08
Apr 07

What To Expect Besides the Spanish Inquisition

Path: mv.asterisco.pt!mvalente
From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: What To Expect Besides the Spanish Inquisition
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 07 22:27:21 GMT

More for my future benefit than for anyone reading
these messages, here’s what to expect in the future
from this blog/site/whatever:

– posts both in English and Portuguese; mostly in
English; I do my reading 99% in English (for the
last 20 years or so) and its easier for me to write
in English; I can do Portuguese quite nicely as well,
but will do so only when matters are strictly of local
interest

– posts recovering my scattered digital stuff and
comments on the recovered garbage

– posts on my general areas of interest: Video Games,
Technology, Music, Books, Business and Philosophy; I’ll
try to detail these interests soon, in separate posts

– weblogging posts, weekly posts with links that have
caught my interest/attention (yes boys and girls, the
weblog term was initially about just that, logging your
web travelling/surfing)

On a more technical note: right now the posts are pure
text files on the filesystem and everything is tied
together with a couple of bash scripts (yes, even the
rss.cgi RSS feed generator is a shell scrip; I am teh
shell script master, ph34r…); in the next few days
everything will migrate to a newsgroup server (yes,
the NNTP/Usenet kinda stuff; blogs are just a bad
implementation of Usenet…) and will be served from
a (probably) CherryPy server.

C U!

— MV


16
Aug 04

Fun Stuff Back in 2004

Like 2003, there wasnt much fun stuff back in 2004. I was
still quite busy with my MBA, started working fulltime at
Personalis/GLS and had to worry throughout the year with
my mother’s battle against cancer.

There was still time to do the weekly postings at Gildot…

http://www.gildot.org/search.pl?query=mvalente

… although this was also the year that I left Gildot, as
an editor, contributor and participant:

http://www.gildot.org/articles/04/09/29/005237.shtml
http://gildot.org/articles/04/09/30/1734233.shtml

Contrary to some “intelligent” opinions, I never did made it
back. Neither did Gildot, incidentally…

— MV

PS: continuo à espera, sentado, de um Gildot democratico, dinamizado
apenas pelos seus utilizadores e sem necessidade dos editores.


16
Aug 03

Fun Stuff Back in 2003

Not much fun stuff back in 2003. I was quite busy with my

MBA and dealing with my father’s death in January. I didnt

do as much stuff online or entrepreneurwise as I used to.
Still there was time to do the weekly postings at Gildot:
http://www.gildot.org/search.pl?threshold=&query=mvalente&min=30&author=&op=stories&sid=&topic=&section=&total=&
Only one deserves to be distinguished, since its still

something that I keep wondering about 4 years later:
Do Software Aberto à Empresa Aberta

http://www.gildot.org/articles/03/12/13/1741258.shtml
Also there was still time (during Summer vacation) to go

and kick ass at Minho Campus Party 2003:
http://www.minhocampusparty.com/mcp03.php

http://www.minhocampusparty.com/docs/futuro_2003.pdf

http://www.minhocampusparty.com/fotos/mcp2003/7g.jpg

http://mv.asterisco.pt/Images/mcp2k3.JPG


16
Aug 02

Resposta Aberta a Comunidade Gildot


Caros colegas:

Permitam que comece assim esta atrasada resposta a uma carta aberta que,

mais do que, e apesar de dirigida a mim pessoalmente, foi uma carta aberta

‘a comunidade Linux e, em particular, ‘a comunidade Gildot.”

E’ nestes termos, como colegas de profissao, de faculdade, de hobby ou

de Gildot, que quero dar resposta ‘as questoes pertinentes que foram

colocadas, nomeadamente a uma hipotetica obrigatoriedade de defesa

incondicional do Linux.

Continue reading →


16
Aug 01

Fun Stuff Back in 2001

Deus Ex Machina

http://www.gildot.org/articles/01/09/21/0046254.shtml
http://clix.segundasedicoes.expresso.pt/vidas/?edicao=1511

DRE

http://www.gildot.org/articles/01/02/07/211209.shtml

— MV