Don't Think Again

Where's the Ukelele? Anyways... She's inspiring me to do something like this too. Hey Mr. JP, would you do this with me? I'm starting to write the words, you know.

I'm not a geek or a tech expert, but I do understand that it's not such a big deal if you're a big company paying millions to another big company. What I mean is that corporative pirating isn't necessary... sure they pay big bucks, but they get paid even bigger bucks back. They profit from it, so why wouldn't they pay? As for the small average end-user I strangely believe he simply wouldn't use windows XP or Vista if he had to buy it. I bet the most commonly pirated software ou there is Windows, and it's also the one Microsoft makes the most money off. Should pirating be outlawed? Maybe, but only for companies.

Hey Julia Nunes, I'm posting this video of your Accidentally in Love by Counting Crows cover to my blog. Hope you don't mind. Actually it's a little experiment, but also a chance to show people I appreciate your singing. ;-)

There is a feature of Youtube and Blogger (the service I use to bring you this blog) that enables users of both services to post a video from Youtube directly to his blog, if he logs in to blogger.com through his youtube account. Beautifully integrated, huh? A weird thing just happened: about one and half week ago I started posting some videos to my blog through the youtube interface. It even allows you to write the entry to accompany the video. What happened is that the three videos I had tried to post before simply popped up today, all at the same time. Maybe youtube was having difficulties reaching blogger.com? I'm going to try again in a few minutes, just to see how it goes.

This little video is creepy and fun. Enjoy.

I'm testing the possibility to post Youtube videos through blogger. Of course, my choice of this video isn't fortuitous. Heath Ledger's joker kicks ass.

This is a very interesting post I've found about people doing mathematics on the probabilities of our existence. I'd say the real odds would 100%, since we're here. Go figure...

I've just found this nice blog about gaming . First off, the games he likes to play give away his aproximate age (which is probably very similar to mine), because he likes to play the games from the mid 90's. Finally, you could guess every blogger would want to receive feedback about what they wrote, specially through an easy and common way, like commenting. Why people disable the comment field on their blogs?

  This image was found on http://ffffound.com , which is a great seemingly random imagery website.

  Found this on http://ffffound.com , quite some time ago.

This indie game developer did something fantastic! He asked publicly why people pirate games. Here's his reply to what he received. Just so you know "2) Demos People think demos are too short. My demos *are* short, because the marketing man in me sees that you can't give away too much. I've wanted people to feel a bit annoyed when the demo cuts out, so they buy the game to keep playing. Too many people are put off by this and pirate games so they can see exactly what they are getting. I'll be making my demos much better, and longer, and will retrospectively change this when I get around to it for some of my older games. (I'm swamped with work right now)"  Oh, and most important of all...

Yes, that's a big title, but it's exactly what I'm doing. You can call me a nerdy geek later, but right now just let me show what's the big idea. I'm not rich, but computers get old. Today I use a very cool looking Vaio laptop, but I used to have a desktop I assembled myself from parts I bought separately. That was back in 2003 (I guess), and already had a 80GB hard drive. My problem is: should I simply toss this desktop out? Obviously, I didn't. I took the it, formatted and installed the last version of Slackware, setup a neatly prepared samba configuration file ( this page helped) and disabled alarms on the BIOS about keyboard errors. I connected it to my wireless router, and we're off. It just sits around all day, turned off so as to not consume power. However, when I need to store up or download movies, mp3s and other files I have on my limited laptop hard drive, I simply turn it on. It doesn't have a monitor, a mouse or a keyboard, but I can ...

By the way, I love VideoJug.

This was a complete surprise. There's a skill you can develop yourself incase you watch lots of movies (everyone on the american continent does): you can become a fortuneteller for movies. After a while, you don't have to see the end to actually know what's gonna happen. Even though this isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's refreshing to find a movie (a big expensive mainstream movie) that isn't tha predictable. You don't mess with the Zohan (2008) ( official website ) has several other interesting features. To start with, the original idea came from the the star - that's Adam Sandler -, the plot is based around palestinians and israelis (of course, they're on the US...), there's a cool villain played by John Turturro and you get a hottie to look at too. To be honest, the most interesting part of the whole movie are NOT the action scenes. Well, at least not the action scenes from the war-in-middle-east beginning of the movie. I would probably ...

What can I say? This is the movie's official website: http://www.themummy.com/ , and I'm sure people who like the franchise won't be disappointed. By the way, I'm kind of looking forward to watch the next sequel, to be shot with the mummies from Peru. Changing the subject, in 2008, how many big movies with a Chinese theme were filmed? Let's just talk about mainstream movies: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Brendan Fraser and Jet Li) Forbidden Kingdom (Jet Li and Jackie Chan) Kung Fu Panda (Jack Black, Lucy Liu and... who else?) (...) Ok, I'd really like to sum up the money spent on this movie. It'd be a rough estimate of how muchthe olympics are worth for the guys at Hollywood. Or maybe they're just trying to get north americans to become comfortable with the eastern world? After all, China's the next USA.

There was a post at Slashdot.org early this morning pointing out that some Apple employees were filing a lawsuit because Apple wouldn't pay overtime... Here it goes: Apple Sued For Turning Workers Into Slaves SwiftyNifty writes "Apple employees are putting together a class action lawsuit for not receiving overtime pay. A Lawsuit filed Monday in California seeks class action status alleging that Apple denied technical staffers required overtime pay and meal compensation in violation of state law. Filed in the US District Court for Southern California, the complaint claims that many Apple employees are routinely subjected to working conditions resembling indentured servitude, or 'modern day slaves', for lack of better words." I guess all those iPods they sold didn't make Apple profit enough to pay overtime. It must suck to work at Apple.

This little video is adorably creepy and fun. Enjoy those rusty spoons...

From: http://www.terra.com.br/economia/blog/iconomia/index.htm

This is the first post of a new blog. It's kind of odd for me to write a blog in English for the first time, so I keep mistyping, pressing the wrong keys and such. Took me about five minutes to type in the first sentence, but I guess I'll just have to get used to it. This isn't any new conceptual blog, neither am i some sort of guru and I'm certainly not a celebrity either. As you're probably guessing by now, this is a personal blog. But I'm trying to make it as impersonal as I can. This is the idea. It's ok if you don't like it, really. I'm thinking of protecting my privacy, but not too much. You can send me mail through my real gmail account, and I'll probably post videos and such, but I'm certainly not considering posting my owns photographs. If you really want to know who am I, this should be fairly easy: you can just ask me. However, if you don't care who's writing this or who's commenting or whatever, I'll just welcome y...