Archive for May, 2007

Microsoft Research

Microsoft Vision seems really promising, check it out.


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Google & Microsoft have been working hard…

Today, I was googling for SEO and I found a couple of new services from Google like Google Gears (the counter back for Adobe Apollo?) and Google Maps Street View, here is a video:


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I am *Busy*

Today was a very busy day, CoreSP.com has a much better server now, migrating all the accounts from the old server was not an easy job but finally it’s (almost) everything done, just a few more tweaks and we’ll be better than ever - except from the headaches.

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Gmail new Features

Gmail has just increased the file upload limit up to 20MB and launched Gmail Theater.

I-Doser - Virtual Drug Doses

I was looking up at the ceiling eyes wide open, seeing greens and purples, swirling and condensing to black. - Elissa

I’m at this moment trying I-Doser with the LSD dose, this is amazing: at 78% I hear cruise ships playing their horns or a cat crying out loud, I can’t really figure it out.

Electroencephalography

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Mersenne Prime Search

Prime numbers have always been a central point of mathematical studies as they yield (at least for now) lots of stuff that we don’t understand (like factoring and it’s distribution among natural numbers - read the Wikipedia link bellow if you want to find out more). Prime numbers also play a big role paper in our world, as strange as it seems, our unability to fully understand primes is the basis of our digital security as we know it today. Finding new prime numbers nowadays is a task that no longer can be done by humans (as far as I’m aware of) and a computer takes at least a couple of days to find a new one.

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Deception Point

Yesterday, I finished reading “Deception Point” by Dan Brown - had a hard time trying to translate the book name from Portuguese (”A Conspiração” - The Conspiracy) to English - thank God for the ISBN!

Dan Brown - A Conspiração

Well, the book really sucks, I think the name is appropriate though - it is really a deception.

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O Tempo

I was looking for poetry books, and I found this really old one Portuguese book called “O Tenue” lying around on the bookshelf. It is very old, it was printed in 1902 in Lisbon and the author is Manuel dos Santos Marques.

O Tenue - O Tempo

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Are you tired of your old desktop Wallpaper?

Then have a look at Desktopography, from grunge to sci-fi, peaceful to high-tech. These guys have it, and it totally rocks!

Theo Aartsma Wallpaper

PHP Math Library

I’ve just finished my PHP Math Library and Abstraction Layer, I’ve been up all night in order to code it, but it was worth it. I am proud of it.

My PHP Math Library features the following:

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