Uso há anos calendários compactos sempre que preciso raciocinar sobre datas. Segue versão com feriados do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro):DOWNLOAD VERSÃO BRASIL… Read More

Just a quick announce of a pet project I started a few months ago. Unfortunately I've already slowed down work to a halt as I focus on finishing my MBA dissertation.The objective of the&nbsp&hell…Read More

Amazon seems to be really slow and conservative on features for the embedded software (OS) running on it's Kindle devices. The last update (v3.1) was on Feb 2011. I don't see why they can't… Read More

Como já existem zilhões de reviews sobre o Kindle em inglês, faço um agora em português.Em geral superou minhas expectativas. Enviei via correio para um hote… Read More

Uso há anos calendários compactos sempre que preciso raciocinar sobre datas e como não achei uma versão para 2010 com os feriados brasileiros, decidi fazer e disp… Read More

... its "What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item" list at the Amazon page shows all best sellers from the author you attack listed first and your book itself at 4th:Of cours… Read More

Finalmente achei o video online da apresentação que realizei em Set/2008 na PyconBrasil 2008 sobre o isk-daemon e projetos relacionados.Video:Slides:isk-daemon: busca visual de… Read More

Similar to what digiKam did, the Xapian opensource search engine library has also ported imgSeek code into its code base in order to provide content-based visual search features Read More

Avoid doing it under virtual machines. Nokia's firmware update system restarts the cell phone dozens of times as part of the upgrade process so the host and virtual machine will get all conf… Read More

Interesting statistics from Flickr: Nokia E71 adoption seems to be increasing faster than any other previous model.(extracted from Flickr statistics) Read More

I've been using the opensource Brackup tool to backup some of my documents and photos to the cloud (Amazon S3 - which charges as little as $0.150 per GB per month). … Read More

Another attempt to save others time.I was getting this error when trying to generate PDF from LaTeX source using dvipdf.dvipdf> Note that an absolute path or a relative path with .. are d… Read More

I've done the final presentation this morning and everything went well.What to do with the degree? Not sure. Actually, this question doesn't make much sense.Am I relieved? You bet so.Did I g… Read More

From my experience this seems to happen with virtually all books: most of the time the important remarks made by the author about a passage are referenced and placed at the end of the book… Read More

Glad to know that the fast multiresolution image querying techniques implemented at my imgSeek project have been ported into digiKam:During my digiKam presentation at LGM2008 i have introduc… Read More

First the depressing one: All the people around you either looking or acting strange (in a bad way) are actually trying to do their best. Now imagine who they really are when no one is aroun… Read More

I've created two simple iTunes AppleScripts for opening the Last.FM web page for the track or album of the song currently playing.To install, just drag the files to your /[username]/Library/… Read More

I got curious so here's some stats I've been gathering.Twitts are culled from the public timeline every minute and language (see code definitions) is detected by Google.The most spoken langu… Read More

Take a quick look at this. First impression: "oh yes, these admin interfaces look really sleek". Second thought: each of them presents different UI concepts for doing the same tasks, UI elem… Read More

Why? Well, I guess they may be too annoying for people only interested on the other lengthier ramblings which I occasionally write here on this blog.So from now on if you're interested on my… Read More

Expect a lot of cool stuff coming out of the Mozilla Ubiquity project. Think of it as SIMILE meets Quicksilver right at Firefox's heart.I've created so far a few commands:add-to-twine that b… Read More

Zoomii books, the "real" online bookstore is quite interesting and extremely well implemented. But still, I sort of miss it's point. Amazon's own shopping experience is still unbeatable. To… Read More

Here's a simple Greasemonkey script I did to automatically redirect the browser to the article itself when browsing DZone, skipping the annoying summary/comments preview page.Useful when ope… Read More

These are all non-technical and have been collected from several websites. They're also ordered by what I would try first.So, tell me a little about yourself.What are you passionate about?Wh… Read More

When using Google AppEngine's URL fetch API it's not obvious how to do a basic digest HTTP/S authentication, so here's a self-explainable code snippet for doing so:import base64username = "j… Read More