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I killed an ant today.

Pedro Assuncao — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:21:09 +0000

I killed an ant. It was dwelling around in my living room while I was watching TV. I had noticed it before, as it was considerably larger than your typical ant. Tried several times, with no success, to get it to move up to something I would use to take it outside, where its world was. All the attempts failed, like it didn’t want to go anywhere except my living room. Half an hour later, after losing track of it, I move my foot and hear a gentle crack sound. I look down, and there it was. Struggling, with half of its body dead already, I see the ant I tried to rescue. I spent the next 2 minutes fighting in my mind the fight between life and death, morality and immorality, good and evil, fate. I ended its suffering, as I felt it was the right thing to do. Isn’t it funny how sometimes it seems that everything happens because it was supposed to happen that way, at that time, and in that place? I killed an ant today.

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Working on something really cool

Pedro Assuncao — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:32:52 +0000

As you might know, a while back, I started a video podcast on life, technology, and everything, with my dear friend Luis Soares (http://twitter.com/luizsoarez). You can watch the episodes here: http://vimeo.com/channels/tgab. Recently it came to our attention that we do not have a graphical identify yet (like we didn’t notice ) so work has began in that area. In the meantime, we also thought of something cool to make the show more interactive and are working furiously to make it happen during this month and launch in August. Stay tuned, and watch the show Peace

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Pedro Assuncao — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:00:11 +0000

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Twitter stats and more

Pedro Assuncao — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:58:08 +0000

While skimming through a blog entry by Nicolas Patten (http://twitter.com/nicholaspatten), I noticed the small twitter follower counter he has on his Posterous account. When I clicked to check it out, I eventually tried to see what the stats were about my own twitter account. As you may or may not know, some 3 months ago I decided to unfollow all the people that I previously followed out of courtesy for following me. I noticed a sudden drop in followers at the time, but now I can see that it is actually steadily going up again. It’s good to see that some of the crap that I say seems to be interesting enough for some people to follow. Thanks for that. The whole 215 of you! If you are curious about the stats of your own twitter account over time, I recommend this awesome site. That’s how I saw mine: http://twittercounter.com/nocivus/month/all Replace “nocivus” with your own account in the URL and you’re done.

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LESS is more

Pedro Assuncao — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:28:34 +0000

What about this awesome tool that allows you to write much more simple and powerful CSS for your websites? It’s called LESS and it basically introduces things (that in my opinion have been missing in CSS for ages) like variables, nested declarations, and operations on values. Worth checking out: http://lesscss.org/index.html

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Google unveils City Tours from their labs

Pedro Assuncao — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:53:06 +0000

It seems to be a service that gives you suggestions on what to visit when you go to a particular location. It creates the planning about what to visit for a couple of days. Looks interesting, check it out for Amsterdam: http://citytours.googlelabs.com/search?q=amsterdam

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The first test, hopefully successful :)

Pedro Assuncao — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:17:58 +0000

This is the first post that I write at http://diffract.me:8080/blog and that gets automagically pushed from a django view logic code into posterous, using their API. So now I can write once, and have it everywhere. World domination is at hand, muhahahahaha

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Ok, so I lied :)

Pedro Assuncao — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:44:50 +0000

I will continue writing on Posterous

I will however, as the proper geeky thing to do, create the posts automatically using the Posterous API everytime I post something new to my own blog

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The need to unplug

Pedro Assuncao — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:04:20 +0000

Did you ever feel the need to unplug from your online life? I'm referring to the range of social networking tools that we have around us, like facebook, twitter, posterous, plaxo, linkedin, hi5, pingfm, just to name a few. I know I have, in more that one ocasion, and today I finally started thinking about it seriously.

Every day I grow more and more overwhelmed by the amount of information that surrounds me (and that consumes my time); The twitter updates, the photo uploading on flickr or picasa web, all the blogs to read, the blogs to write on, it's just too much information (and little bit waste of time, in some cases). So, going for Pareto's principle, I will gradually start to cut back on those services. Hopefully, this will give me some time back.

This means that I can finally put a bigger effort on my soon to be moved homepage and consolidate it as the *only* place where I post stuff (the final mileage may vary).

Wish me luck

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Did you know?

Pedro Assuncao — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:12:06 +0000

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