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Let your computer dream!

Yesterday, while I was reading the user comments on this lifehacker post I came across this amazing piece of software called Electric Sheep.

Electric Sheep is an open source distributed screen saver, the odd name is based on the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick, and it’s goal is to create and render animations of flaming fractals full with eye-catching colors and effects that are called “sheeps”.

Electric Sheep 01 Electric Sheep 02

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Internet Viral Marketing

As you may have noticed I’ve been away (more of awaaaay) from this blog for quite some time now, the reasons for this are:

  1. Time is short (and money too, who would have thought he?…).
  2. I’ve been getting so many SPAM comments and few or none friendly comments.

Anyway, I’ve been custom web developing for 4 or 5 clients and I’ve this feeling that I’m getting old (I’m twenty now - not a teen anymore =\) and all my ideas and projects are losing towards my clients projects, so I’ve decided that after this I’m out - no more freelance jobs, just my own, at my own way. Things with my web hosting company have also been turning out just great, we have reached the Top 10 (yeah that’s right :) ) here in Portugal, and we have been receiving some selling offers - of course we haven’t accepted any of them.

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Data Mining Books & Amazon

Today my very first Amazon order just arrived: Intelligent Data Analysis - a Data Mining book that I saw at Kurt Thearling personal website. I’m really into learning Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, I find it quite an interesting (and useful) subject.

Intelligent Data Analysis - Front Cover Intelligent Data Analysis - Back Cover

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Managing your online business with Google

Google Logo

Ok it’s been a long time since I last posted something here so this time I’ll be talking about something that if done right can save you a lot of time and hopefully improve your online business by 200%.

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The New 7 Wonders of the World

Today, the New Seven Wonders of the World will be elected, in Lisbon.

The New Seven Wonders of the World is a proposed revision of the Seven Wonders of the World, organized by a Swiss corporation called New Open World Corporation (NOWC). The selection is being made by free and paid votes, through telephone or online. The first vote is free to registered members and additional votes may be purchased through a payment to NOWC.

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Get Rich - The Illegal Way

This is a guide in how one could easily get dirty money - and probably caught by the cops - exploiting security vulnerabilities in e-banking systems.

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CSS Multibrowser Tool

So, you want to make your CSS look and work great in both Firefox and IE?

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Why is Jimbo Wales smiling?

I’ve scanned this nice article about Jimbo Wales (the founder of Wikipedia) I read on ExecutiveDigest today (sorry, only Portuguese).

Jimbo Wales Smiling

Jimbo Wales Smiling

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Cyc - Who killed JFK?

Watch this Google Tech Talk named “Computers versus Common Sense” for some insight about Cyc and “universal common knowledge computers”.

Cyc is an artificial intelligence project that attempts to assemble a comprehensive ontology and database of everyday common sense knowledge, with the goal of enabling AI applications to perform human-like reasoning.

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PHP Friendly Password Generator

Today I’ll be sharing an algorithm that I use quite a lot, for generating passwords that are easily memorable and spelled - one may also call this type of passwords mnemonic passwords.

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