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Age

Posted: January 12th, 2005 | Author: Vitor | Filed under: Websites | No Comments »

earthIf you want to know what’s your age on other planets try this link:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/age/

The moment that you read this I’m 23. No time to celebrate as exams demand all my attention..


Comics

Posted: January 11th, 2005 | Author: Vitor | Filed under: Internet, Websites | No Comments »

A new trend: .cbr files. What are they? Zipped comics in a file to read with an awesome tool called CDisplay.

Clearly I’m late to the party on this but maybe you are too. This is soooooooooo cool. Comics apparently have been mp3′d in a really cool way, thanks to a single program.
Source

Also check “All you need to know about CBR and CBZ files” for more info about it.


The Date

Posted: January 10th, 2005 | Author: Vitor | Filed under: Coding, Websites | 1 Comment »

A minor update on my website’s php code: if you look at the bottom of my blog, to the footer you see Vitor Azevedo (the copyright sign) 2004 - 2005
Do I have to change it every year? No, because it uses php code:


©Vitor Azevedo 2004–< ?php echo date('Y'); ?>

A similar code is also used in the “About Vitor” section:


$dia = date("d");
$mes = date("m");
if ($dia < 12 and $mes ==01) {
echo date("Y")-1983;}
else
{echo date("Y")-1982;}

Guess what’s my birthday!


Free SMS’s

Posted: January 9th, 2005 | Author: Vitor | Filed under: Websites | 3 Comments »

A free website to send sms’s is hard to find these days. But it seems that Vazu is an exception. You can send text messages to your friends anywhere in the world for free!
Lets see for how long… Enjoy while you can.

note: I’ve tested it in my cellphone network (TMN, Portugal). Don’t really know if the “anywhere in the world” stuff is really true.


Wikipedia

Posted: January 8th, 2005 | Author: Vitor | Filed under: Internet, Websites | No Comments »

John Gapper writes on Financial Times about Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, saying that it is a phenomenon started 3 years ago, and analysing the eventual entrance of it on the knowledge market.

Wikipedia’s enthusiasts are producing something that is extremely cheap (free, in fact) and good enough to satisfy many people.

If you don’t know what Wikipedia is you should spend a few minutes browsing www.wikipedia.org.
By the way, “Wiki” comes from the hawaiian term for “fast”.