http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T52aZxLiFZQ

Changes will be the following:
- Post times and numbers will be more flexible. I’ll stop making 6 obligatory posts a day like I’ve been doing for the last year or so;
- Content selection will be far more criterious. What isn’t selected but I still consider worth reading will be on the recently created Recommendations page;
- The free time I’ll get from this will be dedicated for original content creation.

Continue reading if you want the details!

Fellow readers, it’s been almost 2 years XSpBlog is on and running now.
For about one full year I kept the blog running with six full posts everyday, by myself.
But after giving it a LOT of thought, I’ve decided to give the blog a new direction.

Kona-chan

Dokuro-chan

Nana's Everyday Life

Honey & Clover

Gaijin 4koma

Tomo-chan

Tomo-chan

All in given time though. I hope no one gets disappointed with this, as I’m aiming to make XSpBlog better.

About the content you’d usually find on XSpBlog, don’t sweat. You can check the new Recommendations page, or go directly to my Google Reader Shared Items page, where I’ll basically make the same content selection I was already making on the blog… I’ll just stop rewritting stuff six times a day.

Thanks to all who have been supporting the blog so far!

Hidamari Sketch

Yotsuba

Lucky Star

Shakugan no Shana

Tora Dora

Ichigo Mashimaro

Moe-tan

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Lucky Star

Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu

Touhou

Vocaloid

And that’s it!
Merry Christmas to all, hope you enjoyed the lovely images! ^^

Source: Google Images

So, with the objective to make the reading and commenting experience better, I decided to cash in some more bucks to migrate to self-hosting.
I’m saying “some more bucks” because I’m already paying for the domain and some other stuff.

I won’t lie to you too, but another objective is to include some ad system (like Google ads)… don’t worry, it won’t be intrusive or make the blog worse.
Doing this to see if I can get some $funding$ so I can keep the blog up.
I spend half of my day everyday (sometimes more than that) on it, and if I can’t find a way to work some money from it, I’ll end up having to abandon it to find a job to avoid starvation…

No one noticed, but I’ve been working on this for months.
The process is kinda complicated.
Among some of the tasks:
- PHP configuration;
- Editing some of the posts (there’s already more than 2 thousands of them);
- Database organization;
- Dealing with tech support to get some resources needed for the migration;
- Select, install and configures several plugins and themes (there are thousands of them);
- Etc, etc³.

Finally, it’s ready! Or almost, because probably we’ll have some tuning up to do to reach the final version…
But don’t worry. It’ll be (almost) invisible for you. The blog will continue as planned.
The address doesn’t change too… it’ll remain http://xspblog.com

As for the bad news… there’s only this small part that I can’t really do nothing about.
It’s the addresss realocation, which is made by my host (LocaWeb) and can take 2 to 3 days.

For those who knows about the tech stuff, it’s the domain realocation part, with address propagation on the servers. There’s no way around it.

So, I ask you not to abandon the blog! It’ll be off for a few days, but for upgrading purposes!

Thanks for following so far!
This is just another step to make the blog better!

Hugs!
- XSportSeeker

AnimeFriends 2009

AnimeFriends 2009

Notice that while the post flow might get a little weaker, I’m still posting something everyday… so don’t worry!
I’ll be back next week, hopefully with tons of new stuff to post from the event!

If you wanna check more about AnimeFriends, try clicking the image for the official page (in portuguese) or check the following posts I made from last year’s edition, all in english:
AnimeFriends 2008 – Wednesday, 07/16
Liberdade – 17/07 (AnimeFriends 2008)
AnimeFriends 2008 – 07/18 – Cosplayers
AnimeFriends 2008 – Saturday, 07/19

Wish me luck, and have a nice week/weekend!

Nekobus

LOLcats

It’s hard enough to maintain the daily 5 posts being at home with everything working perfectly… you can imagine keeping it while traveling, having to setup and fix relatives computers, and not knowing what to do when there’s no Internet access.

Lucky Christmas

But at last, if I don’t have means later, I’d like to wish now a merry christmas and a happy new year to all!
Big cliche here, but it’s always nice to use these opportunities to give thanks to everyone who has been following and supporting the blog!

Lucky New Year

I want you to know that I only keep writing because I know there are people out there who follows the blog… hope I’m bringing interesting stuff to everyone.

Grief

My uncle Sergio, who was fighting against cancer for some time now, passed away on the night of this past Saturday.

It’s hard to say something for my cousins in a moment of such pain, and I never know which words to choose in such times… but I believe that what matters most is to be near them, offering our support, and saying goodbye to my uncle who was held very dear in life.
The good memories will stay. May my uncle rest in peace.

Animes - Fall 2008

Sources: Someone (dunno who MADE the chart… please tell me if you know) via partner Fabio-kun

AnimeXD

August, 8th, 2008 – Curitiba.

As you can see, the event is in a very… peculiar place.
It’s a place called “Memorial de Curitiba” (Curitiba Memorial), a preserved historical setting.
And it looks more like an ancient brick road that was later covered by tall walls.

AnimeXD

It’s the first of the 3 event afternoons (Friday, Saturday and Sunday).
Folks from parapara dance where warming themselves up.
Because the cold weather, plus wind and light rain were freezing.

AnimeXD

No, it’s not Macarena.

AnimeXD

I think (or I expect) that because it was the first day, there were some empty stands… and I missed the food stands. My kingdom for a stand that sells hot food!

Folks from Itiban (a popular manga store in Curitiba) were already there, emptying some folks pockets.

AnimeXD

See what I meant that it just looks like a brick road that was later covered by tall walls?
I said about “some folks pockets” because I’m not buying manga recently… but for the emptying of MY pocked, Ichigo-Toys (figures) were already there too.

AnimeXD

And thus, nearly 15 bucks escaped my wallet so Nendoroid Mikuru-chan, which you can see on the next picture, could be mine.

AnimeXD

If anyone else in the event was interested in her, YOU JUST LOST THE GAME!
Lucky me my only jacket had a hoodie… or else, I’d be forced to spend more to avoid the cold.

AnimeXD

That place must be interesting in the summer… there’s even some sort of weird water fountain with the worst paint job ever. I’ll remember to take a pic of it tomorrow.

AnimeXD

At last, I’ll be back there tomorrow. With tons more winter clothing, so I won’t be freezing all the time.

I only hope there’ll be some stands with warm food… yakissoba, udon, sukiyaki or something.
Because it’s too damn cold. Maybe I’ll make a green tea and take it there in a thermos or something.

AnimeFriends 2008

There’s a tiny chance the blog will be on halt for a week…

Shock

Shock

… but only if I absolutely can’t find a way to connect to the Internet while I’m on the event (which I find a little hard to happen).

I see what you did there

If I can’t find an access point in the event, it’s probable that there’ll be one on the hotel we are staying, or at least somewhere near the hotel… so don’t fret!

Meanwhile, watch the videos I did on AnimeDreams 2007 (the second biggest anime convention in Brazil).
I had forgotten about them, ’till some of those crazy guys that are also on the video made me remember about it…

(sorry folks, portuguese subtitles only)
First part:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FXJ2LbsooY

Second part:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftOLeIoV1NQ

Sorry about the bad quality though… it was my first attempt on video editing, posting something on YouTube… and it wasn’t planned. I just decided to collect all material we had and do something with it.