Archive for March, 2006

Flying high

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

And after the cow abduction, let’s remain in the animal world. A group of brave people installed a camera on top of an eagle, in order to study her behaviour and to understand a bit more about her wings’ aerodynamics and control… geeky, huh?
You can have the full coverage (+ movies) clicking right here!

Link Of The Week: Cow Abduction

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

I know Susa was missing this, so let’s try to make it a fixed weekly appointment. The links on Albazilla’s sidebar, reviewed in brief, just to tickle your curiosity enough to click on it…
This one is Vasco’s (o Mestre) discovery: www.cowabduction.com.
In few words, a bunch of farmers is trying to discourage aliens which are kidnapping [...]

Vista Service Pack?

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Microsoft Windows Vista will be the operating system of the future… in the sense that it will never be the one of this present time. Microsoft just declared that 60% of the code related to media features (which nowadays are involving every computing experience, even emailing) needs to be rewritten.
After reading the full article here, [...]

Down Under chronicles: we’re back

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

Safe and sound… too much sun still in our eyes, too many hrs. of lag to recover. These days Down Under went extremely fast (and far), like a beautiful and intense summer.
Thousands of pictures are waiting to be selected, for what will appear in the gallery (soon? gosh…) and in a Buities DVD to release [...]

Down Under chronicles: the cyclone

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

This is was the news that Joao, our mate in this Aussie adventure, wrote to our group of friends…
g’day mates,
nature offered us the chance of taking pictures to almost every kind of living animal in this country. When nature ran out of animals, it offered us a cyclone , but [...]

Down Under chronicles: part III

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

We are in Sydney! After 2 days walking up and down the Blue Mountains, tons of pictures (you’ll see them soon… as soon as we go through them ), waterfalls, valleys, eucaliptus forests and roo-burgers (kangaroo-burgers), koalas, wallabees… now the city is waiting for us!
Thinking about you all, from the other side of the [...]

Down Under chronicles: part II

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

While the first week of our tour upside-down is almost gone, we’re ready to leave Melbourne and drive to Sidney. After celebrating Armando’s 30th birthday, we spent the last two days cruising along the Great Ocean Road, swimming in the ocean at 5 p.m., camping on its coasts, shaking koalas down their trees and walking on some forest top. [...]

Down Under chronicles: part I

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

“Guys, we passed the Equator!” said Joao from row 45 of our British Airways Jumbojet at 11000 meters on the sea. And still 6 ours far from Melbourne… but eventually we did it. We’re Down Under!
I’m posting here few pics, with the first two taken in Singapore airport (finally walking after 13 hours flight!) and [...]

Open for holidays

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

Together with Albazilla’s improvements on every front, I’ve been trying hard to post each day at least some mumblings, if I wouldn’t have something more interesting to report. And I also have to thank for this the other authors, like Chitti, that keep these pages alive.
But now it’s enough, I need some holidays… So I’m [...]

Jumpman.

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

There’s a new commercial out (for me anyway) selling the new AirJordans XXI shoes.  For the most part, you’re thinking, so what.  But the spot is absolutely brilliant.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6337498856176400220&q=jumpman
(If the link doesn’t work, search Jordan XXI video in Google video)
Now, I am a big NBA fan.  And the best part is, all the sequences in this [...]