Viva a todos,

Esta terça-feira dei uma entrevista ao Jornal de Noticias para o seu caderno de suplemento de Sábado JN:Negócios. A entrevista foi sobre redes sociais com ênfase em redes sociais profissionais. A entrevista foi muito agradável efectuada pelo Bruno Amorim e pela Alexandra Figueiredo.

Deixo a entrevista que dei! Espero não estar a quebrar um Direito de autor qualquer…

For the next couples of weeks I’ll not be very present in the Cloud! Better, I’ll not be active but I’ll be around doing some research.

This decision is made because in the next weeks I’ll face two exams and I have to finish writing my look-a-like thesis in order to end my degree. This is my only concern and goal for the next two months.

The only distraction that I’ll have is Summer Supercomputing Institute in Coimbra University.

See you around… Don’t forget me

Viva a todos,

Hoje é véspera de São João aqui pelo Porto. Hoje à noite comesse umas sardinhas assadas com batata e broa com a família e vai-se para a zona ribeirinha ver o fogo de artificio à meia-noite. Depois, é diversão toda a noite com os amigos!

Contudo, o ultimo S. João que realmente comemorei foi há 4 anos atrás. Exacto, no Euro 2004! Foi um fantástico S. João com a rua cheia de estrangeiros, Porto campeão europeu e eu sem trabalhar! Adorei os holandeses… e holandesas…

2005, 2006 e 2007 tenho estado sempre a trabalhar de uma forma ou de outra. Desde a Vodafone até trabalhos académicos tudo me impediu de gozar uma das noites mais interessantes do Porto.

Este ano não necessito de trabalhar e já está tudo marcado para uma noite de arromba! Sim, mais vale gozar o que se tem porque para o ano com o ritmo que levo não deve dar…

Pela hora deste post já devem percebem que eu vou agora para a jantarada.

See you arround…

Hi all,

My look-a-like sabbatical to finish my degree in computing engineering is about to over and I have to define what I’m going to do in the future. In the last weeks some people are asking me that. For me this is a very hard decision. I’ll try to explain why.

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UPATED 11/04/2008

Hi all,

I leave Vantyx System 14 days after I started because Vantyx didn’t honor the commitment made me.

That’s life…

END UPDATE

Hi all,

As you certainly know I was searching for an internship in a Portuguese company at Porto. I’ve had some invitations and some disappointments too. The internship quest was hard because every company that I was called to an interview wants me at Lisbon or even outside of the country, like London. At this time of my life it’s not possible because I don’t finished my degree and because leaving Portugal right now, it has to be a good proposal. I really like to live here

In some interviews I was given as “over skilled”!!! This was my main disappointment because I’ve worked all the past five years to be an excellent worker with high level technical knowledge and great soft skills. I hoped that was my key to the market and now I see that the market doesn’t want mature worker leaving the degree but naive students without any experience of the real world to format them for life!

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Dear all,

I was invited by Ana Paula Cruz to be a lecturer at a Pos-Graduation “Brand Management” at IPAM Porto on the module “Branding, Web and Multimedia”.

My first call will be next 2 April and I’m expecting that my students like the theme and the way that I’ll give the class!

Hi all,

I’m back! I was away for quite a long time of the blog because I was overwhelmed of work but for a good reason: I’m finishing my degree. Is still missing this semester exams, next February, and the internship.

I’m very eager with my new career…

Wish me luck…

Hi all,

Today I don’t want to write about technology… I need to write about life in real world, or something like that. This happens because man is made of flesh and bones, even if some people pass the image that we are made more of bones than flesh.

For that, I leave you with my favorite poem written by Alvaro Campos, a Fernando Pessoa heteronym:

“The Tabacco Shop”

I’m nothing.

I’ll always be nothing.

I can’t want to be something.

I have in me all the dreams of the world nevertheless.

I really feel like Alvaro Campos…

Hi all,

Today I bring you an intership program that I would like to be part of: Vulcanos.

The programme consists of industrial placements for EU students. It starts in September and ends in August of the following year in order to accommodate the academic year in EU Member States.
The students follow:

- a one-week seminar on “Japan”;

- a four-month intensive Japanese language course;
and then an eight-month traineeship in a Japanese company

Objectives

- to study the range of advanced technologies employed by a leading Japanese host company;

- to learn Japanese and to understand and appreciate Japanese culture with a view to an enriching one year experience abroad;

- to be well placed in your future career to interact with Japanese businesses and people.

This is a huge oportunity that I’m thinking about! And you?

For more information about the Vulcanus program:  www.eujapan.com/europe/vulcanus_japan.html

Hi all,

Since I remember dreaming, I always dreamed about space. In fact, I had lots of books and watched all TV shows about space. When I was I child I loved two differences stuff: space and dinosaurs. I didn’t know how to read but I loved to think and debate these issues. Yes, yes… when someone ask me what I wanted to be when I was a grownup I answered: scientist or an astronaut. A few years later this answer changed to: be the boss!!!

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