Blog Moved

This blog has been moved to http://luisrei.com

Another blog

My friend Claudio Alves recently started his own blog. Looks like he's updating it frequently (unlike my blog). It's in portuguese so don't bother if you don't speak the language.

The End of Enterprise

What the hell? Enterprise is the best Star Trek show since TOS!!! I mean TNG should've been called Star Trek Boring Fanatic Righteousness. Voyager was for the most part boring. The only spin-off that was actually good was DS9 and the first 3 seasons mostly sucked. Sure some of the most recent episodes (Deadalus and Observer Effect) were really bad but for the most part Enterprise has been one of the best sci-fi shows out there. In fact the only sci-fi shows i can think of as better than ST:ENT in recent years are Stargate and Farscape. The later is already dead while the former probably won't last more than another season (Season 9).
Back to my initial question: WHAT THE HELL??? I like others must blame this on UPN and Paramount for moving the show to the Friday night slot (the infamous “Kill a show slot"). Maybe we can still save it.

NationStates

In all the vast wealth of information which flows through IRC, namely #archspace I found Jennifer Government: NationStates. From the FAQ:

Jennifer Government: NationStates is a nation simulation game. You create your own country, fashioned after your own ideals, and care for its people. Either that or you deliberately torture them. It's really up to you.

Sounds fun. I already created my nation.

The Sandman

I'm currently reading The Sandman by Neil Gaiman.

... And Then I'm Gone

Archspace set is over for me, at least for the next 2 weeks or so. Even though it only lasted 3 days for me it was the most fun I've ever had in an AS set. Our final (and only) post in the forums can be found here -"Thats what I call war".

Funny thing is this is the second set in a row my first target is Nighty. gg.
Again, congrats to Cyph. gg.

Furion
F.F.F.

The Wait

Bored to death waiting for AS to reset I saw a few funny things around the web:
This Online Kinky Test - a vampire?!? 218 is kinda low score but i'm still young ;)
hehehe good work guys.
And if you're portuguese you might find this funny too.
And while we're on the topic:

In October 2004 it was discovered by MaxPatrol team that it is possible to defeat Microsoft® Windows® XP SP2 Heap protection and Data Execution Prevention mechanism.

Haven't read it yet tough.

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Predictions

Cringley just put up his 2005 predictions along with his comments on his 2004 predictions... Here's what I had to say back then about his predictions (2004 slashdot post) - my accuracy was 100% :P. I'm not going to bother this year...
PS: For all who predicted I'd be back playing AS in no time: you're right... what can I say? I'm addicted to it.

After the coma

It happened almost two weeks ago (I think). Archspace was no longer being fun and I have exams now (January and February) so I made the decision to retire. It was the night before Christmas... hum... no it was a few days after that but it was late, 4am or something so I was confused... Anyway the game itself was and still is fun but the thing is: I play to win. If I can't win the game just isn't fun. And the thing about AS is it's a team game as you might have guessed if you read my previous post on the subject. Without team-playing it's no fun and off course, you can't win. That's double no-fun!!! The level of coordination was just too low - people went AWOL in the middle of wars, failed to show up for planned wars and so on... but those are not huge problems - yeah it sucks but the game went on. However, if you want to win and in those circumstances winning meant defeating the nº1 council you actually need SOME coordination and preparation - there was little of that :(. Anyway, kudos to my council speaker Nimlot he was the most reliable member of the council. I'm not sure if i'm going to play next set, it all depends: I'll have a lot more work than I've had so far and therefore a lot less free time. Even if I do find the time I'm not sure I'll play again - not unless I can solve the coordination problems or they solve themselves (yeah right! Problems solving themselves... doesn't happen often unfortunately).
Now that I'm out of AS I've been doing other stuff - catching up with the news (you know there was like this huge tsunami thing in Asia?), watching episodes from a few series and a few other things like studying and stuff. I imagine it's quite like waking up from a coma: you realize that the world around you has changed and you have a huge list of things to do - like installing that new hard drive you got for your birthday... ;)