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This weekend, HBO is broadcasting “The Sopranos”, sixth season, episode #2. Tony Soprano spends half of the episode on a coma, and the other half, being Kevin Finnerty, a solar heating systems salesman, after an accidental briefcase switch, during a conference. “Join the club” is a detoxicating 50 minutes session, that shows how versatile and [...]

The superb TV series “The Sopranos” is back, for its sixth and final season. There will be no season #7, so these new episodes are intrinsically dramatic. As the series’ followers remember, season #5 ended with Johnny Sack going to jail and Tony Soprano running for the (snowy) hills, only to find out that he [...]

I watched it on 2006–03–24, Saturday. http://imdb.com/title/tt0450278/ What started as one of the most conventional and unimaginative “movies with teenagers, on holidays”, evolved to a solid gore festival, somewhat like George Romero’s most explicit works. The one question, that matters me, for this kind of (horror) movie is: does it entertain? Yes it does! What [...]

I watched it on 2006–03–26, Sunday. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398017/ I was very surprised with the flow of the movie. During its first half, the viewer calmly follows the daily rotine of the Schine family: father, mother and diabetic (type 1…) daughter. One singular event will break this rotine and endanger the trio – that is when the [...]

I watched it on 2006–03–07, Tuesday. http://imdb.com/title/tt0373450/ This is the worst movie I’ve ever seen, starring Kevin Bacon. There is just too much bla bla bla bla bla. The narrators (yes, more than one), never stop narrating, which borders the opposite of what a good motion picture should do. There is nothing wrong with the [...]

I watched it on 2006–03–12, Sunday. http://imdb.com/title/tt0350261/ Because of Robert Redford and Morgan Freeman, I was expecting a consistent movie, but there are problems with the Jean Gilkyson character, performed by Jennifer Lopez. While all the sub plots orbit the “accept other people’s past, because they can’t do nothing about it now” theme, Jean is  [...]

I’ve been playing with WebCeo and I am very much impressed with its flexibility and power. Even the free version will give the user a solid understanding of search engine optimization techniques, plus related tools. Now, all you need is time to use all the tools, for a more search engine effective website

I found good and concise answers, about what Windows Vista will bring, here.

The first race of 2006’s F1 World Championship finished with a win for Fernando Alonso. The Spaniard – who was nearly hysterical, protesting against other drivers on track, when still seconds away, as if the track was his private property – drove a consistent fast race and managed to snap Schumacher’s lead, after the last [...]

Hoje escrevi um artigo sobre as colunas Creative GigaWorks T20, para a revista ÁUDIO & Cinema em Casa. Eis um excerto. Em breve, a versão integral será publicada em http://arturmarques.com […] As Creative T20 são umas colunas de dois canais, com 14 Watts RMS de potência. Os dois altifalantes integrados – tweeter em cúpula e [...]