Archive for October, 2008

Wordpress on the Apple macbook event

While following the coverage of Apple’s macbook event at gizmodo, I found one picture that I think is worth sharing,
they took a shot from people writing stuff about the event… And from few notebook screens I could see there, at least 3 using wordpress. Thumbs up WP!! :D

BTW, new macbook’s looks amazing, can’t wait to get one of those!!!

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Do you know anyone with the last name “FUCK”?

I was traveling to São Bento do Sul last weekend to work on the municipal elections, and found something very funny. There is a FIAT reseller place called FUCK, I believe that it is the owner’s last name (what a great last name to have!). Even if my last name was this, I would never have a business with this amazing name! You can check some pics and video below…

FUCK FIAT

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Brazilian voting machines running under linux

Last weekend I worked in the Brazilian Municipal Elections that happened on 5th October. My job was to transmit all votes from the city I was, to the main data center in the capital. While doinig my things, there was people testing all the machines, and I realised that there was a pinguim on the booting screen. So I made some research, and discovered that the voting machines have its own distro, running on kernel 2.6.16.57 and using some open libraries like SDL, zlib, boost, jpeg, freetype and others.

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