Yearly Archives: 2010

Lisboa

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Por vezes me pergunto, muito inocentemente, que criterio é utilizado para colocar sinais de transito, qual o regulamento seguido e qual a educacao do responsavel que define o sinal e local a colocar.

News aggregator and summarizer

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A function on the web I’m missing is a website that works as news aggregator (style of Google News) but at same time summarizes the news based on the last time I went to visit the page.

This means that if when traveling I visit the page weekly, it would only show me a top of the most important news of the week but not necessarily the latests neither the first ones about a topic.
Example, I visit the page 3 days after a big earthquake somewhere. It would have a link to a news where they talk about the earthquake and what was done in the last 3days.
Someone can create this?

Being a traveller in bureaucracy

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No bureaucracy is ready for the traveler. Anything you’ll do when preparing your trip, like the medical insurance, asks what is your address. It’s mandatory to have one. Even when you just stop renting your apartment for traveling.

Same with the bank. I live everywhere of nowhere. Why my address can’t be only an email? Two of the few phone calls I got during this trip where from my bank to know how well they are serving me. Just horribly by making me paying for answering to their unknown number. I could reply a questionnaire if they would request me by e-mail.

Also, why national authorities can’t just have my e-mail as my “temporary” address? If I choose to give an email as address it would remove many rights as citizen, like the right to vote. It would remove my right to get an employment. And any necessary communication would come only by email. No more letters home thinking that I’ll be there, even if I said I will be traveling.

Once on return, to be able to get back to “normal” life you return to your full home address, whatever it is, an hotel room, a rented room or apartment.