Posted by: Artur Martins on: 2007/08/31
Argentina: day 4
Ufffff…..It’s so cold today.
My aunt Ambrosina likes watching sports and news TV programs (veryloud)
in the morning. I’ve noticed that, in channel 26, the bottom of the
screen shows 3 pieces of informations: the current time, thermal
sensation and temperature. Thermal sensation? Let me explain it:
Thermal sensation is the temperature that you feel. So, for instance,
it’s [...]
Posted by: Artur Martins on: 2007/08/19
Argentina: day 3
Shaving while listening to tango in a national radio station can be a dangerous thing .
After a nice breakfast, I went shopping for cinnamon and I noticed that it’s impossible to buy courgettes
In the afternoon, I tried to withdraw money using a Portuguese ATM Card, but it’s useless. You [...]
Posted by: Artur Martins on: 2007/08/19
Argentina: day 2Ok, a cold morning remembers me it’s winter here. I tried of sweet made of sweet potatoes and chocolate, that looks like a solid pudding. Very tasty.
I wanted to use the internet. “Lucotorios” are the places that you can go to use internet, phone, fax, etc. Computers are so slow, but they’re cheap [...]
Posted by: Artur Martins on: 2007/08/19
Argentina: day 1It’s now 23:40 in Argentina (03:40 in Portugal) . I didn’t stop today since I arrived at 9:00 from Madrid (an 11h50m flight). I can’t believe that I didn’t felt the jetlag. Argentine is GMT-4 and I’m ok….
The trip was over at 8:56 Impressive landing with a lot of fog.
I [...]
Posted by: Artur Martins on: 2007/08/19
Argentina: Day 1 11:35Ups… I fall asleep after some minutes of Shrek…
I’m flying over “Rio Grande do Sul”, Brazil in an Airbus A340-600, belonging to Iberia fleet.
The flight is going fine, but the service wasn’t good enough. What I did enjoy most was the navigation system showed on LCD screens and the take off (they [...]
Posted by: Artur Martins on: 2007/08/19
Argentina: Day 0 – 23:00I met the Portuguese Health minister Correia Campos at Madrid Airport (he took the same flight Lisbon -> Madrid as me) and I tried to convince him to have an Argentine tango crash course but he’s shy
Inside the plane, my seat was exactly next to a crying baby and [...]
Posted by: Artur Martins on: 2007/08/13
Well, I’m at Lisbon Airport right now, using wireless.One interesting thing is that I didn’t find any Portuguese or English-Argentinian guide, so I came prepared with my Buenos Aires and Argentina printouts from Wikitravel.
So far, so good. I hope to be able to “stand up” for more that 11 hours of a straight flight from [...]
Posted by: Artur Martins on: 2007/08/13
Estou ainda a trabalhar… “symfony coding monkey”, mas dentro de 2 horas saio de casa para começar as férias. Vou para Buenos Aires, Argentina!
Boas férias a todos!
Posted by: Artur Martins on: 2007/08/10
Como estou no Norte (Ponte de Lima) mas a trabalhar no processo das transições dos cursos para bolonha, necessito de net para realizar o meu trabalho.
Entretanto fiquei sem DNS (sem razão aparente) e telefonei para a linha de assistência da sapo. Depois de telefonar, já tinha conectividade mas fiquei com informações que considero úteis.
Os DNS [...]
Posted by: Artur Martins on: 2007/08/10
A empresa Zend está confirmada como patrocinador oficial do 1º Concurso
Nacional Software Livre (CNSL) associando assim o seu nome ao concurso.
Os prémios do CNSL são neste momento os seguintes:
1º Lugar
Prémio monetário de 500 €.
Prémios Zend a anunciar (Valor aproximado de 1100 €).
Apresentação do projecto na Open Delta aLANtejo 07.
Artigo sobre o projecto na Revista Linux.
Bilhete [...]
