(With thanks to Non Credo Deus)

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Planeta Asterisco is now PrintScreen (or Prt.Sc). I like the new look a lot, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to convince them to make the post titles clickable. The Tlog is proud (well, I am; the blog isn’t sentient, at least not yet…) to be aggregated there.

Fórum Arte de Blogar, a companion forum to my Arte de Blogar blog, in Portuguese. It’s about blogging, SEO, website marketing, and so on. Still relatively empty, but it’s up to you to change that.

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My ideal job, at the moment, would be a senior sysadmin / junior PHP programmer “hybrid”, but I’m open to alternatives.

As I’ve said here before: no outsourcing, no MS stuff, no helpdesk. I don’t see this as “arrogance” on my part, but simply as not wanting to waste both sides’ time.

For more details (in Portuguese), and the full CV, please visit www.pedrotimoteo.com/cv . Thank you.

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I’m not American, so I won’t be voting, of course, but nothing prevents me from taking the test anyway. So here are my results:

1. Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100%)
2. Dennis Kucinich (78%)
3. Barack Obama (75%)
4. Al Gore (71%)
5. Wesley Clark (69%)
6. Joseph Biden (68%)
7. Hillary Clinton (67%)
8. Christopher Dodd (65%)
9. John Edwards (62%)
10. Kent McManigal (61%)
11. Ron Paul (59%)
12. Bill Richardson (59%)
13. Mike Gravel (53%)
14. John McCain (46%)
15. Rudolph Giuliani (46%)
16. Chuck Hagel (35%)
17. Mitt Romney (35%)
18. Newt Gingrich (32%)
19. Elaine Brown (30%)
20. Tommy Thompson (26%)
21. Fred Thompson (24%)
22. Sam Brownback (22%)
23. Mike Huckabee (22%)
24. Tom Tancredo (19%)
25. Jim Gilmore (14%)
26. Duncan Hunter (12%)

Source: 2008 Presidential Candidate Selector.

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While way too many people were too self-centered (“this doesn’t concern me, so I won’t move my ass”) to do anything at all (only about 40% of the population actually voted), still, the results were positive: the “don’t send women to prison anymore” side won. It shows that the Portuguese people are slowly, but surely, leaving the Middle Ages.

Today’s referendum, no matter what the fundies said, wasn’t about “saving lives” (anyone who really needs to have an abortion, will almost surely get one — even if it involves falling down a flight of stairs –, and who is concerned about their lives?). It was, instead, a choice between those who believe people should be free to decide things for themselves, and those who feel they have the “right” to control other people’s lives, to impose their own morality upon the rest.

Fortunately, and while the result isn’t “binding” (due to the low turnout), the former group won. It’s great to feel proud of my country, for a change.

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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”.

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