New Zealand got 9 Olympic medals so far. Brazil got 6.
New Zealand is nearly 4 million people while Brazil is nearly 200 million…
New Zealand is placed in second in the medals per capita while Brazil is placed 68…
Ok, let’s stop comparing Brazil do NZ. Let’s compare Brazil to Iraq.
In the last 2 months more people were killed in Rio than people killed in Iraq in the whole 2008.
Amazing…
Well, that’s creepy but a few days ago we’ve bought a box with a dozen eggs and believe it or not, 11 of them were double-yolked. I found out that 1 in every 1000 eggs are double yolkers so how can we possible have 11 of 12 eggs that way?
To make it even worse, my friends Duncan and Jo told me that when they were cooking eggs with their families this weekend, each of them had double yolked eggs as well!
So I’m not sure about what’s happening, may be a sign of the end of the world, alien chickens taking over the world or some mad scientist creating transgenic chickens in New Zealand, but just in case, before you break your eggs in the morning, be sure you have your gun loaded and ready for some shots!!!
I’m scared…
Ok, so one year ago I’ve bought a brand new iMac. Yes, that’s right, iMac because the music editing software I wanted to use was only available for iMacs.
2 months later the wireless keyboard wasn’t working anymore. Then the not-so-happy Mac user here goes to the shop to have his keyboard replaced. I asked them if these things happen often and they said no, that I just had “bad luck”.
4 months after that my new wireless keyboard stops working…
Totally-not-happy-Mac-user comes back to the shop, asks again if this happens often, again I hear that I’m just in a hell of a bad luck, and come back with a new keyboard.
Now, 2 weeks after my warranty has expired, guess what? The bloody motherboard died! How lucky is that?? Then I call the service and they tell me that in order to replace the motherboard, it will cost NZ$ 1740! That’s more than what you pay to replace a laptop’s motherboard.
Now ask me if I see any value in owing a Mac? Hell no.
If like me you also work with Microsoft development technologies for more than… er… 16 years (oh boy, I feel old) you will probably be very pleased with the next generation of Visual Studio. Simply because comparing what changed from the first VS .Net to VS .Net 2003, then from 2003 to 2005, then from 2005 to 2008 and now from 2008 to “Rosario”, you will notice that this last step is also the biggest one. Better features, better new concepts, better everything 
So I want to start blogging about a few details here and there that not many people know about.
Today’s tip: Look mom! Debugging with no Visual Studio!
Yes, in Visual Studio “Rosario” you can generate a debugger so you can step into your app without Visual Studio! In order to do that, just create your app, go to Visual Studio menu, debug and then choose “Create standalone debugger”.
Yes, it will generate all you need into a folder of your choice, and that’s all.
How cool is that?