It may look be a little rough around the hedges, in fact it shouldn’t have any edges, but it tasted very nice.
Yesterday, after a quick travel to buy some products in a place called Martim Moniz, Lisbon’s very own “china town”, it was time to have our first sushi only homemade dinner. It was risky, but it was worth it.
Being the first we ever tried to prepare sushi, even after searching the whole internet for Sushi recipes the lack of experience resulted in huge amounts of left-overs. The dinner preparations were for three, but it could have been for five or six… and food would still be too much.
Economy is really not my thing. I really don’t what to know much about anything associated with economy, but this cartoon made me laugh (and think) for a while.
(It’s not mine, I took it from somewhere on the web, and unfortunatelly didn’t keep the author for reference.)
Tomorrow is school day, again. This does not mean that I’ll be starting to attend the SEE program at Stantford University, it just means that my days has a PhD student are about to start.
Two years of working as a software engineer made me realize that experience is very important, and that I have a lot to learn and do before I can call myself a experienced software engineer. I’m working on that issues, trying to read about new methodologies and techniques by myself and learning to apply them in the everyday job.
But there is also some other fields I’d like to improve, a lot more close to research new knowledge than to applied engineering. This is one thing that is seems to be missing from the current job. Let’s see if the ‘part-time’ PhD provides some new insights on other fields of knowledge.
A good book makes an excellent company. The time it takes to go from home to work is usually occupied with some reading, but from time to time I prefer the more passive company of a good interview or technical discussion downloaded from any given podcast.
Until today, no Linux podcast client had all the features that made it perfect for me, but that was just because I was looking in the wrong place. I tried Amarok built-in client, gPodder and a few others but none of then was ever able to truly accomplish the task at hand.
A couple of days ago I found IcePodder (a Linux clone for Juice), a very simple to use podcast client (also available for Windows and Mac, not that I care). With a clean interface, the subscription process is very straight-forward and quick.
Unfortunately, the installation procedure on Ubuntu 8.04 is not the usual ’sudo aptitude install X’, but it still remains to be quite simple:
> sudo apt-get install subversion
> svn co https://icepodder.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/icepodder icepodder
> cd icepodder
> sudo ./install.sh
> sudo apt-get install python-wxversion
and that is it. Just run iPodder.
[Updated after some complaints from the readers on not being able to install IcePodder]
