Entries from April 2006

April 28, 2006

Yahoo! Mail Beta

As many of you may know Yahoo! has just launched their Yahoo! Mail Beta service, and invites are pretty hard to come by, unless, of course, you know a way around it. First of I'd like to thank my good friend Edward for introducing me to this method through AIM, thanks a lot Edward. Getting [...]

April 25, 2006

Screw The Earth Day

For 36 years we've celebrated our planet, Earth, in a day long event called Earth Day. We plant tress, cut down on our gas emissions, and soon and so forth. We've tried so hard to respect our planet, and while we may be coming continuously short, you must admit we're trying. Well, some of us [...]

April 20, 2006

Digg is Corrupted

Well, the past few days have been extremely interesting to me. I'm slowly seeing the downfall of Digg.com, a social networking website where users choose the stories they want to see, or so we all thought. In the recent weeks situations have occured where multiple stories appeared on the front page of Digg.com. The odd [...]

April 17, 2006

The Pain of Easter

Yesterday being Easter, the day Jesus rose from his grave, I felt the need to get out of the house and have some fun, but not after an early dinner of course. Being 100% Portuguese myself, we have a tradition of large boiled dinners, so the tender ham, potatoes, carrots, and other assorted vegetables were [...]

April 14, 2006

Google Trick

Just something to hold you over until I publish my article on contracts. I discovered that going to Google.com and performing and "I'm Feeling Lucky" search for the word "Failure" will lead you straight to George W. Bush's page at the WhiteHouse.gov website. A normal search shows the same page as the top result.
I doubt [...]