Levante a mão quem nunca tentou o moonwalk
Not ready yet.
I'm supposed to write a long, introspective post here. This is not it.
There is a post I've been meaning to post here for some time now. A post with the intention to summarize all that happened during the last 12 months and, most importantly, what I have learned from that.
But I'm still not ready to write it. I still don't feel comfortable at all around this subject. Sometimes I'm just numb enough not to think about it, and sometimes it still feels like everything happened yesterday. I still haven't felt like anything is ok. At all.
More recently I've been able to get by most of the day just fine. But it's not a stable equilibrium - a small thing can trigger an emotional avalanche that overwhelms me and I can barely manage it. I have been subjected to such a nuclear blast - in so many different ways - that I still haven't had time enough to restructure myself.
Hopefully sometime this year I will be able to break this spiked shell I have gotten myself into and get to move on with my life. Right now, everything just seems to be on hold - even as everything keeps spinning.
Posted by Francisco - Tuesday, June 02, 2009 at 16:54
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Testing Flock
As usual, I'm not satisfied with stuff in my computer.
For some reason there's always something I feel could be better in my computer. A program that could be doing stuff it does not but would be useful to me, a way it should behave or something else.
I'm not complaining. This is actually simply the statement of a fact. One that I consider a good thing, to be sure. It means I'm always looking for ways to make things better.
This time I'm testing a new web browser. I've been experimenting with a few of them for the past few months, until finally giving up on Safari a couple of weeks ago, mostly because of its huge hard disk requirements - that page thumbnail feature seemed very cool, but it never really worked for me and took up enormous space (almost a gig!). So, I uninstalled Safari.
I also ended up removing Google Chrome. Even though I think it's the best looking browser of them all - good enough for me to get a FIrefox theme that simulates Chrome.
A while ago I was reading the Linux Magazine and found out about Flock. It seems to work on a different idea from Chrome. Google's browser relies on simplicity and minimalism. Flock, by its turn, is meant to integrate everything in its interface, from regular browsing to social networks, media sites, news feeds, e-mail, and so on.
I have just downloaded and installed it, and am using it right now to write this post. We'll see how it turns out.
Posted by Francisco - Friday, May 29, 2009 at 11:20
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Star Trek: Reboot
Esse deveria ser o título do novo filme, tamanha a bicuda que J.J. Abrams deu no canon. Eu poderia fazer um post gigantesco aqui sobre o filme, comentando todas as referências malucas (desde as óbvias às obscuras, embora dessas eu conheça poucas), mas já tem bastante coisa rodando a rede (por exemplo, por um trekkie e por um não-trekkie.
CA
RA
LHO
Posted by Francisco - Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 21:30
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Where is the web going?
Some time ago I began using Google Reader to stay up-to-date with stuff. By stuff I mean blogs from friends, news from several sites, updates from scientific publications, lolcats/loldogs, and so on. Basically, everything.
That brings to mind something very odd that's been happening to the internet. People don't have to go to websites to get information from them.
In a way that's a good thing, because it makes it clear that content is more important than looks, since you don't need to care about the looks on a particular page to read from it if you find it interesting. Also, it means that you don't have to wade through all the ads that keep popping up everywhere you go. And, most importantly, it means having everything you want in the same place; no need to visit every single page that might have something interesting.
Posted by Francisco - Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 19:20
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Sobre Stoa, censura e falta de noção
O Stoa acabou. Certamente isso não é oficial, mas na prática duvido que alguém vá levar esse site a sério.
Posted by Francisco - Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 19:42
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