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		<title>A mentira do governo Lula (In Portuguese)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vendo as diversas pessoas que ainda conseguem defender o governo Lula, é necessário apontar alguns fatos. Primeiro, a mentira e falácia do Lula atual, quando comparado ao Lula de antes: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=143786388975397 Segundo, um fato óbvio: O Brasil cresceu. Sim. Também cresceram a maioría dos países subdesenvolvidos, assim como estagnaram a maioria dos países desenvolvidos. Aliás, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mateus.info/?p=187</link>
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		<title>Now with my own MSDN blog WAY!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it was about time to separate things. From now on, my technical topics blog will be at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/velloso/ while this one will remain as my personal one. Will be posting stuff soon.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mateus.info/?p=185</link>
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		<title>Connect Outlook and Messenger to Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And social network madness keeps going For Outlook: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&#38;FamilyID=ce8b7517-234c-48a1-a655-324a88893b02 And for Messenger: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/outlook-social-connector-partner-listing-FX101812910.aspx]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mateus.info/?p=182</link>
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		<title>Retouching Photos Made (much) Easier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever had to take photos of a group of people and every time you try, someone had the eyes closed, made a funny face or something else? Your problems are over! This very powerful tool, now part of Windows Live, can do awesome tricks, mixing two or more photos together and doing replacements with nearly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mateus.info/?p=180</link>
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		<title>Interesting numbers from Microsoft blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently the official Microsoft blog posted quite a few interesting numbers that worth spreading. First, the source: http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2010/06/25/microsoft-by-the-numbers.aspx Then, the numbers: 150,000,000 Number of Windows 7 licenses sold, making Windows 7 by far the fastest growing operating system in history. 7.1 million Projected iPad sales for 2010. 58 million Projected netbook sales in 2010. 355 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mateus.info/?p=174</link>
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		<title>Still about IPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe I was unfair about the IPad. Let&#8217;s see what others are saying: Yahoo Finance: &#8220;Apple&#8217;s iPad Debuts to Great Expectations &#8230; and Disappoints&#8221; http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/apple&#8217;s-ipad-debuts-to-great-expectations-&#8230;-and-disappoints-414370.html?tickers=aapl,amzn,%5Eixic,mhp,nws,hpq  Gizmodo: &#8220;8 Things That Suck About the iPad&#8221; http://gizmodo.com/5458382/8-things-that-suck-about-the-ipad  Business Insider: &#8220;The iPad Is Such A Bad Product Name That MadTV Was Mocking It 4 Years Ago&#8221; http://www.businessinsider.com/the-ipad-is-such-a-bad-product-name-madtv-was-mocking-it-4-years-ago-2010-1 PCWorld: &#8220;Apple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mateus.info/?p=169</link>
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		<title>IPad frustration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone is talking about how disapponted they are about this whole IPad thing.   Then someone sent me this:   http://www.archos.com/products/nb/archos_9/index.html?country=nz&#38;lang=en   This is what IPad wanted to be when it grows up. A real computer. Not a big IPhone that can&#8217;t even make calls.   Now imagine someone holding an IPad close to the ears [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mateus.info/?p=167</link>
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		<title>Why people calculate the probability of God?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday this article was published on NZ Herald:   http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&#38;objectid=10616394&#38;ref=rss   The author, Dr Jeff Tallon, a physicist, wastes two pages of interesting information to justify why it is likely to be a God out there. I have a friend, probably one of the most intelligent persons I ever met and it turns out that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mateus.info/?p=165</link>
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		<title>1% of the GPD is all we need</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to recent data, 1% of the world&#8217;s GPD is enough to clean the world. That&#8217;s it, a lot, lot less than what was wasted with bailouts of banks that were incompetent in managing their own assets and we could have a whole new, clean shinny world to live at. So we don&#8217;t have an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mateus.info/?p=163</link>
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		<title>Turn your webcam into a surveillance system</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m quite happy with the results of the free beta of Vitamin D ( http://www.vitamindinc.com/index.php ) . Basically it turns your webcam or any other camera into an automatic surveillance system that will recognize movement and images. Then you can create rules, like to send you an e-mail when a person is detected, range of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mateus.info/?p=161</link>
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		<title>CPI Index 2009: New Zealand Up, Brazil Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Zealand now is officially the least corrupt country in the world: http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2009/cpi_2009_table It is interesting to see the progress from the 3rd position in 2003. Unfortunately I can’t say the same about Brazil, who went down from the 54th in 2003 to the 75th position now in 2009. That describes well how Brazil has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mateus.info/?p=159</link>
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		<title>Recession is over. Yeah, right&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So now they say that recession is over. The same people who didn’t have a clue about the economic crash that was about to happen, who said repeatedly that everything was fine before the deep dive of stock markets are now assuring you that everything is going to be fine, the worst is over. Let’s use [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mateus.info/?p=154</link>
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		<title>New Zealand Ranks #10 in the &#8220;prosperity index&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scoring the 10th place in a list of 104 nations covering 90% of the world&#8217;s population is something that deserves respect and recognition. And if we are talking about a tiny country with 4 million people then it gets even more interesting. So New Zealand is officially the 10th most prosper country in the world: http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/document/pdf/Successful.pdf Well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mateus.info/?p=152</link>
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		<title>Windows 7 RC on a Dell Mini, amazing!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After upgrading my Dell mini 9 to a 32 GB SSD Runcore HD and 2 GB of RAM, I decided to install Windows 7 RC on it to see how it behaves. And I still can&#8217;t believe on the performance! Total installation time: ~17 minutes (including booting, formating, etc) Total full boot time: ~15 seconds! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mateus.info/?p=150</link>
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		<title>Open minded or close minded?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nice video&#8230; Unfortunately if you are close minded you don&#8217;t care about reasoning anyway so in that case, don&#8217;t bother watching it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mateus.info/?p=148</link>
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		<title>O que o cidadão comum pode fazer? (In Portuguese)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Respondendo à pergunta postada no meu blog: “Caro Mateus: tenho acompanhado seus artigos e as coisas tem acontecido como esta escrito. Penso que eles venham do conhecimento de Historia,associado a uma capacidade de elaboraçao privilegiada o que o leva a uma percepçao acima da media da realidade que esta acontecendo e que esta por vir [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mateus.info/?p=142</link>
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		<title>Por que eu sou melhor que o ministro Mantega (In Portuguese)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Não, eu não sou Ministro da Fazenda. Não sou formado em economia pela USP, não sou dotô com especialização em sociologia. Nunca dei aula de economia num curso de mestrado. Mesmo assim, com toda a arrogância que deus me deu eu vou aqui explicar por que eu me considero muito melhor que o Mantega: 1-Eu [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mateus.info/?p=140</link>
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		<title>Ok, e agora? (In Portuguese)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Muito bem, adivinhar a primeira parte da crise foi fácil, mas e agora? No jornal Valor Econômico de hoje, vejo a notícia que os países asiáticos estão literalmente distribuindo dinheiro para a população, para que eles gastem, de forma a &#8220;aquecer&#8221; a economima. Taiwan, China, Japão, Tailândia, todos dando 100 a 200 dolares por pessoa, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mateus.info/?p=137</link>
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		<title>E a crise continua&#8230; (In Portuguese)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Em Março de 2007 publiquei um artigo falando sobre a crise econômica e o preço do ouro. Naquela época, o ouro estava cotado a US660. E os “especialistas” dizendo que a bolsa ia dobrar de valor em coisa de dois anos no máximo. Como o dolar estava R$ 2.13 significa que o ouro estava cotado [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mateus.info/?p=129</link>
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		<title>Does it make any sense?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So&#8230; here in New Zealand if you own a house and get a mortgage to buy a new one and then rent it to make some extra money you can get many tax rebate benefits. Cool, eh! But if you are a first time buyer wanting to buy your little house so you can be free [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mateus.info/?p=127</link>
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