It seems that:
Dreamhost shut down gravatar.com today without notice and kindly told me that I was monopolizing their server’s entire processor.
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I’m going to try to do some fancy pants caching and optimizing of the avatar serving script to reduce resource utilization and see if they find that acceptable. If that doesn’t work then I guess I’ll have to swing for a dedicated server
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Let me share with you the IDC’s data about the worldwide consumer point and shoot digital still camera shippments:
IDC also says that 2006 will be the tipping point when more digital images are printed than film images, with 56% of total worldwide prints coming from digital images. That shit will increase to 71% in 2008.
On January 2005 there will be portuguese web adresses like this: www.coração.pt .
Our national characters will be allowed on domain names, and the same will happen on other countries. Some browsers (read it: Internet Explorer) will not support it. Another reason to choose Mozilla.
I personally don’t agree with it. I prefer the standard latin characters so that foreign websites are easy to type.
Being at home (Xmas and New Year’s day holidays) will not allow me to upload my music files or write a lot on the weblog because I only have a 56k cable modem connection (wireless and cable lan only in my college). Also having a marketing assignment for this week and exams starting on 5 January makes things even worst on what concerns the website update.
Lets see how things work out.
I´ve read it first on wednesday’s Financial Times: Google is going to scan universities’ library books. It seems that company officials presented the move as a philanthropic gesture although they´ve admitted that their search engine would benefit from it over the rivals.
Something that i did not know: books published before 1923 are no longer protected by copyright law and are in the public domain.
This could only happen in America: the government’s website has a section about the president’s dog: Barney Bush.
You can find Barney’s films, photos, Q&A, etc..
Will portuguese politics be like that in the future?
Maybe. But with the circusthat is going around where almost there:
Nearly one in three people in Portugal blame Jose Manuel Barroso’s decision to resign as prime minister in July to become the head of the European Union Commission for the political crisis the country is in, a poll published on Friday showed.
Barroso’s successor, Pedro Santana Lopes, formally resigned on Monday, three days after President Jorge Sampaio said he was dissolving parliament and setting early elections for February 20 because he lacked confidence in the government.
A general election had not been expected until 2006.
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