Nuno Bastei

I was reluctant to get a Gmail account over the years. What bugs me was the ads, and above that, the small fonts and colors. But now, I’m on Gmail. The reason? I learned about how to customize the layout. You need to use Firefox and tweak the layout of the Gmail’s website with a userchrome.css file. I could share mine if you want to.

I found this website today. Clean and efficient design. They’ve got plenty of handpicked movies and TV shows. I’ve started the (very) long journey into the Lord of the Ring trilogy. And to do this, it seems they’ve built/rebuilt a playlist with all the videos uploaded by people on YouTube or whatsoever. So it does look like you’re playing a DVD with plenty of chapters. Here: http://venividi.blogsome.com. For the LOTR trilogy, check those links: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The return of the King

That was a silly idea but I decided to learn German by spending some time over there. You can’t imagine how hard it was the first two weeks; I was barely able to order a snack in 10 minutes of talk. What kept me ‘alive’ and on track to learn German was newspapers. Don’t stop reading newspapers. You can take your time, get to know more about the country where you are and the people, and you can study how people should talk.