Moving from Asia but staying on the topic of Portugal and the Age of Exploration, this feels like the right moment to visit another of my favorite battles and arguably one of the most important nav...

Having just written my review of the Shōgun TV series, I couldn’t avoid going one layer deeper. Fiction tends to compress events into personalities and drama, but the real story of how Portugal and...

After watching Alien Earth, I decided to give Shōgun a chance. And I do mean give it a chance. I had seen the trailers, and although it is an historical drama and thus not necessarily historically ...

The year isn’t even finished with its first month and it has already produced a few international episodes that are hard to read through anything other than the logic of power. A U.S. military oper...

Internet Protocol Over Avian Carriers (IPoAC), or, as I prefer, Pigeon Over Internet Protocol (PoIP), may sound like a bad joke. And while it is humorous engineering, it is also a formally specifie...

At the start of the year I set up a small server for external web applications and, since it had enough storage available, I moved my Jekyll blog there. I renewed my personal domain, set up a local...

Alien Earth, the first TV show adventure into the Alien universe, came out last summer, but I didn’t give it a try until these Christmas holidays. Unforgivable for a die-hard Alien fan, I know. I w...

After exploring Stoicism and its renewed presence in contemporary culture, it felt necessary to step back and look at one of the thinkers who helped shape the ethical landscape from which Stoicism ...

When deploying a server, especially a public-facing one, one of the things we absolutely cannot forget is backups. Backups are not optional. They are a safeguard against data loss, human error, har...

A entrada em vigor da Diretiva NIS2 (SRI2) em Portugal vai obrigar milhares de organizações a repensar a forma como gerem os seus riscos de cibersegurança. Mais do que um tema puramente legal, trat...