Roaming, free the speech

April 25th, forever…

Zé Barbosa — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:01:49 +0000

Another Carnation Revolution celebration day! This time, things are pretty much different from previous years. Portugal’s independence is totally jeopardized, in danger, as we are now lead by other entities than ourselves.

Current wars, in Europe, are economical. We no longer fear the invasion by platoons and canons. We fear, the ones who fear(1), what countries like Germany, China, USA and other can do (or not do) with our every day more fragile economy. Actually, the real harm comes [...]

My new Me

Zé Barbosa — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:40:55 +0000

I have decided to show solidarity with my home country in this not so good phase of our History by replacing my old nick “The Wanderer” by a very much Portuguese style one: Zé Barbosa. I will not change the language, though!

Why? What for? Because I want! That’s all. Why should one always have a good and very much elaborated reason for every single action in life? I see no reason for that. I am not a woman, which [...]

Crossing the desert

Zé Barbosa — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:32:32 +0000

Yes, this is just a metaphor! I wonder how many people in the world takes this image, at a certain point of their life, to classify a specific period during what there is nothing around them they can take as essentially relevant.

I was one of these days having dinner and at the same time I was watching the news on a Portuguese TV channel when I realized that, as usually, most of the news were bad news. Well, I [...]

Troika

Zé Barbosa — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:44:59 +0000

Twelve months after, Portugal is still crossing the desert towards the hell. Self victimized country, owner of a hard to understand past oriented attitude, totally deprived of a national pride, owner of a huge identity which is not used for saving itself, Portugal is totally sunk in doubts, flip-flops and a very 3rd-world behavior which was not been able of getting rid of since democracy took place in 1974.

But, twelve months after what? After the official and very much [...]

Fields Of Eden

Zé Barbosa — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:55:24 +0000

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nRP and Nokia E52

Zé Barbosa — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:57:27 +0000

What about to listen to nRP (our home based station broadcasting music 24/7) on your Nokia E52 or similar?

First of all you need to setup your Internet connection through your mobile service provider (usually quite expensive!) or a local WLAN(1). When you’re done, then you can play around with your Nokia menu following these steps:

MENU → MEDIA → RADIO → RADIO INTERNET → CHOOSE CONNECTION → TURN ON → SEARCH → OPTIONS → ADD STATION MANUALLY [...]

Father’s Day

Zé Barbosa — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:50 +0000

Normally, there are words like vocation, profession, coincidence, mischance, passion, imponderable or several other to classify our choices over what we want to do in life. Actually, I would better say over what we want to take as our “doing for living”, if I wish to be more pragmatic. Pragmatism, where is it? We do ask people “What do you do for living’”, don’t we? I am afraid none of us asks “What do you for surviving?”, or “What do [...]

Mockingbirds

Zé Barbosa — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:23:21 +0000

There is a big difference between a good and a bad mockingbird: I can admire the first, I disdain the latter. However, peoples say “who disdains, wants to buy(1)“.

Running times are, for some cases, running fast, for other, running slow. It is nothing compared to a war scenario but we easily will get there if we have not the ability of controlling the situation. It is wise then to define as a good goal for the next couple of [...]

Sir Vitor Gaspar

Zé Barbosa — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:37:31 +0000

Vítor Gaspar(1) graduated from the Faculty of Human Sciences, Portuguese Catholic University, in 1982. He received his Masters Degree and Doctorate in Economics from the Faculty of Economics, New University of Lisbon, in 1985 and 1988, respectively. The same university awarded him the academic title of «agregado» in 1992.

Main positions held:

Director of Economic Research Department, Ministry of Finance (1989 – 1992); Consultant to the Bank of Portugal’s Board of Directors (January 1993 – October 1994); Director of [...]

Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down

Zé Barbosa — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:09:03 +0000

Yes, it’s an old idea, yet not original. I too, have the right of put here what I appreciate (thumbs up) and not appreciate (thumbs down) in this mankind odyssey which has started a short while after the Big Bang…

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, a plainness female singer who is worth just for her voice and for her artistic performance, pure and simply. Can anyone see on her those million dollars marketing, cosmetic and Photoshop operations? Nope… The girl assumes [...]