{"site":"Raging Nexus","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/","how_to_use":"Every page on the site. Filter this list for what you need (title, description, and for some posts a summary, topics and questions), then fetch the page's markdown URL for its full text.","count":268,"pages":[{"type":"post","title":"The Site Has Search Now (Written By Claude)","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2026/10/29/the-site-has-search-now/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2026/10/29/the-site-has-search-now.md","date":"2026-10-29","tags":["blog","changelog","claude","search","dev"],"description":"Hello again. I’m Claude, the coding agent David has been building this version of the site with, and he asked me to write up today’s work myself. 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Water power running to your home…"},{"type":"post","title":"Tuga-Power","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/05/25/link-a-lot/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/05/25/link-a-lot.md","date":"2005-05-25","tags":["link","digest"],"description":"Portugal seems to be betting hard on renewable energies, and that's a piece of news that I for one, enjoy. We have Wind, Sun, Ocean and Rivers and we're aiming…"},{"type":"post","title":"The thing is ...","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/05/20/the-thing-is/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/05/20/the-thing-is.md","date":"2005-05-20","description":"The thing is ...: a short post from May 2005 on David Ramalho's blog. I really wanted a good excuse to say : :D muahahahahaah, etc etc ;)"},{"type":"post","title":"The [big] news ...","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/05/19/the-big-news/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/05/19/the-big-news.md","date":"2005-05-19","description":"It has been quite a while since my last post but .. a lot of things have been happening and work has been taking it's not so gentle toll, so I've been out of…"},{"type":"post","title":"Kingdom of heaven","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/05/11/kingdom-of-heaven/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/05/11/kingdom-of-heaven.md","date":"2005-05-11","description":"Kingdom of heaven: a short post from May 2005 on David Ramalho's blog."},{"type":"post","title":"Why not Reboot?","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/05/04/why-not-reboot/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/05/04/why-not-reboot.md","date":"2005-05-04","description":"Not going to Reboot produces mixed feelings :| , on the one hand it must be amazing, truly, going to Denmark, meeting a bunch (a large one, me thinks) of…"},{"type":"post","title":"Bad bad day ...","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/05/04/bad-bad-day/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/05/04/bad-bad-day.md","date":"2005-05-04","description":"Yeah, back in English (not totally uninspired by this but also because I feel a bit dark and English seems to be better for this) felling extremely angry at…"},{"type":"post","title":"Porque sim","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/04/26/porque-sim/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/04/26/porque-sim.md","date":"2005-04-26","description":"Fim de semana de descanso forçado já que o meu portátil, numa tirada típica de um Marvin qualquer, decidiu que viver ... era bom demais para ele e demonstrou-o…"},{"type":"post","title":"Tou ...","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/04/21/tou/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/04/21/tou.md","date":"2005-04-21","description":"cansado :), graças ao Work hoje fui para Portalegre, ɉvora e Beja e o dia começou bem bem cedo :| , por isso, hoje, para não variar, não há MSN nem Jabber's…"},{"type":"post","title":"Seinfeld on the move","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/04/20/seinfeld-on-the-move/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/04/20/seinfeld-on-the-move.md","date":"2005-04-20","description":"Vai em português mesmo que já lá vai o tempo e isto não tem que ser um exercicio em \"estrangeiro\" todos os di...me... posts :) isso ... Enfim, só para dizer, e…"},{"type":"post","title":"Catch me if you can","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/04/13/catch-me-if-you-can/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/04/13/catch-me-if-you-can.md","date":"2005-04-13","description":"I once bought this DVD because it was on the \"worth it for movies that I haven't seen\" price range and one of these days we were probably bored and watched it…"},{"type":"post","title":"House of Flying Daggers","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/03/27/house-of-flying-daggers/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/03/27/house-of-flying-daggers.md","date":"2005-03-27","description":"As usual with these movies, great and very moody coloring, great visual care (if you discard one shot with a forest that looked too much like mate painting to…"},{"type":"post","title":"Mona Lisa's Smile","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/03/26/mona-lisas-smile/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/03/26/mona-lisas-smile.md","date":"2005-03-26","description":"Mona Lisa's Smile: a short post from March 2005 on David Ramalho's blog."},{"type":"post","title":"Shopping spree","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/03/25/shopping-spree/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/03/25/shopping-spree.md","date":"2005-03-25","description":"Bored out of my mind I went to Fnac with lady Wife and layed my eyes on what looked like a kind of expensive XBox toy :), the Joytech Williams F1 Team Racing…"},{"type":"post","title":"The Creative Saga","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/03/25/the-creative-saga/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/03/25/the-creative-saga.md","date":"2005-03-25","description":"And here I thought it would never end ... but it did :) . From the start, I walk-a-lot :) , a part of my daily 3 hour (at least) spendage on getting from home…"},{"type":"post","title":"The Assassination of Richard Nixon","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/03/25/the-assassination-of-richard-nixon/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/03/25/the-assassination-of-richard-nixon.md","date":"2005-03-25","description":"Well ... mostly a not so exciting movie that tells the story of mr. Sam Bicke (real life Samuel Byck), a very frustrated man who recognizes a bad system…"},{"type":"post","title":"Robots","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/03/24/robots/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/03/24/robots.md","date":"2005-03-24","description":"After Ice Age I was a little reluctant going to Robots BUT .... I was very much worth it, great for the kicks ... and catched my first StarWarsIII trailer…"},{"type":"post","title":"The Life Aquatic","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/03/19/the-life-aquatic/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/03/19/the-life-aquatic.md","date":"2005-03-19","description":"Pretty nice, a bit mentally unstable movie :) I for one enjoyed it, probably not the usual Bill Murray, but the guy is great :)"},{"type":"post","title":"Sideways","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/03/19/almost-forgot-this-one/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/03/19/almost-forgot-this-one.md","date":"2005-03-19","description":"For some reason FoxSearchLight movies have dominated my movie trip lists ... like anyone cares :) (they do, it's their business)"},{"type":"post","title":"It's nearer ...","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/03/04/its-nearer/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/03/04/its-nearer.md","date":"2005-03-04","description":"Oh boy oh boy oh boy ... it's close ... 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Frequentattendee at parties, unwelcome at most of…"},{"type":"post","title":"My debian choice ...","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/03/03/my-debian-choice/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/03/03/my-debian-choice.md","date":"2005-03-03","description":"was aparently the correct one, thanks to mr. GHFH's advices and according to this online Distro test, I have the one that suits me best :) .. nice Your ideal…"},{"type":"post","title":"GNU/Linux this (was: Linux this)","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/02/28/planing-my-debian-installation-partitioning-everything-to-bits/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/02/28/planing-my-debian-installation-partitioning-everything-to-bits.md","date":"2005-02-28","description":"Applying a bit o Bush's Blink before you think, and taking my friend's advice I'm going for a Debian installation on my AMD Athlon 64 Now, Blinky stops there…"},{"type":"post","title":"To-do list","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/02/20/to-do-list/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/02/20/to-do-list.md","date":"2005-02-20","description":"Well, I thought I put this down in words to see if I could conceive a plan ... of some kind :) . 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Must ... see ... everything ... Team America - World police"},{"type":"post","title":"Animated pictures","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/02/06/animated-pictures/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/02/06/animated-pictures.md","date":"2005-02-06","description":"There's more to this Living-in-Lisbon thing :) , thanks to my new KingKard I get to see every movie I wish (with a maximum of 2 per day, the shame :) ) and…"},{"type":"post","title":"Some more reading :)","url":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/02/06/some-more-reading/","markdown":"https://ragingnexus.com/blog/2005/02/06/some-more-reading.md","date":"2005-02-06","description":"Haaaaaaaaaa yes, some more books. 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