Julio Santos

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Just listened to Obama’s speech. Wow, that’s what smart presidents are supposed to sound like. I had almost forgotten it.

It’s good to be an American.

I helped pay for at least a couple of seconds there, and I’m very proud of it. Watch.

A friend gave me Tender Prey 20 years ago for my birthday. I had never listened to Nick Cave before and overnight Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds became my number #1 rock band to follow.

Though I still go to to rock concerts (even to go see lesser bands), though not as much as back then, life is such that I had never seen Nick Cave perform live. That was until a couple of days ago in San Francisco.

Over the years, and being as obsessed as I am with this band, my passion rubbed off on my family. So much that I was not the only one excited by finally going to go see Mr Cave. Which is perfect of course. Life is good when you, your wife and your kid are excited about the same stuff.

We had tickets for the floor, as I always do just in case there’s going to be some mosh. Though many of his songs are very moshable, he’s such a special artist with such special music, that I was guessing that people would be more interested in absorbing his stuff as much as possible, as opposed to absorbing other people’s fists on their noses. Either that or the majority of his followers are middle age men like me, who lost their smelly teen spirit and are not going to get caught in a mosh. Losers.

Anyway, no moshing this time and like Fabienne said “you don’t go to opera to slam dance, you go to watch the show”. Wow. Seeing Nick Cave has the same gravitas as going to the opera. I like that.

In fact, I was a little worried that Nick Cave, after all these years and with nothing to prove, would either be tired of performing and just stand there and sing, or act like a diva. Boy was I wrong. So much energy, so much playing with the crowd, so much humor.

Yeah, it was a beautiful show. Great music, great performance, great set, no special effects. After the man himself, it was hard to take my eyes off Warren Ellis (not that one, this one). The man does all sorts of crazy things with his violins and his mini guitars.

The Hard Rock Chick has a nice post about the gig, and Blah Blah Blog has some nice pictures. My pictures aren’t as nice, but they are mine.

One of 1,000 Best Nick Cave songs:

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Special announcement:

In a couple of weeks my other favorite band :p Gogol Bordello will be in the city again and I want to see them again. My passion for GB hasn’t rubbed off on the family yet, and I think I will have to work very hard to convince them. In fact I don’t think I can convince them. I’m looking for someone to join me. It’s for a good cause and moshing is almost guaranteed!

My *small* investments with microplace (*) have already enabled 4 loans to the working poor.

Some would argue that when one borrower gets a micro-loan, not only will the borrower start their own business and therefore help themselves out of poverty, but their family will also be helped.

I like to think that enabling 4 loans really translates into helping 10-15 people.

(*) disclaimer: I work there

I got apple keyboards for my peeps @ work. I think they’ll like them too.

google chrome comic book

New design and better search are the two big features. Now you can search for investments based on different criteria: interest rate, level of poverty, women impact, etc. Of course you can also still search for investments in your favorite region.

http://microplace.com

Now to celebrate …

at least it’s the first one i know of.

book is here

or should i say “o livro esta’ aqui” as it’s in portuguese…

yeah? what!?

Kathy Sierra is so fricken smart. She tweeted this today:

Programming has a PR problem: most non-coders don’t know how creative it can be to craft code. Best coders use both sides of the brain.

it’s easy:

https://www.microplace.com/user/lite

that’s what dhh thinks. if i had my own blog, I too would troll my own readers

Follow their adventures here:
http://harveyghana.blogspot.com/

Fantastic show from a marvelous band.

This was recorded with my camera, but not by me (thanks Kris). I was too busy pushing and shoving (and trying to keep my teeth and nose intact) in the pit.

The sound with my camera was horrible, so I’ve replaced it with some studio recorded songs. Tried to stay as accurate as possible but you can tell.

Found these also. Pretty good, the sound on these cameras is actually pretty decent.

Some pics too

more pictures here

WOW PVP + Leopard Spaces = bad combo

ctrl-2 is supposed to be my “get the hell out” key when pvping in wow, but it’s also the switch to space 2 in leopard.

Luckily if I play in fullscreen mode (command-M) then wow wins over leopard. Whew…

I like to have just one admin account per box, which is also an account that is used just for admin stuff. All the normal accounts are just standard. Nothing weird there I don’t think.

Well, I just noticed that after last night install marathon, something else happened and now my (only) admin account is fooked. He’s just a standard account like everybody else. That makes it hard to do anything of course.

After some research, this is how you trick 10.5 into creating a new admin account:

- Reboot while holding Command-S to boot in single user/root mode
- type: mount -uw /
- type: rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone (actually I renamed it, just in case, but didn’t need to use the backup version)
- type: reboot
- 10.5 will think this is the first time you’re running the system, will ask you a couple of questions (registration, etc) and for an admin account. Create a temporary one now.
- Should be about it

I got to say though, I have to thank Apple for making it easier on us Windows refugees to upgrade the OS. I feel right at home with the blue screens and other snafus.

It’s Halloween and the theme is “wear something blue on your head”.

Thank you Aaron for the inspiration.

Check it out: http://microplace.com