NullMind’s Lair

Surgery

A week ago today I had bariatric surgery.

It was a massive endeavour, I still find it hard to believe I agreed to radically change my body that way, but I know I did the right thing!

I am 37 years old, and while I been really fat for the past 10 years, I am heathy as a horse, no diabetes, high blood pressure, not even a cold, but I know if I kept my weight, in another 5-10 years problems would show up, so instead of waiting for it, I decided to take action.

Bariatric (wls) surgery is dangerous and should not be done lightly, I am very fortunate that my surgery went as good as it could have, no complicationsy and I was out of the hospital in less than 48 hours.

I am not out of the woodwork 100% yet, I need to ensure that during the next month or so, while my stomach heals, that I don’t do anything that could harm it, so I must be smart about it, I’m also dizzy allot, it’s the lack of nutrients on this stage, I also have decided to kick out the painkillers early, a little pain never killed anyone, and it leaves me aware should any of it intensify.

I do seem to have some nerve issue on my legs, my quads have a stinging pain when I walk for 20 minutes or so, and they feel a little numb, doctor seems to think it will go away.

I lost almost 20lbs in a week, but rapid weight loss in the beginning is normal, it will slow down soon.

Sally has been awesome helping me trough this period, helps to have such great support!

So here is to a new chapter, and the hope I continue this speedy recovery !

13.12.2011 Family 1 Comment

Old Phone

I needed a new desk phone for my .. err, desk!, so I took a look around the usual places, Ebay, Amazon, etc.

As soon as I saw this one, I knew I had found it, it’s a Sagecom SIXTY, it has the style of an old rotary phone, but lean and digital instead, it also has a built in answering machine and it’s cordless !!.

Its the coolest thing I have seen in a long time, when you press a number, a sequence of LED’s on the wheel travel around as if it was a rotary phone doing the old rotary noise

It’s perfect !

16.11.2011 Work No Comments

Kojack & f1.4

This weekend I got a new prime lens (Sigma 50mm f/1.4), after trying to get him to stay put for a little while, I was finally able to get a semi decent photo of Kojack with a full aperture of 1.4

I’m quite fond of the photo, I like it

01.11.2011 Photography No Comments

Old Pool

When I was a kid, growing up in Ponta Delgada, Azores, one of the main source of entertainment was the sea.

When you grow up on an island with just over 120k people (140k now I believe), measuring around 30 miles across, by less that 10 miles wide, the sea is all around you, plus with a moderate temperature year round, you can basically swim 365 days a year.

The reason for this trip t the past was that I found a picture of the old “Sao Pedro” pool, this is where I learned how to swim, and probably spent all my free time from the age of 6 to 12.

On the bottom right you can see somebody carrying one of the numbered hangers they would give you to put your clothes and shoes, you would then be handed a bracelet with the matching number to pick it up later.

The pool was demolished about 20 years ago to make wave for the expansion of the main avenue, on it’s place a newer, bigger, more modern pool was built, but for those people of my age and older, it will always lack the nostalgia of this old small pool

16.01.2011 General, Trips / Places No Comments

Retina Display

I have a total of 3 games on my iPhone, thats it !, lately I simply dont have time to do much gaming but one of my favourite time wasters on the iPhone is a game called “Fragger”, so I was quite fast to download the latest update today that includes retina display support plus a new level, but before I did it, I decided to grab a screenshot to check the difference.

Before:

After:

Truly is impressive how much detail this screen has, you have to click the images to get the full effect.

23.10.2010 Computers / Internet No Comments

OnApp Software Box

Spent some time today creating a software box for OnApp on Photoshop and then Box Shot 3D

Here is the result, quite proud of it

19.10.2010 Computers / Internet, Work No Comments

New Website for OnApp

Despite the fact the old OnApp site was just 3 1/2 months old, we where not happy with it, the outsourced company that design it did what they could, but to be blunt, it sucked.

Not that it was a bad design when you first saw it, it simply was a bad design the second time you visited it, simply put, it got old incredibly fast.

But we liked some of it’s elements and the color scheme, so now that we have an in-house web designer (plus in-house copywriter, illustrator, marketing, etc) it was time to kick the old one and introduce something new.

I’m quite proud of it, everybody worked on it, and as such it represents us quite well, we serious about out product and we serious about our clients, but we are NOT boring

Every time I work on a site I always love to include illustrations to depict visually what we do, back in the Relio days we used an illustration to show how it powered a unified UK and US hosting platform, this latest illustration shows OnApp as a machine that creates cloud (all done by our in-house staff BTW) … well, thats exactly what it is

15.10.2010 Computers / Internet, Work No Comments

Twitter killing Blogs ?

I try to blog at least two or tree times per month, when something worth remember later on or worth mentioning, I dont blog for others, instead I blog for myself, on stuff I take pleasure reading years later and recalling on a specific event, situation or purchase.

But for the past year I have been using twitter as well, and it shows on the lack of updates on my blog, last year I posted 43 new posts (62 the year prior), this year, with 3/4 of it gone, I only posted … 7

Need to bog more important stuff

26.09.2010 Computers / Internet, Short Rants No Comments

N1 Vision

The Wireless Box III that have from O2 has been nothing but problematic on the Wi-Fi side, sow speeds and constant disconnects, so I got a Belkin N1 Vision

Initially I ordered the version with the built-in ADSL modem, but I could not get it to connect to O2, so I replaced it with the cable modem version (works just as well provided you have a ADSL modem), and now all my wireless problems are gone, it’s rock solid and now my drobo server and livingroom ATV are connected via 1GIG ethernet

I know the N1 is now a few years old, but it’s N technology and that display just got my attention, I have it set to the UP/DOWN view, it’s cool to see it burst when I am watching a movie or renting an iTunes show, also proven useful to see if the girls are using the computers on their bedroom past their bed time

26.09.2010 Computers / Internet No Comments

Robot Army

Today the remaining of the VPS.NET robots that where made for webhostingcon and other conferences finally arrived, I got myself a few to put on my desk, need to set a few aside for friends abroad, like everaldo and nay, who want a robot of their own.

It’s so cool to see something one designed (I did the original sketch and Everaldo did the final polished design) come to life as a cute little conference giveaway ..

06.09.2010 Uncategorized No Comments

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