A nova Era dos transportes Publicos...

Farto de Penar na A8 graças aos anormais referidos no post anterior... Lembrei me de ir de Metro...

Em Odivelas, temos 2 Estações, qualquer delas munida do respectivo parque de estacionamento oficial (200 carros em cada???? duvido que sejam tantos), e nao oficial.. (qualquer buraquinho em redor da estação... )

Portanto.. use os transportes publicos, vá de metro.. mas deixe o carro a 1 Km da estação, se nao.. nao o consegue arrumar.. (a menos que vá para lá as sete e meia, e a essa hora.. Obrigadinho, mas demoro tanto tempo de carro como de metro...)

Aos "Técnicos" das Obras da Padre Cruz..

Exmos Senhores,

Os senhores sao umas Bestas........

Não cabe na cabeça de uma formiga (que caso nao saibam, é muito pequena), deixar passar os tres meses de verão e começar só agora a fazer condicionamentos de transito nos dias da semana e nas horas de Ponta...

Ao menos façam no á noite e ao Fim de semana.....

Agora para a festa ser completa, comecem as obras de tratamento do Nó de frielas, porque quando terminar a CRIL, vai ser o bom e o bonito sair ali... (se calhar estão a espera de acabar os condicionamentos na padre cruz para passar a condicionar ali).

Burros...

uma boa noticia para variar.....

Primeira epoca da serie Roswell... na Fox... a meia noite e meia...

Pensamento do dia...

Há um velho ditado árabe que diz:

واحدئيس الوزراء هو الحاكم الفعلي للبلاد. البرلمان الإسباني م

قسم الى مجلسين واحد للأعيان ( وعدد أعضاء يبل عين و واحد للنواب و عدد نتائج الانتخابات نائب . نتائج الانتخابات الأخير مباشرة من أصبحت الشعبسنوات، بينما كل سنوات، بينما يعين عنتخاباتضو من مجلس الأعيان و ينتخب الباقون من الشعب أيضاً. رئيس الوزراء و الوزراء يتم تعيينهم من قبل البرلمان اعتماداً على نتائج الانتخابات النيابية . أهم الأحزاب الإس أصمقسم الى مجلسين واحد للأعيان ( وعدد أعبحت الشعببانية يتم ماعية و تعيينهمللأعيان

Pensem nisso...

È o peso dos numeros....na China...

China's biggest construction project since the Great Wall generates controversy at home and abroad

(CNN) -- It is the virtual definition of a monumental project -- a dam one and a half miles wide and more than 600 feet high that will create a reservoir hundreds of feet deep and nearly 400 miles long. The reservoir, its engineers say, will enable 10,000-ton ocean-going freighters to sail directly into the nation's interior for six months of each year, opening a region burgeoning with agricultural and manufactured products. And the dam's hydropower turbines are expected to create as much electricity as 18 nuclear power plants.

The project is China's Three Gorges Dam, and it has already been the subject of great international scrutiny. It is being called the largest construction project in China since the Great Wall. Many high-ranking Chinese officials expect the dam to become a potent symbol of their nation's vitality in the new century and the new millennium.

Chinese authorities hope the dam will take care of several major national problems with a single monumental stroke. The Three Gorges project is seen as an important future source of energy for China's growing electrical consumption. It is also expected to tame the fabled Yangzi River. The Yangzi's notorious floods have been recorded for millennia and have claimed more than 1 million lives in the past 100 years.

Known to most Chinese as Chang Jiang (Long River), the Yangzi at 3,937 miles is the third longest river in the world behind the Nile and the Amazon.

Some facts about the Three Gorges project:
• Project expected to take 17 years; completion expected in 2009.
• An estimated 250,000 workers are involved in the project.
• The Three Gorges Reservoir will inundate 632 square kilometers (395 square miles) of land.
• An estimated 1.2 million people will be resettled by the dam.
• The project's 26 hydropower turbines are expected to produce 18.2 million kilowatts, up to one-ninth of China's output.
• The amount of concrete totals 26.43 million cubic meters, twice that of the Itaipu project in Brazil, currently the world's largest hydroelectric dam.
Source: Chinese government

The father of modern China, Sun Yat-sen, is credited with first proposing the idea of a hydroelectric dam at Three Gorges in 1919. And in the mid-1950s, after devastating floods along the Yangzi, Mao Tse-tung ordered feasibility studies on damming the river.

The project includes a system of locks, the largest ever built, intended to bring ocean-going ships 1,500 miles inland to Chongqing, the capital of the municipality created from Sichuan Province in 1997 to encompass the project. The municipality, with more than 30 million people, is under the direct control of the central government in Beijing. Officials hope the combination of inexpensive electricity and cheap river transportation will further open the region to international investment -- making Chongqing a major business center.

The great expectations surrounding the Three Gorges Dam project also have generated a huge reservoir of controversy from within China and abroad. Concerns have surfaced about the dam itself. Allegations of corruption among officials involved with the project have raised fears of shoddy construction. The Chinese media recently reported several incidents in which corruption and poor construction have led to disasters at major building projects. Notable among the reports was the collapse of a steel bridge in the city of Chongqing in January 1999 that killed 40 people.

Chinese leaders have long dreamed of taming the Yangzi for power generation and flood control. The river's infamous floods have brought destruction and death for centuries -- 1 million deaths in the 20th century alone

Such incidents also have prompted rare open criticism from the Chinese leadership regarding the Three Gorges Dam. In early 1999 Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji inspected the dam site. He warned those involved in the project that "the responsibility on your shoulders is heavier than a mountain. Any carelessness or negligence will bring disaster to our future generations and cause irretrievable losses." Zhu also suggested China might invite top international engineers to inspect the dam and monitor its construction.

Non-governmental criticism of the project also has surfaced. Journalist Dai Qing was jailed for 10 months in 1989-90 after criticizing the Three Gorges project and, by extension, Li Peng, the former Chinese premier and Soviet-trained engineer who spearheaded the dam's construction.
Dai calls Three Gorges "the most environmentally and socially destructive project in the world." She also calls for a halt to construction and supports the idea of a series of smaller, less disruptive construction projects on tributaries of the Yangzi.

Of further concern are claims the dam might become an environmental disaster. There have been little to no attempts made toward removing accumulations of toxic materials and other potential pollutants from industrial sites that will be inundated. Experts say such materials could leach into the reservoir, creating a health hazard. The relative lack of waste treatment plants in China also could mean run-off from communities around the dam would most likely go untreated directly into the reservoir and into the Yangzi.

Electrical power derived from the dam's turbines will provide up to one-ninth of China's output, the government estimates

"By severing the mighty river and slowing the flow of its water, the dam will cause pollution from industrial and residential sources to concentrate in the river, rather than be flushed out at sea," writes Chinese journalist Jin Hui in "The River Dragon Has Come!" a recently published collection of criticisms against the dam. "The result will be a poisoned river."
There are also claims that the dam will actually contribute to the silt accumulation in the Yangzi, rather than allow larger ships to travel the river.
And others dispute whether the electricity generated by the dam will be efficiently used.
"I think China has embraced an energy dinosaur," says Dr. John Byrne, director of the University of Delaware's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy. "In terms of an American scale, this dam is somewhat akin to the electrical load between Philadelphia and Washington D.C. being served from a single power plant."
Byrne is skeptical whether the huge amount of electricity expected to be generated by the Three Gorges project -- meant to produce power for Chongqing and places as far away as Shanghai -- can be efficiently and economically absorbed by China's electrical system.


The social element of Three Gorges has generated more questions than answers. The dam will "drown" more than 100 towns once the water starts to rise in 2003. Government estimates say 1.2 million people will be resettled and that new land is being provided for 300,000 farmers.

Some observers say the government may be underestimating by as many as 700,000 the number of people who actually will be relocated.
The issue of the farmland, much of which has been tilled by the same Chinese families for centuries and will be lost under the reservoir's waters, is particularly important, Byrne says.
"One of the tragedies of this [project], if just from a regional standpoint, is that the land that is going to be flooded is some of the most fertile in China," says Byrne. "The land to where the population is to be relocated is much less fertile."

The frustrations of those caught up in the resettlement process have been well covered by the Chinese media. Even the People's Daily, the Chinese Communist Party's official newspaper, has editorialized against corruption and poor construction that have either delayed new housing or resulted in sub-standard buildings.

Historians also have questioned the dam's impact on attempts to preserve some aspects of China's long and illustrious history. Archaeologists and historians have estimated nearly 1,300 important sites will disappear under the reservoir's waters.

Most irreplaceable, according to some experts, are sites that are remnants of the homeland of the Ba, an ancient people who settled in the region about 4,000 years ago. A former curator at Beijing's National Museum of Chinese History describes the area as "the last and best place to study Ba culture."

The Yangzi is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world, stretching nearly 4,000 miles across China. The world's longest river is the Nile; the second longest is the Amazon

For its part, the government is well aware of the problems and challenges posed by the Three Gorges project. Nevertheless Guo Shuyan, deputy director of the Three Gorges Project Commission under the State Council, has described the project as "environmentally sound, on the whole."

Chinese officials note the dam may end up providing as much as one-ninth of the nation's electrical production. Considering that China burns 50 million tons of coal each year for energy, their point is that the environmental benefits outweigh the environmental damage.
It appears the Three Gorges project is too far along to be halted. More than 20,000 workers are working around the clock on the dam itself. The reservoir is expected to be at its full depth by 2009.
Observers say China's leaders have too great a political investment in the dam's completion to ever contemplate backing away from the project.
"The project's conception was monumental," says Byrne. "This was seen in the early years [of the project] as a way to show the advanced nature of Chinese society under socialism, to solve a problem that has existed in China for thousands of years... But when you're doing something on this scale, you should really make solving the problems your first priority. Unfortunately, China has decided to launch the project -- then solve the problems along the way."

in CNN

Terra Estranha??? Bota estranho nisso....

A National Geographic de Junho, traz uma reportagem extensa sobre o crescimento económico na China.. (Cidades Instantâneas)

Claro que já todos ouvimos o blá blá blá do costume, poucas condições humanas, crescimento selvagem, economia desgovernada (apesar de centralizada), etc...

Para alem de alguns factos numericos que nao deixam de impressionar (já la iremos), relembrou me bastante os relatos que estudei no Secundário sobre a revolução industrial ocorrida na Inglaterra ao longo dos Seculos 18 e 19 (se bem que desconfie que neste caso, nao vao precisar de 100 anos para atingir o nosso grau actual...

Mas como gosto muito de numeros, aqui vai um resumo em numeros do que está escrito:

1) O reporter acompanhou um par de investidores que foram ver um armazem para montar uma fabrica numa terra chamada Datang...
Entre os 2 demoraram 1h a fazer o projecto da planta da futura fabrica de 3 pisos, ja com acomodações para empregados. Tres meses para começarem a laborar.. (as maquinas sao feitas por eles, baseadas nos conhecimentos que alguns mecanicos teem de trabalhar noutras fabricas com maquinas "reais"..Nada de Especial, foi o que um americano fez em 1810 quando visitou as fabricas de tecidos na Inglaterra, iniciando a Industria na América).

Só por curiosidade, o site da empresa, com catalogos on line, logotipo, cartoes, de visita, etc... ficou por 500 Euros.....

Datang Produz hoje em dia 70% dos botoes de roupa fabricados na China (Com 64.000 Habitantes registados, tem 380 Fabricas) , 30% das meias fabricadas no Mundo (!!!!). Acrescentem-lhe cerca de 350 Milhoes de Guarda Chuva anos..

Tem um centro comercial com mais de 30.000 pontos de venda e atrai tantos comerciantes do médio oriente que tem 23 grandes restaurantes árabes...). Aconselho a ver na revista a fotografia das Lojas, é impressionante ver as prateleiras..

O crescimento economico obriga a um grande Boom imobiliario (claro que estas casas são só para alguns...).. Apesar de pagarem 30 centimos por hora aos empregados da construção civil, algumas moradias chegam a custar 350.000 Euros... (em 13 meses, constroi-se um bairro destes...)


Na zona Económica de Lishui (onde está Datang), o investimento em infratestruturas dos ultimos 5 anos, foi 5 vezes o investimento nos 50 anos subsequentes.. (a economia chinesa tem crescido 10% ao ano nos ultimos 30 anos..).

140 Milhoes de chineses abandonaram os campos e passaram a ser operarios fabris em igual periodo de tempo..E estima-se mais 45 milhoes para os proximos 5 anos..

A zona industrial da Capital da provincia, iniciada 14,5Km quadrados iniciada em 2002 alberga hoje 200 fabricas e 30.000 Trabalhadores (foram deslocados 1000 camponeses e aplainados 108 montanhas e colinas..)

Segundo a constituição, todos os terrenos pertencem á Nação.. Mas as autoridades locais podem aprovar a venda dos direntos de utilização..com uma margem jeitosa (6,6 hectares, custaram 735.000 Euros e foram vendidos a uma imobiliaria por 27.000.000).


Quando as vendas baixam, os patroes deixam de pagar (alem de pouparem nos custos, garantem que os empregados nao fogem, porque estes nao saiem sem receber o que está em divida..é que se nao for assim, um empregado simplesmente, deixa de aparecer quando tem uma oferta melhor..)

Epilogo da Reportagem.. A fabrica muda de local....
A transferencia de todo o equipamento demorou 2 dias (1 para desmontar e outro para montar) e os operarios que acompanharam a mudança (porque nesta altura já eram considerados mao de obra especializada), foram "convencidos" com um aumento substancial de ordenado.. Vao receber 93 Euros de Ordenado, mais 4 Euros para Refeiçoes e podem dormir nuam zona propria da fábrica com camaratas...

Assim vai indo a futura potencia económica numero 1....

ainda a gente falava dos tlm.....

Marido processa firma após usar keylogger

Em homem que usou um keylogger para saber o que sua mulher fazia na internet resolveu processar o fabricante do programa de monitoramento, alegando que a companhia não alertou para o fato de que ao usar o software ele estaria violando leis americanas, informou o site Ars Technica.

Após o divórcio, Jeffrey Havlicek, funcionário da Força Aérea americana, enfrenta um processo judicial aberto por uma amiga de sua ex-mulher, por ter acessado contas de email criadas por ela e que também eram usadas pela então Sra. Havlicek.

De acordo com a Wired, Havlicek, um usuário experiente de computador, comprou em setembro de 2005 o software chamado Activity Monitor, da companhia canadense Deep Software, instalando-o em seguida no micro da família. Em dezembro do mesmo ano, se separou da mulher, Amy. Mas a existência do keylogger foi descoberta somente durante o processo de separação.

Christina Potter, então, entrou na justiça contra Jeffrey Havlicek, alegando que ele usou o keylogger para ter acesso a emails trocados entre ela e Amy e às contas do Yahoo! e da AOL que deixava a amiga usar. Além disso, solicitou que o conteúdo das mensagens fosse retirado do processo de divórcio, mas o pedido foi negado pela justiça, já que o Ato de Privacidade da Comunicação Eletrônica ( EPCA, na sigla em inglês) refere-se a gravações de conversas, inclusive telefônicas, mas nada diz explicitamente sobre mensagens eletrônicas.

Havlicek, por outro lado, quer no mínimo US$ 10 mil de reparação da Deep Software, fora quantia relativa às custas dos processos. Ele alega que a fabricante vendeu seu produto como "um pacote de software espião ideal para assegurar que você tenha o controle que precisa sobre a atividade de seus filhos e esposa quando eles estão online". Apesar de a companhia ter avisado que o software só poderia ser instalado por uma pessoa autorizada a usar o computador em questão, não alertou que o seu uso poderia "ser ilegal ou uma violação aos estatutos estaduais e federais".

Definitivamente a urgencia do momentos...

Vou comprar uma maquina de lavar loiça..... Já percebi a ideia....

Publicidade......enganosa?

OutDoor a saida da IC22..

Restaurante Serra da Estrela.....

Gastronomia Tipica...

Matança Serrana

Marisco sempre Fresco (!!!!!!!!)


Nota: os !!!! sao da minha autoria... Devem tratar-se dos celebres lagostins do Mondego....

Sexta feira.. primeira semana de aulas....

data perfeita para fechar a Av.Padre Cruz até as 8 da manha......

A malta que queria vir trabalhar mas nao tinha vontade...agradece...

Outra perola da nossa televisao...

Noticia do Telejornal...

Em Braga, um projecto piloto, atribui telemoveis gratis a pessoas de idade que vivam isoladas ou longe de familiares.....

Entrevista a uma senhora de 85 anos...

- Este telemovel já é o terceiro ou quarto que me dão.
- Então porque?
- Os outros avariam-se...
- Gostava de ter um daqueles que tiram fotografias?
- não..mas um daqueles que deixam ver quem nos esta a ligar, isso sim....

Acho que lhes vou enviar o Site das Finanças

he uproar over claims that the People's Republic of China launched a series of network-based cyber attacks earlier this month against the U.K., France, Germany, and the U.S. has died down. But few expect China to back off efforts to gain the upper hand in the battle of bits and bytes. China's own stated military goals include improving the country's ability to wage information warfare.

The most recent cyber attacks against the U.S. stand out because they were traced back to the Chinese government. "Normally it is not possible to attribute the source of an attack, because source addresses can be spoofed," says Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute in Bethesda, Md., which trains and certifies technology workers in cyber security. In China's case, though, analysts tracked the cyber assaults to 20 computer workstations in China's Guangdong province, Paller says.

"The precision of the attacks, the perfection of the methods and the 24-by-seven operations over two and a half years, and the number of workstations involved are simply not replicated in the amateur criminal community," he notes. "Amateur cyber criminals do a lot of other things right, but this is an order of magnitude more disciplined than anything I have seen out of the hacker or amateur criminal community."

These strikes, as well as others against the Baltic nation of Estonia's information-technology infrastructure earlier this year, provide but a glimpse of the damage that could be inflicted should a full-scale cyber war erupt between countries. Cyber assaults are a particularly dangerous addition to any country's arsenal because of the growing reliance on networks and technology to control critical systems that run power plants and transportation systems. Cyber attacks on banks, stock markets and other financial institutions could likewise have a devastating effect on a nation's economy.

UNDER CYBER SIEGE: In about half of the cases in which an attacker gains access to a system, it is because the software running on it was poorly designed, loaded or protected.

In about 50 percent of the cases in which an attacker gains access to a system, it is because the software running on it was poorly designed, loaded or protected, Paller says. Cyber attacks can take many forms. One common type probes an organization's perimeter for a hole in a firewall or other network defenses. This can be accomplished by exploiting a piece of software that is improperly designed, configured or patched to protect against malicious software. Once an attacker gains control of that exploited software, he or she can search for information and leave behind hidden software that can be accessed at a later date.

Although the theft of sensitive government data is a major worry, it is not necessarily the greatest one, Paller says, adding, "the bigger concern is that the attackers are planting back doors for future attacks."

Other times, cyber attackers use social-engineering tactics that fool computer users into surrendering important information. So-called phishing attacks, in which computer users are sent e-mails requesting that they reply by sending sensitive information, such as bank account or credit card numbers, are a common scam. "They work because the e-mail appears to come from someone who is trusted," Paller says, "and asks them to do something that is reasonable."

The recently publicized cyber strikes against Western countries are more about spying and intelligence-gathering than about taking down systems and destroying information. The attacks on Estonia began April 27 and were designed to shut down that technology-dependent country's infrastructure, interfering with citizens' ability to perform financial transactions or even make the most basic purchases of bread, milk or gas.

Attackers—the identity of the culprit or culprits is still unknown, though the Russian government was at one point suspected—bombarded Web sites run by the Estonian government with superfluous Web traffic, up to 1,000 times the normal amount passing through the country's Web servers. The attackers used Russian blogs to successfully enlist Russian citizens in the assault, even instructing average computer users on how to attack Estonian Web sites. The attacks included the use of botnets, networks of otherwise benign computers that are broken into and controlled remotely by an attacker. The cyber attacks against Estonia resembled more of a cyber riot by Web users than a singular act of espionage.

China's goals are more subtle but no less dangerous. Although the Chinese government has denied involvement in this latest round of attacks, government officials last year published a report entitled "China's National Defense in 2006" that states China is pursuing a three-step development strategy to modernize its national defense and armed forces that includes building "informationized armed forces" capable of winning "informationized wars" by 2050.

The potential for information warfare was a key component of the U.S. Department of Defense's report to Congress earlier this year analyzing China's military capabilities. China views the acquisition and effective distribution of data as crucial to its ability to optimize "materials, energy and information to form a combined fighting force" and to apply "effective means to weaken the enemy side's information superiority and lower the operational efficiency of enemy information equipment," the report says.

The report asserts that China's People's Liberation Army has established information warfare units to develop viruses to attack enemy computer systems and networks, as well as tactics and measures to protect friendly computer systems and networks. The report charges that China is already engaged in cyber theft and attack against the U.S. and other countries that it perceives as its enemies. "China continues a systematic effort to obtain from abroad through legal and illegal commercial transactions dual-use and military technologies," the report says. In fact, it notes, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have rated China's "aggressive and wide-ranging espionage as the leading threat to U.S. technology."

"In the United States, we're particularly vulnerable because a lot of our communication infrastructure is owned by the private sector," says Jody Westby, chief executive of security consulting firm Global Cyber Risk and chair of the American Bar Association's Privacy and Computer Crime Committee. "In China and Russia, their infrastructure is in the hands of the government, it's easier for them to coordinate and protect those assets."

"For every breach you read about at least five more go unreported," says Jayson Street, the chief information security officer for Stratagem 1 Solutions, a provider of IT security services, and an information technology consultant to the FBI and U.S. Secret Service. "The new Cold War is between China and the Western world."

Re-incarnação? Brincadeira?

Motociclismo: piloto checo aprendeu um inglês perfeito após ter desmaiado

A história que se segue coloca em causa todo o sistema de ensino do inglês vigente no mundo ocidental. Pois bem, Matej Kus, um motociclista checo de corridas de motocrosse, sofreu um aparatoso acidente numa corrida este sábado e acabou por desmaiar, como informa a Sky News.

Ao recuperar os sentidos, 45 minutos após o choque, Matej Kus só falava a língua de Shakespeare. E sem qualquer ponta de sotaque. O mais extraordinário é que antes do acidente (um dos outros corredores bateu na cabeça de Kus) o motociclista checo não «arranhava» mais do que duas ou três palavras em inglês.

Vamos às informações adicionais: a corrida foi disputada em solo britânico e Matej Kus, infelizmente, perdeu algumas horas depois a sua nova habilidade. Mas consta que o checo gostou tanto que se vai inscrever num curso de línguas. O piloto encontra-se bem de saúde.

será?

A imaginação é mais importante que o saber.

Albert Einstein

Eu ja tinha aqui falado do Tuvalu ( www.aaa.tv)

Net gains for tiny Pacific nation

An atoll in the South Pacific has come up with a novel way of making money via its domain name .TK.

Tokelau may only have 1,500 inhabitants and be a two-day boat trip from its nearest neighbour but selling its .TK domain is reaping benefits.

The Dutch entrepreneur who bought the address now offers a free domain name service in return for targeted ads.

The deal has allowed Tokelau to add 10% to its GDP as well as gain PCs and net access for residents.

ICANN doubt

When Joost Zuurbier, the founder of Dot TK, decided to invest in a country level domain name in 2001 he had a choice of four unregistered addresses including ones for Palestine, East Timor and Pitcairn.

The South Pacific .tk address was the most appealing but it was a long process to convince the overseer of the net's addressing system - the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) - that they had a valid case.

"It was a four year process. They didn't believe the contract or even the island were real and it was only because a member of the board had been to Tokelau in 1978 that they finally agreed it was OK," explained Mr Zuurbier.

Now there are more than 1.6 million Dot TK domain names registered and it is adding around 10,000 each day. Registering a .TK domain is free although users must agree to receive targeted banner and text advertising.

The Dot TK company gives an undisclosed amount to Tokelau from every .tk sales that has allowed the tiny nation to add 10% to its economy.

For Tokelau the partnership with Dot TK has offered a new way of communication to a nation that had previously relied on expensive satellite telephony and, before 1994, radios to speak to each other.

Now many of the inhabitants use free voice-over IP telephony services.

"Telephone revenue has gone down by 40% because everyone is using Skype," said Aukusitino Vitale, the general manager of Tokelau's telecommunications company Teletok.

Teleconferencing

Tokelau used to have just 12 computers but now there are 200, in internet cafes, classrooms and hospitals.

The broadband connection - which is received via satellite as the ocean is too deep to lay under-water cable - is not the best at just 384 kilobits per second but it has opened up a whole new world for the islanders.

According to Ionatana O'Brien, Tokelau's minister of Transport, Energy and Telecommunications, the inhabitants have discovered music downloads, YouTube and MySpace.

Currently net access is free although the government is considering charging as more bandwidth is consumed.

The hospitals are able to receive much-needed medical expertise from overseas doctors via e-mail and still photographs. There are plans to add video to this service.

The mayors of each island use teleconferencing to keep in touch.

There is also a project to connect islanders to the University of South Pacific which might mean inhabitants would not have to go overseas to study. With an estimated 8,000 islanders now living in New Zealand, Australia and the US, the issue of emigration is a serious one.

The group of three islands now also has a dedicated website, which allows family members living abroad to keep in what is happening back home.

"The website means news can be translated into their own language as well as giving exposure to our culture," said Mr Vitale.

In BBC

Convencional Wisdom

We associate truth with convenience, with what most closely accords with our self interest and personal well being or promises best to avoid awkward effort or unwelcome dislocation of life.

We also find highly acceptable what contributes most to self estime.

Convencional wisdow must be simple,convenient, confortable and conforting, not necessary truth...

In freakanomics..

um fim de tarde na marginal

Um domingo diferente na Marginal.....

Os aeroportos

Neste periodo tao movimentado para os aeroportos, tive oportunidade de passar alguns momentos divertidos no nosso Aeroporto (congestionado) de Lisboa...

Algumas coisas que me chamaram a atenção:
a) a quantidade de crianças a viajar sozinhas.. que chegaram a zona de saida acompanhadas por uma hospedeira...
b) algumas "personagens" quer chegaram...sem duvida um sitio interessante para nos sentarmos a ver quem passa....

Há.. e a desorganização.. 1hora para fazer sair as malas do aviao..parece me excessvo...

Pérolas da nossa TV....

Jogo Benfica - Naval

Petit tenta um chapéu a 50 metros da baliza...

Comentador - " O jogo ja da para tudo..Petit a tentar um chapéu de muito longe..Mas as probabilidades eram um pouco acima daquilo que veio a acontecer..."

hum... profundo...

Compras

Hoje nas compras, observei de relance o talão de controlo de uma operadora de caixa da FNAC..

98% dos movimentos foram por cartão visa... chiça...