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I have to say I’m pretty happy with my bike. Just hoping nobody will steal it…

Saw this bike today on Spadina and I think I won’t resist it, I have been shopping for a bike for a while already, but I guess I finally found The One.

Can an Argentinian guy from Sweden make good quality music? Yes, he can.

So I went yesterday to Best Buy a few minutes before midnight, I was dying to put my hands on the new Grand Theft Auto IV. Got at the Best Buy on Bay & Dundas, waited outside for around 20 minutes, then inside for 5 or 10 more and got my game. What a game!
Definitely the best game I have EVER played. The feeling that I had while playing the game for the first few hours was a mix of the first time I played videogame, the first time I played GTA and the first time I saw a fame so incredible. The storyline is amazing and I just can’t wait to go back at it tonight. Liberty City, the king is here!

Don’t know if many out there uses Facebook as we do here. One of the cool things about Facebook it’s, of course, it’s stalking aspect. But you can only stalk if people let you stalk them and/or if they want it… Looks like Sarah’s been talking too much about her life, doesn’t it?

Damn TTC decided to Strike this weekend. Which pretty much ruined the weekend for most of the International Students at LSI. Hopefully they will be back to work on Monday morning so I can get to places. Unfortunately the whole story is not just about some guys asking for more money it’s about people that have no chance to go places anymore. Pretty sad.

You might have seen a similar video from Connected Ventures, now you can see the Revision 3 version. Pretty neat.

It’s when I see things like this that I really feel like getting a puppy! The problem is that they grow up and there’s no more room left in the apartment…

This was a surprise to me, in a good way. My friend Rafael Freire is getting married this year, so far so good. The wedding party is going to be in Brazil in August and I have plans to go. But what I didn’t know is that he was going to get married online! Rafa is in China, his girlfriend Sarah Stutz is in France (actually wife now), the wedding was in Brazil but the party is still 4 months away.

Anyways the new couple became “popular” in the brazilian media, on TV News and in Online News. I guess I have to at least congratulate them here too. After all I’m already buying a plane ticket to go to their wedding, they shouldn’t expect much of a wedding gift after that.

Congratulations Rafa e Sarah! May the new couple be happy forever!

Yeap, she said it once, Revision 3 said it twice and V is going to join the Tekzilla team. I hope she gets even more exposure from this so we can finally see her talking to some other big guys, bigger than Stan Lee, with all due respect. The first time I talked to V she was still on BOL and playing more Wow than she plays now, she didn’t change much and I hope she can keep it that way.
Good luck Belmont.

That’s pretty awesome, I really want something like that on mine, can I have it?

Apparently this was on MTV USA, which I don’t believe. Funny thing is that the song is the “anthem” for the Brazilian soccer team Flamengo.

That’s how I like it baby…
Cheetos Puffs satisfies your need for cheese!

For our latest mission, we turned a little league baseball game in Hermosa Beach, California into a major league event.

I didn’t know about this guys from Improv Everywhere until today. On their last post they decide to make a little league baseball game into a major league baseball game, great stuff. I love when you can make funny shows, without making the people involved feeling stupid, that’s my kind of fun!

Fenerbahçe just lost to Chelsea 2 x 0. That means no Turkish/Brazilian team playing on Champions League anymore this year. The game was pretty good, Fenerbahçe played better on most of what I saw (2nd Half) but unfortunately the team from Istanbul was not lucky enough to score this time. It was a good run.

Ok, so this T-Shirt from T-Shirt Hell is a little bit offensive, I’ll give you that. But I’m still not sure who will find it more offensive, women or black people? Obama or Hilary supporters? Still I think it’s pretty funny, I ordered one and I’m just waiting for it to arrive.

I really hate when I don’t have the option to do whatever I want, and soon in Canada (Well, at least in Ontario) we won’t have unthrottled Internet anymore. That just SUCKS BALLS! That means I won’t be able to download anything at a descent speed or use p2p anymore. It’s one of the most stupid things companies should do to “fix” their bandwidth problems.
I just found this post from Amber Mac and it can show you more about this stupid, stupid, lame, stupid, retarded decision.

Save Teksavvy - Freeourbandwidth.com

I first heard about a third party Internet Service Provider called Teksavvy from my friend Phil, a former collague at Citytv. He swears by the ISP, an alternative to Bell and Rogers, which offers (offered) up unthrottled bandwidth (thx to an OLD deal from Bell) and (I hear) has the best customer service in the country (something that makes those of us who know Bell’s “Emily” jump for joy). Well, the light at the end of Canada’s dark history of traffic shaping (i.e. throttling P2P traffic, including services such as BitTorrent, etc.) is getting even more dim.

A Globe and Mail article announced today that “Bell was restricting the torrent and peer-to-peer traffic of Teksavvy customers. ‘They [Bell] are screwing with our data, which is not their property,’ said Teksavvy’s CEO. ‘Every single third-party ISP in Canada is going to be affected by this.’”

The very fact that Joe Public doesn’t understand the terms traffic shaping and bandwidth throttling (and don’t get me started on Net Neutrality) is a sigh of relief to executives at Canada’s big ISPs. When customers aren’t educated, customers have no voice. And let’s face it, mainstream media doesn’t do a great job of digging into this technical jargon.

A Facebook friend just sent me a link that will give you more info and allow you to show your support for Teksavvy and help you understand the state of ISPs in the Great White North.

Incidentally, I wonder just how much money Bell and Rogers make every year? I’m sure I can find those numbers pretty quickly online, which will immediately leave me wondering when these ISPs will start giving customers the services we want and the service we deserve for filling up their deep pockets.

It’s looking pretty bad out there.

Were no strangers to love
You know the rules and so do i
A full commitments what I’m thinking of
You wouldn’t get this from any other guy

I just wanna tell you how Im feeling
Gotta make you understand

Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

We’ve know each other for so long
Your hearts been aching
But you’re too shy to say it
Inside we both know whats been going on
We know the game and were gonna play it

And if you ask me how I’m feeling
Don’t tell me you’re too blind to see

(* repeat)

Give you up. give you up
Give you up, give you up
Never gonna give
Never gonna give, give you up
Never gonna give
Never gonna give, five you up

I just wanna tell you how I’m feeling
Gotta make you understand

Gotta love Rick Astley.