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27 August
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What does l10n, i18n or m4 mean ?

I have never understood what l10n stands for, nor i18n, nor m4 for that matter. But reading a good online book about autotools, there are a couple of words explaining that in fact m4 stands for Macro, which is m+4 chars. l10n is localization written asĀ  “l+strlen(ocalizatio)+n”. Fun. Since 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.

1 April
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Crazy April Fools – The Overkill

It’s April Fool today, and the world just seemed to go crazy. It used to be a joke or something, but now, what can you trust ? There has been all sorts of stuff. Google went all out, but others tried to compete: Google Joke: Google Plane Google Joke: Google [...]

25 August
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Following the trend: Site Webgraphs

A couple of friends are doing this, so I decided to make my own webgraph, or, website as graph. It’s basically a visual break down of a website I don’t really see the point of this, rather than looking nice. So here is my webgraph, for the books of history: [...]

26 January
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Cisco's subliminal iPhone message

Reading my daily email, i stumbled upon an IETF draft released this week, that talks about a new proposal on some routing procedures draft-farinacci-lisp-00.txt. Right about now you should be wondering what does this have anything to do with anything, specially the iPhone ? Well the draft, submitted by Cisco, [...]

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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.