About this Website by Eduardo Pinheiro

Tzal (tib.
rtsal) is a tibetan word which means creativity, dynamic energy, skill. This is the personal website of Eduardo Pinheiro, not only a weblog, but a repository of all things textual related to his interests.
InterDP is a software Eduardo wrote in PHP, based on
Cute News, a fast non-MySQL web publishing tool. Cute News was dramatically extended with functions such as automatic footnotes, a sophisticated tagging system and an automatic glossary. It is designed to make easy writing long, index and keyword organized text while directly publishing it on the web. But it is also well fit for little snippets of data such as links, reviews and aphorisms. So it can combine the trivial blog with sturdy, deep or more academic content.
Tzal.org concept involves the japanese aesthetic principle
wabi-sabi mixed with geek-pop vintage sci-fi meets buddhist tantra computer nostalgia. The idea that no segment of the website will never be complete and the "shanty town" outlook to the programming itself, are mated with precise protocols, verborragy and diversity. The structure is more organic than mechanic in that the changes to the code are sometimes made with no structured planning whatsoever. The content itself follows the same idea of nostalgic but structured incompleteness. This evokes the ideas of
worse is better and
quick-and-dirty, as well as the paradigm of
cowboy coding.
authorship by Eduardo Pinheiro [Padma Dorje] edu@tzal.org
in http://www.tzal.org/dorje_post-About+this+Website