What’s with this world?

August 21, 2003 - Posted by André Restivo- 3 Comments

Today something really fucked up happened to me. I was driving to work, just after having lunch, and was waiting for the lights to change. Suddenly a car appears, driving on the wrong side of the road, horning and asking to overtake everyone in my lane. At first I thought it was some kind of emergency …

But no, the guy just stops in front of me, exits the car and opens my door and starts asking (shouting really) if I had seen what I have done some minutes before. I started thinking that maybe I runned over somebody and didn’t notice or caused some kind of an accident. The guy points to his shirt and I looked thinking he was showing some blood stains or something.

But no, The guy had a couple of water drops in his shirt. It seems the road was wet and he had his window opened, so when I overtooked him I splashed him a bit. He thought that it was enough to go in my pursuit and threaten to beat me.

What’s with this world anyway?



Bit Torrent first time

August 21, 2003 - Posted by André Restivo- 0 Comments

As strange as it might look I had never tried BitTorrent before. Even stranger is the fact that I tried it for the first time with Windows.

My first impressions are excelent. Very easy installation (no questions asked at all). Just clicked the BitTorrent link of the last Matrix Trailer and it started downloading at a very decent speed. At the same time BT started to distribute the file to other BT users.

What’s more impressive is that Time-Warner super servers where Slashdotted almost instantly and BT became the only way to download the file.