Olà Cambada!
Belas recordações...um portista que sempre fez rir uma benfiquista!
"Aqui vai à tua" Herman!!!
Friday, 16 November 2007
O Esférico Rolando Sobre a Erva
Wednesday, 14 November 2007
Fatal Exception!
Quantas vezes vos aconteceu de serem vítimas de panico por causa de uma mensagem “erro do sistema operativo”? Muitas vezes de certeza. Graças a este site web, podem fazer a vossa propria mensagem de erro!
No entanto, uma vez criada a mensagem, não utilizem o link porque não funcionarà, apenas uma imagem *.bmp serà criada e que necessita ser salvaguardada no vosso PC antes de ser utilizada.
A mensagem pode ser personalizada: podem decidir a aparência da janela (tipo Windows 95/98 ou Windows XP), podem introduzir o text que quiserem assim como o texto para os botões.
Tentem…aposto que se divertirão!
No entanto, uma vez criada a mensagem, não utilizem o link porque não funcionarà, apenas uma imagem *.bmp serà criada e que necessita ser salvaguardada no vosso PC antes de ser utilizada.
A mensagem pode ser personalizada: podem decidir a aparência da janela (tipo Windows 95/98 ou Windows XP), podem introduzir o text que quiserem assim como o texto para os botões.
Tentem…aposto que se divertirão!
Sunday, 11 November 2007
La Neve É Arrivata...!!!
La neve è soffice e vellutata
e con le sue magie che sfiorano i pensieri
sembra una fata.
Cade per tutto il mondo
e poi si ferma
a fare un grande girotondo.
Per tutto il paesaggio bufa
e noi ci riscaldiamo davanti alla stufa.
A Vision of Students Today
The problems I had as a university student in Portugal and then in Switzerland, were not quite the same as technology and especially internet were still but a dream...However, most of the problems back then are still the same problems today. Students, the first victims of never ending dying systems?
Friday, 9 November 2007
Día Mundial da Usabilidade!
Dando uma voltinha no Blog do meu amigo (Primo) FJ, deparei com um post que me despertou a curiosidade. Lendo do que se trata, pensei que vinha mesmo a calhar, eu que estive umas horitas a tentar entender o manual de um aparelho que me parecia dos mais simples. Mas hoje em día é preciso ser um cientista para entender como funciona um simples telefone!!!
Para resumir, a Associação Portuguesa de Profissionais de Usabilidade lança no dia mundial da usabilidade (mais um dia mundial para recordar!!!) o site de potesto "Diffícil de Usar"!
O seu objectivo é recolher testemunhos de objectos/serviços/sites que nos colocam dificuldades no dia a dia. O site irá manter-se activo até ao final de Novembro, altura em que serão compilados todos os testemunhos e enviados às entidades responsáveis pelos objectos do protesto.
Quanto mais protestos forem recolhidos mais força terão junto das empresas responsáveis. Ajude a passar a palavra, divulgando o site no seu blog ou site pessoal/empresarial.
Thursday, 8 November 2007
Manger Du Chocolat Pour Aider La Nature!!!
Les accros au chocolat (comme moi) pourront désormais se laisser tenter sans éprouver le moindre sentiment de culpabilité: un nouveau procédé permet de transformer les restes de fabrication du chocolat en biocarburant. Ce nouveau carburant est fabriqué dans le nord de l’Angleterre.
C'est peut être la façon la plus facile et la plus agréable de contribuer au développement durable!
En avant toutes...mangeons du chocolat!!!!
Make My Logo Bigger!!!!
Strolling along the web, I found something in another Blog which is very interesting and funny. Believe me If you're a website designer or a graphic designer and you've worked with clients, you will surely die laughing when you watch the commercial for Make My Logo Bigger Cream, a special new product available to clients of designers.
HAVE FUN!!!!
Wednesday, 7 November 2007
Sunday, 4 November 2007
How To Do Nothing At Work And Still Get Paid...?
Would be fun to find out if anyone ever got away with it...
Minha Escrivaninha...Escritório e Casa...
Hà dias em que a escrivaninha, seja no escritório o em casa, é o espelho de como me sinto! Sem mais comentários...preciso de um bom café para acordar esta manhã...!
How To Make Greek Salad (Horiatiki Salata)!
For all those that asked at the office. This is how the real recipe should be. Remember, NO LETTUCE!!!
Saturday, 3 November 2007
My Own Two Cents On Madeleine...Part V!
In "Part IV", I mentioned about British press shooting their own foot...seems like it is what happened!
The results of the biological evidence found in the apartment and in the car used by the McCann have now arrived in Portugal. The British press states that the results show with no doubt that Madeleine was carried in the trunk of the car the McCann were using. Her DNA is spread all over the car which contradicts the theory of DNA transfer from clothing. Need be to remind that the car was rented 22 days after Madeleine's disappearance?
Sources contacted by Portuguese newspapers, are careful in their statements regarding the results of the DNA testing and sampling. However, they do not exclude that former theories are now confirmed but they assure that work still needs to be done on it for doubtless certainty. The contacted sources, reinstate that the priority is to find the child's body, as only when Maddie is found, it will be possible to understand the mechanism that led to her death and to eventually formally accuse her parents of homicide.
One should remember that the first results given to the Portuguese authorities already seemed to agree with the theory that Maddie was dead. That is why her parents were considered "arguidos" last September.
However, back then, the police did not have much to work with to have absolute belief in their guilt. Although Maddie's parents had been confronted with evidence available and with the homicide theory, they stated over and over again that the DNA was in the car because of DNA transfer since Maddie's clothes were carried in the trunk of the car.
The results now available for the Portuguese police show that such could not be possible. Some British press stated that the evidence formally guarantees that the evidence available points to a body being carried in the car and not a live person (the McCann had stated that the DNA could come from their twin children. Needless to point out that although we have similar DNA within family, we have our own chart...like our own finger prints!).
So shooting their own foot? Yes, so much that the British press is now reverting the tide and accusing the McCann. The same press that protected, "shielded" the McCann and had fun with their smear campaign of Portugal and its police. How easy now...
If the above is confirmed...one thing is for sure...the McCann will have damaged forever the image of those who really suffer the loss of a child in dramatic circumstances and need as much help as possible. How to make any campaign credible from now on? We now take the risk that each time a child will disappear, a public outcry will be overlooked, will be insignificant. Won't we think each time it will happen "what if it is another McCann case"?
The results of the biological evidence found in the apartment and in the car used by the McCann have now arrived in Portugal. The British press states that the results show with no doubt that Madeleine was carried in the trunk of the car the McCann were using. Her DNA is spread all over the car which contradicts the theory of DNA transfer from clothing. Need be to remind that the car was rented 22 days after Madeleine's disappearance?
Sources contacted by Portuguese newspapers, are careful in their statements regarding the results of the DNA testing and sampling. However, they do not exclude that former theories are now confirmed but they assure that work still needs to be done on it for doubtless certainty. The contacted sources, reinstate that the priority is to find the child's body, as only when Maddie is found, it will be possible to understand the mechanism that led to her death and to eventually formally accuse her parents of homicide.
One should remember that the first results given to the Portuguese authorities already seemed to agree with the theory that Maddie was dead. That is why her parents were considered "arguidos" last September.
However, back then, the police did not have much to work with to have absolute belief in their guilt. Although Maddie's parents had been confronted with evidence available and with the homicide theory, they stated over and over again that the DNA was in the car because of DNA transfer since Maddie's clothes were carried in the trunk of the car.
The results now available for the Portuguese police show that such could not be possible. Some British press stated that the evidence formally guarantees that the evidence available points to a body being carried in the car and not a live person (the McCann had stated that the DNA could come from their twin children. Needless to point out that although we have similar DNA within family, we have our own chart...like our own finger prints!).
So shooting their own foot? Yes, so much that the British press is now reverting the tide and accusing the McCann. The same press that protected, "shielded" the McCann and had fun with their smear campaign of Portugal and its police. How easy now...
If the above is confirmed...one thing is for sure...the McCann will have damaged forever the image of those who really suffer the loss of a child in dramatic circumstances and need as much help as possible. How to make any campaign credible from now on? We now take the risk that each time a child will disappear, a public outcry will be overlooked, will be insignificant. Won't we think each time it will happen "what if it is another McCann case"?
Wednesday, 31 October 2007
Este Blog Diz Piaçaba!!!
Jà que o piaçá é uma vassoura que não estudou...vamos todos dizer "piaçaba"! :-D
Sunday, 28 October 2007
HOT CHOCOLATE...
Because of the weather outside (preparing itself for snow) and the need to cocoon that comes with it, I prepared my self some old fashioned home made hot chocolate. Enjoying it in my pyjamas, I thought of sharing the recipe with you. So here goes:INGREDIENTS:
2 ounces of chocolate powder (+ 2 squares of Toblerone if wanted)
1/3 cup sugar (if the chocolate powder is not already sweetened)
4 cups milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Whipped cream (for those who want a richer taste and texture)
Marshmallows (for those who like it)
PREPARATION:
Place chocolate, sugar and milk in a saucepan over medium-low heat.
Heat, stirring, until chocolate melts (include the 2 squares of Toblerone at this stage) and mixture is well blended.
Add vanilla and the whipped cream; pour hot chocolate into cups. Put marshmallow on top.
This hot chocolate recipe serves 4.
Of course my recipe does not rival with the famous hot chocolate from the “Barbare” in Lausanne where the chocolate texture is so sick that the spoon stands on its own in the cup (and you actually have to eat the hot chocolate with the spoon rather than drinking it), but I can guarantee my recipe is excellent!
Saturday, 27 October 2007
A lingua portuguesa tem cá destas coisas!!!!
Dando uma voltinha no oceano da internet, fiquei "encalhada" num blog que achei de muita utilidade no que respeita às definições que dà da lingua portuguesa.
Tudo o que diz faz muito sentido...basta ver uma das definições que dà de "pleonasmo" (clique aqui). Pela mesma ocasião fez-me descobrir uma enciclopedia de português disponivel gratuitamente na internet que muito me espantou por ser...digamos...séria (desculpem tive de parar de escrever porque isto de rir e escrever ao mesmo tempo não dá muito jeito!) e pela sua...hum...originalidade.
Cliquem no link da enciclopedia "O Portuga de A~Z" e juro-vos que vão compreender porque é que ainda não consegui parar de rir! É...como explicar...uma nova visão da nossa lingua. Digo bravo aos prestigiados investigadores que desenvolveram esta obra magnífica!
Algumas dicas: cliquem nas imagens que aparecem ao lado das definições, terão (boas?) surpresas e.g. cliquem, nos pontos vermelhos no homemzinho página 03, ou na panela do cozido à portuguesa na página 07, na seta verde na página 05, mesma coisa para a definição de emigrante na página 11 (oh meu Deus que tenho de me rebolar no chão de tanto rir), enfim...deixo-vos descobrir...todas as imagens ao lado das definições têm links e se clicarem vão descobrir maravilhas!!!
(recomendo...ai se recomendo a visita à definição da letra "P" página 33 - passem com o rato por cima das definições para compreender do que se trata...mesma coisa para a página "musica").
BOA LEITURA!!!!!
Ah le amour...always ze amour...believe vous?
"...chi sa perché noi maschieti doppo avere tanto lottato per conquistare una femina, non vediamo l'ora di scapare?"
Friday, 26 October 2007
Duro svegliarsi la mattina...
Non avete mai avuto delle mattine difficili...delle mattine dove alzarsi era tanto difficile? Bisogna ringraziare Francesco di avermi fatto capire che potrebbe essere ancora peggio!
Thursday, 25 October 2007
Les Hommes Peuvent Attendre...
Je viens de finir un livre qui est une petite perle pour toute celles qui comme moi ont été (et le sont toujours d'ailleurs) fan de Bridget Jones mais qui en même temps se demandent pourquoi elles devraient arrêter de vivre en attendant leur Prince Charmant.
Le critique littéraire du journal "The Observer" a écrit "la meilleure manière de lire ce livre, c'est au lit, en pyjama de soie, en mangeant des choux à la crème". La vérité c'est que j'ai presque suivit le conseil à la lettre tellement ce livre est "délicieux"!
Le livre n'est en aucun cas un plaidoyer pour la vie en solitaire. Sur dix personnes qui vivent seules, cinq ne peuvent tout simplement pas faire autrement, et sur les cinq restantes, au moins trois s'avèrent d'un egoïsme exaspérant. Que l'on considère sa vie en solo comme une malédiction ou une aventure, il faut une stratègie si l'on tient à tirer le meilleur parti de cette situation.
Tel est le constat que fait Marjorie Hillis en 1936, et qui est toujours d'actualité en 2007. Dans ce petit bijou datant d'une époque raffinée, elle décrit avec finesse et humour ce que peut être la vie des femmes célibataires. "Les Hommes Peuvent Attendre - L'Art de Vivre Seule" fut un Best-Seller des années 1930 mais il est toujours d'actualité et est le parfait antidote à la morosité préconisée par Bridget Jones!
Le livre n'est en aucun cas un plaidoyer pour la vie en solitaire. Sur dix personnes qui vivent seules, cinq ne peuvent tout simplement pas faire autrement, et sur les cinq restantes, au moins trois s'avèrent d'un egoïsme exaspérant. Que l'on considère sa vie en solo comme une malédiction ou une aventure, il faut une stratègie si l'on tient à tirer le meilleur parti de cette situation.
Tel est le constat que fait Marjorie Hillis en 1936, et qui est toujours d'actualité en 2007. Dans ce petit bijou datant d'une époque raffinée, elle décrit avec finesse et humour ce que peut être la vie des femmes célibataires. "Les Hommes Peuvent Attendre - L'Art de Vivre Seule" fut un Best-Seller des années 1930 mais il est toujours d'actualité et est le parfait antidote à la morosité préconisée par Bridget Jones!
Je recommende tout particulièrement le Chapitre 4 - "Points d'étiquette pour la femme qui vit seule"...un vrai régal!!!!!!
Les filles, à vos pyjamas en soie et choux à la crème...ce livre est absolument à recommender!!!
Sunday, 21 October 2007
Pythea's Blog...has new layout!
Most of you have now noticed...Pythea's Blog has got a new layout! The Blog has grown to be more in agreement with its owner's desires i.e. simple lines and the predominance of the red colour...Pythea's favourite!
Haven't you ever felt bored around 4:00 on a sunday afternoon? That is what was happening after having left the friends I had had lunch with. Got home and after considering the different options I decided to take the less "easy" one. Why not trying to use my new web editor/designer skills for my own blog and see what I can come up with? I can say I am quite happy with the result! After having fiddled around with lots of HTML code, becoming despaired with design (ever tried making sense out of CSS Style Sheets?) that did not want to obey orders and wanting to throw the computer out of the window (especially if one thinks that working with web sites is what I do at work!!!), the results looks very nice. Next step...a real web site!
I can't help looking back and wonder what happened to the person who was completely not into technology a few years ago. I refused for a long time to even have a mobile phone (do remember telling friends how bad it was for their health, etc.). I now own 2 of them, have got a PC with lots of gadgets, a laptop with another set of gadgets, MP4 etc... However, the weirdest is to be now working with web sites!
Colleagues from the University in Portugal must be having a good laugh remembering how much I hated these "infernal" machines...end up working with them is the craziest twist of destiny one could have ever thought of!
Well, hope that you'll like the new design...you are welcome to make any comments and suggestions!
By the way, this new design is dedicated to Jörg and Pascal...thanks for "showing" me the way!!!
Pobreza não pára de aumentar em Portugal
20% dos portugueses vive abaixo da linha de pobreza!!! Os únicos com maiores índices de risco de pobreza são a Espanha, Grécia e Irlanda e embora esteja lado a lado com a Itàlia é o país da União Europeia com o maior desquilíbrio a nível de distribuição de rendimentos.
Mais uma vez a os aumentos e a redução de investimento em todos os serviços básicos, afectam somente a população mais necessitada criando um desequilíbrio ainda maior!
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