the more wacked out my stories the more success they have with vasco. please don't draw any conclusions.

dady has to tell a bedtime story now. this is hardwork!

i want donka konga! instant gratification now! damn local shops for local people. BOOH.
meanwhile in other news my GR2 delivery got delayed has aparently not actually been released in time.

the sleep like a big boy experiment was a success. woohoo.

fact: all the apple stores in europe have macminis
fact: apple portugal doesn't have macminis
fact: apple portugal says there are no macminis in stock in europe
fact: apple portugal store has stupid high prices for kit it doesn't actually have
GAR

anyways, the day was dominated by a shopping trip from hell. there was a lot a rain involved.
meanwhile, there was another session of metroid. i found a new save point. 'duh'

THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR NOT VOTING!

we're trying to get vasco to sleep in his room. alone. lets see how this works out. he seems excited about it :)

i hate games with save points like metroid prime. they're clearly for people with no life.

sent apple a nastygram about their lack of macmini stock. lets see how this works out.

vasco has a bike. it's red. vasco likes his bike very much. vasco rides his bike well.
it's something of a surprise has he doesn't like his trike too much. oh well.

went back to late night cube metroid prime sessions and figured out why i don't remember likeing it too much. i suck at it.
i was going to bed fairly early today. but then summertime steped in. damn summertime.

vasco was a bad bad little boy all day and daddy ended the day a wreck.
hint: displays of power don't go a long way with nearly 2 year olds.

to counterbalance the pleasant surprise with acroread 7 acrobat for palmos is still a useless turd as it can't actually read pdf.
here's what i want it to do: someone says "here, read this" i say "oh copy it into this card" and then i read it on the tungsten.
here's what it does: someone says "here, read this" i say "oh humm mail it to me" and i read it on the pece.
instead of actually displaying pdfs the palmos adobe reader takes preprocessed versions which need to chewed and synched in a windows desktop. c*r*a*p

acrobat reader 7 for linux is out. and shock! it stoped sucking 1986 libXt ass.
adobe moved into this century and acroread is now full of gtk+2 niceness. such a nice surprise.

seems like paypal figured out how to use IBAN and can now transfer money to portuguese accounts. my word, this century's banking must confuse their usaian minds.
now, would someone people paypal me some money so that i can test it ? :)

geting stuff done to go on holidays is such hard work. buh

tuesday felt like a monday.

tried my had at GR again after a few months. in hindsight, trying a really dificult mission was a waste of time.
isn't gr2 suposed to be out real soon now ?

gave up and place a new order for a macmini. my theory is apple is out of the computer making business and just stuck to their core business, hype.

this gota be the coolest thing today

quote of the day: "segway is made in america of course so fat yanks can go to the fridge without expending any energy"

i so want one of this. please please please.

this was diferent. my dad is in the deep of africa. that's a pretty non normal saturday.

anyways, for the record, garden state rules. and it's the 2nd time Zach Braff is involved in something that makes me cry.

lftp tux.cprm.net
i made that possible. it's weird how you can be proud of the simplest things.

this sucks. no scrubs, sg-1, no atlantis. wtf am i supposed to watch ? tv ??

anyways, there's some neat surprises in life like "damned hyperthreading crap. humm .. there weren't any HT pIII were there ? hummm woohoo a dual!"

YOUR MESSAGE HERE

silly ciscos with broken arp tables. booh. go away.

my dad is off on his dream trip.

that prompted me to visit Lisbon's international airport (LIS). despite the multiple no smoking signs throught the airport the marble floor is litered with cigarrete buts. you can see nicoheads geting their fix pretty much anywhere which doesn't seem to catch the patrolling police force attentions.
and to really mark you've entered portugal, there's a uniformed security type person leaning against a wall smoking just beneath a no smoking sign.

don't have a 1.5 year old. it's nasty.

RMS is almost as annoying as the evil RAR cabal.
'If you support the free software movement, one easy way to help us is
by saying "free software" rather than "open source".' [cause you know, ESR is dumb!]
(not that i like ESR. RMS is annoying cause he's spliting hairs totally out of context)

nothing says "drunken slob" like finding beer from 2001 in the fridge. unoponed.

Microsoft to Offer Patches to U.S. Govt. First --WSJ
that means 2 things
a) USAF is the new MS guinea pig
b) corporate (you know, paying) customers get patches 1 month after they are developed. that's about 3 to 6 months after the bugs are discovered. that's your money at work for you!

got really annoyed and wrote a quick and dirty but working script to transmute oggs into 92kbps joint stereos mp3s for the muvo. and it works too! it would just so much easier if lame could grock ogg

for the record, in a meaty way for google which didn't manage to find relevant stuff on this, dual head works with Xorg on Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02). both xinerama and individual desktops.
however, the i810 on FC3 can't see the 1280x768 mode on "my" hp pavilion dv1170ea centrino laptop while the one distributed in intel's dri stuff can. either intel has some sekret patches for some sekret chipset stuff or the laptop video bios is broken. either way without the intel package i can only get 1024x768 uglyness.

that's a lot of uglyness

stuff that doesn't mix:
mild case of stomach flu
underestimating the time it takes for 80G to go across 100bT
trying to get stuff to work by reading the wrong docs while 80% asleep

the muvo works out pretty well. the radio is nice and the mp3 playback is ok.
i can't believe noone did anything good to a) transcode oggs into low bitrate mp3s b) hopefuly rename the files and reorder them into playlists using folders.

oh. sounds like i just outlined a project. my oh my.

in real life, vasco caught a stomach bug and is feeling generaly icky. boohh :(

found a shop more willing to acomodate my impulse buys and got myself a black muvo n200. it's a fairly nice unit inside my price target. lets see how it works out in the field.
the only negative note so far goes to the head set cause a) the unit is black and the headset is black b) the head set looks dorky c) it's not particularly ergonomic

went on an impulse buy shoping spree. the conclusion was shops suck.

meanwhile, it seems vasco is developing something ...

backups don't make themselfs you know ?
anyway, one of the downsides of the huge disks we have today is there's a huge huge ammount of information to backup. creepy.
bring back the tapes!

ok, so, there's a kick-ass.net and a kickS-ass.net. and that's why my p2p stuffs wasn't working. this is like ... too much ...

anyways, vasco is playing the bad boy card and i don't have time for watching stuff i'd eventually download :P

i'm pretty sure i'm going to get a tiny mp3 player with fm radio. now, which one ?? i wish there weren't so many models ...

the EU council is still trying to push through software patents. wtf elected *them* ??

it's not like i don't want to pay my bills. but lets face it, cheqs are so last century.

things to see. people to do. everything non critical like mldonkey is on hold. booh.

the hp allinone 5510 is actually pretty nice if you don't need a lot of volume.

/me looks around. still no macmini. /me taps foot

anyways, wireless keyboards seem to be la mode and it's dead hard to find a nice wired usb keyboard this days.