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Part of my leaving from work I had to give the address and phone number (and bank account), where I want to receive the pension fund. Thinking that this is in the best option 35 years apart, I could most likely put whatever I want in the form, as they will be wrong with very high probability. The only think I hope to keep for next 35 years is my email address, if by then we still use email. 🙂

Ok, a “crise” é bem real, mas o jornalismo, pelo menos em Portugal, está em crise. Com títulos “a Islândia tem a primeira primeira-ministra lésbica”, quando o que é notícia é que “Islândia designa primeira-ministra interina” há algo que está mal. Isto porque onde sai esta notícia diz-se ser um jornal de referência… talvez para os outros jornais gratuitos.

Deixei de ler o Público, estou agora a experimentar o Diário de Notícias… Mas o que queria era uma jornal que me mantivesse com um resumo do que se passa em Portugal. Sem exageros.

Today I woke up late, and it was like this outside:

Last Friday there was a storm crossing Geneva, poor me completely wet on my ride to work and back. The good part was during the return, the wind gusts were making me to fly. Uphill without any effort and flat was like having an electrical bicycle…

Switzerland is once more the country were more kilometers per inhabitant are done by train… more than 2000 km per year.

Statistics here: http://www.litra.ch/dcs/users/2/UIC-Statistik_2007_f.pdf

I would agree that this is one of the main reasons of so few road accidents and hours lost in traffic jams.

Here: http://www.xmascalendar.ch
New unreleased song every day.

I saw today “La Antena” (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454065/). It was just missing to be a cine-concert with live orchestra. Excellent movie, can’t wait for his next one.

And this is Switzerland, not the usa…

Since around 1995 I’m a big fan of Radio. When I was 16 I stop watching TV (maybe too much computer?) and start listening to FM. Start making friends through BBSs at the time and with 10 of them we created “A Telefonia Virtual”. It was the first portuguese webzine dedicated to Radio, where we placed news about the people working in radio, new radios that appear. Also there was a monthly section with the best and worst of the portuguese radio that month. Sometimes we did interviews, we also start some programs, and were interviewed about the whole project both in national radio and TV. With the start of working life and me living outside Portugal, the project died out couple years ago.

But I continued a good radio fan and this month I finally bought a receiver of Digital Audio Broadcasting, called usually DAB. The DAB is the future of FM: the audio quality is like CD and you don’t have to search for the station, just choose.

I bought Revo Pico RadioStation, a device that besides DAB is also a Wi-Fi receiver and so we can listen any radio broadcasting on the internet. This way I listen a lot to the portuguese Radio Radar, from Lisbon. We can also listen to podcasts from the radio stations. Other features include not only to listen to the classic FM, but also to listen the music we have in any computer in our home network (in our computer, for instance). The device has also battery, so I can listen to it at any place, wireless. Its very small (10x15x15) and light. Yes, I’m very happy with it. Plus, it can also work in environment with lot of humidity and or get a bit of rain, it says in the manual. There is even a remote control, ultra thin.

Today I’ve created at http://radiostation.anjo.pt dedicated forums for discussing about the Revo RadioStation, either the Pico or the Blick version (this one you can put a iPod with it).

Well, all this text in the hope that Google will index the newly created foruns. 🙂

Segunda-feira: dois informáticos, um mecânico e um electrotécnico. Todos engenheiros. Cabos de bateria, empurrões pouco cavalheiros e nada.

Quarta-feira: dois informáticos, um mecânico e um electrotécnico. Todos engenheiros. Multímetro, ligação a outra bateria, corda para puxar carro, falta de travões. Moveu-se o carro 20 metros em direcção à sucata.

Quinta-feira: chove e há agora uma barra de tracção.