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Hi, I'm Alfredo Matos, a research engineer, programmer and entrepreneur from Portugal. This is my old (and closed) blog. It exists only as an archive. For more information head over to alfredomatos.com or follow me on twitter.

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July, 2008

26 July
Posted in Identity
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OpenID back online

Read the title. Test posts are always welcome. Nothing else to see, move along.

26 July
Posted in Ubuntu

A usable dark theme for Ubuntu

After reading this entry on planet gnome, I thought to myself: “Another try at fail”. I like dark themes. Dark themes are soothing on the eyes, and at least for me, tend to make a much better work environment because they annoy less. Hey, my blog theme is dark, I [...]

22 July

The sounds of procrastination

You know your life has taken a wrong turn when you spend more than 15 minutes listening to white noise.

20 July
Posted in Linux, Ubuntu
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Taking Epiphany for a second (default) spin

Since I upgraded to Ubuntu hardy, I’ve been trying to give Firefox 3 a fighting chance, mostly because of all the hype around it, along with a couple of bumps with Epiphany. With Epiphany using the gecko backend, it was hard adding exceptions for every website using self-signed certificates, or [...]

17 July
Posted in My World
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Setting up camp

The move is nearing completeness. My blog has been up and running for the last couple of days, and I’ve been taking the time to test a couple of features on my provider. The move was a seamless handover, because I was able to setup all of my services before [...]

9 July
Posted in My World

Moving time

I’m updating my hosting solution, so down time shouldn’t be a surprise while records, services and blog tools get moved. Also, if sending email results in no response, please retry, since the moving may impact mail and availability (mine that is).

About Me

Hi, I'm Alfredo Matos. I'm a research engineer from Portugal, with a passion for inventing new things and working on future technologies. I'm also a programmer and entrepreneur. For more information check out my main website alfredomatos.com.