Right.
I know I just came back from the pub, but my iPhone seems to have been sipping on those pints of Guinness (2 of them, really) I had.
Alcohol and iPhones seem to combine into a form of non existant service with 3G. Weird.
The Portuguese are well known for their discoveries around the world. Today, it looks like some (a whole lot) of us are still doing it, except that this time in a 21st century way. That's right, have a quick look at The Star Tracker Talent Map where you can see that we are pretty much everywhere. I personally have friends and family around London, Dublin, New York, Praia (Cape Verde), Macau, Luanda, Salvador da Bahia, Berlin, Brussels and the Moon.
There is at least one thing in common with the old days back in the 15th and 16th centuries: going back home. Thankfully, today we don't need to go back home by boat at 600 baud rate speed just to hear the latest news.
Today, we have transoceanic terabit internet pipes.
Today, sorting and finding information is a (hell of a) business.
Today, more than ever, we have Sens-O-Matic^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HiPhone devices constantly connected to Sub-Etha^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hthe internet.
Today, we seem to make a big deal out of privacy but it is not really that hard to find what you've done last Summer^H^H^H^H^Haturday.
Today, everybody knows that all we need is a data plan but the Telecoms seem to want to dictate^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hfool you with voice plans.
Tomorrow, we will all have internet connected ponytails (Avatar won't play on 3D TV's 'cause they won't exist and I seriously doubt my hair will be as long as it used to be).
Keeping in touch these days is easy. Most use Skype (please, email is a technology from the 70's). Some are a bit more adventurous: they run their own PBX software at home and have bought a Portuguese phone number on Startel and receive free calls from family and friends all the time. As Telecoms slowly open their mobile gates to the internet, some even use SIP software on their pocket iDevices (be careful, Telecoms don't like that).
The news are not considered news if they're not on the internet. Still, it's quite hard to find a decent Portuguese TV stream. SIC Noticias can sometimes be seen on Sapo XL, TV Tuga and if you're feeling lucky, on Justin.tv.
TVI also seems to have a news channel now, TVI24. I've noticed that it usually only plays live news as the rest seems to be blocked for legal reasons (who cares, it's mostly crap anyway!).
When it comes to online, decent news, my first choice has always been Público, a quality source of less horrible and sad news that seem to torment the country for the last years. There's obviously a great deal of other sources but I really find myself browsing Altifalante almost daily just for the sake of its simplicity and the fact that you can eyeball most news in a matter of minutes. Not to mention that twitter has still to release their trends page for Portugal and Altifalante also does a fairly good job on providing these (how come José Sócrates is not there? *grin*).
SAPO's SAPO News iPhone app also helps following the latest and greatest news just by browsing newspaper and magazine covers. Give it a try.
Now that PrintScreen is gone, the main source for geeky Portuguese news is definitely Planet Geek. No geek survives without those.
As life is not complete without a little sport(ing) and SportTV does not have (will they ever?) anything like Sky Player, there's probably nothing wrong when searching for live match streams on nuestros hermanos' excellent Roja Directa or just by browsing sport channels on Veetle. Their quality is so good, it should be considered legal!
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Today celebrates the 3rd decade (0x1e in hex is less depressing) of my existence.
It's good to know I've been alive an kicking! :)
Just when I thought I saw everything in the App Store, this one completely blew my mind off.
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If you find yourself using Vim more than anything else on the Mac, you are probably using the MacVim binaries provided by the old (but still official) macvim.org.
The bad news is that it feels a bit buggier on Snow Leopard. The good news is that there is now a project that provides updated, shiny MacVim binaries for Snow Leopard.
Grab it while it's hot.
And because this post is all about (Mac)Vim, I suggest you take a byte (hehehe, get it?) of Vimcasts for dessert. You'll find it yummy.
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