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I’ve heard of April rain, but this snow today? Where is global warming when you need it

For some time now I follow Jamie Zawinski[blog]. In fact, since the middle 90s, when he was one of the major developers in the XEmacs editor, and afterwards Netscape.

Since the sale of Netscape to AOL, Jamie changed careers and is now the owner of a night club in San Francisco, DNA Lounge.

A few months ago, he decided to start streaming the Mix Tapes he makes for the bar. I have to say his tastes are not exactly the same as mine but, it is a refreshing way of finding new and different tunes. Click here.

In the 90s I was already very interested in finding new sounds, beyond what commercial radio aired, and the Internet brought the right tool: CDNow.com and its music recommendations. It was since acquired by Amazon, but through their crude recommendations I found out many new bands, music styles and sounds.

Fortunately, finding “fresh” music nowadays goes beyond simple recommendations, or mix tapes like Jamies’. Internet radios, in particular the ones where the playlists are automatically generated by similarity are particularly interesting.

The best such sites in my opinion are last.fm and Pandora, and although the last is only accessible in the USA I find their playlist selection more diverse and interesting than last.fm.

This blog, TriAtlântico describes the eternal conflict that I feel about the three shores of the Atlantic Ocean. My name is Nelson Ferreira, and I am a Software Engineer and Architect.

I was born in Portugal, and I love my country. I married a Curitiba (Paraná, Brazil) native, so it is only natural I also love that land.

By way of fate we ended up living in New York, which by now also has a very special place in my heart. We regularly travel to all of the three shores and here will find reports of those.

There will also be some posts on software development, general computing and information technology, Getting Things Done (and other productivity systems), among other curiosities.