Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Top Movies of My Life (so far)

    My personal list of excellent movies.

  • Top Latin American Movies

    A friend from Australia asked me for a list of some great Brazilian and LA movies. This is what I’m sending her. Cidade de Deus Brazil. Probably one of the best movies I ever saw. Very violent and based on real facts. Don’t miss it. El Abrazo Partido Argentina. Beautiful. Simple and beautiful. The music…

  • Despertar da Consciência

    Muita gente considera meu pai um mestre espiritual. Ele tem desbravado os caminhos para o despertar da consciência e iluminação espiritual durante toda a sua vida. Diria que praticamente dedicou a vida para isso. Começou um blog a algumas semanas e já recheou-o com algumas centenas de aulas, técnicas de meditação, mensagens, pequenas citações, videos,…

  • A Wedding By The Beach

    Photo taken in a wedding of a couple of friends at Juquehy beach, São Paulo, Brasil. The photo is not so beautiful as the real seascape was.

  • San Francisco Linux World Day 3

    Browse the full album.

  • San Francisco Linux World Day 2

    Second day started with Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian presentation. He made it light talking about Lenovo Thinkpads will ship with SUSE Linux, mixed [open and closed] source challenge for enterprises, how is easy to make security with their AppArmor, the role of virtualization on reducing power consumption in data centers. He put Linux application availability…

  • San Francisco Linux World Day 1

    1999 was the year I went to a Linux World & Expo event (blog notes in portuguese) for the first time, in Raleigh, NC. The small capital was chosen probably because of the strong Red Hat presence in that region. A lot of things have changed since then. Red Hat doesn’t have a booth this…

  • How to Get Attacked

    I noticed Oded’s blog was attacked which makes me remember some things: I was once invited to analyze a Linux machine that was invaded. I ended up writing an article about it to the brazilian Linux Magazine. The problem with the machine was a VERY weak root passw0rd. We could also find the tools they…

  • Viagem de Inovação aos EUA

    Andei postando sobre algumas coisas que tenho visto aqui nos EUA, mas não contei o que de fato vim fazer aqui. A IBM tem um grupo chamado International Technical Support Organization que produz livros técnicos chamados Red Books. Trata-se de livros gratuitos que podem ser lidos ou baixados do site do ITSO. Pode-se também comprar…

  • Everything is Design

    Crowded Apple store in San Francisco, last Saturday. Everything is Design. Everything. — Graphic designer Paul Rand (1914-1996)

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