Monthly Archives: April 2009

Send your name to Mars through NASA / Mande seu nome para Marte pela NASA

Posted on April 25, 2009 by awfurtado

This link enables you to add your name (along with thousand others, of course) to a microchip that will be sent to Mars. What for? No idea. Probably to market NASA’s expeditions and improve how society perceives them. —– Este … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers and Internet | 15 Comments

Brazil from America’s eye – random thoughts

Posted on April 22, 2009 by awfurtado

This article from Newsweek touches with a couple of new insights the outworn topic “Brazil: the country of the future”, which I (should I say every Brazilian?) got to know since the very first moment I was able to understand … Continue reading →

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[echo] I’m a PC and I’m 4 and a half

Posted on April 11, 2009 by awfurtado

In short: a cute little asian(-ish) girl has much more expressive marketing power than Jerry Seinfeld… http://images.video.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf   It seems MS is finally finding its way through the ads. The I’m a PC campaign is receiving good feedback, specially its … Continue reading →

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The day my laptop exploded – outcomes

Posted on April 5, 2009 by awfurtado

About seven months ago I blogged about a laptop of mine whose brand new battery simply exploded. It caught on fire and made my old Toshiba A75 to become a chemical weapon. Last week, seven months later (better late than … Continue reading →

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Managing permissions for “Everyone” in SharePoint

Posted on April 2, 2009 by awfurtado

Just documenting something useful here: I was wondering what is the SharePoint equivalent for Active Directory’s “Everyone” users, so that I could apply permissions for a SharePoint list or survey to all users of my intranet. The answer seems to … Continue reading →

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