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It’s been a while, since I had this in mind: to put a 2.5″ hard drive inside a Moleskine. I did imagine it, but to be honest, it was just the other day, when I stumbled upon a website, that I saw that someone just had the same idea, so I decided to finally do it myself!
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Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me…. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOOOOO MEEEEEE =)

Today I was tagged meme by Rick from My Biotech Life, and before I post 8 random facts about me, here are the rules:

We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.

Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.

People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.

At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.

Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog

It’s going to be hard to tag 8 more people, since I don’t know that many bloggers online…

Here are my 8 random facts:

1. My favorite drink is Coca-Cola, which is also the name given to a person which was born at Maputo, capital of Mozambique (where I was born)
2. I used to hate cats, and now, me and my girlfriend share the house with 2
3. I absolutely love to cook anything from fresh pasta, sushi, to the more regular food… I truly believe if I wasn’t a computer geek I was studying for chef
4. I already set my feet on 12 different countries (this by the time I was 20)
5. I never sleep with my socks on, but I have to get in bed with them
6. I panic if someone squeezes my nose
7. Once I was run over by a luggage truck, on my way to surprise my mother in the airplane
8. Once I was truly disappointed to know that my dream of being an astronaut would be impossible, because I have more than the permitted height, both in NASA and in ESA… I measure 1,94 meters!

And thats it! For now I only have one blog buddy besides Rick, but I will update my list in the future.
I choose to tag Artur Martins on his blog.

I hope I get this list bigger… =)

Since I acquired a hosting plan, with the great Dreamhost team, I’ve been creating some websites, experimenting with stuff, login in, login out, via terminal ssh and also using CyberDuck sftp client for Mac. And, even though I use Linux for a while now, sometimes laziness takes his best, and it seems like my brain goes numb! Let me explain… Every time I login on my server space, I type a username (if I’m in the terminal this part is skipped, because local user is the same in the remote server, thereby no need to specify user) and a password. This is cool, if you do it one or two times a day, but if you keep doing this a lot, and have a bunch of servers (working in system administration can do this for you =] ) to login, you will get tired typing all this username/passwords all the time! Believe me… Not to mention the fact that a password scheme, is bad for your security! Why not remove all the need for passwords, and use digital security keys? They are like your normal keys, but one keys does it all! Continue reading →

I have to admit! There are a couple of things, that I miss from Windows: “blue screens of death”, the security and performance (ah feel the irony), but most of all, and this being the import one, some apps. That’s right, there are a couple of apps I really enjoy, that don’t exist in Mac. There’s no good eMule client (and stop yelling about aMule, that’s not the same!) and I miss using my favorite BitTorrent client, uTorrent! Continue reading →