mvalente.eu/mv.* Heavy Mental Stuff

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Codebits is Overs
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 07 21:03:21 GMT

Last day of the SAPO Codebits event. A very nice event
overall and a good time. It was a relief to leave the
office for a few days and leave the cio/egovernment
mindframe and just speak geek with friends and acquaintances.

The ideas/hacks/programming contest could have had lots
more creativity and lots more code, but it was cool anyway.

Out of the nearly 50 contestants, I’d invest in 3 of
them:

– 4, Superlative Conspiracy
– 17, Bookworms
– 31, Estante

So if any of you guys are reading this, wish to go forward
and are looking for mentoring/financing, send an email.

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Local Mac Whining
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 07 21:03:21 GMT

Confirming the long know relationship between being a
Mac fan boy and being a whiner, compounded with the
traditional portuguese attitude of bickering negatively
over the accessory and forgetting the important, portuguese
Mac fanboys/whiners are all in a roar over small orthographic
and translation errors at the recently opened local version
of the Apple store. Yes, that’s right, now they cant whine
over not having a portuguese version; they needed something
new to complain about…

Next up: Steve Jobs doesnt eat pasteis de Belem…
Oh, the tragedy!..

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Bookmark Manager
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 07 22:31:21 GMT

Before I go mad and start writing my own bookmark manager,
can anyone make a good recomendation? Hint: not delicious…

I need: a local app, not webbased (I’m already a user of
delicious and foxmarks and they suck for batch changes); an
app that takes in a nearly 5000 bookmarks and classifies them
into folders and/or tags each one with the appropriate tags
(fetching them from delicious or from keyword metas); allows
for the batch change of bookmarks (batch delete; batch tag;
batch share); preferably syncs with delicious/firefox.

I really need to organize my bookmarks and a folder based
strucuture is not enough; plus the “Unclassified” category
is getting huge….

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: From Brussels to Codebits
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 07 22:13:21 GMT

De volta de 2 dias em Bruxelas onde Portugal marcou pontos
com a arquitectura e implementacao do prototipo do portal
europeu de e-Justice.

Estou aqui num dilema a pensar se me deito tarde para acabar
a apresentacao para o Codebits ou se acordo cedo… A vontade,
depois da reuniao de 7 horas e do Lisboa/Bruxelas/Lisboa, e
pouca. Nao ha-de ser nada…

— MV