15th December 2012 at 15:15
This post was supposed to be yet another Windows 8 review but, as I’ve gained experience with the latest Microsoft OS, I saw the potential for something a little more interesting. I’ve been using Windows 8 as the only OS in my main computer since it was officially released by Microsoft, so I might say I have some experience, now, to tell you a thing or two about it that you probably missed in other reviews. I’ve already used Windows, Mac and Linux as my primary OS (and I tend to change it quite frequently), and I find advantages and disadvantages in all of them. I’m pretty “agnostic” in most technology debates, and OSs aren’t an exception, so these thoughts aren’t distorted by fanboy opinions. I didn’t do a simple review not only because the Internet is full of it (really, I’m not even posting any links), but because my continuous usage of this new OS kept bugging me more and more about very specific details. So I’ll skip the typical suspense and just tell you my quick opinion about it, so I can discuss what I see as the most pressing issue: what Windows 8 could have been.
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25th October 2012 at 20:03
These days I’m getting sick and tired of all the “think outside the box” talk. In my area (technology and computers stuff) we have three kinds of young people: those who have yet to wake up for reality (mostly gamers that chose this area because it’s about those machines that can run videogames); those who want to play safe and spend their years being treated as slaves in a low-wage and unfulfilling job; and those that love to “think outside the box”. So what is that thoughtful activity anyway?
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20th June 2012 at 11:28
Those who explore this blog a little further than the first post that came up in the Google search may notice that I haven’t posted any new content since the end of January. That’s almost five months ago! It isn’t because I lost interest or run out of content to share. It’s just because recently my Master’s degree has pulled a lot of time and effort from me and I just hadn’t got the chance to update my blog as I’d want to. I would, occasionally, check its visitors statistics, and what I found time after time (including now) was that, despite the lack of new content, visitor rates just wouldn’t decrease. In fact, I believe they’re now higher than by the time I shared my latest post back in January.
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30th January 2012 at 10:47
The Semantic Web, an Internet of of connected knowledge, meaningful data and machine-readable information, is seen as many as the future of the Internet. Envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee, its purpose is to transition from a web of unstructured documents into a “web of data”, in which we could browse and search for data not only based on syntactic keywords, but also based on semantic meaning. However, it’s awkward to realise that most of the work around the Semantic Web is done in Java, and many technologies with great future potential, such as Ruby on Rails, are seemingly forgotten.
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31st August 2011 at 16:07
Currently I have been working on my blog and website to improve its design and user experience, as I said in my latest post. Yesterday I improved the RSS feed, and today I’m launching a completely redesigned theme. This new theme is now in use in both the blog and the website.
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