Narcissistic Good Deeds

September 30, 2008 – 4:47 pm

Quick post!

Today, on a FriendFeed timeline near me, this popped up ( you can pop it up too by click clicking it, it’s much more readable I assure thee, lol ):

Akoha @ FriendFeed

Akoha @ FriendFeed

As I write that event occurred like 14 minutes ago, but it’s destined to popup on my twhirl for the rest of the day with likes and comments, wtv, that’s not the point.

Thing is, I find this service.. good, but funny at the same time. To sum it up, you buy cards/decks, and each card represents an activity like offer a drink/coffee/beer/some nice gesture, the card holder passes the card to the person to whom he offers the coffee, that person inserts the card unique code on the Akoha website et voilà, the person who bought the card gets Karma points, so that no random old lady rams into him and making him loose the prized lottery ticket.

What I find funny is the fact that hundreds(?) of people will make good deeds, if you can call ‘em that, maybe because of a website told them to and offers them points for every deed.

Am I the only one to whom this reminds of those games you do with kids so that they do their homework? “do it and you get a candy.. or wtv”, just a thought, I’m not wasting monay on a service that tells me how many good deeds I’ve done so far.

Nice service though, if that’s what it takes..

Ah yes, btw: It’s Snowing on Mars.

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Caminhos de Ferro Loophole

September 28, 2008 – 1:37 pm

Heh, esta descobri hoje com a senhora Filipa, ao tentar comprar um bilhete de Santa Apolónia para Santarém e usar desconto Cartão Jovem descobrimos que tal não é possível devido ao percurso ser inferior a 90km ou algo do género, ora, tendo em conta que o custo do bilhete é de €9 e o desconto de 20%, que tal experimentar aumentar um pouco a distância, por exemplo para o Entroncamento e ver o que dá?

Santa Apolónia - Entroncamento com desconto C.Jovem

Santa Apolónia - Entroncamento com desconto C.Jovem

Yep, distância maior, preço menor, we win.

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Presidential Body Language

September 28, 2008 – 12:48 am

Just a quick post, while reading through my feeds I found this pair of images:

Obama pwning McCain

Obama pwning McCain

and

Obama pwning Hillary

Obama pwning Hillary

I, for one, hate the american politics, but anyways, the post was entitled “Obama 1 – 0 McCain“, I didn’t even read it, judging by the title and 1st photo I thought it was about something Obama had said, but having read “The Definitive Book of Body Language” by Allan and Barbara Pease ( very, very fine read ), I was completely ‘wowed’ by those images, such a strong body language of superiority and control over the other person, absolute pwnage, reminded me of a couple of pics I saw of G.W. Bush and T. Blair in the book.

As I said, I don’t like it, I find it unethical the amount of marketing around these politicians, manipulating voters, but it’s interesting to observe this.

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Ka-POW!

September 26, 2008 – 7:24 pm

Ah yes, brand-spanking new blag, out with the old in with the new.

To sum it up: got really really tired of my old (100% hand-coded, authored by me with enough bells and whistles)theme, so, I dumped the whole blog (content now lives in an abandoned db, maybe I’ll set up an archive blog) and created a new one. New url (should’ve used this one from the beggining), new theme based on Sandbox (*sigh* :BASED: I did alter stuff around and dumped their css completely, ah well).

Oh boy, previous paragraph’s like the invasion of parenthesis haha. Anyway: thinking of creating a color.php to output dynamic css, like random color schemes ‘cos black’s a bit… dark.

Ah well, here we go again! Down-to-earth guy posting his rants/thoughts/ideas/useful info about web and mobility.

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