How to run...

From the couch to 5 km (3 miles).

New Year Resolutions

I'm writing this because I make a list every year with the changes I have to make and I never go through with it.

Maybe, by posting it on the web, I manage to do what I say I'll do... (for once)!

So, in the next hours I'll add some more stuff to the list shown above.

If you have suggestions, feel free to leave them in the comments!

2012

E-mail

Apparently you can publish by sending an e-mail. And if you have a mobile phone able to send e-mail, or a smartphone, you can blog on the run.

If want to avoid paying the sms or mms fees, why don´t you try it out?

Earth in the night

Have you ever seen how beautiful our world looks at night?

Click the image to see it enlarged

Also, when looking to the picture, have you noticed how poorly illuminated Africa and South America are when compared to North America and Europe? It's easier to separate the countries by their developed/undeveloped status by watching them at night... Just sayin'!

ROBBIE WILLIAMS TRENDING @TWITTER!

So I have Seesmic opened on Chrome and decided to look up the trends on twitter (and the reason for them to be trending.

On my pursuit to stay updated, I found this:

It appears Robbie Williams is trending due to #dildo #dildo #dildo...

Will Ferrell's twitter

Will Ferrell might not seem like a funny guy in some of his movies, but on twitter his is a big deal. I mean look at the following image (or read the text beneath it) to check some of his puns... And I know that some are really old, but there are really funny ones!

"I want to have 3 kids and name them Ctrl, Alt and Delete. Then if they fuck up I will just hit them all at once."


"Who makes the sandwiches in a lesbian relationship?"


"Who was the greatest prostitute in history? Ms. Pacman, for 25 cents that b*tch swallowed balls till she died."


"I hate when I forget to turn my swag off at night and I wake up covered in bitches..."


"Sitting in green room with Justin Bieber... must resist urge to roundhouse kick him in his midget face"


"Dear life, when I said "can my day get any worse" it was a rhetorical question not a challenge."


"My hamster died today. He fell asleep at the wheel."


"On the other hand, I have different fingers."


"I changed all my passwords to 'incorrect'. So my computer just tells me when I forget."


"I never let my children watch big ban performances on TV. Too much sax and violins."


"I just saw that Harry Potter film. A bit unrealistic if you ask me. I mean, a ginger kid 
with two friends?"


"I guess wearing headphones and not speaking doesn't really signal "Fuck Off" well enough to some people."


"If I had Morgan Freeman's voice I would sit in a corner and talk to myself for days."




"That awkward moment when someone assumes you care about their opinion..."


"When looking something up on Google, if it isn't on the first page of search results then it 
doesn't exist and my journey ends there."


"My bed and I are deeply in love. It's obvious my Alarm Clock is jealous."


"Rearrange these words: 1)PNEIS 2)HTIELR 3)NGGERI 4)BUTTSXE... Did you read: Spine, lither, ginger and subtext? Naughty Naughty."


"I'm pretty sure the asshole that put the extra 'r' in February is the same guy who thought up the spelling for Wednesday..."


"Next time you feel a sneeze coming on, yell out "PIKA!" right before the sneeze."


"Tip to reduce weight: Turn your head to the left then turn to the right. Repeat this exercise every time you are offered something to eat."


"When someone says they have to ask you a question, you think of all the bad things you've done recently."


"I got 99 cookies cause a bitch ate one."


"I'm a bit more cautious when deleting internet history. Thought it might look suspicious that I haven't been on the internet for two years."


"What does Stevie Wonder and Lebron James have in common? They both don't know what a Championship Ring looks like."

Just trolling!

Joke time #3

Tutorial #1 - How to work with torrents

Not so long ago, I found that a great percentage of internet-using people don't know how to work with torrents.

So, here you'll find some tips for working with torrent files.

First you will need to get some software to execute the torrents you'll be downloading, software like BitTorrent or uTorrent (like BitTorrent, but lighter) are probably the most used worldwide, but if you don't like to use mainstream apps, you can always use zButterfly like I do...

When you have all set-up, you just need a file with the .torrent extension. The "problem" is where to get your torrents from... You have tons of sites and torrent directories to choose from. The best and the one that I use is ThePirateBay.

Now you have to choose your files very carefully, because if you want to download something fast, you'll have to get the torrent with the greatest number of seeders.

The image above is what your search will look like at first. Now all you have to do is arrange the list by seeders (sedeers are the ones who are still uploading their content to the internet, and leechers are the ones downloading such content - this means that good torrents must have at all times a number of seeds greater than the number of leechers). To arrange the order of the torrents, just click the SE on the first row, as shown below:

 The highlighted text is the uploader nickname. In this case (TV shows), those are the best ones (who never let you down).

When you find the torrent you are looking for, it should look like this:

You can see the double green arrows pointing down. It means that if you click there, you will download the file (not the episode in this case, but the torrent file) to open with the previous installed software.

If you have doubts if it is a good torrent and want to check other users' comments, just click the title of the torrent to go to it's page. It should look like this:

As you can see, I've drawn arrows pointing the link you should click if you choose to download that file. DON'T click the big download button! That downloads a program to do something that you really don't care for...

If you still have questions, feel free to ask them in the comment section below! I will answer them as soon as I can.

Joke time #2

Joke time #1

#YouTubeStats

Two days ago a website showing some very interesting statistics came to my attention... It is named SocialBlade, and it shows the estimated earnings of YouTubers.

I am very curious about my popularity on the web (which is almost null) and guess what... I am pretty popular...
Not as popular like Ray William Johnson or KassemG, Lisanova, Toby Turner, ... But there are subscriptions to prove my popularity (like 30...) So... Everybody knows me (in my house).

But talking about more important stuff, I can't be a YouTube partner because I'm from one of the countries that doesn't get the chance to do so, but according to that website, I could be making from $2,73 to $29,09 per day (or if you will, from $995 to $10 617 per year). What this means is that because I was born in this country (which I will not reveal, but it is Portugal), I don't have the chance to earn money... Maybe it is called discrimination? Don't know, but I don't want to find out, in my opinion it's best to wait just a little bit longer.

And now with the Stats:

If you want to follow my statistics (they will be posted here anyway...) click here.

To visit my channel, subscribe or whatever, click here.

#YouTube - SHAYTARDS

Let's talk about YouTube!


So today I'm going to talk to you about the Shaytards...

3 (almost 4) years ago, Shay Carl Butler, a proud dad of three (amazing) kids was about to turn 29 and he thought about recording his last (365) days of his twenties... He started vlogging, everyday and introduced his wonderful family to the internet. They were originally five: ShayCarl (the dad), Katillete (Mommytard - her real name is Collete), Sontard (his oldest son - real name Gavin), Princesstard (middle-daughter - real name is Avia) and Babytard (his baby daughter - real name - Emmi). Shay didn't want us to know the real name of his kids, but you know how the Internet works... everything gets leaked somehow, and throughout the vlogs people catched their real names. (I'm just putting their names here because nowadays it's so easy to go on Google and search for "Shaytards real names"...).


Later in the vlogs Collete got pregnant and shared it with everyone. It was amazing to see the reactions of their audience! Almost two years ago Rocktard (the new baby-boy - real name is Brock) was born on the Internet  - literally ON the Internet, Collete was on labor and Shay was hanging around her whit the video camera...






Without knowing, at first, the Shaytards created one of the most amazing shows on the Web. Everyday they opened the door of their house for us to spend at least 10 minutes of the day with them. Some of you might be asking "Why would I want to see other people's family on YouTube?", well, aside from the awesomeness that they are, it really brightens almost everyone 's day to see their good values.


They are Mormon. But not that kind of Mormon who lives in farms, isolated from society, etc.. They go to church, they respect the religion... They bring good to our planet!


If you're still asking why you should check them out, just think about how many times you tried to pursue your dreams... Shay always supported his wife's dreams and she supported his dreams as well. In the video below, you can check why their show became so popular.
How many of you has a six figure debt? Getting on YouTube and making a career out of it allowed ShayCarl to pay his + $195000 debt...






In my opinion, you should checked them and watch just a couple of vlogs... You'll be mindblowned by their positive attitude through life's unexpected adversities. Enjoy!

I'm Back!!

What's up?? I'm back to blogger...

I don't know if I have followers around here, but I feel like I let them down for not posting stuff...

But that's going to change! From now on, I will publish new content everyday and try to bring this blog back to the surface... Will you join me?

Posting from Word

I believe I already done this, but I forgot how it felt to be able to post my content from Microsoft Word.

It feels like I'm writing a book, rather than expressing myself on the web! As I'm writing these lines, there's a whole blank space beneath them… It makes me feel like I have to occupy the whole space… I prefer the WordPress mode!

Just wondering… is anyone reading these annoying posts anymore? If so, please leave a comment…

 

I'll write a tutorial about writing like this, soon...

Smallville - the beginning of Superman

For the last week I've been watching the first four seasons of Smallville. This is a TV Show about Superman, but unlike all movies and shows previously done, this isn't the Superman we already know! This portraits Clark Kent (Tom Welling), (trying to be) a normal guy, discovering his powers throught different occasions. He already knows he is an alien, but where does he come from?

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The only thing he knows (at least on the first episodes) is that he's not human, he came from space, along with a meteor shower, and he has certain capabilities that only he and his parents have knowledge. He struggles to help his friends, but he can't tell them the truth, which makes all of his relationships fail.

We all know that he ends with Lois Lane (or at least that she is his love interest), but before Lois, was there another girl?

Yes, her name is Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk), "the most beautiful girl in high school". Her parents were killed by the meteor shower, an she was raised by her aunt.

As for the Superman's friends, we have Pete Ross (Sam Jones III) and Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack). He is his most trustful friend, and she is the director of The Torch (the school newspaper). Just as a curiosity, Chloe wasn't mentioned in any comic book prior to the release of the show, but the comic book writers have now introduced her as a new character. This shows how well created and written the show was.

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This show has become one of my favorites, because  any person could easily identify themselves with any of the characters...

My advice: check it out! It's just ten seasons of pure TV greatness!

Youtube: Make your own videos!

Maybe you didn't know this, but at any given minute, this is what happens on the web:

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Sorry about the image quality... but as you can see, 25 hours of new footage is uploaded to youtube... That's about 600 videos. If my math is correct (and it is, because I used a calculator xD), 864 000 videos are uploaded to youtube every day (about 36 000 hours...).

It is in fact a lot of GB spent in moving pictures.

So, if you are a video-blogger (vlogger) or if you want direct your own creations, but you're on a tight budget, you should make your own props. It isn't that difficult.

If you click here, you will go directly to The best show about this stuff on youtube: Backyard FX. You'll see great tips and DIY tutorials which will eventually help you pursuit the best video something.

Enjoy!

New types of posts

So, with the start of summer, this blog also starts a new chapter in its life. :)

I'll write:

• movie/series reviews;


• posts about music;


• tech posts;


• music tutorials;


• windows tutorials;


• ...

Hope you all like the new blog attitude!

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Sorry for the absense...

After I wrote my last post, on January 30th, I went to check my stats from this blog and I noticed I didn't have any views at all.

Today was the first time in (almost) six months that I logged into the wordpress platform and I was shocked...

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One of the best drummers from our generation: Tony Royster Jr.

Why I'll probabily erase my facebook account

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Sunday

So, it's Sunday... There's nothing to do, except maybe reading a part from "Os Lusíadas" from Luís Vaz de Camões...

Did you know that in the whole world only exist 4 pieces of epic poetry? They are Iliad, Odyssey (both from Homer), Aeneid from Virgil, and Os Lusíadas. It's such a pride to be part of a people who achieved  great things... Go Portugal!

Youtube policies

This happened today. It'a a Saturday and I have nothing better to do than upload some videos to youtube...
I found out about this record tool on VLC and decided to try it and apparently it worked. I snipped some funny parts from several episodes of a show called How I Met Your Mother and uploaded them to Youtube...

It was all going awesome until I uploaded some parts of another show called The Big Bang Theory...

I apologize, but I don't know why I can't put parts of that show's episodes online. In my opinion, if someone watches that video and likes it, probably that show wins another viewer... It is great publicity...

The alleged video:

Let’s check MS Office Word out!

This was written on MSO Word… Maybe it'll be uploaded directly into wordpress… Let's check it out…