Is it Getting Hot in Here!?

Exams are over, so my friends and I finally got out to stretch our legs and other body parts in the only way students know how - we hit the club/party scene.


Now, whether you enjoy yourself depends on your company, the place you go to and of course - yourself. Now I enjoy getting out, but really of late its not bee that much fun.

Example; we went out last week and the club was - how do you say - PUMPIN! and more and more people came to join in the fun. But it got so full that you just couldnt stretch your legs (if you know what im saying)

So my question is; when is it too full and what do those bouncers/grunts at the door do?

I mean its not cool if the place is like empty, because then when you start dancing, chances are everyone will notice how crapy you dance. However if its super full then you cant dance at all and your then vulnerable to learning way too much about some fat guy/girls body then you would ever like to know.

I like it when its full, but not so full - so if I where to put my hands on my side and stick my elbows out and then twirl around eratically and hit one or two people but still be able to complete my twirl, then the club is filled to optimum capacity.

ASIDE - It never matters how full the place gets on ladies/model night, they bump into me all they want. LOL

And seeing that we on this topic - whats with these fancy posters that advertise parties these days - SO MISLEADING. Note the example below.

I do not for one second believe that this lovely lady will be attending this party. Thats all I'll say about that, for now.

Keep Left

I dont know about most people, but when I was in school we were taught general manners and rules to live a socially accepted life. Amongst these rule you would include dont steal, dont commit murder, pay your taxes and other similar rules.

Also included in these simple rules is always keep to the left (or right depending on where you're from, i.e. America where they drive on the WRONG side of the road!), mind you this doesn't only apply to the road, it applies or can be applied in all forms of living.

I believe it is most relevant when walking either on the pavement (sidewalk) and inside buildings. I mean how many times have you been walking in the passage and some comes walking towards head-on, then you have some sort of mini chicken type game to try and see who will give way. I find extremely wasteful and in some case dangerous, because some people just never want to give way even though they are clearly on the wrong side of the road (passage). It can only make life easier (and safer) if we all just stick to walking on the left side of the road.

My House is controlled by the seasons

I don't know how correct I am here (I probably need to do much more research into the matter) but I'm pretty convinced that my house works according to the seasons outside.

Point-in-case. A few days ago was the spring equinox, and literally over-night things changed! The day before the equinox things were one way and the next day they were another.

Allow me to elaborate... Our T.V. receives a free-to-air TV channel pretty clear in the winter but in the summer - whole different thing, we only receive a picture after 20h00 in the eve (thats ok for me because their daytime TV sucks and the soccer is only broadcast after 20h00 anyway). Then there is the phenomenon that is my front door, its a bit stiff at opening in the winter but there is no problem unlocking it, whereas in summer - oh my god, you need some super leverage or super human strength to unlock the damn thing, a small positive is that it now swings freely open once unlocked.

Weird I know, its like the Bermuda Triangle or Bigfoot - just weird!??

FTP Rules

Much un talked about, FTP (File Transfer Protocol) sites are now my favorite sites to visit these days. They hold much more and most often (not always though) download files the fastest.

I just had to say that.

LE-GEN-DARY

If you guys find this picture funny or bringing back memories then you know who Barney is and why he is a real LEGEND!

For those unfortunate few who haven't basked in the awe of Barney then you probably haven't watched "How I met your Mother" truly one of the most creatively funny shows since "Friends".

I thought I just had to share this with everybody as it always brings a smile to my face when I see it.

Awareness Good or Bad?

We all know the world is a bad place and that terrible things happen in the world all around us everyday.

But is it really necessary for people to be so paranoid? I mean, I'm a big a fan of being cautious and all - like "look left and right before you cross the road" or "don't get into an empty train carriage". But I think people are just taking it a bit too far.

The other day I was walking home from the train station. It was an ordinary day, the sun was shining and the skies were clear. A few houses down from mine I noticed a few domestics walking in the street - I made nothing of this as it was still early in the morning and most of the domestics usually start work at about this time if the day.

As I was walking up my driveway I saw my nextdoor neighbours domestic chatting to another domestic through here the fence of the house and as I approached my front door I heard shouting and stopped to look at what the hassle was. The domestic looked straight at me but did nothing and then redirected her attention back at the women on the other side of the fence.

Approximately half an hour later, my front door bell is being rung off its hinges! A gentleman in a leather jacket and collar shirt is at my door asking if I'm alright. "I'm fine " I replied and he then explained that their were reports of of a guy jumping of back walls in our neighbourhood and that apparently he might be in our backyard, the gentleman then asked if he could come in.

Now this is where you have to be cautious, if a stranger asks to come into your house you need to ask a few questions. I moved back from the door (the latch was still on) and asked the man who he was? He said that he was with the police. My first thought was; "why wasn't he in uniform?" but as I glanced behind him I could see two other uniformed police officers and a police car in our driveway. I then proceeded to let him in and he rushed off through our house to check the backyard with my baseball bat which I had answered the front door with.

After bashing around in the bushes and looking over our neighbours walls he said thank you and told me that everything seemed to be ok. The police then left and went to the next house.

Much later in the afternoon, my mother came home and said that she had spoken to our neighbour in the garden and told me about the neighbours account of the police visit earlier in the day. Apparently the neighbouring domestic had called the police as she believed that a cat burglaring duo had attempted to break into our neighbours house. She said that a women rings the doorbell to distract the house occupants to the front of the house while her male accomplice scales the back wall and enters through the back of the house.

The domestic has apparently fell victim to this ort of thing before and hence shouted at the women through the fence when she saw a man walking through the nextdoor front yard (me returning home) and appear to climb over the wall.

Can you believe that I was accused of breaking into my own house in broad daylight!

I guess if we were broken into then she would have been a hero, but yesterday she was just a dumbass.

Do You Click On Anything?

Drive-By Download
Is your PC virus-free?
Get it infected here!
drive-by-download.info

I was half shocked half bundled over with laughter as I read the latest news articles in my email. The above advert was placed around the web as part of an experiment by a security professional.

The results were quite intersting to say the least. The ad was viewed 259,723 times and clicked on 409 times. Now tell me this, who would voluntarily want to infect their PC with a virus? I know I definately would not be one.

The article stated that no PC's were harmed/infected during the experiment as the website was benign and contained no harmful script or code. The purpose of the experiment was to test the barriers to acceptance of Google's adwords campaign as well as the safety of the .info domain's who are supposedly notorious for malware (harmful code and script -viruses).

Read the full article here.

How would you like it...

How would you like it the TV network just decided to cancel your favorite TV show?

Well it really sucks! I absolutely broken when "The Most Amazing Show" (Corne and Twakkie) was cancelled, it truely was the most amazing show.

I just hope nobody goes and cancels Heroes, else then things are going to get messy!

The world lives on to fight for another day

I don't know if you all have heard, but the world has just (by "just" I mean the recent few weeks as I'm never that uptodate with world news) been saved from a possibly catastrophic event.

A possible merger between software mega-giant Microsoft and internet pioneer Yahoo has fallen through. Shoo! that was close hey. Imagine what they could have done if that had materialised.

Okay yes, it could have horribly backfired in their faces and they could have crash 'n burned leaving Google to pick up the spoils of war (bet that is what they wanted). But lets give them the benefit of the doubt and say that they would have made things work for each other. Microsoft would have been able to make a killing in advertisement revenue not to mention lock-down countless unsuspecting yahoo users into their intricate web of licence only software applications.

And should I even mention that Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Terry S Semel (Yahoo) are power hungry moguls - we definately don't want them to have to much power (presence) on the web.

But this whole outright internet war must make the guys at Google feel super-duper great as everybody is desperately trying to catch up with them, long live fast and free internet!

Read more about this grace from God from people who actually know what they are talking about here.

My Hero/Heroine

Recently I have had this urge to find how things work and why. So when I was updating my blog I thought to myself why did I start blogging?

So as I set about to solve this mystery I stumbled across (yes, its one of my many weaknesses - I get very distracted very easily) one of my all-time favorite webcomics - Piled Higher and Deeper (PHD) and saw Cecilia's Blog (Cecilia is a character in the comic) and presto! mystery solved. (See being distracted easily isn't always a bad thing)

Yes, when I first read Cecilia's dailly (almost, excluding weekends) rantings I was inspired, this was what I wanted to do - it would be my calling. Everything was so random yet very relevant at the same time.

If you're wondering about the title to this post, well I was looking at the blog and realised that all the posts were posted by Cecilia. This makes sense as it is her blog after all, but then again she is only a character in comic so how can she constantly update her blog? Is she a real person whom the strip character is based on or is it the actual author of the comic (who is male) just writing as Cecilia in disguise (serious identity crisis). So that is the story behind the title if you all were wondering.

Check out the blog that started it all, here.

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2007

This past Saturday was one of the proudest days in my life, to see so many people who shared my interest in comic books and other literary pop cultures all in one place nearly brought tears to my eyes.
Saturday, for the intellectually numb, was the 6th annual Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) an international festival aimed to further expose the world to the interesting and exciting world of comics. As the name suggests, on FCBD loads of free comics are given away across the world and this year there were an unprecedented 40 different titles available.

Given the huge publicity that all the participating comic stores receive on FCBD, they not only give away free comics but also hold massive promotions/sales including graphic novels, action figures and many other pop culture items.
Unfortunately, given my heighten emotional state on the day I spent way too much money and might possible not be able to afford my monthly orders this month - actually on second thought, I'll rather give up food this month (food isn't that important).

The Time Has Come

I've been reading through the recent post I have made and I have to apologise as they definately have not been up to standard.

For some reason I've been writing alot of rubbish about web advertisements and making money, what have I become, some sort of internet capatilist? This must come to an end!

My sincerest apologies to all my faithful readers, I will make right by posting proper articles/posts in the coming days. Keep watching this space...

What was it?

I really had a good idea for a topic to post today, but for the love of God I can't remember what the bleeding dog poo it was.

Damn!

Anybody know what it was?

Making the Internet work for You

Damn, when you know how to use the internet she sure can be a beauty.

I'm only just learning to use the internet now, but eish! it sure is fun and exciting. Like today I just added Google Adsense to my Blog. Yes I know its a very capitalist thing to do, but hey I leech off so many free sites its not funny, so I figured that I better give back in some way - not to mention make a bit of a profit in the process.

Basically, it works by Google searching my site and picking out keywords from which it filters "related" ads in the demarcated area. And the best part is that everytime you click on an ad on my site - I get a little thanks from Google (Financial Reimbursement).

Better Waves of Change

Although I've been on the new blogger for awhile already (since it was in beta), I've only really started to explore and play with the new features recently.

So what do you think of the new features I've added? Alright, I agree most of it is rather standard and doesnt really differentiate my Blog from others, but atleast its not as monotonous as it was before. There are plenty of interesting and funny links you guys can check out (refer to "What I Browse..." on the right panel) aswell as read some of the latest news from around the world thanks to my "The Relavent News".

I feel that I should also draw your attention to some of my sponsored links. Anybody who watches movies on their PC or DVD player will know that you need something called codecs (alternate link) which allows your media player to show certain types of video formats.

And arguably the best or atleast most comprehensive codec providor is DivX who exclusively provide codecs for .avi files which is the format of choice when it comes to high quality video.

Now if I may direct your attention to the right panel again, just below my profile - presto! my "Get DivX" link, feel free to use it.

These are but a few of the new features I've added, feel free to browse the right-hand panel yourself to discover them for yourself.

Waves of Change

Sorry Guys

If some of my images don't display just hold on for awhile, i'm currently in the process of re-organising my Image folders on the Photobucket server I use. Give me a few days and everything will be back to normal, then I will be able to start posting again.

Later, B|enderZa

I'm a Busy Person

This is in response to a comment made on my previous post. The person (I wont mention who) congratulated me on making two successful posts in a small space of time - I appreciate the comment. But he/she then slyly added that he/she was amazed that I don't add more given all my free time.

Well first of all I don't have a lot of free time, I'm actually very busy these days - tutoring, admin, marking and some freelance projects - it's not like I'm a med student and just sit around on my backside all day.

And Secondly keeping a blog uptodate is quite a mission itself, if you didn't know, people do this as there full time jobs.

So there, thats all on that subject. Have a pleasant day all. :-)

Which to do?

The world has recently been introduced to the wonderful world of online communities, well at least those of us who have access to the internet.

In recent months; sites such as Facebox, Facebook, Hi5, etc have come to prominence. Although most of them have been around for longer, it has only been recently that they have boomed.




Of course it all started with the mother of them all - MYSPACE.COM where you could have your own webpage for the price of an email address and the rest as they say is history.

Now I have been a member of many different virtual/online communities for a number of years now, mostly topic communities though, like Gaming, Development, Anime and comic comunities to name a few. But now my friends have found these sites and are now imploring me to join, which I don't really have a problem with, its just that its an effort to keep those sort of things up-to-date. I mean look at my blog, is there no better example!

Besides the whole idea of posting your picture on the internet is not that appealing to me, if you need any motivation look at my avatar, that clearly ain't me.

By the way has anybody noticed that I changed my avatar, I am now a Green Lantern. To see my previous avatar, refer to my earlier posts (way back...).

Back on topic... and then there is the even more difficult choice of which community to join, because everyone is never all on the same one - Why!? They all do the same thing. The least they could do is just join the one which the first guy did, but NO they don't even do that! Everybody wants to be there own person, stupid INDIVIDUALS.

Just wait till the big boys bring out there toys for real. Of course i'm talking about Microsoft, Yahoo and Google. Yes, they do have communities already, but most of them are still in beta phases, just give them a little bit more time. then you'll see.

Unappreciated

I'm doing pretty good hey, two posts in two days!

Unfortunately I don't really have anything interesting to say... really, not much has happened lately.

Actually, I was just reading through my mail now and I've seen that the Anime Society of which I'm a member doesn't have a projector because the unversity doesn't want to allow us to use their projector facilities.

That is so unfair I feel as all the members are students, we all pay the membership fees and we just want to use it for about an hour or two a week. They just being selfish!

Another thing I read about is that a anime convention was to be held in america last year and the anime website that was organising it enlisted the help of company to take care of setting up, accommodation and other logistical stuff regarding the arrabging of the convention.
It then turned out that when the convention date came around, all the participants were kicked out of the venue as nothing had been arranged.

The phoney company had left them in the lurch aswell as taking all the prize money (raised through donations from the websites visitors) and leaving most of the participants stranded with no accommodation or airplane tickets.

The bottomline is that lesser known cultures are brutally taken advantage of!

Its been awhile.

Well folks I know it has been awhile, but finally I'm back!

There has been a delay as I've been running around sorting out some other issues so I havent been able to update as frequently as I would like to. I also took a well deserved holiday from varsity and work.

So now I can finally start working on those forthcoming attractions I posted last time round. But there might be a few that I don't do as I honestly cannot remember what they are.

Oh and as a aside, I managed to spill a cup of hot chocolate all over myself this morning while sitting at the coffee place. No I have the sweet scent of freshly made hot chocolate drenched into my pants. Is that a good thing or bad thing? I don't know... drop a comment and let me know what you think.