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Apr
25
2006
I was sixteen when I decided to turn my own power switch off. Yes, I’m talking about killing myself. I was not able to handle all the pressure a teenager has to deal with, and despite the huge amount of information I’ve been intoxicated with for a long while, sadness and lack of hope were constant.
My father had a building, and I thought that climbing to the roof would be the first step; the second would be jumping straight to the ground. That would produce a broken neck, and everything would be over.
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