07
Sep 07

ToC and CCPM

Path: mv.asterisco.pt!mvalente
From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: ToC and CCPM
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 07 22:32:21 GMT

Theory of Constrains and Critical Chain Project
Management seems like something fun that I should
know more about:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_chain

Some stuff is definitively going into my wishlist:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Agile-Management-Software-Engineering-Constraints/dp/0131424602/ref=sr_1_2/202-0170791-7760642

— MV


07
Sep 07

Rock N Roll Ladies

Path: mv.asterisco.pt!mvalente
From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Rock N Roll Ladies
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 07 00:32:21 GMT

There’s nothing sexier than a girl that knows how to
rock. You can take your Christinas, Jennifers and Britneys
and go and attend church…

Lita Ford – Kiss Me Deadly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sa-4A7RrP8
(I was in love with her when I was 16…)

Warlock + Doro Pesch – A Whiter Shade of Pale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y9y3vu7cuI
(Actually saw them in London in 93, together with my wife,
on the 2nd day of our honeymoon)

T’Pau – Sex Talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxbPotK9_pY
(GOD DAMN!!! This chick knows how to rock!!!…plus: a redhead)

— MV


06
Sep 07

Kierkegaard and Hackers

Path: mv.asterisco.pt!mvalente
From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Kierkegaard and Hackers
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 07 22:02:21 GMT

“The concept of hacking entered the computer culture at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960s.
Popular opinion at MIT posited that there are two kinds
of students, tools and hackers.
A “hacker” is the opposite: someone who never goes to class,
who in fact sleeps all day, and who spends the night pursuing
recreational activities rather than studying.”

Well, if I had any doubts about it, that does it. I am
a hacker. Or at least was…

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/hacker.html

“But Kierkegaard, who lived a century before the electronic
computer, gave us the most profound understanding of what a
hacker is. A hacker is an aesthete.”

Not only does that resonate with my idea of what a hacker
is but now I also have the full blast of philosophy, Kant
and Kierkegaard to justify any criticism of my admitedly
inadequate institutional profile: “I’m a hacker because
according to Kierkegaard I have a special sense of aesthetics
in what regards technology”. That should keep the ad hominem
attack makers busy for a while…

— MV


06
Sep 07

Agora Ja Sabem

Path: mv.asterisco.pt!mvalente
From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Agora Ja Sabem
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 07 00:42:21 GMT

Agora ja sabem a razao da falta de posts no inicio
da semana:

– Conferencia eJustice
http://doc.jurispro.net/thread.php?lng=pt&pg=9232&cat=1
http://www.rtp.pt/index.php?article=296537&visual=16&rss=0
http://sol.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Politica/Interior.aspx?content_id=53438

(6 horas de sono em 3 dias; andar de fato e gravata com 30 graus
a sombra e uma seca de marca maior…)

– Portal Europeu de eJustice
http://www.mj.gov.pt/sections/informacao-e-eventos/portal-de-justica7385
http://www.rtp.pt/index.php?article=290783&visual=16
http://www.i-gov.org/index.php?article=4060&visual=1&id=128&subject=193

(para alem da arquitectura ainda me sobrou andar a codar um
prototipo em Zope/Python, em conjunto com a Critical, a Novabase
e a Innovagency; ja nao tenho idade para isto….)

– Automovel Online
http://www.i-gov.org/index.php?article=4066&visual=1&id=128&subject=193
http://www.automovelonline.mj.pt/

(fazer projectos em Agosto e uma chatice; para alem de estar
toda a gente de ferias e nos a trabalhar, esta toda a gente
de ferias e nao ha malta para trabalhar; safou-nos a ajuda da
Novabase…)

Com jeitinho e com este andamento, para o ano pomos Portugal
entre os 5 primeiros:

http://ultimahora.publico.clix.pt/noticia.aspx?id=1304053

— MV


06
Sep 07

12 Anos do Sapo

Path: mv.asterisco.pt!mvalente
From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: 12 Anos do Sapo
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 07 00:29:21 GMT

O SAPO faz 12 anos…. O tempo que ja la vai…

http://celso.arrifana.org/archives/245-12-anos.html

Nunca fui grande utilizador. Da vida do SAPO recordo,
para alem do seu nascimento na Universidade de Aveiro
(onde me ligam as raizes maternas), os tempos conturbados
de 96 ou 97, depois de o Celso, o Cooker, o Benjamin e
outros terem tido a coragem de sair do meio academico e
terem criado a empresa Navegante.

Na altura, num dos primeiros conselhos de administracao
da Esoterica, chegou-se a falar na compra do SAPO a
Navegante. Numa fortuita conversa com o Cooker soube que
50 mil contos faziam a festa e comuniquei a minha opiniao
de que valia a pena investir. Nada feito, estava a falar
para a parede. O resto e historia. Foi uma das razoes que
me levaram a sair, com a ideia de criar um portal para
concorrer com o SAPO. Infelizmente (ou nao), nao chegamos
a lancar o projecto, cujo codigo foi comprado pelo Grupo
Forum para aplicar no portal Netc da Telecel.

E a brincar foram-se 10 anos… Ao que um homem chega…

Mas falemos do presente: queremos e saber que grande evento
e que o SAPO anda a preparar, contou-me um passarinho. Eu se
fosse hacker nao marcava nada na agenda para a 2a semana de
Novembro….

— MV