Yesterday, a special event was held in Lisbon at the Caixa Economica Operaria to pay homage to the Monthy Python Flying Circus and so during the night, a series of sketches and films were shown to many of the followers and fans of this great show. Unfortunately I couldn’t be there (aaawww) but I heard it was great fun and nonsense too. Except for the pack of midgets who tormented people from time to time… and some people who wanted to be lumberjacks.

Anyway, I found three small sketches on Google Video, I think they’re worth checking out for a bit of a laugh:

LumberJack Song
The spam
To Camelot Lego Animation

And if you’re looking for a movie I personally recomend Monty Python and the Holy Grail, it’s a great parody, really!

I’ve acquired my Xbox 360 middle january by importing from Spain, the deal was much more cheaper than buying here in Portugal and my console was bundled with lots of good stuff.
I must say that so far the console hasn’t made me extremely excited about these “next generation” games because so far they’re fairly good but not astounding, oh well, at least the graphics show a bit of improvement.

On the other hand i’m very happy about the integration efforts that Microsoft made with Xbox Live, the GamerCard and achievements over play are good ideas and the option to browse the Xbox Live MarketPlace and download trailers, demos, arcade games or retro games is a good “trumph card” on the side of Microsoft against Sony.
So far i’ve only bought a few games, mainly because they cost so much. But i’m hoping many 1º generation Xbox games drop prices soon.

Theres other stuff I can do related to streaming videos and photos but I don’t want to touch that point for now, I don’t have Windows Media Center so i’m not using all those capabilities but I was expecting to see Divx support and that is a big letdown.
Anyway, expect to see you soon on Live and if you want to show your gamercard with ease, visit MyGamerCard.net and have fun.

As promissed i’m announcing the redesign for the VideoGames Design and Programming Course of the ATempo Academy of Studies (in portuguese it’s “Curso de desenho e programação de Jogos”).

It gave me great joy to complete this redesign, I really liked teaching at the academy and I felt I needed to give the site a more “professional” look, I hope I managed to do that.
The XHTML and CSS fully validates and i’m proud of the final result, so if you want to check out the final work just point your browser to Curso de Desenho e Programação de Jogos and be the judge.
Btw, I couldn’t test the site in a Mac so any problems just let me know and I’ll fix it ASAP.