It’s been a very busy week so far, I haven’t had time to post anything meaningfull outside of work.

So I searched for the best comic strip from Dilbert that would explain my situation and this was my choice…

Have a nice week!

[update1]ok, something’s broken with ie7. sorry. I’ll fix it asap.

Well, the weather here in Portugal isn’t very nice right now.

In fact, it’s raining cats and dogs, streets are flooded, trees are falling and I’m arriving home everyday wet and cold.

In these situations I try to think of something to cheer me up and on this case I remembered Olli Williams, the weather man from the Family Guy series!

He doesn’t appear that often but the few times he’s popped up just makes me laugh.

You can see for yourself in this compilation (not made by me) on Youtube on Olli Williams.

We live in a digital age and we’re more and more connected to the “web”, we’ve got wireless connections, gprs enabled cellphones, portable gaming devices and even rabbits that read your mail. :P

With so much going around sometimes it’s hard to keep focus with so much information going around and interesting stuff to read or see on the net (like wikipedia, youtube, del.icio.us, etc).

One interesting plugin I use in my Firefox browser is called Time Tracker and I use it to see how much time I spend surfing the internet, it helps me keep control of my time. It’s amazing how time flies if you’re not carefull.

Besides tracking time across sessions and different tabs you can also list ‘work’ sites that should not count and filter these out. The animated clock also gives you a better sense of time slipping through your fingers. :)

So head over to Firefox add-ons and give Time Tracker a try, it’s one of my favourites and most useful plugins I use daily.

I’ve found out this post from O’Reilly Radar that had a bunch of proverbs on Entrepreneurship (is that the word?).

As more and more web startups are popping out everyday due in part to the somewhat low costs of technology nowadays and lots of web 2.0 hype going around it’s always good to feel a little confidence boost and inspiration for the mind.

So, read the Entrepreneurial Proverbs and browse the handy advices too, who knows maybe you’ll use them in the (near) future.

Some of my favorites are:

“Momentum builds on itself — just start. Do whatever you can. Draw a user interface. Write a spec. Make something, anything, that people can see and touch and try. A prototype is worth ten thousand words. Once you start moving, you will find that people start to carry you along.”

“Your ideas will get better the more you know about business — engineers hate to hear this, but you can generalize up quite far from here: the more you know about everything, the better all of your ideas will get!”

“Great things are made by people who share a passion, not by those who have been talked into one — a corollary of the last; you can spark a passion in someone, but you can’t do it without some fuel to catch. Better to wait, and find the person who is already inclined to believe in your cause. You may talk someone into co-founding a company with you, but will they stick with it through ups and downs if they had to be persuaded that hard?”

And finally the number one in my book of golden rules:

“Build the simplest thing possible — engineers have the hardest time with this, with not over designing for the need they’re addressing. Make the simplest possible product that makes a significant dent in that need, and you’ll do far better than you would addressing two or three needs at once. Simplicity leads to clarity in everything you do.”

TheFairest.info is a project to try to find the prettiest image in the world, using voting and some (hopefully clever) algorithms.
All images are user-submitted and so far it’s looking quite good.
I recommend taking a look because some of these images are breath taking and also make beautifully desktops.

So check out the images here.

Meanwhile, these are my two favourite images.