New Design

Ξ April 5th, 2008 | → 0 Comments |
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If you’re reading this through the blog’s webpage, you certanly already noticed the new design that is being used. (If using the RSS feed, please don’t forget to open the webpage, and possibly leave your comment/critic to the design.)

It might not be the most wonderful theme ever created for a wordpress blog, but since it was I who created it… I enjoy it, very much! Much more lighter than the previous one.

The header has been created using a sophisticated rendering algorithm known as “Search google for wallpaper”, followed by a 15 minutes evaluation of the possible candidates, and some cutting and pasting supplied by gimp.

Wallpaper

 

Been there, done that…

Ξ March 17th, 2008 | → 0 Comments |
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The title sentence must be terminated with “…, and have a lousy ticket stub and a rain check to prove it!”

This weekend was dedicated to the concert of the band Tokio Hotel. Unfortunately, the lead singer of the band got sick a few days (???) before the concert and the show was canceled. The announcement was done by the producer/manager just when the show was about to start, in front of a full audience (of around 17 thousand fans).

Tokio Hotel @

The great majority of the fans were girls, of course, with an average of 14 to 16 years old and the will to ‘camp’ outside the concern arena 3 days before the doors opened. I’m not a fan, and it’s difficult for me to understand all the crying and sobbing that the cancellation generated. Fortunately, my daughter which is a fan didn’t started crying and making a scene as many did.

I must admit that feelings of being too old, to be surrounded by such a crowd and all it’s immature behaviors caused by rapid hormonal changes, were present during several times. But a father has to do, what a father has to do… The concert was rescheduled to sometime during June (or July?), and again we’ll be there to listen to the “crazy haired german teen band”.

The next concert will Alicia Keys (also in Pavilhão Atlântico) just after tomorrow… but that will be subject of another post!