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Avast, ye landlubbers! Shiver me timbers!

Pedro Timóteo — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 13:38:09 +0000

Yes, today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Ahoy there, and all that.

Best video game title ever?

Pedro Timóteo — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:45:59 +0000

Ah, the eighties.

For the Portuguese-speaking paranoids out there…

Pedro Timóteo — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:11:16 +0000

… go read this post of mine (including the comments).

You’ll never look at a blog that hasn’t had any new posts for a while the same way again.

Second level on Dante’s Inferno. Not bad. :)

Pedro Timóteo — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:16:13 +0000

The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Very Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	Very High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	High
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	High
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	High
Level 6 – The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very High
Level 7 (Violent)	High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Moderate
Level 9 – Cocytus (Treacherous)	High

Take the Dante’s Divine Comedy Inferno Test

“Lustful”? Moi?

Web design: the ugly, the bad and the good

Dealing with a PHB

Pedro Timóteo — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:02:37 +0000

Dilbert (unlike, say, Wally) tends to be quite naive from time to time, but for once he achieved true genius.

Twitter

Twitter

Pedro Timóteo — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:24:52 +0000

I know, I know, Twitter is last week‘s news, so I’m late. Sue me.

Twitter is a system where you can tell, easily and quickly (for instance, by instant messaging, or cell phone), what you’re doing. You can also “follow” other users.

Anyway, I just joined. My username is “Dehumanizer”; feel free to add me (I like to convince myself that people are actually interested ).

Twitter, at first glance, looks a little fun (it’s a new thing, after all), but completely useless, and even a bit self-masturbatory. However, looking at how other people use it, I’ve found that it’s not just for telling the world about useless stuff like “I’m going to the toilet”. People are using it as a mini-blog of sorts – with quick 1-2 line posts. Unlike a “normal” blog post, a Twitter post is so short that you can simply write something you’ve just thought or done, without interrupting your normal flow.

It’s also a way to, in a way, keep in touch with people, even if you don’t usually talk to each other, such as former co-workers.

Anyway, we’ll see if I keep using it or not. I probably will, but not “religiously”.