Great news!

There's been lots of fun activity this week. My furniture which I shipped from the U.S. finally arrived at my home after being stuck in Brazilian Customs since June 4 five months ago! I haven't even seen my furniture since March. Brazil is very bureaucratic and lacks technology, so it's very tough to get things done without doing a ton of paperwork and paperwork for the paperwork. I had a very painstaking time getting all my documents in order; Every time I completed and sent the local shipping company ¨Worldmover Brazil/Interpol" a completed document, they either said there was something wrong or said "great" and sent me yet another document to fill out. Even at the end Brazilian customs stuck a big fat R$ 10,000 reais price tag on me because it stuck in Customs several months. They make a business sucking money out of foreigners, it really sucks. This equates to about $5000 USD. Luckily, I got Google to pay for it since I transferred to the offices down here. Phew! I even forgot about some of the things I had except the important things like my rear-projection Flat-screen 50" LCD TV, 3 computers (including what used to be a "monster" game machine), a ton of data-backups, pictures, more electronics, books, etc.

In other news, Google has made two great announcements this week. Project Android, an open mobile platform which allows phone manufactures to build on top of Google's free, mobile operating-system and provide great applications atop this platform. This is huge and something I and many people have wanted. Better mobile software in an open platform, unlike WindowsCE. Just lookup Open Handset Alliance.

Secondly, Google announced project OpenSocial, which is another product or way of standardizing the way social networks operate. I have or at least have used in the past: MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Orkut. I've tried maintaining these all at the same time for a while. But it's tedious, and my friends are scattered all over the place. OpenSocial is a standard, open set of APIs design to enable developers to create "write once, run anywhere" type of applications that will run on all these platforms that use the OpenSocial API. I will spare you words...for now... and just show you the video below:



And finally, for the last bit of news, Call of Duty 4 is alive and released!!!!! I still haven't gotten my copy (I need to get it shipped to the U.S. but i'm waiting on a few other game releases first [i.e. Assassin's Creed, Virtual Fighter 5]), but it's a hell of a great game. The perk system is simply brilliant and you will have hours and hours of fun! Below you will not only find a great video of Call of Duty 4 but also the side-by-side comparison of the XBox 360 version and the PS3. They both look great and pretty much equal. Infinity Ward developed their systems with both platforms in mind from the ground up , so this is not just some XBox 360 port to the PS3.



That's it for this week. Go play!!!!