This Monday I had yet another renal calculus crisis—the second one in less than 12 months. There was I, in the emergency section of the local hospital contorting in pain from 18:30 to 22:30. By 23:00 the stone had moved from my ureter to my bladder, which reduced the pain, and by the next day it finally got expelled from my system. After a blood test and an x-ray, the doctor said I had to drink more water and reduce the salt in my diet. I am considering taking Herba Desmodii capsules, a natural diuretic, which a co-worker said does wonders to kidney stones.

Here's a little Bossa Nova for you to listen to when you get home from work. Just sit back and relax. I wanted to give YouTube's custom players a try—I've put together this playlist with my favourite Bossa Nova videos.

Google has just announced a Sky section on Google Earth were you will be able to explore the stars and other cosmic objects.

When we will get a Bedroom section? I know a sock that's been looking for its pair for centuries.

Google Lat Long Blog (via Gizmodo)

The Server Status Monitor form is now generating more friendly URLs. I played around with the Apache Module mod_rewrite using the RewriteRule directive and I made it so instead of having

http://pensador.org/ftp/?a=192.168.0.1&p=21&i=1

it will work now with

http://pensador.org/ftp/192.168.0.1/21/1/status.gif

which is much more friendly to users as well as to message board scripts.