Don’t worry, this was a Fool’s Day joke.

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OK, late news from my BluePad project.

Me and Valério were contacted by Microsoft which had interest on having us porting BluePad to Windows XP and Vista.

We had a meeting that lasted for 5 hours but we came out from there happy.

So, conclusions, we are gonna port BluePad for Windows XP and Vista and the further versions of BluePad will be closed source which means that it will no longer support Linux or anything else than Windows.

With the deal we got from the giant company I am gonna spend a few years drinking mojitos by the beach in a remote but sunny island.

OK, Spain is a big country and have produced many wonderful things such as Flamenco BUT that’s nothing…

The “artist” that won the contest to represent Spain in the well known song festival Eurovision is Rodolfo Chikilicuatre the creator of Chiki Chiki!

I was told that someone wrote a script so people could supposedly vote in their favorite artist as many times as they wanted but the fact was that it always voted on Chiki Chiki!

Enough words, Chiki Chiki speaks for itself:

Here’s 10 things I think any truly Linux user should do in a lifetime:

1. Tell Steve Jobs his not that cool;

2. Ask Bill Gates if he has tried the latest version of Ubuntu;

3. Ask Richard Stallman what had he smoked before inventing the GNU Emacs commands;

4. Tell Richard Stallman there’s a family of raccoons living in his beard;

5. Ask Steve Ballmer where are all the intellectual rights violation and punch him in the nose;

6. Ask Linus Torvalds how do you say: “Socks and sandals are an offense to humankind since the invention of clothes.” in Finnish;

7. Ask Larry Page how much does he want for Google;

8. Get your girlfriend to use Linux;

9. Drink a beer with Jon ‘maddog’ Hall while he tells one of his stories;

10. Use Windows for no less than 15 minutes without saying any curse word.

Then you’d accomplish the Linux Nirvana.

I’ve already accomplished two of these and I’m looking forward to complete the list.

Everybody knows Chuck Norris rules the Universe with his super strength and super cools way of fighting. What not everybody knew is that he also kicked BlenderTec’s “Will it blend” series’ ass!

For the ones who don’t know what Portuguese are good at or what are Portuguese at all, for the ones who think Portugal is a Spanish province, let tell you: We are good at everything.

The thing is, we got this skill called “desenrascanço”, here is a definition that used to be in Wikipedia:

“Desenrascanço (loosely translatable as “disentanglement”) is a Portuguese word used, in common language in Portugal, to express an ability to solve a problem without having the adequate tools or the knowledge to do so, by use of imaginative resources or by applying knowledge to new situations. Achieved when resulting in a hypothetical good-enough solution. When that good solution doesn’t occur we got a failure (enrascanço — entanglement). Most Portuguese people strongly believe it to be one of the their most valued virtues and a living part of their culture. Obviously, they know that this subjective feature is not exclusive of theirs.

However, some critics disagree with the association of desenrascanço to the Portuguese culture. They argue that this concept is related to subjective evaluation of oneself, or of the Portuguese people, and belongs to the world of subjectivity and feeling. Sometimes, the concept is related by some to the discoveries period or to student activities in the 15th century. But sceptics doubt there is any substantial proof of that relation.

Some people theorize that in the 16th and 17th centuries, because it was very common for other exploring nations, such as the Dutch, to bring a Portuguese national along during the voyages, because the Portuguese were the most skilled due to previous knowledge and, allegedly, for handling well the occasional emergencies in the ship when the control of the vessel was given to them (what is known among the Portuguese as “desenrascanço”). Serious historians would disagree with the association between a 20th century idea and 17th century events. A part from this myth, desenrascanço, in fact, is the opposite of planning: it’s managing for the problem not becoming completely out of control and without solution.”

Through the several organization of events me and my colleagues found real challenges that we wisely and calmly solved. If it were in Sweden, I am sure everybody would give up and commit suicide the following 5 seconds.

Here’s a fun web page about the Portuguese: http://portuguesefordummies.blogspot.com/