Fernando Valente's weblog

There are still uses for animated GIFs.

Today I renewed the Chiaro web hosting. This blog is hosted on the same server I host Chiaro website. It’s renewed until 2011. Also, I registered the domains chiarosoftware.com and chiarosw.com. They now redirect to Chiaro website. I found a discount cupom which allowed me to pay $1.17 for a domain registration on GoDaddy. If you would like to get a domain for just $1.99, use the banner bellow:

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Yeah guys, I’m so happy I finally deleted my account from that piece of crap called Orkut. I just hate it! The layout is very ugly, people are so rude and that buggy anti-spam verification is really annoying. I was not using it and I didn’t ever pretend to use it again, so today I finally decided to delete it. The only reason why I created an account on that trash is because it’s too popular in the country I live. Everyone(excepting by me and a few other people) in Brazil has an Orkut account. You have no idea of how this shit is popular here. Anyway, I’m happy

Three days ago, I was reading about a rumor of a Mac App Store. The rumor said there will be a Mac App Store and no software without authorization from Apple will run on Mac OS X. I was scared. When I was thinking about switching to Linux if that was true. I decided to e-mail Steve Jobs. I asked him if that was true. I never ever ever thought he would reply me, but it was worth trying. I was wrong. He replied me! He just said “Nope”. Yeah, nothing else. That was enough to make me get calm. I tweeted about it and the editor from MacStories found my tweet. Read the post here. I became “famous” instantly. My name was on every big website/blog focused Apple. Even websites that were not focused Apple were talking about that e-mail. Nobody used to post a comment on this blog, excepting by my friend Lucia Stevenson and spammers. Now I’m receiving comments from other people on this webblog. Wow, I still can’t believe it

Some time ago iChat stopped working. I couldn’t send or receive messages. I didn’t wanna reinstall the whole system just to be able to use iChat. Yesterday Apple released an update for the Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

So today I was surfing Orkut and thinking of deleting my Orkut account. I have an account on that piece of crap and I never use it! But some people may want to contact me, so I thought of send a scrap to them containing my e-mail address. OK, if I delete it I will do that. I also thought of including my AIM ID. The only instant messenger I really use is AIM. In Brazil AIM is used by almost nobody, so I thought of including my MSN ID too. I stayed months without logging on my MSN account. I LOVE AIM and I don’t like MSN so much. So I thought if there was some way to configure MSN on AIM. I knew I could configure it on iChat, but I didn’t know on AIM. Then I remembered I installed the Mac OS X update. So I thought “There may be a possibility of it work now”. I tried opening it and sending a message to a friend and guess what? It was working! I could barely believe that. So I decided to configure MSN on it and it’s working now.

OK OK, I know I will not be able to send files over MSN, but it doesn’t matter. I’m still thinking if I will delete my Orkut account. I really wanna do that and I think I will do.

I got an e-mail from the QuickTime API mail list, the subject was “strange QT book?”. I read the e-mail and started laughing. There’s a book on Amazon called Software Development Kit: Application Software, Software Framework, Integrated Development Environment, QuickTime. By the name, it seems there’s nothing wrong. Take a look at the book description and this will change your mind:

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A software development kit (SDK or “devkit”) is typically a set of development tools that allows for the creation of applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, or similar platform. It may be something as simple as an application programming interface (API) in the form of some files to interface to a particular programming language or include sophisticated hardware to communicate with a certain embedded system. Common tools include debugging aids and other utilities often presented in an integrated development environment (IDE). SDKs also frequently include sample code and supporting technical notes or other supporting documentation to help clarify points from the primary reference material. A software engineer typically receives the SDK from the target system developer. Often the SDK can be downloaded directly via the Internet. Many SDKs are provided for free to encourage developers to use the system or language. Sometimes this is used as a marketing tool. For example, Foo Products might provide the Widget SDK for free to encourage people to use it.

The book contains articles from Wikipedia? WTF? It costs 39 dollars on Amazon and has 64 pages. If you’re a completely fool, buy this shit book on this page. Don’t forget to check out the other pieces of crap books by the same author. There are more than 17 thousand books with high quality articles from Wikipedia. This must be a joke.

NOTE: I’m still laughing.

Everything on this parody of Michael Jackson’s Beat It is true.

Who came first, the egg or the chicken? Just Google!

Welcome to my new blog. Here I will write about my personal life, music, technology, news and anything else I may want. This is my first post and I don’t have much to say. This is my first personal blog, so I hope you like it.