Ontem um sujeito chamado Pat me mandou um email reclamando que ele tem um blog chamado Forty-Two desde Maio, minha resposta foi simplesmente: "So we both know the answer to the ultimate question about Life the Universe and Everything =^)"
Eu não estava planejando falar sobre este assunto, mas como ele escreveu no blog dele, citando meu nome e de uma maneira que não me agradou, resolvi aproveitar a ocasião para explicar a origem do nome deste weblog para os não iniciados no Hitchhiker's Guide.
Quando resolvi montar este weblog estava relendo o Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, a melhor fusão de humor e ficção científica que já encontrei. Uma das linhas de ação da história é a busca pela resposta da pergunta definitiva sobre a vida, o universo e todas as coisas, após milhares de anos de computação descobrem que a resposta é 42. Se vc não conhece dê uma olhada no h2g2 - The Earth Edition of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, um projeto muito bacana do Douglas Adams.
(wondering what's written here? try the Babel Fish)
Postado por caio em novembro 7, 2000 9:11 AMO Pat mandou:
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I just feel I should explain my post, in case there may be a bit of misunderstanding. You may not be aware there was a big uproar in the Blogger world a few months ago when a young girl (apparently unknowingly) named her blog the same thing as that of a fairly well-known web designer. A bunch of people got very upset and more or less hounded the girl off the web, as I understand it. I thought that was a vast overreaction on their parts.
My post was intended as an oblique reference to those events rather than as any kind of slur to your site--I was trying to say I didn't see any point in getting upset about what was almost certainly a coincidence rather than any kind of deliberate rip-off (as if I have anything of value for anyone to rip off anyway). This is particularly true since, given the language difference, our audiences probably have next to no overlap at all.
As it happens, I don't have an opinion one way or another about your site. It looks pretty clean, visually. But since it so obviously is focused on your writing and I can't read Portuguese, I don't have any basis for an opinion. The one thing I said which might be construed as a criticism is that it is "PHP crazy"--which was just because of my frustration with not knowing whether I was actually sending you an email or what, which again was a function of not knowing the language. I have nothing against PHP, and nothing but admiration for the way you appear to have implemented it.
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Arquivado na pasta Choque Cultural =^)
Postado por: caio em novembro 8, 2000 12:11 PMBom saber que existem tantos fans no br do douglas adams! Eu só descobri ele esse ano!e com certeza nunca mais vou esquecer!
Postado por: Laura em novembro 14, 2003 8:09 PM