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Book Meme Floating around, so mine is:
Save the file and reboot the system for the settings to take effect.
in Asterisk, The Future of Telephony
The Rules for this meme are:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open it to page 56.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
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Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
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20 Weeks and we now know that were having a girl. We’ll name her Laura, and as you can see from the picture she has a beautiful nose…
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My friend L0rd Saur0n made this nice retro chick image. I found it so hilarious that I just had to share.
 VT100 in Bright Green
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If you like IDEA and use Struts 2 you can be happy to know that 8.0 release comes with a new Struts 2 plugin. There is a small tutorial on how to use it but it has some errors.
First the Action class should extend ActionSupport hand have proper setter methods:
package hello;
import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionSupport;
public class HelloWorld extends ActionSupport {
private String username;
private String message;
public String getMessage(){
return message;
}
public String execute(){
message = "Hello, " + username + ".";
return SUCCESS;
}
public String getUsername() {
return username;
}
public void setUsername(String username) {
this.username = username;
}
}
Second the JSP file can have a proper action:
< %@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>
< %@ taglib prefix="s" uri="/struts-tags" %>
<html>
<head><title>Simple jsp page</title></head>
<body>
Struts 2 Message: <s :property value="message" default="Guest." />
<s :form method="GET" action="HelloWorld">
Enter your name:<s :textfield name="username" />
<s :submit value="Submit" />
</s>
</body>
</html>
And finally struts.xml can have the Action declared without the ugly unRESTFUL .action:
< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
< !DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.0//EN"
"http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.0.dtd">
<struts>
<package name="/" extends="struts-default">
<action name="HelloWorld" class="hello.HelloWorld">
<result name="success">/index.jsp</result>
</action>
</package>
</struts>
I really like IDEA when it comes to Java codding, and I can live with the quirks of the Struts 2 support. But one thing that makes me steam is the fact that I have to un-deploy and deploy the application for each change I make. That steals me hours every week.
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I have not fallen and bought an iphone. Just testing one and a Rss reader and blog posting tool.
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There is a magic that is not possible to describe.

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A new life is in the process. The join of looking at a small paper with a tiny bean that is part of me is overwhelming.
Raquel told me that even with this small size she could hear the tiny human being hearts beating fast. Next time I’ll go and no matter what I’ll get to listen to it to.
 Ecografia 7 Semanas
42 ? 42 is not the answer. Life is the answer.
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Dia 14 de Junho de 2008. É meio dia. Estou na Sé Nova de Coimbra à tua espera. Estamos a preparar este momento há dois anos e meio. Desde que nos vimos que soubemos que aqui iríamos chegar.
Estou junto ao altar de uma igreja, estou aqui à espera de pé. Estão centenas de pessoas a olhar para mim. Estão todos a pensar: “Olha para a carinha dele, está tão nervoso a pensar que ela não vem!” - Não estou nada! Claro que ela vem. Se estou assim com cara estranha é de estar toda a gente a olhar para mim.
Estamos a dar um passo. Estamos a dar o passo. Estamos a formar uma família.
Sim aceito.
Desculpa o clichê que se segue Raquel. Fazes de mim um homem melhor. Espero que sintas o mesmo e que possamos continuar assim.
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Sometimes a problem has a complex solution. Others the smart solution is just around the corner.

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All in all there's something to give,
All in all there's something to do,
All in all there's something to live,
With you ...
14-06-2008
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Paula Simões did a reply on the previous post about second life. Go read it as it is quite good and them come back for my re-replys.
Paula: You fail to point a single source of real revenue, the one that is capable of generating more revenue. You are counting on universities to keep pouring cash into the system? That is the worst Business Model ever.
And even believing that Universities would continue giving SL money because it saves them elsewhere:
One of the best advantages of SL is simulation. There are many examples, taken from several Universities: Law students practicing in a court room; medicine students practicing with virtual patients; students creating architecture models; etc.
I can barely agree with the first one, but the others? Architecture models? Medicine students practicing on a model? SL is a poor excuse for a simulated 3D world. The 3rd person perspective kills any lessons one might learn for architecture purposes. Just try to design a real house in SL and you end up walking over every peace of furniture there. And practicing a delicate surgery in a virtual model? Maybe practicing the theoretical steps would be possible but more than that?
Why would a company want to be on SL? That is the real issue. Find a BM that is capable of generating real revenue and maybe we can find a common ground. Until them, for me, it is just a souped up academic experiment.
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A few weeks ago I attended some presentations about social 3d worlds. Two of the four presentations were about what can be done on Second Life and how to do it, another was about E-Learning and Virtual Worlds and the last one (actually it was the third) was by Marcos Marado and was a very nice retrospective about virtual worlds dating back to 1968. His presentation showed that many of these virtual worlds was eventually taken over my something newer. Surely many are still used today, but the user base dropped to a shadow of what was before.
My feeling is that the same will happen to second life. And why will that happen? Today I see two classes of problems with second life that need addressing:
Technical Problems
It is a very slow engine! It is open source code so the community should be able to fix it right? Wrong!! The problem is at a level that I do not believe a fix can be produced by changing the client code. As I saw last Saturday most of the performance issues come from the fact that the engine was designed to parse user produced content.
Economical Problems
Second Life is not a game. It does not aim to be a game. It aims to be a simulation of the real world, and it wants to be as perfect as possible. So good a simulation that money inside the virtual world is bought with real €€ and can be converted back.
Second life is an emerging platform for content production and distribution, just like the web was in 95. The main difference is the cost involved in a web presence versus a second life presence. Also back in 95/96 it was easy to imagine why should company A or B be in the web. With second life it is not that easy.
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The company I work for (WIT-Software) launched it’s new corporate identity a few days ago. The new web site is up since…… some 15 minutes ago .

I hope you all like the new logo and image.
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Clear winner

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A week ago I stared on my new work. I was at IPN and now I’m on the corporate world working at WIT-Software developing software for mobile systems as well as backend code for Mobile operators.
It was been a wounder full week, with lots of work and new stuff to learn.
As an added bonus last Week I received my last grade and now have my CS degree 
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I must say the S. Francisco is a very nice place. But everything seems to be moving there. But why all this concentration of things? The internet promised us the freedom to be anywhere in the real world and at the same time work anywhere.
Now it is Wikimedia. Lets do a nice backup every once in a while just to be safe from earthquakes.
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Hoje tive contacto com uma face menos agradável da América.
Um americano explicava-me que tinha comprado várias casas que arrendava. Já ia em sete casas, mas esperava chegar às dez antes dos 4o anos para poder viver dos rendimentos sem ter de trabalhar. Quando lhe perguntei se não tinha problemas com os inquilinos, por exemplo não pagarem as rendas, explicou-me que não havia problema pois a lei Americana impunha que quem não pagasse era liminarmente despejado (cinco dias). Mais, explicou-me com um sorriso de satisfação, o senhorio podia vender o que estivesse dentro da casa para pagar a renda em dívida.
Finalmente, quando lhe perguntei se teria coragem de despejar uma família em dificuldades, inclusive com crianças, ele olhou para mim com espanto e comentou “Of course, it’s my money!“.
Sei que poderia encontrar alguém com a mesma postura na Europa ou em qualquer sitio do mundo (a ganância é um atributo humano, não tem nacionalidade). Na verdade, o que mais me impressionou foi que esta pessoa é uma das mais inteligentes que já conheci, alguém que tem um espírito aberto, fresco, inovador, uma criatividade como raras vezes vi. E no entanto…
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Criei um segundo blog, que pode ser visitado em http://paulasimoes.org/blog. Queria experimentar alguns themes do wordpress e estou bastante satisfeita com o Hemingway alterado pelos Ninja Monkeys.
O tema é absolutamente lindo. Experimentei antes um outro baseado no Hemingway também, chamado Japanese Cherry Blossom, do qual ainda gosto mais, mas que é também mais difícil de costumizar.
O tema tem uma solução que não me agrada que é o facto de partir os posts para ler mais, devido ao próprio layout, mas mesmo com todos os aborrecimentos que posso dar aos leitores, arrisco. Valha-me o facto das feeds irem com o texto completo. Entretanto poderei estar mais à vontade para ir testando o tema 
Continuarei a escrever aqui, mas é mais provável que actualize o paula simões’ blog com maior regularidade, nos próximos tempos.
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