I have been hearing for a while about this VPS hosting service called Uberspace.de and I finally decided to signed up. The service is really interesting for various reason. First there are three pricing tiers and you selected the price, starting from 5 euros per month, if you can pay more they have the 10 euros and 15 euros per month tier. I’ve decided yet what I will pay but since this is just so I can test a few things I might pay the 5 euros per month, I won’t be a heavy user.

Today I had to write a very small (three lines) script in PHP for something I need tested at work. And that brought back some memories from a project that I had to do for the school in Australia, when I was studying there. For that school project I had to build an entire website, and we had to show our skill writing a CRUD application that used a database. If those who don’t know, CRUD stands for create, retrieve, update and delete, basically all the operations one would need to create a website that keep data in a database.

Today I have turned 46 years old. Last time that I did a post about my birthday it was 10 years ago. Since today was a working today my birthday celebration was postponed to Saturday. On this birthday I feel blessed that I have Gabi with me and that we are here in Brazil living our lives and finding our path, that we are both working and healthy. I am also happy that we are close to my mom and Gabi’s parents and we are able to help them when they need us.

My Gemini capsule (gemini://gmi.antonio.is) is up and running now but is out of date. I initially had my Gemini running on my Odroid but since I can’t have the Odroid setup right now I decided to use Flounder for my Gemini needs. If you are not familiar with Gemini is a protocol that was created not long ago to be a simpler web. It basically focus on text content. And because is simpler it doesn’t have tracking and other annoying things that the web does.

One podcast that I enjoy listen to from time to time is the Hacker Public Radio or HPR for short. Most of the episodes are about geek stuff. But what I find most interesting about HPR is who it is a community organized podcast, meaning that each episode is submitted by a community member. Anyone can submit a podcast and there is a review process for new participants. The only rule around the topic is that need to be something that interest hackers.

I find that there isn’t anything more restoring that a good night of sleep. I’ve been trying to get at least eight hours of sleep per night. Sometimes I don’t get to bed until late but most of my mornings I don’t have anything to pressing so I can stay in bed a bit longer. When I don’t sleep enough I feel I am agitated during the day and is harder to focus.