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Archive for June, 2007
Best video game title ever?
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007For the Portuguese-speaking paranoids out there…
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007… go read this post of mine (including the comments).
You’ll never look at a blog that hasn’t had any new posts for a while the same way again.
Opera Mini? Eh…
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007Why is everyone so excited about Opera Mini, when this is, IMO, much more interesting?
Second level on Dante’s Inferno. Not bad. :)
Sunday, June 10th, 2007The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | Very Low |
| Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | Very Low |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | Very High |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | High |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | High |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | High |
| Level 6 – The City of Dis (Heretics) | Very High |
| Level 7 (Violent) | High |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | Moderate |
| Level 9 – Cocytus (Treacherous) | High |
Take the Dante’s Divine Comedy Inferno Test
“Lustful”? Moi?
Speedlinking: 20070605
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007- Planeta Asterisco is now PrintScreen (or Prt.Sc). I like the new look a lot, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to convince them to make the post titles clickable.
The Tlog is proud (well, I am; the blog isn’t sentient, at least not yet…) to be aggregated there. - Bill Gates denies the Wii’s existence. Loved this one: “No, that’s not it. You can’t pick up your tennis racket. And swing it.”. Uh, Bill…
- Top 10 underrated WordPress plugins. No need to say more, really.
- Could you pass 8th grade Science? I haven’t done the test yet, but it’s on my to-do list for today. Looks quite nice.
- Fórum Arte de Blogar, a companion forum to my Arte de Blogar blog, in Portuguese. It’s about blogging, SEO, website marketing, and so on. Still relatively empty, but it’s up to you to change that.
Wii hard drive rumors, or how the news media only repeat each other
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007If, like me, you have a Google News alert for “wii”, yesterday and today you’ve surely been inundated with rumors about a forthcoming announcement at E3 for a hard drive for the Nintendo Wii. Its main use would be for Virtual Console games, since the Wii only has 512 MB of flash memory for them (you can move some to an SD card, but they aren’t directly playable from there).
Their justification? The fact that some time ago it was announced that Neo Geo games would be coming to the Wii, and, as they keep saying, “Neo Geo games can use up to 330 MB”.
Really?
I’m betting they’re taking that number from the Neo Geo common intro screen (you can see it using MAME, on older games), which says “MAX 330 MEGA”.
However, those are not megabytes, but megaBITS. 330 megabits = about 41 megabytes. Still bigger than all current virtual console games, but not more than half of the Wii’s flash memory.
Amazingly, I’ve seen about a dozen news sites repeating that mistake. It seems that nobody researches anything these days; “news reporting” is simply repeating what others already said, using different words so that it looks “original”.
Incidentally, the 330 megabits Neo Geo limit was passed some years ago. The biggest Neo Geo game I have on MAME (King of Fighters 2003) is about 100 megabytes (or 800 megabits).
