THEN SOME!

FEDOR WON! ONE! !!!111ELEVENTYELEVENONEONE111!!

2008-07-21T03:17:00.005+03:00

well, he did! sorry. i should be posting. i guess sometime this week.

anyway, i leave you with some stuff i stole from here:

FEDOR FACTS!!!

1 --- Some kids piss their name in the snow. Fedor can piss his name into concrete
2 --- Leading hand sanitizers claim they can kill 99.9 percent of germs. Fedor can kill 100 percent of whatever the hell he wants
3 --- Fedor counted to infinity - twice
4 --- Fedor once visited the Virgin Islands. They are now The Islands
5 --- Fedor's calendar goes straight from March 31st to April 2nd; no one fools Fedor
6 --- Fedor can speak braille
7 --- Fedor's tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried
8 --- Fedor was originally cast as the main character in 24, but was replaced by the producers when he managed to kill every terrorist and save the day in 12 minutes and 37 seconds
9 --- Fedor died ten years ago, but the Grim Reaper can't get up the courage to tell him
10 --- Fedor puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter"
11 --- Superman owns a pair of Fedor pajamas
12 --- Fedor can slam revolving doors
13 --- Fedor sleeps with a night light. Not because Fedor is afraid of the dark, but the dark is afraid of Fedor
14 --- Once a cobra bit Fedor' leg. After five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died
15 --- Fedor was once on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune and was the first to spin. The next 29 minutes of the show consisted of everyone standing around awkwardly, waiting for the wheel to stop.
16 --- Fedor does not hunt because the word hunting implies the possibility of failure. Fedor goes killing
17 --- Fedor divides by zero
18 --- Fedor's wristwatch has no numbers on it. It just says, "Time to kick ass."
19 --- When Fedor gives you the finger, he's telling you how many seconds you have left to live
20 --- Fedor is not hung like a horse... horses are hung like Fedor
21 --- Giraffes were created when Fedor uppercutted a horse
22 --- When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night he checks his closet for Fedor
23 --- Fedor' dog is trained to pick up his own poop because Fedor will not take crap from anyone
24 --- Fedor has to maintain a concealed weapon license in all 50 states in order to legally wear pants
25 --- Fedor is the only person on the planet that can kick you in the back of the face
26 --- When Fedor exercises, the machine gets stronger
27 --- Fedor doesn't use pickup lines, he simply says, "Now."
28 --- Fedor can build a snowman out of rain
29 --- Fedor once had a heart attack; his heart lost
30 --- Fedor plays russian roulette with a fully loded revolver... and wins
31 --- Fedor can kill two stones with one bird
32 --- M.C. Hammer learned the hard way that Fedor can touch this
33 --- Fedor once killed a bird by throwing it off a cliff
34 --- The best part of waking up is not Folgers in your cup, but knowing that Fedor didn't kill you in your sleep
35 --- Fedor once punched a man in the soul
36 --- Fedor did that to Michael Jackson's face
37 --- The chief export of Fedor is pain
38 --- The most honorable way of dying is taking a bullet for Fedor. This amuses Fedor because he is bulletproof
39 --- Fedor can tie his shoes with his feet
40 --- Fedor once finished "The Song that Never Ends"
41 --- The quickest way to a man's heart is with Fedor's fist
42 --- It is considered a great accomplishment to go down Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. Fedor can go up Niagara Falls in a cardboard box
43 --- The saddest moment for a child is not when he learns Santa Claus isn't real, it's when he learns Fedor is
44 --- We all know the magic word is please. As in the sentence, "Please don't kill me." Too bad Fedor doesn't believe in magic
45 --- Fedor can drown a fish
46 --- When Fedor enters a room, he doesn't turn the lights on, he turns the dark off
47 --- Fedor can create a rock so heavy that even he can't lift it. And then he lifts it anyways, just to show you who Fedor is
48 --- The reason newborn babies cry is because they know they have just entered a world with Fedor
49 --- The grass is always greener on the other side, unless Fedor has been there. In that case the grass is most likely soaked in blood and tears
50 --- Fedor was once the F.B.I's chief negotiator. His job involved calling up criminals and saying, "This is Fedor."
51 --- Fedor used to beat the crap out of his shadow because it was following to close. It now stands a safe 30 feet behind him
52 --- The only time Fedor was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistake
53 --- The last digit of pi is Fedor. He is the end of all things
54 --- On Neil Armstrong's second step on the moon, he found a note that said, "Fedor was here."
55 --- When Fedor breaks the law, the law doesn't heal
56 --- A unicorn once kicked Fedor. That is why they no longer exist
57 --- Bullets dodge Fedor
58 --- Fedor once partook in a pissing contest outside of a bar. His opponent drowned.

Chuck Norris's Reign Of Terror Is Over & Fedor's Has Begun

i did have a photo of Fedor wrestling with God (photoshoped, right?) but i didnt wanna put it since that would be me being insensitive to others' religious views and feelings and all,

Something i am trying to INSTILL in iraqis over here, who for some reason think Stockholm is a street in Karrada Dakhil:

Do unto others as you'd like they do unto you.
i dunno why Iraqis here think its so silly to even consider that we are NOT in a musilm country.
we are muslims, henceforth wherever we may roam is muslim as well. they shouldnt sell pork or alcohol, and by God they should allow us to proclaim prayer times as high as we freaking want.

believe it or not this is how some people here think. people who've been here for 20 years or more. freaking arm-chair jihadists.

anyway, sorry bout the rant. something is on my mind. have to organize my thoughts and come back later.

oh and

FEDOR BY ARMBAR!

;P ;P ;P

Testing!

2008-06-17T18:02:00.002+03:00

Hello all, i hope the move here does not bother you in any way, i thought this new address should be easier to write :)

and if you have links to come-getsome.blogspot.com, no need to adjust them if you do not want to, just wait at the old page a few seconds, then you will automatically be switched over here :)

sorry for the inconvenience.

oh and do tell me please if the new Yamli API is working, something weird is going on :)

should i try incorporating it into the comments?

thanx to Yoda who tipped me about Yamli. great stuff!

oh, about me?

Passed the first big hurdle with flying colors, C level.

will take the next big test in August, on account of there being a month holiday, in which i will be trying to find a summerjob, etc etc :)

waiting for the new iPhone to be released, altho i will NOT buy it immediately for many reasons:

1. waiting for pricing details to come out.
2. dont wanna fight and elbow my way into stores to get it. no device is worth that. NONE.
3. all pre-orders were already taken, and no other way to get it but fight my way thru along 20'000 maddened swedes.
4. the second batch will have pre-orders, and should arrive by end of july, in which pricing and all other details have been settled!

oh and i have been actively promoting linux everywhere! till now i converted 4 people to the light side! :D

try it, just go and ORDER FREE CDs at www.ubuntu.com.
free registration, order, wait four weeks. BAM! and you dont even have to install it, just run it off cd to see what its like!

or you can download it :P

My life with Ubuntu:

2008-05-13T23:25:00.001+03:00

Hey hey people! sorry for the absence, too caught up in study and crap like that to even take a proper breath :)

had an exam today, and last week will have a major one, deciding if i can be promoted to the next study level :) wish me luck!

what else? I am now spending so much time learning how linux actually works, the kinks, the bugs, the limitations, the ABILITIES!
spent the better part of last night trying to install Quake3 Arena. since i dont have a linux copy, and i couldnt "find" one, a friend suggested i use the windows version, stripped down, and use a linux core, available free online :)

and that was it for about 5 hours :) either sound didnt work properly, or video, or both, sigh.

finally i used a "frankenstined" core from the good guys at ioquake.org, and bam! all worked! now i have a working quake3 running faster than it ever did on windows!

sorry for the technobabble, i just wanted to share my "achievment" with someone!

let me leave you with a couple of interesting videos:

oh and GO SEE IRONMAN. NOW!

best superhero movie YET. i am waiting for Hulk to prove me wrong!

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GTA IV and later, an amazing invetion!

2008-04-29T23:17:00.003+03:00

GTA IV "the best game since Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time," ????

HIGHLY EFFING UNLIKELY.
and that coming from a rabid PS3 fanboi.

good as it may be, still i dont see how this can be compared to Ocarina. and i dont even like Link all that much.

it is simply wrong. i love this game, but now i hate IGN and their critic who said this.

i dont even know why i am ranting this time! maybe i am so excited and dont know what to do!

hoping to get one soon, not real soon, but soon, i hope.. around the next price cut, maybe.. who knows?

meanwhile, enjoy these amazing videos from an amazing genius:

Mirror Mirror on the wall... AHAHAHAHAHA!

2008-04-28T01:10:00.005+03:00

The "anonymous" guy is a good friend of mine, who sometimes clicks and comments before he thinks, i saw this and decided it was too funny to just let go!
effing hilarity!

oh and the dude is throwing a major tantrum over it! i dont blame him, i would feel the same if i was a fan of the most attractive guy ever!

sorry dude :) i really like being your friend, dont take it too personally!

!! :)) stolen from Yahoo Music News!

2008-04-26T14:22:00.001+03:00

The Ten Cheesiest Singers Of All-Time

Posted Wed Apr 23 3:33pm PDT by Rob O'Connor in List Of The Day

Using the word "cheesy" to describe someone's singing isn't often
looked upon as a compliment. However, this is show-biz and a certain
amount of Velveeta is often necessary if you're going to be an
entertainer. People come to your shows to see something larger than
life. If they wanted to watch a bunch of average joes in everyday
threads shyly singing into their armpits, they could attend a Yo La
Tengo concert.

But some singers take cheese beyond one of the
basic food groups and turn it into a way of life. Donny Osmond and his
entire oversmiling family have made "corny wholesomeness" an accepted
media trend. Donny (not even "Don") makes John Denver seem nutritious
by comparison.

Over the years, there have been plenty of obvious ham and cheese puffs. Anyone who performs a showtune is embedded
with cheese. So when devising this list of the cheesiest singers, it
was important to choose singers who didn't have to resort to such
over-the-top drama, singers who could've just sang the damn song and
been done with it. But no--they insisted on a little Feta, a little
Provolone to go along with the act.

10) Billy Joel: Billy
Joel could've been a convincing rock 'n' roll guy, but he had too much
of the "drunk uncle at the wedding" in him to tone it down. He's a
natural born ham likely to give himself a heart-attack-yack-yack-yack
with all his extra showbiz flourishes. It hasn't done him any good with
critics, but his fans love the extra schmaltz.

9) David Lee Roth: David
Lee Roth is perhaps the only hard rock singer who actually gets it.
There are plenty of other hard rock singers, including his eventual
replacement in Van Halen, Sammy Hagar, who are cheesy without wit,
without self-knowledge. But DLR knew what he was doing and he
reveled in his role as not only the lead singer of a hard rock band,
but as the carnival barker eager to sell you whatever you might be
interested in purchasing. Not just a gigolo, but the gigolo.

8) Barry Manilow: You
can't sing "Mandy" or "Looks Like We Made It" or "Daybreak" or just
about anything in this man's catalog without feeling a little foolish,
without breaking into a laugh with friends. Yet we suspend out belief
and pretend it isn't silly, as if somehow beyond the hallmark
sentiments rests a universal human truth that at heart we are all made
of blood, water, skin, bone and perpetual corniness.

7) Morrissey: Whether solo or with the Smiths, Morrissey turned every hangnail into a life or death situation. He over-dramatized getting a job.
As if somehow applying for employment steals one's soul, rendering them
useless to the rest of humanity and to their true self. He blames the
failures of his love life on what? Getting caught wearing a Wal-Mart
smock?

6) David Clayton-Thomas (Blood Sweat And Tears): Yes,
he's made us so very happy, he's so GLAD he's come into our lives.
Aside from inspiring an entire generation of future grunge rockers
(Eddie Vedder, call the main office), DCT with Blood, Sweat and Tears
helped redefine the schmaltz of ‘70s AM radio. While they never
ventured into the icky love sentiments of Bread (responsible for "Make
It With You" and "Baby I'm A Want You"), DCT with just that
vibrato-laden voice of his made everything from "Spinning Wheel" to
"And When I Die" sound like it was coming from another planet of
emotionally distraught aliens.

5) Tom Jones:
Everything Tom Jones touches turns to kitsch. Whether it's Rod Stewart
("Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?"), Prince ("Kiss") or one from the
Bacharach-David songbook ("What's New, Pussycat?"), Jones delivers it
all with the shameless come-on of a guy with an over-obvious one-track
mind. There's no studied aloofness here, no "cool guy" routine. He's
letting you know why he's in the room. The men don't know, but the
little girls--and the older ones with the blue hair--understand.

4) Meatloaf:
From the sound effects of the motorcycles revving to the play-by-play
announcements from Phil Rizzuto, Meat Loaf albums are jammed with
overwrought details and emotion that suggest he's likely to suffer a
coronary before he finds true love. He makes Bruce Springsteen sound
restrained. I'm still not sure what he won't do for love, but I do know
that he'll tell us with every last melodramatic trill he has left in
his still-beating heart.

3) Cher: You
always know it's Cher. She's incapable of singing anything without
sounding overexcited and like she's being beamed in from another era.
She vamps, she tramps, she sings like her gaudy, risqué stage outfits
coming to life. When they added the vocoder to her voice for "Believe,"
coming from her it was as if it was completely natural.

2) Neil Diamond:
He's a living legend and he deserves to be in the Rock n' Roll Hall of
Fame as much as the Dave Clark Five, the Lovin' Spoonful, the Eagles
and Billy Joel. But for some reason, Neil's considered too
showbiz. Yeah, a band that sang about "Me and You and Rain on the Roof"
isn't too cutesy, but the guy who gave us "Solitary Man" and "Cracklin'
Rosie" is taking things too far. Of course, he is. He's a
cornball! If you don't act like a complete idiot singing along to "I
Am, I Said," then you simply aren't singing it right!

1) Michael Buble: I've
bestowed this honor on Michael because he's the most recent addition to
our canon of shameless audience pandering performers--those who give
the people what they want whether they really should or not. Frank
Sinatra he's not. Dean Martin? Not even close. His pick of tunes makes
Kenny G look like a music connoisseur. But everything he sings, he
sings as if the past five decades never happened. And that is an accomplishment all its own. Cheeze-whiz for everyone!

------

I do think it's a bit unfair sometimes, but hey, everyone's a critic!

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/listoftheday/29490/the-ten-cheesiest-singers-of-all-time

Blogging from LINUX!

2008-04-20T20:15:00.001+03:00

Speed under Linux

Speed under Windows

yeah, couldn't wait, bummer!

this stuff is PERFECT!

i wonder when the next update will be?

now the weirdest thing is: why does Windows seem to give me slower internet speeds?

the download rate is pretty much the same, its the upload rate that scares me. next time i'm upping something, i'll try in linux.

hmm.. tried the test again:

see for yourselves:

maybe I'm just testing speed under windows during heavy load times, i'll try it again sometime to see the difference. hmm

My/Her/His Way

2008-04-15T13:11:00.001+03:00

A friend keeps sending me links of this songbird:

in the past i didnt really mind, but when he sent me her cover of My Way i just couldn't stay put:

Her voice is really nice and all that, but HOW, just HOW can you butcher Frank's song this way?
urgh.

and NO, you CANNOT tell me she did it right, she did it her way etc. When people do stuff their way, they have to.. own it. check for example Stevie Ray Vaughan's cover of Jimi Hendrix' songs Little Wing or Voodoo Chile. i wager they are on youtube also.

pfft.

well, what can i say? everyone's a critic.

AAAARGH.

NO NO NO. YOU DONT GO Golden 3AAAAY. ONLY TINA TURNER IS ALLOWED TO DO THAT. AND FOR A FREAKING REASON.

sigh. i really should start swearing here. makes it too frustrating to keep inserting mickey mouse words instead of the real ones.

another post coming soon.. :)

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Hardy Heron is coming!

2008-04-03T01:45:00.002+03:00

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You want some cheese with that?

2008-03-21T16:49:00.001+03:00

you have no idea how corny wedding songs are, until you start collecting some for your own.. sigh.

more details to come. wedding party starts in four hours.

I'm late I'm late for a very important date!

oh and just for the record: Marilyn Manson's new album sucks.

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Bummer.

2008-03-19T05:39:00.001+03:00

Well, here we are, another post.. i dont know if i should even be posting this, i mean, i just restored my pc to factory settings for the second time, i still have to install a ton of programs AND do homework..

thank God flock allows me to blog without actually using blogger.com. much easier, lighter, faster, and all that. flock is web-browser :)
it is a hybrid from Mozilla Firefox, and Netscape Navigator, it has lots of new accessibility features geared towards quick media access and communication, enough of that, its good enough to stand on its own without me sucking up to it :)

now, what happened is the following: i got a laptop, see?
bundled with the laptop is the ever-lovingly crappy Windows Vista, to top the crap i didnt even get one of the "good" Vista editions (Ultimate or Business). i got stuck with Home Basic. pfft.

Few weeks in and Vista is already crashing and freezing, i give it one hard shutdown (take out the power) and BOOM. no more windows. crap crap crap crap.

so naturally i went and installed Ubuntu :) one of the most popular (and stable) linux distributions out there..

problem was, amongst all the myriad combinations of hardware which can cause problems with ubuntu, i had the worst!

now dont go around accusing me of being stupid, not researching my hardware choices first and all, i did exactly that, for Windows AND Linux. however, some recent updates since i came here got my hardware blacklisted and thus my problems..

1- video driver is not recognized, so a generic version is used, and thus decreased capabilities.
FIXED. see below

2- ditto for sound driver, meaning there was no sound.
FIXED. simple thing really, just change the driver, put in a few configuration commands, restart, and we have SOUND!

3- there was a lingering problem which i had known about for a while, if you dont put a certain fix, your new harddrive dies in under one year because your motherboard likes windows better.
FIXED. simple.

back to video: there was nothing i tried that could give me satisfactory results, right about the time i was giving up, i read about the new experimental version of Ubuntu, which was 100% compatible with all my hardware and thus HALLELUJAH!

however, it was still in testing phase, the final version ships out 24th of April. will download it then!

why do i insist on using Ubuntu Linux inspite of all the problems above?

because it is simply better. safer. faster. and for 99% of the time, infinitely easier to install and use than windows.

its completely legally free.

oh and the hundreds of people who provide free detailed technical support online actually know the stuff they are talking about, and they dont put you on hold while they deffer your call to India, like a couple of friends of mine.

a brand new installation takes about 20-25 minutes in which you can continue to use the pc to browse the net and listen to music etc.

i predict, and mark my words: that in the next 5-10 years, Linux will be THE operating system of choice in all major venues all around the world. i just hope i can be on time to catch the wave!

so anyway, after testing it out, i decide i dont want to TEST it out, i want to get the complete end result, so i removed linux completely, and restored my pc to factory settings, which has taken FOUR hours till now, and am still not done. sigh.

anyway, try Linux out, you dont have to install it, just get the cds for free (either download them, or if you dont have a fast connection you can have the genuine Ubuntu cds DELIVERED to your doorstep COMPLETELY FREE anywhere in the world within 2-3 weeks) go to Ubuntu.com for more details :)

you can run Linux from cd, try it out, if you like, install, if not, then just restart and take out the cd, no harm done!

yeah, thats how much i love the thing, i am literally obsessed with it!

--

on the other hand, i dont reckon i told you about the time the Shaman dude from class did the hula dance around me while showering me with minty spittle?

no?

well, i've been suffering from a cold, still am, kind of..
Hot spike between my eyes and a running tap in my face, you know the kind :)

so here i am in class, all zonked out on cold medicines and allergy pills, i notice Scott (thats him) trying to say something.. i turn round, tell him sorry man, am out of it so excuse me if i dont focus and all..
he says: "Wanna feel a little better?"
*uhhhhm.... ulp!*
"Yeah, why not?" i answer..

so he says: stand right HERE, takes out a small vial, swallows it, and starts waving his arms around me, and SPRAYING me with what turned out to be menthol extract, in the form of SPIT!

now this is the part where even i am beginning to notice EVERYONE is looking at us, i dont blame them really, it WAS a sight to see!

so i ask him: "what exactly are you doing?"
and he goes "just fixing up your aura, it was all bunched up and all that"
"aha.."

OHHKAY..

it was fun, mind you ;) not everyday you get the chance to be the center of a supernatural (natural??) ritual!

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I just watched the academy awards..

2008-02-27T00:46:00.002+03:00

and it blows harder than Moby Dick.

best leading lady looked nice tho.

and good win for There Will Be Blood..very dark yet yummy movie.

pfft. let me get back to commenting on the last post's comments..

Language School: quick post!

2008-02-23T17:19:00.004+03:00

well, as you may know already, i was placed in C group, which is the second highest group. problem is, being in C means everything and nothing at the same time: you can get in C if your Swedish is good, OR you can get in C if you just tell them you've had schooling for over 12 years! so as you can guess, we are a group with mixed linguistic aptitudes!

i swear to God, the first few days were exactly like the show Mind Your Language, in fact, sometimes it still is, the teacher absolutely refuses to talk in English, so we have to figure out what she is trying to say in Swedish, then group the words we caught together, and comprehend the sentences we thought we heard :) so far i've been doing well, the language itself isnt all that different from English, it has the same basic structure, but with some quirks to it, for example:

English Swedish

He is well. Han är bra.
They are well. De är bra.
I am well. Jag är bra.

Is he well? Är han bra?

and so on and so forth! as you can see, its the little quirks and such..

the weirdest thing here is telling the time at half past the hour! for example:

4:30 is NOT four thirty, nor is it half past four, its half TO five!

so you can imagine trying to tell the following time:

2:37

so thats 7 past half to three!

or Sju över halv tre!

weird. still you can get used to it if you try!

ok, now i gotta do my homework, actually its class work for monday, but i thought of solving it and gloating to everyone about it come monday :D

take care now, enjoy this clip from Mind Your Language so you might get a better idea what my school situation here is like!

2008-02-16T06:46:00.000+03:00

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2008-02-16T06:01:00.001+03:00

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All aloooooone. cooooold... freeeeeeeezing. testing.. 1...2....3

2008-02-16T05:52:00.001+03:00

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8:35 PM Thursday, February 07, 2008 07022008166 Hi! *TickertapeTickertape*i'm just taking Lifeblog for a test drive, seeing if i can sync my phone to blogger and start posting on the go and all that :) i mean i can access internet from my phone, but its damn expensive in pre-paid mode, so i figured i'd try this, just post the picture, few KB's worth, and a few words already written so i dont waste much time online :) in other words, am just testing things out here, if it all works, i'll post more often!I dont hate the fish fingers but the fish fingers hate me.damn things nearly came alive while i was learning how to cook them. 2nd time around too. first time i ended with warm Sunflower Oil soup with bits of minced fried fish floating around. not very yummy, at all.i have to go wash the fishy-smelling pan now. with all the cold oily bits stuck to it i bet. sigh.so anyway, c ya later on blogger!

Happy New Year?

2008-01-01T08:03:00.000+03:00

well ho ho ho and a bottle of rum. wait.. that's not how it should go.. erm..
anyway:

a new year is upon us and all is well with the world!

..well, at least it hadn't blown up yet, most of it anyway.

a new year. hmm. i have a vague feeling about me now that i have not felt for about.. a year :)
so many things done, other undone, yet the world keeps turning round.

on a personal scale, i reckon i achieved most of the goals set up this time last year, as usual still lagging a bit on the harder ones, something i guess is shared by many of you in one way or another :)
on a global scale, most of the human race is just as crazy and idiotic as it has ever been, murder, mayhem, madness, normal.

note:
yesterday's filth is today's martyr is tomorrow's filth.

am writing this staccato because of the ungodly hour i find myself in, i'm not sure what exactly i should write about, or whether i should be writing at all.

i'll just leave a list of wishes and resolutions, and go sleep.

wishing that:

1. Iraqis acquire the gift of thinking.

2. Iraqis learn to actually BE iraqis, instead of a mob of sunnis, shi'a, arabs, kurds, and all the other labels that escape me at the moment.

3. The Powers of Organized-Religion throughout Islamdom start talking to eachother, and no swearing allowed, either.

4. I learn to be a little less stubborn. only a little mindyou.

5. I get a pair of running shoes. all i have now is boots, boots, and boots. been a while since i got running shoes, 4 years, 5 now, actually.

6. I be a better person overall :)

err..yeah, fat chance on any of the above. so why keep on? let's move on to the resolutions!
At least these actually have a chance of happening:

1. I resolve to find a job.

2. I resolve to find a good place to live :)

3. I resolve NOT to have, actually Cause, kids to happen.

4. I resolve to meet a certain someone and punch him square in the smacker. (or knee him repeatedly in the nuts, whichever is more accessible at the time)

5. I resolve to study more, work more, and work OUT more.

6. I resolve to be a better son, husband, and (in some cases) friend. other relatives i am not interested in. waste of perfectly good words even writing about them.

7. I resolve to buy a red sofa.

..er.. and all the rest from last year :) happynewyearauldlangsyneGodblesseveryone!

- i have this habit of capitalizing the g in God, and i like it :) -

now, exqueeze me, i have some Z's to catch..

!!! :D

2007-12-15T04:33:00.000+03:00

30
"How would you feel about the fact that you're fighting a bunch of kids?

This is so wrong - these are children for pete's sake. I don't think I could fight them, even in self defense.
I'll do what I have to and fight just hard enough to win
To hell with morality, I'd be too busy pile-driving, crane-kicking, and bare-knuckle bashing them all the way back to kindergarten

"
Priceless!

Cubicle Shooting Alarm System:

2007-12-06T22:12:00.000+03:00

now this is totally out of the blue, but i came upon this and just HAD to write about it!
this is THE coolest most useless toy ever!
i WILL be getting me one of these!
let me leave u with the full explanation:

Three Tiered Cubicle Defense:

The trouble with most alarm systems is that they are passive. Passive in the respect that they only alert someone to the intruder, but they don't fight the intruder themselves. Well, consider the Shooting Cubicle Alarm System a step in the right direction. Using technology adapted in Area 51 (by elves, of all people), we brought forth this three stage system to help protect everything in your cubicle - and beyond.

Each unit has an ever-watchful motion sensor. The first line of defense is lovingly referred to as Alarm 1. When Alarm 1 is tripped two very important things happen. First, it flashes and klaxons to signal an intrusion. But (and this is the kicker) it also arms Alarms 2 and 3 using invisible wireless signals. Alarm 2 also has an audible alarm, but it is louder than Alarm 1. It also will spot the varmint with a red light beam. Alarm 3 is the coolest; when it is tripped two safe (but surprising) missiles will be launched at the now-fleeing interloper. You valuables will be safe, your cubicle will be secure, and your foe will be embarrassed enough to leave your stapler alone for good!

Please keep in mind, this is a toy. It works really well, but you shouldn't rely on it to protect your gold bars or top secret documents.

Tri-Link Alarm System features:

Alarm 1 - Sound and light alarm; arms Alarms 2 & 3
Alarm 2 - Louder sound and light alarm; spots intruder with a red dot of guilty light
Alarm 3 - Fires two foam missiles at intruder.
Uses 7 AAA batteries (not included).

Watch it in action:

SOoooo Cool! well, maybe not THAT cool, if it actually tracked moving objects, now THAT would be awesome! still gonna keep it in mind though :D

of Windows and Linux:

2007-11-29T14:23:00.000+03:00

well, the reason i've been away so long (with all apologies to friends and visitors here), is that i've been seriously considering swapping my operating system to Linux.
yeps. couldn't be more lame!

after all is said and done, i decided to dual-boot. windows on one hand, linux on the other, just in case i need photoshop or something.

now, work-wise, still the same situation, my second "audition" should be in a couple of days, i'm physically training my butt off, to the point where i was diagnosed yesterday to have multiple micro ruptures in all my limbs, and possibly my shoulders as well :D well, who said it was gonna be easy?

life-wise: nothing much. limbo it is. HOWEVER: its been said that soon, a royal pardon will come out on those of us with expired residency permits, in which you pay 50% of the fine, and be given 6 months of legal residency. nothing is official just yet, but many people "know people who were pardoned this way". in other words: hearsay.
so i guess it could go both ways.
oh well.

something that's been keeping me bristling these past few days, is the case of the Saudi woman sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in the big house, after being gang-raped 14 times.
no doubt you've heard about it.
if not, just google "Saudi rape victim"
after a lot of nonsense coming out of the courts, someone yesterday declared that this case will actually be reviewed. hmmm.

now what has been actually bugging me is one thing: how the hell didn't the 7 guys who raped the girl (and her boyfriend) didn't get their heads chopped off?

ah. after a quick review of the saudi judicial system, i got it: you see, basically its a do-what-you-may kind of system: depending on a judge's personal opinion. WHAT A CROCK!

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back to the main subject:
sorry for the absence, again, for the nth time..

1) for Melantrys (and anyone else who wants to download stuffs in a less-than-legal manner)
check HERE, it might be of use to you :)

2) if you ever want to try linux: i recommend one of three distributions:

Ubuntu (and its derivatives)

Mandriva One

and the one i'm currently using: Kanotix.

oh, and whatever you do, dont buy a Mac! granted they look good, they work flawlessly, and so does Linux! plus its FRIKKIN EXPENSIVE!
i also tried installing a modded Mac OS X 10.4 on my machine, worked well, looked beautiful, but still.. something was missing!

and that something, is BERYL! personal screenshots and videos pending! meanwhile, check it out on YouTube:
however, this is NOT why you should get Linux: eye-candy is good, but safety and reliability should be your main concerns. Linux is simply better than windows at that.
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sorry for writing in a broken staccato style, havent written anything for a while so it would take sometime to get things flowing again :)

not much of a real post: perhaps i got to go answer the previous comments :)

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2007-09-26T02:55:00.000+04:00

i'm writing this in the worst of moods.

just now Sharqiyah, an Iraqi satellite channel, broadcasted a video report about the Iraqi VP al-Hashimi, interviewing hundreds of boys kept in Tobchi prison without charges, for durations ranging up to four years.
i still don't have the full report yet, this is fresh news and i'm in no mood for translation. let other "well-researched" bloggers do that.
meanwhile, what i'll do here is just flip out in fucking anger.

In the video, you see al-Hashimi waltzing around the prison escorted by guards and what appears to be a nervous prison superintendant, randomly interviewing dozens of teens with visible signs of torture and trauma, asking them how and why and when and where.

you can clearly see the boys have been given a fresh haircut, a wash and a clean set of clothes, all prepped up for the VP's visit.
now i'm no fan of Hashimi, this guy is just another screwey politician, bringing this issue up at the right moment.
(Minister of Interior Bolani is in Turkey, PM Maliki is being spanked by our uncle and aunt: Dubya and Condy -Um Omar- Rice)

why didn't Hashimi do anything earlier? like he didn't know. yeah right.

(inspecting prisoners)
Hashimi (to someone outside the screen): "let THEM do the talking"
Hashimi: "so why are you here?"
child prisoner: "i've been held here for ten months because they told me there was a witness against me, i asked to see him but they dont show him, they just blindfolded me and made me ink my thumbprint on some papers i dont know what they are"

(inspecting food rations)
Hashimi: "What's wrong with this food, its good and its plenty" (a piece of chicken and a loaf of bread)
child prisoner: "yes NOW its good, but before they only brought us cheese and water"
SuperIntendant (butting in) : "Yes its just like what they wanted, sometimes they don't want
chicken, they ask for cheese" (WTF?)

Sunni, Shia, Arabs, Kurds, all kinds of kids were in there. and those are the ones we got to see.

Iraqi jails. pfft. even under the best of circumstances, where you are held in a private "detention facility", watched and cared for constantly under strict, explicit orders to "make it as easy for him as you can", it still won't be a good place.
i can only imagine what it is like NOW.

however, ONE thing made me feel better: he actually promised the kids to be released TOMORROW.

i cant find any links right now, google it up tomorrow, such a thing is bound to make an echo.

Outtake from Maliki's visit to Dubya:

Al-Maliki stressed that "the future of Iraq goes through the gates of national reconciliation, of political agreements."
"That is the way to assure ... Iraq's future," he said.
Bush, who has seen his popularity plummet because of mounting U.S. fatalities in Iraq, reiterated his support for the government, saying: "We're with ya, prime minister."

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and that, is what i'm afraid of.

P.S.
tell you what: if that fucktard Hashimi actually holds up to his word, and gets those kids released before the week is over, he will have earned my undying respect as the first politician in iraq that actually did anything of value for the last 40 years.

P.P.S.
can you believe the size of the pair on AhmadiNajad doing the three-ring routine in Columbia U.!
Solid Brass i tell you!
still won't change the fact that he needs a wash, a shave and a better jacket.

The Adventures of Computerman

2007-09-01T22:50:00.000+04:00

So, whats new with me you ask?
Well.. nothing much, its all work, day in day out, learning stuff, applying stuff..
some i already knew, only now i know how to do it faster and more efficient, some is brand new..

my opinions of Micro$oft have now changed a bit, they're not completely worthless ;)

i mean, regarding desktop operating systems, they are hands-down CRAP. i've been running three versions of Linux these past few days (Knoppix, Mandriva One, and Kanotix) and two more (Backtrack 2 and Wifiway 0.8) have almost finished downloading, and my love for all things Linux has reached new levels and still rising. damn i love the command shell!

BUT: i've also been running Microsoft Server 2003 (R2 AND SBS), and i'm expected to take a look at Longhorn, yeah as if i have time.
server-wise, they're good, granted you know what the hell is going on. Hiccups do occur sometimes and they range from minor headaches to reinstalling the whole goddamn thing from scratch..

the only thing i positively love about Micro$oft now is Active Directory and its services. Bravo indeed! :)

oh, i almost forgot:
VISTA IS RETARDED. DO NOT GET IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

another thing i've learned is how to make unattended installation disks, now THAT is nice, just plonk the cd in the drive, restart, and walk away..

one thing i've failed to do is WEP/WPA attacks (ENGLISH: cracking wireless network security protocols) but i'm working on it.
the one thing that held me back is that i do not have the right wireless card which allows packet re-injection (ENGLISH: cracks security in 2 mins rather than 2 days).. sigh. thus the decision to get Wifiway and Backtrack. two linux operating systems dedicated to *cough* analyzing and probing wireless networks *cough*

okayz.

enuff of geektalk.

I WANT TO TRAIN :(
i've gained a few pounds this last month, not enough time to abuse my body like before.

also, my head has been hurting me for 3 days now, i think it might have to do with sitting so close to the wireless antennae all day trying to crack the local network.
hell, i bet after 10 hours running it could heat a frozen pizza.

tell u what, if i grow a second head i'll post pictures, ok?

ohhhkay, sorry, will report back again in a few days with a real post, containing real words, now i dont even have time to breathe.

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Listening to: Velvet Revolver - She Builds Quick Machines
via FoxyTunes

Roadkill 13

2007-08-07T21:17:00.000+04:00

"had a bad day today.."

short post alert
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today, around 9am, while on a technical on-site visit (unpaid), i was ->this<- close to being pancaked into the asphalt.
i was walking to the main road, looking for a taxi, when an 18-wheeler zoomed less than two feet to my left, doing something like 120km/h, TWO FEET!
thank God i am heavy set, and balanced on my feet, or the vacuum would have mashed me against (then under) the truck.
stupid trucker.

then, when i got back, i was called over to the software firm next door, to install RAM chips on the file server.
now, that is NOT something difficult, the RAM only fits securely ONE way into the motherboard, no room for screw-ups, none whatsoever.

except when i hit the power button and set the server on fire.

FIRE!

tomorrow i'll find out what exactly happened and HOW. i just don't know how it happened. i've installed RAM chips a million times, on several PC's.. what the hell just happened?

oh and since i was the last one near the pc, it automatically became my fault.
my manager told me its ok, shit happens, and he'll take care of it, pending my first paycheck.

immediate consequence?
my no-pay period got extended to 6 months.

i keep blaming myself. if only i was sure it was my fault, or the hardware's, or..
oh well.