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in the netherlands

a festa portuguesa na holanda…

 

… mas discreta, que o temporal que se abateu e a quantidade de bêbados laranja nas redondezas não estava lá muito convidativa.

não foi um espectáculo bonito de se ver. pelo jogo em si – e bolas, que nervoso miudinho (ainda bem que a joy, a nossa pacifista tailandesa, lá estava para eu agarrar o braço de alguém), mas também pela nossa posição, uns 20cm abaixo da média à nossa volta… o ratio de nós/eles devia rondar os 1/20, no sally’s… mas lá ganhamos.
temos pena :P
e nada paga o sorrisito com que presenteei a malta no trabalho, na segunda de manhã… (não é que estão todos a torcer pela inglaterra? ai…)

(desculpem lá a má qualidade, quando estiver em casa redimensiono a imagem. entretanto cliquem para ver maior. pedro, bigado pela foto. :) )

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links and ideas

grep “long distance lover” *

In an effort to get people to look
into each other’s eyes more,
and also to appease the mutes,
the government has decided
to allow each person exactly a hundred
and sixty-seven words, per day.
When the phone rings, I put it to my ear
without saying hello. In the restaurant
I point at chicken noodle soup.
I am adjusting well to the new way.
Late at night, I call my long distance lover,
proudly say I only used fifty-nine today.
I saved the rest for you.
When she doesn’t respond,
I know she’s used up all her words,
so I slowly whisper I love you
thirty-two and a third times.
After that, we just sit on the line
and listen to each other breathe.

by Jeffrey McDaniel

(…)

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in the netherlands

menos ais, menos ais, menos ais…

ojogo.pt

(a capa d’ o jogo de hoje)

ora bem, em dia de portugal-holanda, lá estaremos bem no meio dos holandeses, para cantar o hino com quanta força tivermos nos pulmões e apoiar a nossa selecção! sempre estamos mais pertinho da alemanha, pode ser que nos ouçam…

(isto a ver se eu amanhã sorrio à pessoa que me perguntou, lá na companhia, se “portugal também estava no mundial?” aiiii…..)

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geek

it just works.

 

so here’s the rest of it. i went to the shop to get the mac back and i payed 42 euros for a 1400 euros repairing diagnosis. 1400?! well, that was my reaction too, might as well buy a new one, i thought.
basically i had to replace the logic board, the extra memory my friends offered me, the keyboard, the trackpad, the optical drive… you name it.

i got home in the evening and was getting ready to de-wire it piece by piece and take a good look inside, save the data, etc.
i was looking at it on my table and thinking how stupid the accident had been, and out of the tiny little bit of hope or disbelief i had left, i just put the battery back on and touched the power button.
and it worked.

i choked at the familiar noise and light on the screen. i think i stared at it for a while before actually putting my hands on the keyboard for typing the password. and it also worked. the keyboard, the touchpad, the memory, it was all there. the ‘a’, ‘s’, ‘c’ and ‘m’ letters on the keyboard were even missing – which prooves it is my ibook :D i didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, so i did both. :P

well, it’s not 100% working. the dvd drive still has the ally mcbeal cd stuck inside (thanks lulu! :P) which isnt detected by the ibook – something broken or just disconnected? the right shift key doesnt seem to be working and the computer wont always go to sleep when i tell it too, or when i close the lid.
but 1400 euros? please…

i went back to the shop yesterday and got my money back. naturally.
“apple authorised service providers”? yeah, right. did they even bother to open my computer? i have my doubts. maybe it was just there somewhere in a shelf, for a week (!!) and they thought they could trick me into buying them a new one. and all they had to do was to turn it on.

does anyone know the right means to tell apple about this?

(some people have asked whether it smells. yes, it does. :)
no stains, but a little smell, when you snif the keyboard. now i have a ibook that matches my website – how cool can that be? :P)

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geek

help?

we’re back in business, baby! :)
oh yeah!
dear people of the world,
after a strange (to say the least) first diagnosis of “everything inside the case is broken”, i’m looking into a second opinion on the ibook issue, somewhere else.

do you have any experience or piece of advice you’d like to share on this whole “iBook reparation” matter?
anything goes, from how you got the data out of your disk to links or piece-by-piece replacement tutorials. please mail me or just leave a not on the comments.
thanks!