http://www.singlepointoffailure.net Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:23:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Saturday was not a family day because some of us had to work. No, I don't mean me. This time is was A. who had to work the saturday all day long. The rest of the weekend (today!) was spent doing family stuff, trying to compensate. So, the plan was to ... http://www.singlepointoffailure.net/2008/11/fun/space-the-final-frontier/ 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 ... http://www.singlepointoffailure.net/2008/10/family/homemade-sushi-night/ The video shows how the day and night changes the Worldwide Air Traffic. Watch the day break in Europe and then in North America... Amazing!!! http://www.singlepointoffailure.net/2008/10/fun/changes-between-night-and-day/ 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.) http://www.singlepointoffailure.net/2008/10/fun/economy/ 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 ... http://www.singlepointoffailure.net/2008/10/introspection/back-to-school/ 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 ... http://www.singlepointoffailure.net/2008/10/tools/podcast-client-tool/ I love photography and any thing related to it. Photo journalism is one of the many areas that I enjoy and the work of Michael Kamber (for New Your Times) just made me really thing about life. The work presents shoots taken during a USA military mission in Iraq, during ... http://www.singlepointoffailure.net/2008/09/introspection/death-of-a-soldier/ Yes, I work with a bunch of conservatives. I found the video of the latest ad campaign from Diesel, and send them the link. Just because I mentioned it contained Porn no one had the nerve to see it. I understand that being caught seeing porn at work is not ... http://www.singlepointoffailure.net/2008/09/fun/sfw/ http://www.singlepointoffailure.net/2008/09/fun/the-actual-size-of-things/ http://www.singlepointoffailure.net/2008/09/humor/tomorrows-workday/