Bereninga

I haven’t posted lately, but for my return, I’ve decided to post using the newest, latest and greatest (so far) Wordpress 2.5! The interface definitely looks a LOT cleaner. There are a lot less lines and boxiness to it also.

I’m glad I didn’t commit to one yet, but I knew Blu-Ray would defeat the HD DVD format. Toshiba is giving up on HD DVD. It’s too bad Blu-Ray is even called Blu-Ray. The name “HD DVD” sounds like it makes more sense. Oh well. Blu-Ray on!

I’d like to wish the Giants good luck today. They’ve been my favorite football team since I was a child and this was my first year after many of really following football again. I stopped following football after I stopped playing back in ‘97. This was a great time to come back to watch them again.

Brandon Jacobs and Amad Bradshaw are great weapons against the Patriots. Today the Giants will be relying on Osi Omenyiora and Michael Strahan to put the pressure on Tom Brady. If they can do that, the game will be owned by the Giants. The Pats are undefeated and have a perfect record to lose. The Giants have nothing to lose, just like their last game of the season against the Pats and only lost by three points (38-35). If the Giants bring their A game, they will win. They have momentum and New Yorkers supporting them all the way.

GO BIG BLUE!

Apple today released its Macbook Air today at the Macworld San Francisco 2008 Keynote today. Starting at $1799, you get a 13.3″-display a super-light machine!

Third time’s a charm! The New York Giants took on the Dallas Cowboys for the third time this season and ended up with a victory 21-17. Although during most of the game the Giants were on defense, they were able to stay on top and used all of their weapons at hand. Eli Manning had no interceptions and kept his cool. Amad Bradshaw and Brandon Jacobs had great running games. Amani Toomer made great catches and Boss made a catch or two. Not only were there great plays on offense, the Giants defense were really the MVPs for this game. They were able to keep T.O. in check, and although they were getting run over by Marion Barber in the first half, they adjusted nicely in the second half. In the second half also, the Giants turned up the heat on Romo and forced him to throw terrible passes and threw him in a fit.

Check out game information.

My favorite moment of the game: After Brandon Jacobs scores a touchdown, he runs towards the play clock and spike-throws the ball at it, creating a loud bang and scaring this innocent bystander. Jacobs is a monster!

Congratulations, Giants and we’ll see you at Green Bay next week!

Prava, located at 281 Lafayette St. between Houston and Prince, impressed me by its great atmosphere, location and prices. This vodka bar is located partially underground, but has an upstairs too. Don’t be fooled by its almost nonexistent outer appearance because on the inside it’s a whole different story.

If you’re on the west side of the street on Lafeyette, you might not see it right away because you don’t see windows filled with crowds on the opposite side (Pravda is located on the east side of the street). Once you find it and enter though, it’s a new world. Dimly lit with lamps and candles here and there, mirrors as wall decor, and great music in the air make this place a perfect place for a few drinks after a nice dinner with a date or some friends. There are comfortable, paired single-person couches separated by short tables or tables and booths for groups. The crowd has a wide range of age groups, so you won’t feel uncomfortable hanging out there. The staff is friendly also. At the end of the night, they sensed that we were about to get ready to ask for the bill, so they served us glasses of iced water in case we were thirsty. The prices of the drinks were great, too. $12 martinis and the vodka ranged from $9 to about $12 at most.

I’m no vodka connoisseur, but the vodka I had was great. It was a Russian vodka that, in my opinion, was smoother than Grey Goose. It was smooth and didn’t have that awful aftertaste that’s usually associated with vodka.

It was a real eye-opener to really have the chance to appreciate vodka. I would definitely go back to Pravda and recommend anyone to go there if you want good vodka.

Macworld’s banner saying “There’s something in the air”. Now what could that possibly mean? All I can think about is, “Wi-fi is in the air”. Unless Apple is interested in making airplanes, wi-fi is my only guess. The question is: A wireless what?  What’s wireless?

Apple released Tuesday its new Mac Pro. It sports a 8-core processing (two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors standard, two 3.2GHz option), can hold up to 32GB of RAM, four hard drive bays that can hold up to 4TB, and a lot more goodies. Can we say “insane”? This is some serious machine that might be able to launch your rockets into space. It only starts at $2,799. Show that tower to your buddies, and they’ll be instantly jealous.

I wish everyone the best for 2008! Stick to your resolutions, folks! Well, even if you don’t, you don’t need a new year to start it. Every day is a new day to start something.

I have a good feeling about this year, so should you. Cheers to the first post of 2008!

I guess I haven’t been keeping up with updating my Wordpress lately. I’ve just upgraded from 2.2 to 2.3 today and I’m glad Wordpress has finally integrated tagging to posts! I was browsing around for plug-ins for Wordpress and wondered to myself if tagging was possible as a plug-in. Then boom! Somehow I ended up at the Wordpress site discovering that the new version has it. It’s been out since September so I guess I haven’t been keeping up-to-date with my WP versions.

Anyway, this is exciting news because I believe that categories is now old school. On the web today, getting the content you want is all about searching by using short and concise words. The comparison of categories vs. search is like the old Yahoo! vs. Google. Yahoo! (back in the day) tried to categorize websites. Google created a search engine that did the thinking for the user. Now which method do you think users prefer? (Hint: c’mon, who really wants to make the effort to think?) Tags makes things easier because it’s like search, only the vocabulary to find what the user wants is given instead of input by the user. Genius!