quarta-feira, fevereiro 15, 2006

Preços dos combustíveis: gasóleo aumenta, gasolina diminui

Why are diesel prices going up by a rate far higher that the gasoline ones?
I challenge anyone to present one valid argument that justifies this gas prices' trend other than "Oh, that's easy: diesel vehicles sales are going up!"
'Cause this is the argument I believe...

Porque é que os preços do gasóleo estão a subir muito mais que os da gasolina?
Desafio quem quiser a apresentar um argumento válido que justifique esta tendência, que não seja "Ah, é fácil: a venda de carros a gasóleo está em alta!"
Porque é este o argumento em que eu acredito...

Autohoje Online :: Notícias

sexta-feira, fevereiro 10, 2006

Ski at Sierra de Bejar, Salamanca (Spain)

About 2 weeks ago, I spent my weekend skiing in Spain, in Bejar - Salamanca - with a group of good friends. It's a nice resort... for newbies. Not that I'm a pro (far away from that), but I got to be honest: the tracks are just too easy. Furthermore, that was just the most frozen weekend: Saturday we got 12 celsius below zero, and on Sunday, we got a windy, snowy and very icy day. After an adventurous "snow hill climbing" with my van - both snow chains broken!!! - and another adventurous "snow down hill" - 12-15 Kms in 2nd gear - we got back home enjoying a beautiful white landscape during half the trip. Got to try again... other resort :)

These are the main ski tracks, both ranked Red.

P1282806, originally uploaded by Paulo Cunha.

This is a "crossroad" between a blue and a red track.

P1282810, originally uploaded by Paulo Cunha.

This is my artistic vein popping out :)

P1282832, originally uploaded by Paulo Cunha.

Beautiful landscape...

P1282835, originally uploaded by Paulo Cunha.

A red track seen from above

P1282837, originally uploaded by Paulo Cunha.

Upper view to the resort and its parking lot.

P1282843, originally uploaded by Paulo Cunha.

An upper upper view

P1282852, originally uploaded by Paulo Cunha.

A ghost running over the snow...

P1282877, originally uploaded by Paulo Cunha.

Artistic vein, again

P1282883, originally uploaded by Paulo Cunha.

... and again...

P1292897, originally uploaded by Paulo Cunha.

... and so on...

P1292914, originally uploaded by Paulo Cunha.

... and a (not) frozen dog.

P1292918, originally uploaded by Paulo Cunha.

Although this snow chain looks like well assembled, it broked half way up the mountain :(

Although this snow chain looks like well assembled, it broked half way up the mountain :( P1292904, originally uploaded by Paulo Cunha.

quinta-feira, fevereiro 09, 2006

Islam cartoons

Check this out:
This guy claims that the so infamous cartoons about islam and muslims has been published half an year ago (October 2005) on the frontpage of an well knoen egyptian newspaper, named Al Fagr.
No outrage happened then. Maybe because Egypt isn't at Europe. Maybe...

Rantings of a Sandmonkey: Boycott Egypt

sexta-feira, dezembro 16, 2005

Best of What's New 2005 (by Popular Science)

Grand Award Winners

Vale a pena dar uma olhadela. Esta revista científica elegeu as melhores inovações de 2005. Há muitas de que nunca ouvi falar...

It's worth a look. This science magazine selected the best 2005's innovations. I haven't heard about lots of them...

terça-feira, dezembro 13, 2005

Saddam Hussein planeava ataque em Portugal, diz Powell (in Diário Digital)

EDIT:
NÃO ACREDITO: coloquei este post à hora do almoço. No final da tarde, por acaso, tentei revisitar o link da notícia e descobri que tinha desaparecido! E que uma outra notícia semelhante apareceu, por milagre, mas politicamente correcta!
Entretanto, e para constatarem o milagre, eis um screenshot da notícia original retirado da cache do meu browser. DESCUBRAM AS DIFERENÇAS:

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS! I first posted this at lunch time. At afternoon's end, I've tried to visit again the new's link and I've found that it has disappeared! And that another similar new appeared, by miracle, but politically correct!
Meanwhile, for you to be able to see the miracle, here's a screenshot of the original new, provided by my browser's cache. FIND THE DIFERENCES:



(Este era o link original/This was the original link) Diário Digital

Não é possível! Estes tipos devem achar que somos mesmo estúpidos!
Mas devo confessar que sempre tive medo que o Iraque nos considerasse uma ameaça e nos atacasse com as suas armas de destrução maciça invisíveis... ou não.

It is not possible! These guys must find think of portuguese people as very stupid people!
Any how, I must confess that I've always been very afraid that Iraque consider Portugal as a threat and that they attack us with their invisible weapons of mass destruction... not.