Castelos no Ar

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The new version of WordPress 2.5, projected to be released on next March 10^th, can already be previewed and tested. Chris Johnson set up a demo install.

The new version has reached the “feature freeze” point (no more features will be introduced, only bug corrections) and seems to bring interesting improvements to bloggers, namely the easy insertion of image galleries in posts.

Portugal ended yesterday a process in which, once more, history was made. Sadly, a place in history is not always conquered by nice deeds or fine achievements. In 2003 Portugal has already proved that when Durão Barroso hosted, in Azores, the Lajes Summit in which Aznar, Blair and Bush, with his acquiescence, decided one of the most unjustifiable and criminal wars recently promoted by the western world, with which we become ineluctably and shamefully associated. Yesterday, again, with the decision of parliamentary ratification of the Lisbon Treaty instead of its submission to popular vote in referendum.

In both cases, national governments largely surpassed their competences and made decisions to which they were not mandated, decisions with extraordinary repercussions to our country and to the rest of the world.

Sócrates justified the decision of non submission in referendum using a Weberian concept: “the ethic of responsibility”. Responsibility towards whom or what, we should ask. Towards the “European Project” he answers. And which project is this? Neither Sócrates or we may know it because it is not defined anywhere, not even in this treaty that he and the rest of the European leaders so feverishly want to ratify. But already has become more and more apparent that the opinions, the wishes and the preferences of the European citizens are not meant to play a major role in that project.

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In 1946 TIME magazine published an article about Portugal. In it, the country was described as “a melancholy land of impoverished, confused and frightened people”. And Salazar was depicted as a living example of Lord Acton’s law of politics: “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” In the magazine’s cover, a wrotten apple , next to Salazar, symbolically translated the message…

62 years later, heirs and soul mates of Salazar still find their way in the country. People are not so frightened anymore but, “behind this glossy exterior of success, decay eats away at Portugal”… still.

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I’m sorry… There is no English version of this article.

Most of my English posts can probably be found in the Web Design related categories. The rest most likely wouldn’t be worth the time spent reading so you’re not missing much anyway!

Thanks for your interest!

I’m sorry… There is no English version of this article.

Most of my English posts can probably be found in the Web Design related categories. The rest most likely wouldn’t be worth the time spent reading so you’re not missing much anyway!

Thanks for your interest!

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I’m sorry… There is no English version of this article.

Most of my English posts can probably be found in the Web Design related categories. The rest most likely wouldn’t be worth the time spent reading so you’re not missing much anyway!

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I’m sorry… There is no English version of this article.

Most of my English posts can probably be found in the Web Design related categories. The rest most likely wouldn’t be worth the time spent reading so you’re not missing much anyway!

Thanks for your interest!

I’m sorry… There is no English version of this article.

Most of my English posts can probably be found in the Web Design related categories. The rest most likely wouldn’t be worth the time spent reading so you’re not missing much anyway!

Thanks for your interest!

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I’m sorry… There is no English version of this article.

Most of my English posts can probably be found in the Web Design related categories. The rest most likely wouldn’t be worth the time spent reading so you’re not missing much anyway!

Thanks for your interest!

I’m sorry… There is no English version of this article.

Most of my English posts can probably be found in the Web Design related categories. The rest most likely wouldn’t be worth the time spent reading so you’re not missing much anyway!

Thanks for your interest!

I’m sorry… There is no English version of this article.

Most of my English posts can probably be found in the Web Design related categories. The rest most likely wouldn’t be worth the time spent reading so you’re not missing much anyway!

Thanks for your interest!

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I’m sorry… There is no English version of this article.

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