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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: I Am a Switcher
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 08 20:51:21 GMT

Yes! I’ve switched!!

As part of the ongoing early springtime cleaning
of house, mind and other stuff, for the first time
in the last 2 or 3 years I’ve switched on my black
Powerbook G3! LOL!!!

http://www.apple.com/support/powerbookg3/

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24604

Its a bronze keyboard model, with 256Mb RAM, running
MacOSX 10.1.5. I’m going for the 10.3.5 install. Wheee!

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: Brussels Fault This Time
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 08 19:32:21 GMT

The lack of posts this time is the fault of yet another
trip to the fine EU institutions at Brussels. No funny
photos…

But I got finished with “Zen Guitar”, got halfway through
“The Outsider” and started into “Open Business Models”.

The Outsider
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Outsider-Colin-Wilson/dp/0753814323/

Open Business Models
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Open-Business-Models-Henry-Chesbrough/dp/1422104273/

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: Ljubljana Blocked my Posts
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 08 00:32:21 GMT

Era so para dizer que nao gosto de viajar para sitios
de repente e para repetir que nao gosto de ir num dia,
fazer uma reuniao noutro e voltar no seguinte; passei os
ultimos 6 meses a fazer isso, nao gosto, chateia-me pa…

O blogging reduziu-se por isso a versao micro

http://twitter.com/mvalente

A unica vantagem e o tempo nos hoteis, avioes e aeroportos
apenas concentrado a ler. Para alem dos jornais diarios
sortidos, foram de vela o “God Delusion”, o “10 Rules for
Strategic Innovators”, o “In the Beginning was the Command
Line” do Neal Stephenson e o “Strong Imagination” (estes
dois ultimos nem sequer estavam na queue…)

In the Beginning…Was the Command Line
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beginning-Was-Command-Line-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0380815931/

Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity and Human Nature
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Strong-Imagination-Madness-Creativity-Nature/dp/0198605005/

Slovenian is a hard language. And they also have very strange signs…

http://mv.asterisco.pt/Images/slovsign.jpg

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: Xmas Queue
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 08 22:01:21 GMT

Back to work after a 2 week holiday. Lots of email
and paper stuff stacked up. To finish the day off,
MIS exam monitoring for my MIS class at UCP. Tiring
stuff after doing mostly nothing for 2 weeks. So its
back to the current book/cd queue currently being
consumed out of the stuff that I got for xmas.

Books on the bedside right now:

The God Delusion
http://www.amazon.co.uk/God-Delusion-Richard-Dawkins/dp/055277331X/

Zen Guitar
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Guitar-fireside-book-Philip-Toshio/dp/068483877X/

Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rules-Strategic-Innovators-Vijay-Govindarajan/dp/1591397588/

CDs on the PC tray/alarm clock right now:

Far Away Trains Passing By
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Far-Away-Trains-Passing-Us/dp/B0007LLOVG/

American Beauty
http://www.amazon.co.uk/American-Beauty-Thomas-Newman/dp/B00003XACV/

The KISS box set
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Box-Set-Kiss/dp/B00005R72D/

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: Absolute Begginer
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 08 20:39:21 GMT

“I’ve nothing much to offer
There’s nothing much to take
I’m an absolute beginner
But I’m absolutely sane”

David Bowie – Absolute Begginers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMrzBjTLKvE
http://www.lyricsdir.com/david-bowie-absolute-beginners-lyrics.html

— MV