A royal dinner was served in the palace. A poor, humble man got in the Party Hall all of a sudden. His face lacked an eye and the man seemed ran over by a manure wain. He then stands by the prince, staring at his eyes steadily with the remaining eye. All royal guests were static and astound before the whole scene. So, the prince said:

“What the hell! This is odder than a flautist platypus! What did happen to ye, good sir?”
“Oh, I was about to rob a lad, but I tripped over and hit my eye against a table’s corner. While I fled, a dog attacked me and yet, I was grappled by…

… and for that, I come forth to ask for justice against the house owner - exclaimed the wrathful man.”

Everybody in the party supported the poor thief and instantly decided to head for the unashamed indigent who let a Cowboy Predator stand in front of his very own house.

When they arrived, they’ve found the shameless guy having supper with his family; they took him out of his home and gave him a chance to defend himself properly. If he could not prove his innocence, he should pick whether lose an eye, other limb else of his preference or eat two boxes of bananas. Then he said:

“It was not me! It’s all the armless man’s fault. Furthermore, I am a xerox-machine operator and I need all my limbs to work. But Boris Yashchenko, the satellite-draftsman physicist who lives nearby the blacksmith, procrastinates the whole day on a chair and doesn’t need his legs to work! You might chop his legs off if you want to”.

Then everybody went to Boris’ house and before he could say anything, they chopped his legs off.

Lesson

“Royal parties have got a ridiculous security, the Nobility can be easily biased, and you shall NEVER descend from communists in a Monarchy. Nobody will listen to you and you will end up legless”.

*Cowboy Predator picture taken from Something Awful.

Every once in a while, I travel 110km toward my hometown. I’m here now, in the company of parents, alien brother, grandma and the most troublesome relative: dad’s computer.
Probably the most popular thing in this house (right after the fridge), three years of intense use results in a trully desktop Frankenstein - pieces of deleted software everywhere, unorganized folders and a icon-flooded Desktop, reigned by the Lords of the Lords of all spywares.

For their own sake, today I feel confident and useful for mankind. Today… after I eat my icecream… this computer will be free once again.

(5 hours later)

Well, at least it’s restarting faster. This is what I’ve got for now. Can you fancy a computer that takes more than five minutes to reboot?! At least it isn’t anymore.
I used the following programs for the miracle:

System Mechanics 5
To get rid of all junk files and hard-drive defragmentation. There were more than 5GB of temporary files, error logs, and what ever.

Advanced System Optimizer
For some minor tweaks in Windows shell and start-up managing, and the best tool of all: Registry defrag. This, in my opinion, had been enough to put everything in decent use.

SiSoftware Sandra Lite 2005
For benchmark meanings. I might have said “Huh, I’ve done a great work here. Look how it’s fast. It is fast! Now give me a hug”, but I intended to show my parents some concrete results.

NOD32
Virus removal.

Ad-Aware SE Personal
Spyware removal.

PC Booster
It claims the system runs faster after its Tuning Up Wizard. Just a secondary weapon - nothing more, nothing less.

Hmmm… the icecream was good. I’ll have another. So tasty.

Some major cities in Brazil have declared “state of war” against organized crime, which is promoting wave of attacks and rebellions since Friday 12th. Police has informed that the corporation shall set up a counter operation for this night, between 15th and 16th.

This large-scale country-wide wave of violence is directly related to PCC (First Majorcity Command), as a token of insurgence against government decision to crack down on this faction’s leaders. Criminals are promoting the largest attack Brazil had ever witnessed. The main targets are police stations, banks, public buildings, hospitals and shops. Even firemen are being murdered.

Important shops at the streets are closing their doors before comercial shift ends. This measure was taken by a vast majority part of people fearing further sieges, but also for the lack of public transport. Fearing a new wave of attacks, several buses are in garage. According to latest reports, since Friday, 94 people died — number yet not confirmed by Secretary of Public Security.

I was at the laboratory of the Physics Institute at Unicamp (University of Campinas) and someone passed by yelling about a potential state of emergency.
The Rector ordered an immediate evacuation, after a bus headed to the campus had exploded. Further, several attacks to banks had happened and the PUC University (not mine) had been invaded. The telephony system immediately colapsed. There’s no celular phone that could get clear signal inside the campus, neither public phones. Calls are crossing due to high demand, whenever they are suceeded. It is the chaos taking over Brazil.

The site Homokaasu freely makes available a method to find out if a web page or an article is blessed by God.
Gematria, method created by the Russian mathematician Ivan Panin, in 1890, determines whether the text in sight is holy or not by searching for numerical standards, like the number of words beginning with vowels. If this quantity is divisible by seven (considered a divine number), hence the spirit of God itself lies in your reasoning.

As I could not resist, I tried this out and fortunately(?) my blog is only 44% evil… at moment.

Liew, at LiewCF.com, posted on his site that Marcin Wichary published a few screenshots of every Adobe Photoshop version - from 1.0 to CS2. So scary!