Betting on new Pope
I know English are crazy when it comes to betting. But betting about who’s gonna be the next Pope seems to be stretching the rope a little to much.
Tiago Monteiro near Jordan
According to some newspapers Tiago Monteiro is as close as ever to enter Jordan’s F1 team.
The fact that Midland Group bought Jordan (which was in a very tricky finatial situation) allowed the team to sign pilots based on what they are worth driving instead of what they are worth in money.
Tiago Monteiro is known to be highly apreciated by Midland’s boss Trevor Carlin after a successfull season at Midland’s World Series by Nissan team.
Tiago Monteiro perto da entrada na Jordan
A possibilidade de Tiago Monteiro garantir um volante na Fórmula 1 já nesta temporada ganhou, nos últimos dias, novos contornos - muito consistentes - com o compromisso de compra da Jordan por parte do Midland Group.
There has been no confirmation of a deal from Jordan, but the Portuguese media are building themselves up into a frenzy at the prospect of their first F1 driver since Pedro Lamy a decade ago.
Like Karthikeyan, Monteiro has close links with Trevor Carlin, sporting director of the Midland Group that recently bought Jordan, having driven for him in the 2004 World Series by Nissan. He amassed five victories and finished as runner-up to champion (and ITV-F1 columnist) Heikki Kovalainen.
Update: Record seems to confirm the deal.
10,000 Firefoxers
Finally the Firefox two full pages ad on New York Times is out. I had a hard time finding my name on it:
And an ever harder task seems to be printing this pdf beast! Well, I guess I’ll have to buy the poster 
Dimebag Darrel shot dead!!!
Just read it on BBC NEWS: Pantera’s ex-guitarrist Dimebag Darrel as been shot dead during a concert in Ohio.
Vodafone WiFi in Portugal
Vodafone Portugal announced their new WiFi service. 100 hotspots (28 already licensed) acessible to anyone with a 802.11b compatible nertwork card. To use the service you just have to send a SMS to a specific number. Prices are: 5 euros for 1 hour, 12 euros for 24h and 30 euros for 72h. I hope competition can bring these way down. Anyway it looks like a cool service.
Vodafone lança acesso de banda larga sem fios à Internet Para utilizar o serviço, basta ter um PC portátil com a tecnologia Wireless LAN (por exemplo com o novo processador Intel Centrino ou uma placa acessória) e um telemóvel (para o pedido da sessão por SMS). O preço de acesso ao serviço, após a fase promocional, será de 5 euros para uma sessão de 1 hora, 12 euros para 24 horas e de 30 euros para 72 horas.
Highspeed agreement
It seems Portugal and Spain have finally reached an agreement about the configuration of the new highspeed railways connecting the two countries. Unfortuneatly but not surprisingly the configuration sucks:
The map has been drawn by me and is probably not entirely correct but you can get the picture:
- So where exactly is Portugal’s Capital anyway? Madrid? Are we finally a Spanish province as many seem to think?
- Why didn’t they connect Porto to Vigo? Now that would be a great thing. Porto and Vigo are two strongly connected cities, both culturally and economically.
Bah, I hope at least it works and it’s finished promptly.
Skydiver in record Channel flight
And I thought that skiing at 60 km/h was enough of a thrill.
BBC News Mr Baumgartner had prepared for three years for this flight, with rigorous training including strapping himself on to the top of a speeding Porsche.
Helping the poor
Here’s something to make me feel proud of my little country for a change. The Center for Global Development released an article ranking the amount of aid each country really provides to the poorer ones. We are not talking about rebuilding what we destroyed and getting paid for it, we are talking about real help.
British Euros
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Two Euro a paaand!
Good News from the Valley
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to the mini-bubble: It seems things are starting to look nice
once again. Keep your fingers crossed.
