It might not be all that great if a simple action (like say clicking in a thumbnail) does something completely different and not really better than what the user is expecting just to show some eye-candy (like say blank the browser window and display the larger image with a confusing set of icons in non-standard locations and a weird frame around it).
Just my 1 cent.
“It’s great that the iPhone doesn’t need an SDK and we can just write web2.0 apps.”
Good to see Jobs infamous distortion field is still intact – I was afraid it was no longer active now that Apple is treated as a serious company as opposed to the industry joke it had been up until the ipod and the move to intel processors.
To boldly claim what no one in his right mind has claimed before: Safari – The Most Innovative Browser. I’ve been told Jobs managed to remain serious while this phrase was on the background, I would’ve cracked myself up rolling on the floor laughing if I tried to make this insane claim. This one should get an award of some kind.
I’m keeping an eye on the gizmodo live coverage of Apple’s WWDC07.
Forced change can sometimes be good. I think that’s the case with this blog.
I’ve finally rid myself of the hassle of WP administration – the all to frequent updates due to security issues. Funny, that’s the same reason why I changed chefax.fe.up.pt from Linux to OpenBSD.
I used WordPress’s very well done Export feature to migrate from my WP installation to wordpress.com and got around to acquiring the luisrei.com (which I’ve been meaning to do for a while now).
Also I’ll use this to build an actual website instead of just a blog, which is also overdue.
I’m actually more happy than mad about this whole thing. I’m very optimistic about the near future
I know I haven’t blogged for a while, the reasons are twofold: I’ve been extremely busy and I have no net at home (yes, again). This last part will bring about more change 
I’ve moved my blog outside of FEUP. Why? Because some employees (or maybe it was just one person) of CICA decided to block neacm.fe.up.pt, the server that hosted my blog and others (blogs.fe.up.pt).
When administrator realized that the server was inaccessible from the outside, he asked the networks people to look into it to see if they could fix the problem. They replied something along the lines
“oh! It’s not a problem, I did it on purpose. There’s an option there that can’t exist. We should schedule a meeting to talk about it.”
After some inquiries, the administrator was able to determine what that “option” was. The service in question was promptly removed and they took more than one week to perform the 2 mouse clicks necessary to unblock neacm.fe.up.pt (which includes not only blogs.fe.up.pt but also the recently launched tags.fe.up.pt and the faculty’s mirror service – which WAS an official mirror for a lot of well known stuff like Ubuntu and Apache).
This is shameful. A group of faculty employees with a grudge against a member of a student group (or the entire group) was able to deprive students of several services which were actually funded by the students themselves via the AEFEUP.
Sure it can be claimed that the server had a service that violated the ToS but the proper way to deal with it would have been to notify the administrator which would’ve removed the service probably within the hour – a service that had existed for almost year and a half. But instead what was done was to stealthily block access to the server from the outside and then delay restoring access for as long as they saw fit. Shame!
If this was anyplace other than a public institution in Portugal, the people responsible for this abuse of authority would be fired on the spot. But here, it’s business as usual.
If you’re curious about it, the service, named F(eup)TP and available at http://neacm.fe.up.pt/ftp/ was an FTP proxy powered by net2ftp – it allowed outside access to predefined intranet FTP servers via the web. It was a service provided to everyone at FEUP and was announced via the faculty’s internal mailing list on January 27, 2006 – which means the same people responsible for blocking access to the server now received an email notifying them (and everyone else) of the service more than a year and a half ago. In other others, the people who did this on top of being abusive are also incompetent – shocker. (Not like there’s a single person @ FEUP that doesn’t complain about the poorly maintained network which has more downtime than Paris Hilton — hey I’m talking about her psychiatric condition not about the adult video)
This also has considerable implications for a service such as blogs.fe.up.pt. What if someone posts something there that someone at CICA or for that matter anywhere else doesn’t like? Will they block the entire service again until that post is removed? Sadly, I think that’s a likely scenario.
Personally, I’ve moved my blog outside of FEUP and I know of two other blogs that are likely to follow soon. And what can I say when people ask me if they should use blogs.fe.up.pt instead of some other service? This service was something that made the faculty stand out from others. It was something done by students. It worked well. Now I think it will soon be dead. Killed by a few people who abused their authority because of a personal grudge. Sad indeed.
UPDATE
I forgot to mention exactly how incompetent they are: they blocked IPv4 traffic but failed to block IPv6 traffic. Checkpoint should award them with a “Most Valuable Professional” medal or something.