2006

Boas entradas. Que 2006 seja um bocadinho melhor que 2005. Até para o ano.

Where have all the good car names gone?

É o título de um artigo que saíu naquele que é provavelmente o melhor jornal do mundo, o Financial Times

Aqui fica um resumo do artigo e a lista dos melhores nomes de automóveis, os piores e os mais estranhos. Read the rest of this entry »

Bugatti Veyron

For a $1,2 million dollar car it should be better than this:

But I understand that a Bugatti buyer is not spending that much money for its audio capabilities..
If you like cars go ahead and read How this Bugatti Veyron Works. What a masterpiece!

Career opportunities in the European Institutions

Want a job?

In this site you will find information on career opportunities in the European Institutions. Your visit will take you through the application process, answer your most common questions, and tell you where to get more information.

The funny part are the Interactive Tests:
If you want to be a secretary you should know the answer to this one

What is the conventional closing phrase to a letter beginning “Dear Sir”?
a) Yours truly,
b) Yours sincerely,
c) Yours faithfully,
d) Truly yours,

If you want to copy text within a document do you use:

a) cut and paste
b) copy and paste
c) replace
d) save and copy

Lol, these guys…

You can also try the quizzes for an auditor job , financial management and others.

MSN Maps

The response to Google’s Maps from Microsoft: MSN Virtual Earth

Javascript powered, looks nice but the zoom feature only goes till 50% on Portugal. More zoom is available on EUA, but not full zoom. They are still working on it as this is a Beta version.

It worked nicely with Firefox but seems more slick with Internet Explorer. Unlike Google, here you have the name of the country/city/street you’re seeing.

A nice feature is the “Locate Me” based on your IP. In my case it emidiatly took me from the US to Portugal.

Enough said. Stop reading this an explorer yourself!