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<title>What's happening to privacy online?</title>
<updated>2007-09-12T23:53:11Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[<span style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: normal;">A few months ago, I attended to <a href="http://www.demos.co.uk/events/searchmewhatshappeningtoprivacyonline">Search me: What's happening to privacy on line?</a> an event organized by <a href="http://www.demos.co.uk">Demos</a> and hosted by Google at its London's headquarters in Victoria.<br><br>The invited speakers were: Catherine Fieschi, <a href="http://www.demos.co.uk">Demos' Director</a> and also chair of the panel; <a href="http://peterfleischer.blogspot.com">Peter Fleischer</a>, Google's Global Privacy Counsel; <a href="http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/dutton/">William H. Dutton</a>, director of the <a href="http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/">Oxford Internet Studies</a>; and <a href="http://bobbiejohnson.org/">Bobbie Johnson</a>, tech correspondent at <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/">The Guardian</a>.<br><br>Here's some random bits I found interesting and made me think about this issue:<br><br>- The "i" of the word privacy should sound like the "i" in ship and not like "eye".<br><br>- In 2005, the DOJ requested for generic search records to several Internet Seach companies (Google, AOL, Yahoo, MSN). Google was the only one that said no and the DOJ asked a federal judge to order the company to give that information. The news came to public because of Google's refusal.- According to research people tend to think that the Internet poses a much higher threat to privacy than CCTV cameras.<br><br>- Privacy isn't a new issue: it's been discussed since the 50s.<br><br>- There must be a balance between identification and privacy to prevent fraud and identity theft. Identification is important in sites like <a href="http://www.ebay.com">eBay</a> where create a reputation plays an essencial role.<br><br>- It's huge the metadata we leave behind everyday: credit/debit cards, public transport cards (Oyster), CCTV images, loyalty cards (Tesco, Nectar), mobile phone...<br><br>- We're sleepwalking into a surveillance society and we don't pretty much care about it.<br><br>- <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/30/google-maps-is-spyin.html">Monty, the cat that appeared in Google Street View</a>, her owner had to ask Google for the image to be removed.<br><br>- In Sweden the website <a href="http://www.ratsit.se">ratsit.se</a> allows salary searches on any Swedish citizen.<br><br>- Systems should be able to forget information.<br><br>- We sign terms of agreement and privacy policies that we don't actually read.<br><br>- Schools should play a role in educating kids about privacy. There are concerns about what information kids put these days in Facebook like sites.<br><br>- We're underestimating kids. The new generations have a different view of privacy and can tailor it (choose who accesses their information). They're learning quickly.<br><br>- We don't know much about how data about us is being used and by whom.<br><br>- Every time we use a credit card that info flashes in 60 countries.<br><br>- The target advertisement campaigns based on criteria must respect privacy.<br><br>- The data we provide to companies (loyalty cards, loyalty credit cards) must give value. We give data and get value from it and that's fine.<br><br>- GMail ads target only the email message. It's effective and simple. There is no memory, no profile, no history.<br><br>- We have a bizarre relationship with privacy: we are concerned about privacy but will give it away for security, health, etc.<br><br>The talk was so much more interesting than this clumsy wrap up.<br>I left the building thinking Google takes the privacy issue very serious and it's probably not the Big Brother we thing it is.<br>Was I totally brainwashed?! :)</span>]]>
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<name>velouria</name>
<email>velouria@velouria.org</email>
</author>
<id>http://orpheu.miudaevil.net/entry/18</id>
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<entry>
<title>Los Angeles 2019</title>
<updated>2007-09-06T00:00:00Z</updated>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><p style="text-align: left; font-size: 1.05em; ">Blade Runner turns 25 this year! 25 years! :) It’s incredible how it aged so brightly!</p><p style="text-align: left; font-size: 1.05em; ">To celebrate Blade Runner’s birthday, Ridley Scott returned once again to the post-production stage to create the definitive version of his science fiction film: digitally restored and remastered, featuring unreleased scenes and better special effects and sound. All this Blade Runner improvement work started back in 2000 and since then all the fans were pretty much anxious to see the results.</p><p style="text-align: left; font-size: 1.05em; ">At last, after Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut release in 1994 (the version Ridley Scott wanted the movie to be without the impositions of the studio) there’s a not only a technically improved version but also one that leads to maybe new interpretations of this dystopian science fiction masterpiece.</p><p style="text-align: left; font-size: 1.05em; ">Blade Runner: The Final Cut premiered last weekend at the 64th Venice Film Festival (the original 1982 version also had its world premiere at the Festival) and it will be released in theatres in the US (what about the rest of the world?!?!) and then on DVD.</p><p style="text-align: left; font-size: 1.05em; ">I’ve just pre-ordered the 5 DVD version from <a href="http://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1&amp;sku=649849&amp;batuid=1000&amp;WT.mc_id=101450" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none; "><span style="color: #000000; ">HMV</span></a>! I can’t wait to get it… in December… :P</p></span>]]>
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<author>
<name>velouria</name>
<email>velouria@velouria.org</email>
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<entry>
<title>From the desktop to the web</title>
<updated>2007-09-01T23:09:55Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[<h3>or How it makes sense to store personal and not necessarily sharable data in web applications</h3>
Like anyone who uses a computer these days, I rely on several applications to store and manage my personal data. By personal data I mean raw text files, emails, photos, music, bills, to do lists, all kinds of information created and (let's say) owned by me that I can't live without.
All this information is gathered on Zamiatin's (my old PowerBook G4, named after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Zamyatin">Yevgeny Zamiatin</a> a Russian science fiction writer) HDD as if it was some kind of repository to my life. :)<div><br><div>I used to take Zamiatin almost everywhere, even to work (actually it was my working machine in my previous jobs), so the access to all that information was pretty much guaranteed. Then I got tired of walking him out every day and since he wasn't needed at work, I decided to give my back a well deserved break and for a change started leaving it at home.
All of the sudden I realized I actually don't need it at all. I mean for accessing my data anytime and everywhere! :)
It's been a while since I started moving my data, without pretty much notice it, from my laptop's closed environment to the Internet. Now most of it is all there on the Internet, accessible from any computer in the world. 
</div><br><div>A great deal of it is possible thanks to the Web 2.0 and all the hype around the new rich interactive user-experience it provides. I'm not a particular Web 2.0 fan, specially because I think we're increasing immensely the complexity of web applications development by adding more stuff to an already cluttered protocol that wasn't designed in the first place for all this. I have to agree that the results are very appealing to the user, but from a technical point of view the Web 2.0 totally sucks...</div><div>The thing here is the improvement of the user experience led to the development of web applications that try to reproduce in a web environment the desktop application experience. Some of them are almost replacing desktop applications with sense and much success.
This doesn't mean laptops are useless and I don't need my PowerBook anymore. Or desktop applications are outdated. No, it just suggests that I'm changing my habits related to personal information management and usage.<br></div><div>So, let's see some examples (I'll talk about each one of these web applications in future posts to share some thoughts, ideas and usage):</div><div><br>
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<tbody><tr align="left">
<td> </td>
<td><strong>Before</strong></td>
<td><strong>After</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left"><strong>Browsing history</strong></td>
<td align="left"><a href="http://www.apple.com/safari/">Safari</a> and <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/">Firefox</a> history and bookmarks</td>
<td align="left"><a href="http://del.icio.us/velouria">del.icio.us</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left"><strong>Mail</strong></td>
<td align="left"><a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail/">Mail.app</a></td>
<td align="left">Less <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail/">Mail.app</a>, more <a href="http://www.google.com/mail/">Google Mail</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left"><strong>GTD stuff</strong></td>
<td align="left"><a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ical/">iCal</a> and <a href="http://www.flyingmeat.com/voodoopad/voodoopadlite.html">VoodooPad Lite</a></td>
<td align="left"><a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ical/">iCal</a> and <a href="http://www.rememberthemilk.com">Remember the Milk</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left"><strong>Photos</strong></td>
<td align="left"><a href="http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/">iPhoto</a></td>
<td align="left"><a href="http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/">iPhoto</a> and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/velouriadark/">flickr</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left"><strong>RSS/Atom feeds reader</strong></td>
<td align="left"><a href="http://www.opencommunity.co.uk/vienna2.php">Vienna</a></td>
<td align="left"><a href="http://www.google.com/reader/">Google Reader</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left"><strong>IM</strong></td>
<td align="left"><a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ichat/">iChat</a> and <a href="http://www.adiumx.com/">Adium</a></td>
<td align="left"><a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ichat/">iChat</a> (at home with iSight) and <a href="http://www.google.com/talk/">Google Talk</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left"><strong>Music</strong></td>
<td align="left"><a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/">iTunes</a> and <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/velouriadark">last.fm</a></td>
<td align="left">Less <a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/">iTunes</a>, more <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/velouriadark">last.fm</a> player</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left"><strong>CV/Resume</strong></td>
<td align="left">LaTeX and PDF files</td>
<td align="left">LaTeX and PDF files, <a href="http://www.monster.com">Monster</a> and <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/velouria">Linked In</a></td>
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<tr>
<td align="left"><strong>Notes</strong></td>
<td align="left">TXT files, <a href="http://www.flyingmeat.com/voodoopad/voodoopadlite.html">VoodooPad Lite</a></td>
<td align="left"><a href="http://www.google.com/notebook/">Google Notebook</a></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
</div><br><br><br><div> </div><div>It makes total sense!
Still, all this web trend rises several issues regarding privacy, identity theft, security and even Web 2.0 sustainability. Well, but that's another post. :)</div></div>]]>
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<author>
<name>velouria</name>
<email>velouria@velouria.org</email>
</author>
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<entry>
<title>De volta à blogocoisa</title>
<updated>2007-06-01T22:22:19Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[Ao fim de não sei quanto tempo de mais que fazer, mudanças, falta de inspiração e paciência, apeteceu-me voltar a escrever e eis-me de volta para um novo fôlego da velouria.org.<br><div>Resolvi começar do zero, o site está em fase experimental e de arrumações. Estou a habituar-me ao <a href="http://www.wordpress.org">WordPress</a> que vou utilizar enquanto o meu _fenomenal_ sistema de publicações em WO não fica minimamente funcional. Apesar do WP ser programado no abominável PHP, ter problemas de segurança em cada release, pareceu-me bastante utilizável, fácil de instalar e já com uma relativa maturidade. Gostei especialmente dos plugins e de já suportar umas mariquices da tão badalada Web 2.0 (diria que nos dias que correm um feed RSS deveria ser mais que suficiente!). Depois disso quero que o sistema se adapte a mim e ao meu tempo disponível. Vamos ver como corre a experiência. Esperem o pior! :)</div><br><div>Para quem não se lembra, isto começou com um diário, na altura em que ainda não se falava em blogs. Ia postando, numa aplicação para a web que fiz na altura, entradas sobre a minha vida quotidiana e o mundo à minha volta, que partilhava on-line com amigos e leitores que aqui vinham ter. Ao longo destes anos foi intermitentemente assim. Agora não pretendo reeditar a escrita pessoal por ser demasiado desinteressante e só a mim dizer respeito. Quero continuar a escrever e descrever aquilo que vou aprendendo, experimentando, descobrindo sobre tudo o que acho interessante e me chama a atenção. Partilhá-lo aqui com quem esteja interessado e queira também dar a sua opinião, sugerir e criticar, porque essa também é uma boa forma de aprender. Vou tentar também não replicar pela milionésima vez conteúdo que já está na internet, nem me resumir a links que tornaram o meu dia mais interessante ou mais feliz. E não, não vou falar do iPhone! 
</div><br><div>Este vai ser o primeiro e último post em Português e em Inglês. Não signfica que não volte às minhas raizes linguísticas sempre que me apeteça matar saudades.
Enfim, blablablas à parte, é bom estar de volta! :)

<h3>Back to the blogothing</h3>
After a long time of not being much into writing and not having interesting things to talk about, I decided to start writing again. So here I am again for a big velouria.org comeback! ;) 
</div><br><div>I'm starting from scratch and decided to give <a href="http://www.wordpress.org">WordPress</a> a try, while my own kick-ass publication system isn't yet functional. I know I'm always complaining about how lousy PHP is, and the usual every new WP release security issues, but in the end WP seems very easy to use, it features mostly all the things I want in a publication system and it just works! I also fancied the plug in system and the fact WP supports some Web 2.0 stuff (I'm still thinking that an RSS feed ought to be enough, though!). Now I have to sort out a couple of things and adapt this system to my needs and time. Let's see how things go... Prepare for the worst! :) 
</div><br><div>For those who don't remember :) this started in a "my sweet diary" sort of way, before the term "blog" was coined. Me and some friends used to post in our homepages stuff related with our daily lives and the world around. We shared that thoughts with each other and with online strangers that randomly came by. Now I don't want to write about my personal life anymore. Besides being boring and uninteresting, I think I am already giving out too much information about myself.
Right now I'm much more keen on writing about subjects that interest me and share them with whomever might be interested in. </div><div>Since the Internet is a bi-directional medium, I would also appreciate some input, like opinions, suggestions, critics, from those, if any, who read me. And that would be an excellent way of learning. :) I'll also try to be original, by not replicating for the nth time the information already on the Internet; and by not list links that made my day more interesting and more happy. And no, no iPhone related posts! :)) 
</div><br><div>This is my 1st and last post with a Portuguese and English version. I will write mainly in English. But that doesn't mean I won't go back to Camoes language every time I want to. After all it's my language.

Anyway, It's good to be back!</div>]]>
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<author>
<name>velouria</name>
<email>velouria@velouria.org</email>
</author>
<id>http://orpheu.miudaevil.net/entry/26</id>
<link href="http://orpheu.miudaevil.net/entry/26"/>
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<entry>
<title>Os Cinco</title>
<updated>2005-04-04T12:46:35Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[<p align="center"><img  src="http://velouria.org/writings/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/livrosenidblyton.jpg" alt="Livros da Enid Blyton"></p>
Os livros dos Cinco são sem dúvida uma das minhas boas recordações de infância. 
Imagino que todas as pessoas que leram estes livros da Enid Blyton devem ter, tal como eu, sonhado em ser detectives e desvendar mistérios incríveis. Claro, que depois era frustrante porque essas coisas só aconteciam nos livros... :) 
<br><div>O meu primeiro livro a sério, oferecido pelo meu pai, foi Os Cinco e a Torre do Sábio (Five are Together Again no original; a imaginação dos tradutores portugueses não pára de me surpreender...) da Enid Blyton, o 21º e último da colecção. Livro a sério porque era grosso, praticamente só com letras e apenas com umas gravuras a preto e branco com cenas da história. Começar a lê-lo representou deixar as histórias infantis, aquelas cujos bonecos e imagens predominam sobre o texto, para passar a ler livros para gente grande. Senti-me mesmo crescida! :D
A partir daí seguiram-se muitos outros: Uma Aventura (que ainda continua a ser publicada e obviamente tem um <a href="http://www.uma-aventura.pt/">site</a>), Viagens no Tempo (ambos da Ana Maria Magalhães e Isabel Alçada), Os Sete, Colecção Mistério, O Colégio das Quatro Torres, As Gémeas no Colégio de Santa Clara (todos da Enid Blyton) e tantos outros.
Acabei por me tornar viciada em livros. Andava sempre com um atrás e muitas vezes não conseguia parar de ler. Ao ponto de na escola primária o professor por diversas vezes me apanhar a ler no meio da aula e chegar até a confiscar-me os livros... 
</div><br><div>Mas voltando aos Cinco, há uns tempos, anos talvez, li no <a href="http://www.publico.pt">Público</a> uma crónica, não me recordo escrita por quem, em que a autora descrevia a família que as aventuras dos Cinco retratam como disfuncional. A saber, a Ana, o David e o Júlio (Anne, Dick e Julian na versão original) é raro passarem férias com os seus pais, pois preferem estar em casa dos tios, na Quinta Kirrin que até tem uma ilha (Kirrin Island); a Maria José (Georgina) quer que a tratem por Zé (George) porque detesta ser rapariga e gostava era de ser rapaz; o tio Alberto (Uncle Quentin) é um cientista que vive meio desligado da realidade, sempre enfiado no seu escritório e não gosta que a filha e os sobrinhos o perturbem; a tia Clara (Aunt Fanny) acha tudo isto natural e passa a vida a fazer lanchinhos para os Cinco; no meio disto tudo há ainda o cão Tim (Timmy) que parece ser o único normal do grupo. Ao ler isto não pude deixar de me rir, porque é completamente verdade: é uma família mesmo estranha!… O incrível é que nem quando li os livros, nem nestes anos todos, tinha reparado ou até me questionado sobre isso. Talvez seja o normal duma família Inglesa. :) 
</div><br><div>De qualquer forma não deixam de ser dos livros mais envolventes que li quando era pequena, recordados hoje por causa do site <a href="http://www.misteriojuvenil.com/index.htm">Mistério Juvenil</a>, onde fui parar por acaso noutro dia. Fiquei fascinada! O autor, Paulo Ferreira, reuniu ali imensa informação sobre a Enid Blyton, a sua vida e obra e proporciona-nos verdadeiros momentos de nostalgia com imagens, videos, músicas das séries de culto, anúncios e programas de TV da nossa infância (da <a href="http://pwp.netcabo.pt/0449732802/audio/abelhaMaia.wma">Abelha Maia</a> ao <a href="http://enidblyton.info/video/tomsawyer.wmv">Tom Sawyer</a>, do <a href="http://www.misteriojuvenil.net/video/espaco1999.wmv">Espaço 1999</a> ao <a href="http://enidblyton.info/video/veraoazul.wmv">Verão Azul</a>, do <a href="http://www.misteriojuvenil.net/video/chocolatenestle.wmv">chocolate Nestlé</a> aos <a href="http://www.misteriojuvenil.net/audio/pinepon.wma">Pin e Pin</a>, está lá tudo! *chuif* :) ).</div>]]>
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<author>
<name>velouria</name>
<email>velouria@velouria.org</email>
</author>
<id>http://orpheu.miudaevil.net/entry/27</id>
<link href="http://orpheu.miudaevil.net/entry/27"/>
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<entry>
<title>We by Yevgeny Zamyatin</title>
<updated>2005-01-16T14:20:50Z</updated>
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<![CDATA["Yes, to integrate the grandiose cosmic equation. Yes, to unbend the wild, primitive curve and straighten it to a tangent - an asymptote - a straight line. For the line of the One State is the straight line. The great, divine, exact, wise straight line - the wisest of all lines.I, D-503, Builder of the Integral, am only one of the mathematicians of the One State. My pen accustomed to figures, does not know how to create the music of assonances and rymes. I shall merely attempt to record what I see and think, or, to be more exact, what we think (precisely so - we, and let this We be the title of my record). But since this record will be a derivative of our life, of the mathematically perfect life of the One State, will it not be, or itself, and regardless of my will or skill, a poem? It will. I believe, I know it." (excerpt from the first chapter)<div><br><br><div>I've finished reading We by Evgueny Zamyatin (Nós is the Portuguese title). 
The book was written in 1920 and is one of the first dystopias of the 20th century. It inspired Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwell's 1984 and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (all remarkable books!). Zamyatin's We takes place in a far away future and describes a society where there are no individuals, only numbers, where happiness - rational happiness - can be mathematically proved. In One State all the activities (even sex) are organized and synchronized according to the Table of Hours. Imagination is considered to be a disease. <br><br><div>The book is journal written by D-503, a happy mathematician of the One State and builder of the Integral, a spaceship that "will subjugate the unknown beings of other planets, who may still be living in the primitive condition of freedom, to the beneficient yoke of reason". D-503 develops a strange "illness" as he starts seeing the beautiful I-330. As he falls in love with her he begins to question everything and confront himself with his own irrationality.</div><br><div>We is one of the best books I have ever read!<br></div></div></div>]]>
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<author>
<name>velouria</name>
<email>velouria@velouria.org</email>
</author>
<id>http://orpheu.miudaevil.net/entry/28</id>
<link href="http://orpheu.miudaevil.net/entry/28"/>
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<entry>
<title>"Linux. The Future is Open."</title>
<updated>2003-10-25T23:21:15Z</updated>
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<div>It seems that IBM continues to promote Linux.
When I went to Boston, a couple of years ago, and saw huge IBM billboards with the Linux penguin I was so gobsmacked! :)
This ad is absolutely brilliant! 
<strong></strong></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span></div><div><strong>2007 update</strong>: Although I'm not part of the Linux community anymore (I switched to Mac OS X in 2003), I still find this ad brilliant. But it kind of saddens me a bit when I think about what could have been...</div>]]>
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<author>
<name>velouria</name>
<email>velouria@velouria.org</email>
</author>
<id>http://orpheu.miudaevil.net/entry/29</id>
<link href="http://orpheu.miudaevil.net/entry/29"/>
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<entry>
<title>No HAL2001</title>
<updated>2001-08-14T23:50:40Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[São 2 e tal da manhã e escrevo estas linhas enrolada num saco de cama dentro da minha tenda algures no campus da <a href="http://www.utwente.nl/en/">Universidade de Twente</a> do <a href="http://www.hal2001.org/">HAL2001</a>. <div>Acabei de vir da tenda principal, a /HOME, um sítio incrível onde há mesas corridas de madeira cheias de gente com todo o tipo de computadores portáteis e desktops, ao som de Prodigy ou dos Red Hot, um ambiente quase de discoteca em que as pessoas em vez de estarem a dançar, estão em frente aos seus computadores. O acampamento, que se estende por todo o campus, é impressionante. Vêem-se tendas enormes com mesas, cheias de material informático, computadores, daqueles que nós deixámos ficar em casa, com monitores com uma brutalidade de polegadas, racks cheios de luzinhas a piscar. E rede, há quase por todo o lado. Nunca tive internet tão rápida em toda a minha vida, e dentro da minha tenda iglo! 
</div><br><div>Chegámos anteontem, vindos directamente do Schiphol, de comboio até Hengelo. Felizmente o D., que estava à nossa espera no aeroporto, levou-nos grande parte das malas de carro. 100 e muitos Km depois, marcados pelo GPS do Gk, assentámos arraiais no meio do campus da Universidade de Twente ao lado dum lago com um edifício submerso bem no meio, junto das tendas já montadas do ZN e do P..</div><br><div>O tempo está indeciso, o sol aparece de vez em quando, chove bastante e à noite está um frio de rachar. Sinto-me completamente a congelar e cansadíssima. Acho que vou dormir... 
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<name>velouria</name>
<email>velouria@velouria.org</email>
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<id>http://orpheu.miudaevil.net/entry/31</id>
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<title>This is the future...</title>
<updated>2001-01-01T11:00:16Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[Acordei no mítico século XXI.<div>Para minha grande tristeza continua tudo na mesma… Não há colónias na Lua; a nanotecnologia ainda está nos primórdios; nenhum Homem até à data pisou solo marciano, nem tão pouco se pensa em terraformar o sitío; a realidade virtual e a matrix do William Gibson ainda continuam um sonho distante para o qual já não devo viver; a esperança média de vida dos países civilizados mantém-se pelos 70 e tal, está longe a esperança de viver para além dos 100; a genética vai avançando a passo de caracol, sempre a tropeçar nos problemas éticos; népias de implantes: continuamos a ser quase 90% naturais; vida extraterrestre inteligente: a prova que há é que ainda não tentaram contactar-nos; não caminhamos para a uma distopia ao estilo do Blade Runner… Se isto é um ano 2001 que se apresente vou ali e já venho...<br></div><div>:) </div><div>Acho que é a reacção normal de quem passou quase toda a sua vida a ler livros e ver filmes de ficção científica e a imaginar um século XXI ultra-tecnológico. Pronto temos a Internet que foi uma revolução tecnológica e continuará a surpreender-nos de formas que ainda não imaginámos. Mas tenho a certeza que este vai ser um século muito interessante! :) </div><br><div>Um bom ano 2001 para todos! 
</div><br><div>--</div><div>I woke up in the mythical 21th Century. </div><div>Everything continues exactly the same... There are no Moon colonies, in fact the space exploration has been dragged down since the end of the Cold War; the nanotechnology is in its early years; no one set foot on Mars yet, and terraforming the place is beyond imagination, virtual reality and William Gibson's matrix are still a distant dream and probably I'll not live to see or try that worlds; life expectancy is still around 70 years, and we're far away from living 100 years and more; genetics continues to advance slowly and always stumbling on ethical problems; no implants, we're still 90% organic; intelligent extraterrestial life: the proof they're out there is we're still waiting for a contact. We're not walking to a dystopian Blade Runner like world... </div><div>Certainly this isn't a proper 2001!... </div><div>:)</div><div>Ok, this is the reaction of someone who spent her entire childhood reading science fiction books and watching science fiction movies and TV shows, and was expecting an ultra-technological 21th Century. Ok, we have the technological revolution called Internet, and it will definitely surprised us in the next years. 
Come what may I believe this will be a very interesting century. :)</div><br><div>Happy 2001 everyone!<br></div>]]>
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<author>
<name>velouria</name>
<email>velouria@velouria.org</email>
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<id>http://orpheu.miudaevil.net/entry/30</id>
<link href="http://orpheu.miudaevil.net/entry/30"/>
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<entry>
<title>Linux Day!</title>
<updated>2000-02-17T22:08:44Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[<p>Hoje foi o dia da apresentação do Windows 2000 da Microsoft, os "Maquinistas" vestiram as suas t-shirts cromas de Linux, FreeBSD e Perl e foram distribuir CDs e panfletos de linux (simpáticamente disponibilizados pela <a href="http://www.suse.com/">SuSE</a>) à porta do grande evento. Os CDs desapareceram num instante! As pessoas mostraram-se bastante receptivas e muitas já conheciam Linux.</p><p></p>
<p><img  src="http://orpheu.miudaevil.net/img/1"></p><p></p><p>Na sala do Pavilhão Atlântico, no Parque das Nações, cheia de engravatados, um tipo da Microsoft fez a apresentação, deu as boas vindas e comentou com desagrado a nossa presença ali, frisando que a Microsoft respeita a concorrência (!) e que esperava que não houvesse incidentes... Enfim...</p><p></p><p></p><p>A palavra que melhor descreve o que se passou ali é kitsch. Fez-me lembrar bastante aqueles anúncios da Teleshop, ao estilo Melga&amp;Mike mas ainda pior! A Microsoft continua a apresentar como grandes inovações revolucionárias coisas que os unixes já fazem há anos... </p><p>A parte final em que se anunciava um teste de segurança ao 2000 feito por uns supostos hackers, que não usavam, nem gostavam do Windows, revelou se dum surrealismo indescritível: entram uns tipos na sala suspensos por cordas, vestidos tipo comandos, com camuflados, ar ameaçador, arma em punho, tudo ao som de explosões, disparos, muitas luzes e fumos. Dirigem-se à mesa, onde se encontram o Melga&amp;Mike e os portáteis a correr Windows 2000. Nos ecrãs gigantes aparecem message boxes no desktop a dizer "O Servidor está a ser atacado! O Servidor está a ser atacado!". A infalibilidade e segurança do 2000 fazem logo os hackaros mudar de ideias, que se despem ali mesmo, vestem sweats da Microsoft e tornam-se MS Certified System Engineers.</p><p>Isto tudo perante a incredulidade do público presente… Eu devia estar pasma de boca aberta...</p><p>Uma verdadeira palhaçada que suponho agradará ao público Microsoft...</p>]]>
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<name>velouria</name>
<email>velouria@velouria.org</email>
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<id>http://orpheu.miudaevil.net/entry/32</id>
<link href="http://orpheu.miudaevil.net/entry/32"/>
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<title>14/07/1999</title>
<updated>1999-07-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
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<![CDATA[A vida corre...<div>Sinto-me um processo zombie a correr numa máquina decadente.</div><div>Sobrevivo lentamente...</div><div>Vivo numa condição que não consigo avaliar...</div>]]>
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<name>velouria</name>
<email>velouria@velouria.org</email>
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