The Antoninos

'Acima de tudo, há o sentimento, que salta a cada página dos diários, da governação como um erro contínuo: frenética, caótica, impossível de planear, colada-com-cuspe-à-última-da-hora.'

Guardian, comentando o livro The Blair years, de Alastair Campbell

How now brown cow?

ou antes

What now, brown cow?

Scar tissue that I wish you saw
Sarcastic mister know it all
Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you ’cause
With the birds I’ll share
With the birds I’ll share
This lonely view

Red Hot Chilli Peppers

The deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working

Playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest (flirt)

Milovaná

'... besides which, the lucky man was far too good looking and that was generally felt to be an unfair advantage.'

The First Man in Rome, Colleen McCullough

Gillian Wearing
Signs that Say What You Want Them To Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You To Say, 1992

JohnnyEgg is a new and potentially revolutionary industrial standard specification for wireless area networks, capable to enable communication at both short and (extremely) long range.

JohnnyEgg sets the interoperability procedures to connect and exchange information between devices such as PCs, printers, mobile phones, PDAs, digital cameras, video game consoles, laptops and any other ICT hardware, over secure, globally unlicensed radio frequencies.

The most innovative feature of the standard is the fact that the same technology can be used to set up short-range (office distances, typically Bluetooth) networks and allow for extremely long range communication. By resorting to the CB range of the radio spectrum, the standard allows for wireless interoperability over many hundreds of kilometres (theoretically, tens of thousands and up to the opposite side of the globe), while requiring only a fraction of the power output and energy consumption of any technology of similar capabilities.

This means that offices and homes can be connected wirelessly and information transmitted over entire regions and between countries, without the need for connections to the standard communications infrastructure, either via land lines or cell phones. Emailing, peer-to-peer contact, tele-working and most of the other activities that today run on top of the fixed and mobile networks could go through this direct bypass.

Bandwidth and data transfer speed are already substantially above par for short range communication. For long range, standard transatlantic cable-based technology still holds the advantage, mostly due to the proven reliability and to the overcapacity of the installed framework which keeps compressing costs. But this stand off is likely to be resolved in the near future in favour of JohnnyEgg as the few subsisting technical bugs are dealt with and widespread roll out begins.

JohnnyEgg standard specifications are developed and licensed by the JohnnyEgg Multidevelopment Group.