House – Season 01
Finished the first season of House. Although the first episodes were quite boring (it seemed that they were just following the sickness list by order) some story arose between the main characters making it funnier to watch. Nevertheless, the stories are all independent making it easy to watch from time to time without getting lost […]
Hiding the bird’s guts
Probably this is a stupid rant/question. If so, please clarify me. I can live without the insults. Really :) OK, on to the relevant stuff. Twitter has a new OAuth authentication mechanism. To write an application able to post on twitter your application need to be registered and have a consumer key. That key is […]
Using HDMI and external sound in XBox 360
In a previous post I was wondering why I couldn’t get sound from my XBox using any kind of connector when the HDMI cable was plugged in. My doubts were funded on the design of my own cable, that shipped with XBox 360. It has two RCA for sound and one RCA for video but, […]
Using earphones in XBox360
As I poster some weeks ago, I bought a new LCD, 21.5″, with HDMI. The idea was to use it as a second monitor on my Mac Book Pro (done that already) and to use it to play with my XBox 360. Tried to do this latter, but it was not possible. Why wasn’t it […]
Iron Man 2 (2010)
Iron Man 2 or 2 Iron Men, that is the question. Good movie on digital effects, some good acting, and good music. Probably you are asking, music? Oh hell yes, they play Queen, Another one bites the dust. Given that I do not want to tell the story, I can summarize the movie as Iron […]
House (2004), S01E01
Yeah, it is quite old. Six years are gone, and this is my first House episode. You know, there is some limitations when you do not own cabled TV. Anyway, now that I got up-to-date on V and Castle and (almost) for Nikita, I decided to start another series. Yes, I still have a lot […]
DevC++ and their lack of discernment
If you know me, you know that I program mainly C and Perl, that my preferred editor is Emacs, and that I use mostly Mac OS X for that task. But, I teach programming, and sometimes I teach programming to students that never heard of Linux or, worse, that never used the command line of […]
Children’s songs and Machine Translation
I threw the stick to the cat, (cat, cat) but the cat, (cat, cat) did not die, (die, die) Dona Chica, (ca) frightened, with the cry, with the cry, that the cat did. Meow.
V (2009) – Season 01
There isn’t much fuss about this series. It is kind of a remake of another previous series. I did not watch it, therefore I can’t comment on whether this is better or worst. I saw the first four episodes in the public Portuguese television and that got me curiosity to know how it will end. […]