Ramblings
In no particular order:
- Ricardo Mestre has an excellent event once every month: Green Tone Bits, now on it’s 13th edition. It’s a DJ session promoting tons of absolutely free and gorgeous music, at Ogâmico bar in Lisbon, with free live stream on the Internet. And he keeps an archive online of all music he ever played, free for you to download (yes, free. Here’s why).
- SHiFT 2010 happened despite volcanic activities. It’s a conference about lot’s of stuff, but mainly about inspiring you to do better. Although I didn’t stay long, from what I hear it went very well and put together a lot of people and ideas during two days at a challenging but inspiring setting at Teatro Aberto in Lisbon. Congratulations to the team, all my respect.
- UX Lx (love the logo) is upcoming. Bruno Figueiredo is doing a hell of a job setting up a major professional conference about User Experience in Lisbon (at FIL) out of nothing, attracting professionals from all over the world - both to speak and to attend. Great sponsor lineup, including portuguese companies. Sadly I won’t be able to attend.
- I hate these strikes we’re having in Portugal. Nothing against the right to strike, but everything against the abusive use of that right. The only positive effect? I loved the way traffic turned into chaos the day trains were on strike: an excellent proof of what the city would be like without everything that has been done to keep cars out of it (parking fees and fines, closed streets, more mass transport systems, buss lanes, etc etc).
- Since I’m hating stuff: some weeks ago two days of semi-national-holidays were announced around the pope’s visit to Portugal. That already was bad enough (and I won’t even talk about the economic timing). Today the government announced all schools will be closed the day the pope is in Lisbon. I do not understand, really.
- Back to the good stuff: betahaus, an awesome coworking space in Berlin I hope to visit soon, is going to promote a betalab in Lisbon during the month of May. Together with Cowork Lisboa these are all really great news for the freelance and micro-startup community in Lisbon. In the meanwhile all desks at Liberdade 229 are taken :)
- I was checking some facts, and it turns out that the domain quodis.com was registered on May 5th 2001. That will be 9 years ago in some days. 9 years since I started this adventure. For the first time we’re going to celebrate this date (albeit in a small circle), and it feels good!
