abahgat's scrapbook

A scrapbook for various interesting things I collect from the Internet and do not fit in my real blog.
Unlike on that blog, posts in Italian may occasionally show up here.

May 19, 2012 at 9:53am

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The Facebook Offering: How It Compares - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com →

(via Instapaper)

May 15, 2012 at 11:57pm

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Sun over Alfama (Taken with instagram)

Sun over Alfama (Taken with instagram)

May 14, 2012 at 1:52pm

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Taken with Instagram at Palácio de Monserrate

Taken with Instagram at Palácio de Monserrate

1:43pm

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Didn’t think Mexico was so close to Portugal (Taken with Instagram at Palácio de Monserrate)

Didn’t think Mexico was so close to Portugal (Taken with Instagram at Palácio de Monserrate)

May 13, 2012 at 7:52pm

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About to cross the street (Taken with Instagram at Jardim Botânico)

About to cross the street (Taken with Instagram at Jardim Botânico)

May 12, 2012 at 8:15pm

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Too bad for the weather (Taken with Instagram at Mosteiro dos Jerónimos)

Too bad for the weather (Taken with Instagram at Mosteiro dos Jerónimos)

May 2, 2012 at 12:32pm

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Gabe tells it this way. When he was at Microsoft in the early 90’s, he commissioned a survey of what was actually installed on users’ PCs. The second most widely installed software was Windows.

Number one was Id’s Doom.

The idea that a 10-person company of 20-somethings in Mesquite, Texas, could get its software on more computers than the largest software company in the world told him that something fundamental had changed about the nature of productivity.

— Michael Abrash, Valve: How I Got Here, What It’s Like, and What I’m Doing

April 24, 2012 at 8:17pm

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Accounting for Computer Scientists — Martin Kleppmann‘s blog →

(via Instapaper)

April 22, 2012 at 12:37pm

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I Learned to Speak Four Languages in a Few Years: Here's How →

(via Instapaper)

April 19, 2012 at 8:56pm

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I paid a billion dollars and all I got was this grainy photo.

— Gary Bernhardt, joking on Instagram, of course