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I barely managed to climb the stairs and let myself in our apartment, today. It seems all those nights with little to no sleep triggered the most strict of all my body and mind defenses in an effort to understand that I need to rest. Something's telling me that I must somehow follow those orders or risk another breakdown..
I wrote a tiny Ajax (client + gateway) framework last night, just to see how this all Ajax concept works. It is, indeed, really cool. It's so cool I may even sit down and build (God forbidden) an AJAX based web-app for some projects I have in mind. Cool stuff, when one has free time. I don't.
PES, short for Pro Evolution Soccer, or Winning Eleven in Japan is perhaps the most addictive and well designed game, ever (hm, along with some great ones from the past..). I am not into football at all, yet, when our buddy Jim lured us into playing a few matches with him, we got stuck. Once or twice a week, we gather at our place and play for a 2 or 3 hours, and, let me tell you, we are having a blast. If you want to have some fun with your friends, consider this game.
Speaking of games, I got my Nintendo DS Lite Black edition from Amazon.co.uk today, along with a few books I have ordered. Alas, Mario Kart DS and another book didn't make it with this shipment, they should be here on Monday. So nothing to play on this slick sexy little game machine for now. This is interesting, by the way. Why the DS Needs to be Nintendo¢s iPod.
Microsoft, as you probably have read by now, is preparing an 'iPod killer', due this Christmas. As far as I am concerned, competition is a great thing, regardless the very possible failure Microsoft is facing with such an idea.
Stephen Hawking Makes a Cameo on Yahoo! answers, asking about possible ways to deal with the imminent extinction of the human kind. Yup, that's the very Stephen Hawking you have in mind.
Do you want to know how Google really works?. I bet you do.
Friday, 7 July 2006 8:22 pm
Various Links of the day
New Yahoo! Photos : uhm, interesting -- some nice UI tricks here, along with some interesting ideas. Definitely something we should check out for Pathfinder Photos(?)
Sleep with remote : super useful - now I can watch videos and listen to music/podcasts and let my MacBook Pro go to sleep with me, with the click of a button on the FrontRow remote.
C/Net Relaunches Consumating : very neat. I dig the UI and the overall idea. A pool of good ideas, that one.
Google Research prototypes ambient audio contextual content : awe, those amazing googlers..
Rich RSS Readers: best of breed picks : I vote for Bloglines and the amazing NetNewsWire, on the desktop side.
Google Browser Sync : I really needed this. If it only worked with Safari, too, somehow..
Leopard to bring collaborative document? : I so can't wait for Leopard. Apple rules.
Saturday, 10 June 2006 1:48 am
