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É. Parece que alguém está enriquecendo com meu nome.

O FolhaInvest, pelo que entendi, é um concurso de investidores. Parece que meu homônimo está indo bem.

Ps.: A dica veio do Edson Tirelli. Valeu!

I had an excellent weekend, and I’m very thrilled with everything that happened! It was just another Saturday, with housing duties, but I took some time to go take a look at the FIFA Interactive World Cup 2008 (FIWC 08) that was going to happen in São Paulo. So close to home that makes me think: “why not taking a peek?”

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My intention was just to go there and take a look, but when I came to the place the subscription line was not so big, so I decided to subscribe myself and have some fun. Well, it didn’t look so bad: even though it was based on PlayStation3, the game is FIFA08, which I play regularly on my Xbox 360 at home. The only thing that seemed would be a problem was the controller, so I was completely OK with the fact the I was not going further than the first round knockout.

Overview of the competition:

• 200 participants
• Single-elimination tournament
• FIFA08 on PlayStation3
• Few people from other states, only two foreigners (Mexicans)
• Qualifier to choose the Brazil representative for the world cup in Germany

As I said, it was just fun for me, but at the end, I went all the way through the eighth-finals! That’s awesome! This puts me among the 16 top FIFA players in the country. Who would imagine that?

Well, apart from what happens to me, that was a very interesting and thrilling competition, and also very friendly. No problems with competitors, no disqualifications, everything seemed to work pretty well.

It’s unfortunate that the winner was a Mexican. I think the official FIFA note would explain better than me:

“Ruben Morales Zerecero from Mexico was crowned the champion of the Brazilian FIFA Interactive World Cup Final 2008 today after defeating previous champion Andre Buffo and new challenger Richard Riviere in a sensational event in Sao Paolo. ” (read more)

Never the less, this was a great weekend. I’m still waiting for the official record of my final position, so I will write a little more about it in future posts. Stay tuned!

In the meantime, take a look at my gallery on Flickr!

[Apr/01]
- I found a website with press coverage. That’s me on the second photo. You can see some videos too.
- Another one, with me on the 4th photo.

I know it’s old news, but I decided to write something here after I received a newsletter from Sony with the title “The world has decided”.

In 2006 I said that I would go with PS3 (if I could afford it). Well, by the time the opportunity came, I could not, so XBox360 was the obvious choice. So, what does that all matters? If you read my post about PS3, you’re going to see that back in 2006 I was already prising Blu-Ray over HD-DVD, because by that time I already made my choice of format.

No, I’m not saying “I knew it”, I’m just writing this post to say that Microsoft lost this war.

Nobody knows for sure why M$ was going against the obvious (some have a few ideas why), but the fact is that the battle has come to an end, and the obvious has come to surface. Search around the web, and you’re going to see how many sites talk about companies declaring HD-DVD EOL. Even M$ did it already.

On Wikipedia, the official death of HD-DVD has been marked as February, 19, 2008, after Toshiba decided to EOL it’s production.

That’s it. It’s over. Good luck. Bye bye. Now let’s move on to the next format war.

[Update on Mar/13] Microsoft publically stated their Blu-Ray support.

A maioria dos spams que chegam pra mim em português são relacionados a como ganhar dinheiro fácil ou aumentar sua renda.

Por outro lado, a maioria dos spams em inglês são relacionados a como ter um bilau maior ou ficar ereto a noite inteira.

Será que isso tem algum significado? Alguém topa conjecturar sobre o assunto?

Stupidity happens everywhere. Specially on forums and/or Windows-biased publications.

I was testing an old printer we had stored in the company, and got a very nice message:

kernel: drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: on fire

Haha! It’s actually not on fire. It’s just out of ink.

My friends in USA show me how to pay for parking in Raleigh. The tall one is Jake, and the skinny is Matt. It was me filming, in case you don’t recognize my voice.

See the comments on YouTube.

Halo 3 está à venda no Mercado Livre.

Oh yeah! First rant of the year: Halo 3 sucks (in my personal opinion). I have bought the Halo 3 Limited Edition, and I am very glad that I haven’t spend my money in any of the other “cool” items they sell (like the “Xbox 360 Halo” console).

After trying many times, played online, watching the extras, reading the history behind the saga, and even playing Halo 1, I can’t make a connection to the game. I can’t see anything in the game that interests me. Nope, nothing, not even the weapons (they just feel lame compared to any other FPSes I’ve player before).

So I decided that I’m selling my copy of Halo. Sorry anyone outside Brazil, but it would be a pain to ship to other countries, so I’ll offer to locals first.

And if you’re thinking “what? how could he not like it?”, it’s simple: even the engineers admit, “if we please 90% of the games, that would be enough” (saw that on the extras, when the engineers were talking about the release process). So I’m one of the 10%. Period. Bye bye.

There is a test on Facebook called “Which Start Wars Character Are You?“, and it turns out that I am Darth Vader.