Hi, Becher

So… what do you really know about me?

LA

I told you I’d be back. And here I am.

From now on I’ll be using wordpress everyday …  finally.

(ok, not really)

Fish Widget

A friend of mine sent me a link via Twitter. It’s a cute virtual fish tank with little red customizable fish. You can feed them fish food by clicking your mouse anywhere inside the rectangle.  Under the widget you’ll find some ways to post it on your blog. There’s also a wordpress button. I tried it but had no success. The problem is… I typed my login and password. I know, I shouldn’t have done so. But it looked so trustworthy. Maybe it is. The fact is …the widget didn’t appear on the blog. I had to post it here mannually.

Any hints on what I’ve done wrong?

No time for learning

I’ve always loved the idea of learning constantly. Learning is something above the idea of school, courses and so on. That’s why I feel bad about not having enought time/energy to learn how to use wordpress properly. I keep reading everywhere how wonderful all the wordpress tools are but all I do is come here once in a while (or, perhaps, once in a lifetime…), open the form, write a simple text post and leave.

It’s like going to Disneyland just to eat popcorn and missing all the rides.

Is there a tutorial like ‘wordpress for dummies’? Or maybe… learn wordpress in 5 minutes?

Has anybody found out the proper way to download information directly to my brain like Neo did in Matrix? If you know how to do it, please leave a comment. I’ll drop by next year to read it! After all, next year is just a few days away..

Happy 2008.

Green Cause

Ecology is the most intelligent concept you can get in the real world. The idea that everything is related, the concept of interference changing the environment, the need to preserve as a logical way of surviving, they are all enlightning and clear to anyone who gives it a little thought.

I’ve planted thousands of trees during my life but now a new ideal struck me, inspired by a friend I met throught Skype. Why not calculate the energy we consume every month and plant the equivalent amount in energy generating trees?

As I work for a very consuming media, Television, the need to plant is even bigger. She, Brigida, is helping me calculate the number of trees we have to plant every week to compensate all we consume to make a 2-hour tv show. So, at the end of every transmission, the crew and cast will plant the correspondent number of trees.

Neat idea for a better world, don’t you think?

The second blog

I’ve tried Second Life but so far I feel totally ridiculous getting lost and flying above the sea, never getting anywhere.It takes time to learn how to live as an avatar and, well, let’s say I’ve decided to invest that time in my first life.

But I found out I can manage to have a second blog. For more than 7 years I’ve been writing daily on my first blog, Querido Leitor (Dear Reader). Now it’s turning one year since I started writing my second blog professionally, the Skype Blog in Brazil.

This is the 3rd blog, the first one  in English.

But I’ve recently been contacted and invited to write two other blogs. So, I guess I will finally make a living out  of blogging.

Nice goal for the future!

Plane crash in NY

It was not a terrotist attack.
The plane belongs to Cory Lidley, from the NY Yankees.

No Panties

Take a good look at today’s Technorati tag and site ranking.
Lindsay Lohan is in second place, probably because she was recently caught by a photographer wearing no panties.
The fake Lonely Girl from YouTube is in the ranking too. And YOuTube, of course.

So, as you see, the web is a giant paradise for voyeurism…

Link, please

Is there anything on this blog that you like? Link it to yours!

Pimp that Snack

One of the new hyped blogs in Brazil is called twixgigante.blogspot.com, that is, giant twix. It is exactly the same thing you’ll see in the famous Pimp That Snack, in portuguese and with only one snack.
The idea is funny and baking giant sweets can be a lot of fun.
The problem is, as you pimp the snack you also pimp the calories!

My favorite is this giant Oreo, from Flickr.

Weblog project

The project is on. Fine, really nice. Visit the link.
However, the explanations on the site, which should guide the web user to take part in the project, are very weird.

Image hosting

It’s so free and so easy to upload files to this site that I feel…suspiciou about it. But well, it’s working. So, I might as well. Try it. Image Shack.

Shark

A friend of mine launched her blog today. And published a very interesting comparison between blogs and sharks. Blogs, like sharks, will die if they stop moving aroung.

So, let’s keep blogging..

Brazil: YouTube hits the dance floor

In november 2005, a drunk motorcycle pilot was arrested in Caruaru, northern Brazil. His name, Jeremias José do Nascimento. The reporter Givanildo Silveira interviewed him at the police station. Completely out of his mind, Jeremias cursed, sang, laughed, made stupid threats. The crazy interview was uploaded to YouTube. The audio was then remixed, a beat was added and a voilà,a funny funk song was created. In a short time it became a hit all over the Internet.Today, one of the most famous columns in one of the biggest newspapers in São Paulo,(Folha de SP),  mentions that ‘Jeremias’s funk’ hit the dance floor in modern night clubs in Brazil.

The aftermath – Jeremias was interviewed weeks later, drunk again but this time, out of jail. And unbelievable as it may sound, he urinated during the interview, against a wall, live, on air. I mean ‘during’ the conversation. A ‘must see’. In portuguese.

Bad News

When I hosted a daily live morning news show in Brazil, I always wondered if all the international disasters really moved the audience in front of their tv sets. Everyone knows that part of all journalism lives on other peoples’ death and bad news. A russian plane crashing in Ucrania is front page news even though the majority of readers probably can’t even spot where Ucrania is on a world map.

Bad news sell, it is said. But journalists should use this fact not just to amplify human misery and explore the impact of feeling for marketing purposes but to add something positive, even if it means just teaching a little geography.

All Your Snakes Are Belong To Us

The movie Snakes on a Plane is the talk of the web. Youtube, Technorati, you name it. It’s all over the place. The movie, the trailler, the funny versions.
It feels as if the population of the net is a huge classroom of eager students waiting for the teacher to give them a theme about which to write a composition or create an essay.

So the new theme is Snakes on a Plane. And off we go producing videos, animations, texts, posts about it. So that we can be part of it. So that we can get the teacher’s attention and grades. So that we feel we are ‘in’.

Funny thing is, they say, the movie is horrible.
Haven’t seen it. But I certainly will.

Have you?

Eternal Youth

Guess who found the Fountain of Youth? David Copperfield. The funniest part is he says he discovered it ‘has a price’. All women who buy expensive cosmetics already knew it!

Long live Bressane!

I just loved Bressane’s comment. And, of course, the suggestions. The link. Windows Live Writer.

Modern

If I were to choose my favorite adjective, it would be ‘modern’. Not that I like using the word, it’s not ‘favorite’ in that sense. Modern is the quality I’d like people to associate to me. I’ve always wanted to be modern. (Or perhaps, avant-garde, which is a modern way of being modern…) And, of course, in my quest for modernity I elected the site Salon as a ‘must’ among my daily websites.

Fortunately, I just found out that one of my favorite writers in Brazil, the american ‘brazilianist’ Matthew Shirts, reads Salon too. The text I have just read is about an ex-obese girl who when by one of those bypass surgeries. ( BTW, this kind of surgery has increased in 600%). And the first thing I thought was… if obesity is a modern disease maybe it would be best if I started developing a passion for old fashion.

No kidding, if I found an Alladin-like magic lamp my three wishes would be to lose weight, to lose weight and to lose weight.

Correction, please

Now that I’ve got material evidence proving that I’m not the only one who reads this blog, I feel comfortable to ask a question: is there an easy way to have my posts corrected before publishing them? I could write them in a word doc, but I wouldn’t like to. I had a stupid idea of writing the post as if it were a gmail email, which corrects the texts before you send them. But they all seemed weird solutions. Can word press do that?

Up, up and away

The good thing about starting a brand new blog from the very beginning is the fact that it can only grow up. This blog, for instance, has very few posts, almost no visitors, just a couple of comments, three results in google, two links in Technorati. It’s almos nothing. But considering it started from zero, it’s already better than nothing.

Link, please

If there’s anything at all that you may have liked in this blog, well, please link to it!

Generators

This would be the last post of a dead blogger  .. a post.. mortem!
I used the Tombstone generator, found at the great Generator Blog

Heathrow

What exactly is the matter between Al-Qaeda and London? Do they hate the queen, the Beatles or what?

Had I known

I didn’t know that you can’t upload pictures in specific or files in general at WordPress. I thought it was like blogspot. Had I known it before I wouldn’t have started a blog here. Really. It’s great and all but.. no pics?

Not working

I can’t believe it. It was probably my own fault. Fact is, the webcam I intended to use as a tool for connecting people is not working anymore. I guess I shouldn’t have posted the link on my busy blog. Too many people must have accessed the cam, the consumption of bandwidth must have been increased in a thousand per cent and the serbian server interrupted the streaming.

Well, guess I gotta find myself a new online toy.

Favorville

I need a favor. But it will be kind of hard to get any help. First, the person must live in Belgrade, second she would have to go to a square called Trg Republike, Republic Square, and hold a sign for a webcam.
The thing is, I have been watching this great webcam everyday. The live streaming is really good and you can control the camera to zoom things in. You can watch people on the bus stop, women looking at shopping windows,couples kissing. So I thought I could use this powerful cam to meet someone in Belgrade, someone I could find through the web to go to the square at a certain time and date (considering the local time there and here where I am) and hold a sign to the camera saying ‘Hi’ or something like that.

It would be a nice thing, to use live web cams all over the world to connect people. That’s what the net is for, isn’t it? I don’t want to live a virtual world or become an avatar. I really think the Internet is a tool for communication,  learning, self improvement, fun, among other things.

So far I have searched for people in Belgrade through Skype and contacted some of them. One guy said he could do it when he comes back from a trip do Montenegro.

I really hope so. I have even tried a site called Favorville.

Me, the blogger

I’m a pathological blogger. I blog everyday, all day, non stop. I send pictures through my mobile, post by SMS, at work, at home, wherever, whenever, whatever.
But I’m brazilian and my blog’s in Portuguese, which makes my blogosphere very restrict. So I decided to blog in English, in spite of all the language mistakes I’ll make.
So what? Practice makes the master.
Have a nice day.

Hello world!

You can never forget your first post. But it helps to have a Google Calendar.

By the way: have you ever tried searching in public Google Calendars? You’ll find amazing stuff. Type “Britney Spears”, or whatever celebrity you want and you’ll get calendars with upcoming shows, CD launching, birthdays and so on.

Great time killer.

I feel sick

Cough, cough, cough. I’ve really got a flu. A bad cold. So I’ve been coughing, sneezind and shedding tears. But I’m sure I’ll get better, at least considering I can’t get any worse!

Here in Brazil, two subjects are being focuses: the trial of Suzane Richthofen, who was the intellectual mentor of her parents’ homicide by her boyfriend and his brother, and The Soccer World Cup in Germany.