“Christmas isn’t fucking Christian.”
December 26th, 2005
A bit of fun about Christmas and US TV politics and news society.
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Archive for December, 2005
Googleness
December 19th, 2005
Do not trust anyone. Everyone’s fighting for their big chunk of easy audience and quick fame, at any cost. Don’t bet your bucks on that good old trusty brand, you’ll get burned or fooled or both. The Internet is going through the same process public TVs had when competition arrived (think TVI if you live in Portugal).
I see the most absurd news and theories everyday. Being a relatively well informed IT guy, I read all my RSS feeds at end of the day and I find myself laughing most of the time. This whole “Ajaxified Web 2 bubble, Google is god don’t argue, let’s criticize the present and predict the future coz we have a vision and have read the Web 2 meme map from Tim” thing has just gone too ridiculous, really.
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Data Retention Laws just made it to Europe
December 14th, 2005
I had a call from our law department today informing me of this and telling me to get ready ‘coz this time it’s finally going ahead. I’m personally not very stressed about this on the job, we logged pretty much everything already so it’s more investment on storage capacity, some developments, different backup policies, it’s resources and money, I will sleep over it. But I’m very worried about the precedent this law will create and the fact that it will help create a global conscience of fear and suspiciousness from your service providers and the law enforcers. It’s really not related to the Internet roots. I also get this feeling that terrorrism is not really the real argument behind all this and that a lot of lobbying has been rolling in the backend lately but that may just be my paranoid side. Would anybody with two fingers of technology knowledge think that logging anyone’s activity online could prevent terrorism or even help find terrorists at all ? I Don’ t think so.
Non Internet Weekend
December 4th, 2005
Didn’t resist any longer, got my PSP on Saturday and played all day. It’s a fUntastic toy, and geeky too. Turned on the laptop just to register PSPWare. Had a nice dinner at our friend’s place with our babies, good food great wine. We tend to appreciate and demand good wine as we get older and we fast become intolerant to lousy cheap easy-tasting bottles of it. Sunday, inexistent morning, stayed home all day playing WRC and watching movies. Finally went to the DeUS concert (with Absynthe Minded opening the hostilities) in Aula Magna which went right up to my top 10 best concerts ever. It was a good weekend.
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