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geek

declutter away!

at the time of the previous implementation of this website, the choice of CMS was motivated by paralel projects envolving joomla… but joomla soon turned out to be a little naughty monster, that i kept trying to tame. our relationship grew in the premisses of tweaks and workarounds, half-working modules and whatnots…

but my patience for such things has run out a long time ago. so today, with p. in charge of the php/mysql migration front and me on the design side, we moved the blog from joomla to wordpress. i would have anticipated lots of problems, but the whole thing went rather smoothly, and the website looks pretty much the same.

to me though, it feels so different! finally i have proper categories, tags, rss feeds that don’t have encoding problems, a spam filter for comments, clean urls, etc etc etc.

horray!

ps – i’m not sure for how long the feeds will hold, so feed readers should update their feed to feed://meiadeleite.com/feed. sorry about that.

ps2 – if you find any problems, let me know :)

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in the netherlands

chocolate with coconut and banana topping

miss v

like my grand grandpa used to say, “sweet things never made me bitter!” :D

(from our xmas party, 2 years ago in groningen. more sweetness and nostalgie, on flickr).

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geek

search queries.

i was browsing the search queries that arrive at meiadeleite.com (always entertaining) and stumbling upon the strangest phrases:

* desenho tenda de indios
* how to make leite creme
* porque as mulheres tem vontade de ser mae (…)
* o que significa i need a hug? (oh dear…)
* dor no ombro
* dimicina pills
* so so in portuguese (lol)
* mulheres podem dar leite sem estar gravida (and a lot of variations of that! :S)

…and then comes p.: “where are you checking that?”.
“awstats”, i said. off he goes to check his own stats. i was guessing “postcrossing guy” or something like that would come up first. nops. instead, “nude pumpkin race” does, way ahead any other queries.

and check this out, for that query, his site comes even before nakedpumpkinrun.org on google! now that’s classy! :D

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in portugal

…

não sei o que é mais triste. se a precariedade de um país a recibos verdes, se o deixar-andar de quem está nessa situação e não tem coragem de lá sair.

olhem para nós. estamos aqui há 7 meses. com contractos de trabalho. com impostos pagos. com o almoço pago. com seguro de saúde. com férias, bónus e regalias. onde somos apreciados pelo trabalho que fazemos. a ganhar suficientemente bem para pensarmos em investir noutras coisas, em viajar, em virar freelancers. (o mindthisgap tem mais exemplos como o nosso).

não, nada disto foi sorte. foram escolhas construídas.

eu percebo que nalguns casos estes cenários não são possíveis. há família, há a idade, há profissões difíceis de encaixar noutros contextos.

mas e nos outros casos, como os das pessoas da minha idade, recém-licenciadas, que se sujeitam assim, durante anos? porque é que não saem daí?

expliquem-me lá esse amor à pátria que vos atraiçoa, que eu sinceramente, já não percebo.

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foooood

rabanadas! bolo-rei! mexidos! leite-creme! :D

consoada

it’s the pre-xmas season again. we can’t really feel it here, because the chinese are not very keen on that holiday. no xmas lights on trees (well, not more than usually anyway), no window shops decorated with red and green.and yet, we have our own subtle reminder: moms.

“so what do you want me to cook for you when you come?” is the question following “how are you?” nowadays. to which we happily answer with the roll of our favourite dishes and as many xmas desserts as we can remember.

it’s not like we’re starving here, but you know, mom’s food will always be the best – and i can guarantee that it tastes especially delicious after a few months abroad.
we should start dieting now, to make up for all the extra kilos we’re going to put on those 2 weeks.