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

(ok, not really)

Any hints on what I’ve done wrong?

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.

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?

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!

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

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.

So, let’s keep blogging..

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 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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.