What if you had only 5 minutes to post a blog entry? What would you write? How many errors would you make? What would you talk about? Life? Tech? Threads? :-)
Portugal won against England: Incredible shit by Ricardo on defending those penalties and by Ricardo Carvalho on defense.
I wanted to write something about the reasons on why buddishm continues to attract so many people but the time is out.. maybe next time.
Next July 22 and 23 OpenBSD .PT will be holding its 6th meeting in Coimbra. It’s fantastic how I’ve started this group and it has envolved into something much bigger than I and my ambition to be a
hacker.
Last meeting we had developer Pedro Martelletto joining us and this time its Marc Balmer (covered in Kerneltrap) that will be comming all the way from Basel, Switzerland. I first meet Marc in WTH and if you know him you certainly agree he is a great guy. There will be technical presentations and general slacking. Everyone is welcome to come.
http://www.openbsd-pt.com/eventos/coimbra06/
It’s been a while since I’ve write anything here. A lot has happen since my last post, most significantly my grandmother passed away.
About a year ago, she and my grandfather were preparing to leave to Lisbon for a few weeks. As they were leaving the house, she suddenly lost strength in her legs and fell to the ground. She never walked again since.
She had a treatment for a cancer twenty years ago but it got worse and caused pressure on the medula that didn’t allow the commands from the brain to go through anymore. She did a whole year and a few weeks without leaving the bed, depending on the good faith and love of family, friends and doctors, prior to succumbing to the illness. Her last hours were of agony and pain.
But life isn’t about your last year is it? Everyone who have seen my grandparents together knows they were pretty close. I’m know they lived great moments of happiness and had a wonderful life trip together.
Inevitably, death brings back that life is temporary. Something we know but tend to ignore most of the time. As for me, I tryed as much as I could to be like a lotus flower – in the water but yet untouched by it. Right or wrong, the choice was mine and I take full responsability for it.
Life is of wonderful magic, uniqueness and beauty.
There is so far no evidence for life now or in the past on any of the
planets on our solar system. Structures have been found occasionally on
extraterrestrial rocks that look somewhat like small versions of
microorganism fossils but certain about these having to do with life or
being formed by ordinary precipitation of minerals doesn’t exist.
That’s why I think, and today it really striked me, that life is the
greatest gift anyone could ever gave me. And even more, the sole
experience of contemplation that it offers is enough reason to live
happy, and perphaps even, to die happy.
I know I still have much to discover and unveil but now all is
different. Like Osho says: “Life is more of a mystery to be lived than
an enigma to be solved”.
Think of people alone and interacting with each other. Think of birds,
the sea, the planet and the universe. Every thing you do, hear, smell,
watch is a unique moment of complexity and simplicity alltogether that
science will never be able to predict but simply watch as it unfolds.
Its sad that some people because of poverty or diseases, etc.. cannot
joyfully experience life as others can. If that is so, maybe our mission
is to join some global humanitarian organization that can help some of
these people to live better and help them. Or perphaps donate part of
our income to those global organizations. I don’t know.
Even so, exciting new adventure: Life.
Light Blue Touchpaper (Security Research, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) alerts users to upgrade their Wordpress to version 2.0.3 which should fix two XSS vulnerabilities they reported that are exploitable in the default installation and can readily lead to arbitrary PHP code execution.
They plan to post more details about the vulnerabilities in 10 days because, they say, “the nature of the problem can probably be deduced from the code changes, so there is limited value in waiting much longer”.