Weblog Wannabe

Not many things are worse than being sick and depressed. I got a fever. I can't sleep. I haven't eaten anything for 36 hours because I don't feel hungry and I don't feel like eating anything at all. The worst question to ask me right now would be "how are you?" If anyone asked me that, I think I would break into tears.

On a somewhat less depressing but more pathetic note, did you know that my weblog is emailware? It means if you enjoy reading it and you plan to check back here often, you are required to email me. And I'm not just making it up. Just ask anyone who has been reading my weblog since day one (try Jordan or Nikolai). They'd tell you that it's true. So, if you need a reason to email me, that would be a good one :) ♥

If you enjoy playing games that require you to click your mouse like crazy, you're going to enjoy playing Collapse. It's like Tetris with a twist. Of course I didn't do very well in it. I only managed to get to level 3 with 28,122 points. ♥

Tired of seeing the same, old street signs? Check out these Unusual Street Signs that you would never see anywhere but on the web. Some of them are pretty amusing. ♥

What sort of geek are you? I don't know how I could end up being an old school geek. I've always been a geek but I didn't realise my geekdom until I got my computer connected to the internet in 1997. That was kind of late, wasn't it? ♥

Atomic Bombing: How to Protect Yourself. You'll never know when an atomic bomb will fall from the sky. Heaven forbid, but better safe than sorry. ♥

I'm definitely not a geek since I can't understand my own Geek Horoscope. What on earth is Daikatana? ♥

Brand UN-Awareness Game is a game in which you have to tell the most common brand name for a generic name of a product in order to go to the next level. It's intended for Americans, but I still managed to get to Level 7. I don't know if it's good or bad. Not sure how many levels there are in the game. ♥

Spear Toss is an addictive little game. The farther you can throw the spear, the higher you'll score. My highest score was 319.762. I wonder how people could score some 500 points. There must be something I don't know. If you know what I don't know, do let me know :) ♥

The stupid quiz of the day is what kind of donut are you? I am glazed donut. Dependable, friendly, and popular. Some may call me boring as well, but what do they know? Woo, I'm popular! :) ♥

Enjoy reading film reviews but can't be bothered or don't have time to write one of your own? Well, you should have time for the four word film review. After all, it's only four words. "Read and submit yours." That's my four word review of the site. Well, sort of.

Oh, I saw the first episode of Smallville today and my review was, "Lex Luthor is sexy." Hehe. I like him much better than Clark Kent. ♥

I usually don't care much about the death of any celebrity because, well, I didn't really know them anyway. But the death of Alice In Chain's lead vocalist, Layne Staley, and TLC's Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes kinda made me think.

When Staley's body was found, he was already dead for two weeks. Two weeks! I mean, didn't anyone care about him? Was he such a bad person that no one wondered about his well-being when he didn't show up anywhere for days? It made what they wrote about Staley in Alice In Chains official website sound so hypocritical.

I've never been a big fan of TLC but one of their hits, "Unpretty", is one of my favourite songs. I can totally identify with the lyrics. The song pretty much shaped my opinion on other people's looks as well as mine. I could feel some kind of connection with TLC and I felt a pang of sadness when I heard about Lisa Lopes' death.

(Folks, in case I disappear from the face of the internet without warning, don't wait until two weeks to send a search party, 'kay?) ♥

Okay, 'fess up. Who submitted my weblog to the Open Directory? I know I didn't. I hope you didn't submit it to Yahoo! as well. You see, I have Yahoo!phobia, which is a fear of getting listed on Yahoo! Call me weird, but I abandoned two websites just because they got listed on Yahoo! ♥

Blogrolling is a site that will help you maintain your sidebar links easily without having to go into your weblog template editor. If it also showed if any of the weblogs on your list has been updated, I would call it a perfect little tool. ♥

Who needs discos when you can just sit in front of your computer, visit rgb loop and get the same effect of dizziness from all the blinking lights and the bad music. Do discos still exist at all? ♥

So, what do you want out of life? Apparently, I am thoroughly disgusted with society and humanity as a whole, and I have several rather diabolical plans to reshape it to fit my designs. I'm probably a loner, and most people think I'm crazy. That's just because they don't understand, though, and I'll show them someday anyway. I am known to become very passionate about many causes, have torrid love affairs, and be seen as a either a demagogue or a hero to the proletariat masses. I'm a visionary. Hmm. Torrid love affairs, huh? ♥

Saturday Morning Haiku

Here comes the weekend
Time to get sad and depressed
I've to keep busy.

I have so many great ideas for website design and no website to design. How depressing is that? I wish someone would hire me so I could keep myself busy this weekend (and make some money to stay online). Want a sample of my work other than this site you're staring at? Just take a look at this. Pretty, isn't it? ;)

Anyway, I went to bed at 4am and woke up at 1pm yesterday. Mum thought I was sick because I didn't usually sleep that long. As soon as she saw me up, she got busy fixing me something to eat. That was nice for a change. Maybe I should sleep in more often :) ♥

Google Smackdown is a fun way to find out which one of two words or phrases appears in more pages across the web. As it turned out, my weblog is way more popular than me:

1. Weblog Wannabe (6,240)
2. Firda Beka (250)

I don't know if I should be happy or sad. ♥

Whatsbetter?com is a site which allows you to pick which one of two things is better. The things being compared can be quite irrelevant, though. For example, people would obviosuly pick Deginald Erskin (whoever he is) over schizophrenia. And I think it's quite disturbing that Kirsten Dunst could be sitting on top of the top ten list. I didn't know that she was that popular. ♥

The entries for the If Hackers Ruled themed Photoshop contest at Worth1000.com are pretty amusing. ♥

Here's yet another take on the AYBABTU meme: All Your Smurf Are Belong To Smurf. If you want to hear Engrish and Smurf-speak being spoken in one flash movie, you've got to check this one out. ♥

My family's favourite pastime these days is making up names for my big brother's baby, which is due in October, and one of the names we came up with today was Vaginia Horniwati. Nickname: Horny. Don't ask. ♥

This is the National "Shut the Hell Up" Month as sponsored by the Council for a Quieter America. All I can say is OUCH! And that they do have some good points. And that I'm sorry for linking to something with pop-under ad. ♥

Now that you know what kind of pet you are, find out the sexual orientation of your pet with the Pet-O-Meter. They don't do fish, so I just pretended that I had a cat and that cat turned up to be only 33% gay. ♥

The stupid online quiz of the day is: what kinda pet are you? I'm a rabbit. An introvert. Keep things to myself most of the time. But my friends love me because I am warm, quiet, cuddly, lovable and affectionate. Um, right. ♥

RIOT is an alternative web browser that builds its page by combining text, images and links from the recent pages that any RIOT user has surfed to. See this weblog as rendered by RIOT. It is a riot all right. ♥

Are you too lazy to fill out the form to register for an account with the New York Times or just don't want to give up your personal information? If so, the Random NYTimes.com Registration Generator is just what you need. ♥

Wednesday Evening Haiku

Nights feel like days
I'm up during the night and
Sleep during the day.

I think I've officially become a night person. It's too bad that in Indonesia women are not allowed to do graveyard shift. Not that I want to do graveyard shift, unless I work from home. Even at home I sometimes feel like I was hallucinating, but I know I'm not, and hear weird things like the backdoor downstairs being opened and closed when everyone's still in bed, or someone screaming like they were in such a terrible fear. But after several nights, I just got used to it. Hey, they don't call it graveyard shift for nothing :)

Anyway, over the weekend, I did two designs and in return got zero in cash and one new domain name. I need to make some real money soon. The bills should arrive in the mail within two weeks and I'm already running out of cash. Eeek! Hire me, please? I do beautiful yet affordable design! And no, I'm not biased. Really. *blinks* ♥

If you want to try something new and be different from the rest or just don't have the budget to buy new clothes, wear ducktape to the prom and join the Stuck at Prom Contest for a chance to win $2,500. If I lived in the U.S. and were still in high school, I'd probably do it. ♥

What's so great about the song "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor is that every line of the song can be illustrated with a British road sign! I am amused :)

Speaking of songs, I'm in love with the song "Silent Sigh" by Badly Drawn Boy, and you know why? It's because the video is featuring two really cute ducks! Yeah, I'm silly that way. ♥

I wanted to say something about this guide to asking a girl on a date but I just couldn't find the word. ♥

According to the Earth Day Footprint Quiz, if everyone lived like me, we'd need 2.1 planets to get by. Gee, aren't you glad there is only one me in our blue planet? ;) ♥

Where do you live? Yes, it's yet another silly quiz that will tell you where you live. You know, just in case you're not sure. I don't usually display any quiz image but I like this one. I like the results, too.

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How DePaul University Does Incident Response. It's not as boring as it sounds, really. And they are very responsive indeed! I think I have a reader in DePaul University. I see the IP address almost every day. Is that you? ;) ♥

Today wannabegirl.org is officially transferred to a new registrar. Now I have access to its administration area, which means I wouldn't need to bug anyone if I needed to get anything changed domainwise. Yippeee! Thanks a bunch to Matt and Michel for making the transfer possible :) ♥

What Warner Bros drama are you? I am Dawson's Creek. Ewww! "You have a slight(!) tendency of being whiny, but people obviously overlook this because so many people wanna be your main squeeze!" I wish. ♥

First2zero.com is a site where you can play darts online. Click the "Network" button if you want to play against a real person. My opponent was trying to pick me up. I quit the game as soon as he asked me the dreaded a/s/l question. Ick! ♥

Turn yourself into a plastic Lego character with the Mini-Mizer. It might just well be the next StorTrooper. I couldn't be bothered taking a screenshot of mine because my computer always starts playing up every time I need to make a screenshot and I just don't feel like dealing with it. All I can say is that it looks a lot like me, only yellow. ♥

Monday Morning Haiku

Four in the morning
I am wide awake still and
Not wanting to sleep.

So, how was your weekend? I spent mine by being depressed, as always. I thought if I kept myself busy, I wouldn't feel so depressced. I was wrong. Well, I wasn't depressed when I was doing something but as soon as I laid myself down to sleep, I couldn't help feeling sad and depressed. But my eyes didn't get all puffy the last time I cried myself to sleep, which was last night.

You know, if your parents still support you financially, or they don't anymore because you already have a job but you still can rely on them to give you a loan when you need one, you are indeed one of the luckiest people in the world. I don't get financial support from my parents anymore and they can't give me a loan even if they wanted to because they're just as broke as me. It sucks big time. ♥

By the way, I was extremely serious when I said that I'd design/re-design your weblog for an affordable price to keep me online and blogging. Hire me? ♥

Do you drive? If you do, you might want to take the Road Rage Test to find out if you're in high or low risk category of suffering from road rage. I don't drive but if I did, I'd be 37.5% prone to road rage, which makes me a softy. Heh. Like I need a test to tell me that I'm a softy. ♥

Power Phillips, P.C. is a small law firm located in downtown Denver, Colorado within convenient walking distance of over fifty bars and a couple of doughnut shops. You'd want to hire them. Funny stuff. ♥

The Ultimate Dodgeball (tm) was a fun game, until I started losing at level 3. But then again, it was an unfair battle of one against three. It's oddly satisfying when you throw the ball and manage to make a hole on your opponent's body. ♥

According to the Gay-O-Meter, I'm only 36% gay. "You're a straight-laced girlie girl with just a hint of your butch side sometimes popping out!" Girlie girl? Me? Nah! I think I should be gayer than that. ♥

CSS Tags Fully Supported by Netscape 4.x/Win is definitely a bookmark material. A tableless layout can work in crappy Netscape 4, you know. I couldn't be bothered making this layout look good in Netscape 4 because according to my site statistics, none of my visitors was using Netscape 4. God bless them all! :) ♥

Saturday Evening Haiku

A merry-go-round
And plenty of loving friends
Were there in my dream.

While I was taking a nap this afternoon, I had this weird dream. I was at my high school and it was my birthday. I thought nobody remembered it, but then someone took my hand and dragged me to the schoolyard and there, on a stage, was a merry-go-round. My friends, all of whom I've never met outside the dream, had hired a merry-go-round for me to ride on, just for the day. The dream was nice for a change since I usually had nightmares and nightmares only. And, in case you're wondering, none of my offline friends actually remembered my birthday.

On a happier note, I can now acces my own website using the new ISP after being deprived of it for a week and guess what I found? I found that I have a Hongkong IP address! Go figure. ♥

So I need some cash to keep me online and blogging. Since I still haven't got any offer to work as a professional weblogger, I've decided to become the next best thing: a professional weblog designer! Sounds cool, eh? ;) So, if you'd like to get your weblog revamped or even built from scratch, let me know. I promise that the design would be beautiful and the price would be quite affordable. Please pretty please, with sugar on top? :) ♥

Steal Your Face is a site where you can pick a photo of of a friend or enemy and have their face transplanted into a picture of a porn queen or a chimpanzee, among others. Fun, fun, fun! ♥

Need to release some stress? Take the Hello Kitty Stress Level Test. It's supposed to measure your stress level, but I think it's more succesful in releasing stress than measuring it. The questions, the broken English, and the results just crack me up. ♥

Celebrity ABC Gum Project is such a gross project. ABC here stands for already been chewed. I'm sure you know what to expect now. The site itself is not nearly as gross as the project because it's lacking the pictures of all the celebrity chewed gums. Not that there are too many of them. But hey, they have an Adam Ant chewed gum! ♥

You know what the world needs? The world needs more men who find girls who wear glasses attractive. Maybe that way I wouldn't be so dateless. I've been wearing glasses since 2nd grade and they've become an inseparable part of me. I don't want to wear contact lenses just to look more attractive. I just don't believe in changing your appearance just to attract the member of the opposite sex. I mean, if you can't accept me the way I am then you're definitely not the one for me. Right? ♥

Thursday Evening Haiku

Thursday's come and gone
Well, every day's come and gone
Gotta make some cash.

My life is an emotional rollercoaster. Yesterday was one of my lowest. Those who know me well should know that I'm impossible to console when I'm feeling down. Jordan tried to console me in vain, and in the middle of it, he said something which would've made laugh hadn't I been too busy crying:

Smurf: have you noticed that when you're depressed you end all of your sentences with a period, without fail? sorry, I notice these things. :)

No, I didn't notice it, Jordan. Thanks for informing me :P Anyway, crying myself to sleep was such a bad idea because when I woke up this morning my eyes were all puffy and my mother, brother, and sister-in-law couldn't stop asking me why. I just told them that I hadn't had enough sleep lately. Hence the puffy eyes. Not sure if they bought that. I wouldn't if I were them.

Tomorrow we'll have to come over to my little brother's soon-to-be-in-laws' place to fit the dress. The wedding is still three months from now, but already we have to fit the dress! I hope I won't bulk up too much over the next three months. I think I'll need to stop my midnight snacking ritual for awhile. Oh, the horror! ♥

Super Console Wars: The Gampire Strikes Gold might only be funny to gamers and/or Star Wars fans. I'm neither and my connection is too slow to play the flash movie so I have no comment. I wish I could see it, though :( ♥

I just re-discovered WhatTheFont, which is an online font recognition tool that can tell you the name of the font used on an image, and this time I made sure that I bookmarked the site. ♥

Body Mouse was the creepiest thing I saw today. I think I'm going to have a nightmare tonight. Not that I'm not having a nightmare every night already. ♥

It's such a shame that we will never see the Banner Ads We'd Like To See being used by the respective companies. GeoCities users might find the GeoCities banner ad offensive so consider yourself warned. ♥

Dr. Flockter, the web site that can read your mind, can really read your mind. It's not as good as me, though. I can read your mind without asking any question. ♥

"Saved webloggers from poverty"? Dude, I'm still poor! Anyway, Tim is wondering about the power of weblogs and first in a series is: Can Weblogs Get Their Own BBC TV Show? (Note to Tim: go ask Tom. He might have some inside information.)

I can't see why not, but what I have in mind is more like a Survivor type thing where some webloggers are sent to live in some remote place in the middle of nowhere, bringing nothing but a laptop with internet access, and then the audience would get the excitement of seeing them sitting around doing nothing but blogging. Those who complain or blog about being hungry would get voted off and the winner would get, I dunno. A romantic candlelight dinner with a weblogger of their choice, perhaps? That sounds more exciting than a news programme, doesn't it? ♥

My mother is a Robbie Williams fan and my 30 year-old brother is an N'Sync fan. What does that say about my family? ♥

What car are you? I'm the "sensible" Honda. Practical, useful, and wholesome. But I want to be the New VW Beetle! *whines* ♥

Ooooh, the Apple iToilet is so pretty! Mac fans around the world must be dying to have it in their bathroom. Heh. ♥

American readers (that's 49.7% of y'all) might want to know the Shocking Expose: Inside the IRS. I bet you didn't know that they're employing genetically-engineered people there. And that's only one of the shocking truths you can find there. ♥

Having a bad day? Go to the Smile Starter! It's kind of corny, but still it made me smile. Oh, I forgot the smile. Here it is... :) ♥

The Covers Project is another very interesting project. The project goal is to create cover "chains", which is a set of songs in which each song is a cover of a song by the band who covered the preceding song. How's that for meta? You can participate in the project by adding a cover song that you know of, that's not in the database.

I've been trying to come up with a chain with at least three songs in it but I just can't think of any, and it's really bugging me. Great. Now my mind would stay active until I come up with one and I just can't sleep with an active mind. Hmmph. ♥

This Google Adword Poetry thingy is rather inspiring. Anyone want to sponsor me to put some adwords with a haiku in it? I promise I'll only pick mispelled words so it would be cheap. I'd do it myself but I'm broke and I don't have a credit card. Let me know if there's any taker :) ♥

In case you're wondering what Microsoft OS I am, I'm Microsoft Windows Version 3.1. I think that means I'm bad. ♥

Monday Night Haiku

My brain is hurting,
Marking exams really sucks,
Zero for you all!

Hello all! Guest Blogger Troy here. This haiku is very near and dear to my heart right now as I am marking final exams for a course I'm a TA for. You see being a graduate student isn't all fun and games. It also involves being a TA (Teaching Assistant) and along with being a TA comes marking papers/labs/exams etc. Now don't get me wrong. I love being a TA, I just hate the marking. ♥

I have seen so many Movable Type weblogs with a calendar whose hyperlinked and unhyperlinked dates have different font sizes and it's kind of bugging me. If you're one of those people with such calendar, here's a little tip you can use. Just add the following snippet into your stylesheet:

table, td {
	font-family: verdana, arial, 
        sans-serif;
	color: #fff;
	font-size:11px;
	}

Change the font-family, color, and font-size values to match your design and voila! You'll have a pretty little calendar that doesn't bug me :) It works on Troy's Movable Type weblog (which I only tweaked, not designed, no matter what Troy might tell you), it should work on yours as well. I hope someone will find this tip useful. ♥

Sunday Night Haiku

It's almost Monday
I'm downloading MP3s
Just because I can.

Well, not really. I'm downloading my favourite songs from Live, "Selling the Drama" and "Lightning Crashes" because a friend in college borrowed my copy of the album containing those songs ages ago and never returned it (classic case, I know) and when I went to some record stores to buy that album again last week, none of them had a copy. So you see, I'm not really downloading the songs just because I can.

I might download a cover version of "Selling the Drama" by REM and another cover version of "Lightning Crashes" by Pearl Jam after I downloaded the original version, but we'll see. The download is not going very well. It's been 15 minutes since I started the download and only 1% of the file has been downloaded. Ack! ♥

Have you ever used RealPlayer (or whatever they call it now) to listen to streaming audio on a dial-up connection? If not, you probably wouldn't get the joke. Well, either that or it's not really funny and I'm just easily amused. ♥

Googlematic enables you to search Google using your instant messenger client. I think searching Google using the web interface is much more convenient, but still it's kind of cool. ♥

Just when I thought that Nikolai would never upload Fairvue's new design, he did. Apparently, Fairvue Redesign Day has shifted from April 11 every year to April 13. Heh. It was nice to see my surname on the map in the background. And yet he still hasn't changed Weblog Wannabe link to point to this address. Hmmph.

Now, Jordan, when will swirlee be reborn like Phoenix from Arizona? ;) Just use b2 or something. ♥

Tile Machine Gallery has a huge collection of tiles that you can use as a background image in your website. There are over six thousand tiles in the collection so you're bound to find something that you like. ♥

Tim, my personal marketer (ha-ha) who still hasn't succeeded in marketing my weblogging skillz, sent me a link to Cat Haiku and other cat-related humour. They are, uh, humorous. Really. Thanks, Tim! ♥

Most of the houses in Indonesia have squat toilet. At home, we have two bathrooms: one with a squat toilet and another one with a sit toilet. I prefer the squat one, but I don't think you want to know the reason. ♥

Which element are you? I'm a tie between Water and Spirit. My best match, according to the results, is Fire. If you are Fire, then you might be the one for me ;) ♥

Story Elements is a floating database of characters, objects, themes and places that anyone can contribute to, and anyone can use in their writing for free. Next time you're having a writer's block, you know where to go. ♥

This shakeitbabe thing is definitely one of the most original Flash things I've ever come across. Very cool. What the little man does will surprise you. ♥

Firda wanted me
To post a silly haiku
Here it is - finished

Yes, I (Emlyn) am still a guest blogger here at Weblog Wannabe for some reason. And though Firda may ignore my emails, she can hardly ignore this. (mad cackling).

One more thing - for the sake of your safety, and the safety of your children, you need a sword. You know you do. ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

Friday already
It's been one week since I turned
Twenty-nine years old.

Time does fly, whether you're having fun or not. I've been posting a silly haiku very rarely these days, huh? Maybe I should just have one of my guest bloggers post a haiku anonymously every day. That would be quite refreshing since they all seem to be able to write much better haikus than me. So you see, my dear guest bloggers, I still maintain your guest blogger status for a reason :P Now who wants to post a haiku tomorrow? Raise your hand! ♥

I'm not really sure how the Capoeira Game works because my poor, old computer seems to be too slow for it. All I can say is that it's a very good-looking fighting game. ♥

Which sappy movie ballad are you? I'm "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic. Yuck, yuck, yuck! I just can't stand that song. It's annoying and the lyrics are almost as bad as Shakira's "Underneath Your Clothes". ♥

Hello Kitty toilet paper, anyone? It's good to see that the folks at Sanrio seem to be aware of the evil quality of Hello Kitty. Hence the toilet paper. Don't tell me that it's meant to be cute. ♥

I've had suicidal thoughts from time to time, but I've never considered injuring myself like these Famous Self-Injurers did, mainly because I can't stand the sight of blood. I guess it's a blessing in disguise. Or something. ♥

There aren't too many people who accomplished anything big when they were my age, thank God. I feel less pressure to do anything big at this grand age of twenty-nine.

"At age 29, the Buddha decided to renounce the world and abandon family and posessions. Seven years later, he realized this brought him no closer to the wisdom he sought."

The Buddha sounds just like me. Disoriented, that is. I don't know how it could be considered as an accomplishment. ♥

And now, for some geeky fun, learn how to fry an egg in your PC. If you're one of those people who like to do things the hard way, this is something you should try. ♥

If I worked in advertising, I think these billboards would be the kind of thing I'd come up with. ♥

The Art of Turboing. The term "turboing" refers to the actions of a customer who goes around the normal technical support process by contacting a senior person in the chain of command because the first-level support sucks. This article will show you how to do it successfully. ♥

I didn't really get most of the questions in the Monty Python and the Holy Grail character quiz, but in case you're wondering, I'm Arthur, King of the Britons. You? ♥

Syberpunk: a quirky Japanese collection boasts itself to have the largest gallery of Engrish pictures on the internet. It makes a nice companion to Engrish.com. They also sell Pocari Sweat here in Indonesia, by the way. I wonder how good the market for that product actually is. I know for sure that I don't want to drink anyone's sweat. ♥

I was wondering how on earth I could get so many hits from Weblogs.Com: Recently Changed Weblogs page when I hadn't updated my weblog for at least half a day. As it turned out, it was due to my weblog being one of the top 10 hits for weblog in Google. Neat. The Google Box seems to be Weblogs.Com latest feature. It's being updated every hour. ♥

My little brother is getting married in three months and for some reasons, he had to sign a letter stating that he's never married before. I saw the letter this evening as it was lying around on my mother's desk and read it briefly. I was just going to leave when my mother told me to check out the title of the letter (which was hidden under a piece of paper) for a good laugh. The title of the letter was "Statement of Virginity". No kidding. I had a good laugh all right. I'm still giggling now :) ♥

Which storybook character are you? I'm Curious George. Curious and lovable. Cool. I guess. ♥

"He's a scantily clad nervous performance artist trapped in a dead-end relationship with his cat. She's a manic-depressive macrobiotic dominatrix with a huge crush on Angelina Jolie. They have blogs." ♥

It was relieving to know that the fly with implanted web server is a dead fly. The web server enables online viewers to enter and exit the fly corpse. Why? I still can't figure that one out. ♥

Nerds don't need to go to the gym to gain muscles. Nerd Gym is right there in front of the computer. Check out all the exercise techniques you can do "whilst maintaining your trendy monitor worshipping life style". ♥

Tuesday Evening Haiku

Yet another storm
The second storm in three days
Has just passed. It's cold.

Today I signed up with an ISP which provides unlimited hour of internet access for only $10. The connection is really fast. I've nothing to complain about it. The only thing is, I can't access my own website with it. Grrr! I know that my website is not down, but I keep on getting "Host Not Found" error mesage every time I try to access my website. It's sooo annoying. What's more annoying is having to connect to the other evil ISP just to check all the comments people left in my blog. Hmmph. So much for cheap and fast internet access... ♥

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, REBECCA!

I remember feeling really old when I turned a quarter of a century old. But now that my little brother is over a quarter of a century old, I don't feel as old anymore :) ♥

Thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday. My birthday was not really all that bad. Dad still gave some upsetting stuff along with the shirt I saw him wrapping the night before my birthday, but it wasn't really unexpected so it didn't upset me. The birthday cake I baked was yummy. The food my mum ordered from a caterer was good. The presents were nice though I didn't get anything I wanted, but I already expected that. And that's all I can say about my birthday. Now I'm off to bed. Goodnight! ♥

The Beasty Game. Think of an animal and the computer will try to guess what the animal is. It can guess lemur all right, though not in very few steps. ♥

Cat Cow Killer is a flash game where you get to kill flying cows with sticks that are shot from a cat's tail. Yes, it is that weird, but the graphics are cute. Press spacebar to shoot and the arrow keys to navigate. I only managed to get to level 3 and score 370 points. I suck. ♥

I just read Slang of the Nineties and now I wonder how "Atari" could become the term used among electronic musicians and some ravers to describe horrid DJs. Very curious. ♥

Today next year, I'm going to turn the Big Three-Oh. I can't wait! Thirty sounds like a very liberating age, as opposed to twenty-nine, which is neither here nor there.

Happy birthday to me! ♥

Are you incapable of recognising or using irony or sarcasm? If the answer is "yes", you definitely need the Irony Plug-ins. These plugins are compatible with IE 3.0 or higher and Netscape 4.0 and higher and can be downloaded for free. ♥

bu!&h� umoC ap!s&� (Upside Down Typing) is even worse than leet speak. Some people just have too much time on their hand. Cliche, but true. ♥

Orking is the act of taking a photograph with the animal's nose too close to the lens (betcha never heard of ot before). The Art of Orking is a website containing -- you guess it -- photographs of animals with their nose too close to the lens. Very cute stuff. ♥

IconLite is a web application that allows you to create, save, and re-edit 32×32 pixel icons online. It's in Shockwave and since Shockwave never fails to crash my poor, old computer, I haven't tried it out. Still, it sounds cool. Some of you might find it useful. ♥

Do you often have to fight your sibling just to use the computer? Well, fight no more. Just play Keyboard Sumo and the winner may use the computer for the rest of the day. Or something. It's better than doing the real Sumo fight. At least only your middle finger may get hurt instead of the rest of your body. ♥

Saturday Night Haiku

Saturday night is
The loneliest night of all
Or so I've been told.

I baked my own birthday cake this afternoon. It was a cheesecake and it was yummy. My little brother couldn't wait until my birthday tomorrow to have the cake so I let him have not one, but two slices. I couldn't resist myself either, so I let myself have two slices as well. Hehe. There are still a dozen slices left. Should be enough for tomorrow.

I'm not going to let my father ruin my birthday this year. My birthday last year really sucked. Dad ruined it, no one baked me a cake, no one cooked anything special, and my mum was ill. At least this year I've baked myself a birthday cake and mum has ordered a caterer to cook my favourite meals. I love my mum :)

In addition, dad's present is not going to be anything upsetting. I saw him wrapping a blue shirt in the dining room just then. (You can see just about anything that's going on in the house from one of my bedroom windows.) I just hope that he won't deliver his lame preach when he's handing me the present in the morning. ♥

My birthday is not until the 7th but I already got an early birthday present from Troy. It's a picture of RoboQuack! Hehe. It cracks me up :) Thanks, Troy! ♥

How worshipable are you? I am 82% worshipable. Wheee! I doubt anyone would want to worship me, though. Well, except for my goldfish. I am quite sure that they worship me. Heh. (via Rebecca) ♥

This GIF animation is very, very disturbing. I wish I could read Japanese (Kanji?). I'd like to know what all the writings in the animation say. Can anyone tell me? ♥

Gay or Straight, can you tell? I only got 9 out of 16 right. I think the key here is to follow your instinct. I would've scored better if I did. (via Tom) ♥

The Maya tribe is no longer, but you can still learn how to be attractive the classic Maya way. Had they lived in our time, they must find most of us very unattractive. ♥

Is the girl of your dreams already taken by some other guy? Advanced Girlfriend Stealing Tips from an Actual Chick might be able to help you win her over. Emphasis on "might". ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

Post a dumb haiku
Thou shalt not forget to post
A stupid haiku.

I failed to post a haiku for two days in a row! My bad. Not that anyone missed it or anything. Anyway, this afternoon I went to the mall with my brother and sister-in-law to buy my birthday present, which was two pairs of goldfish. I'd wanted a rabbit and a love bird, but I guess I have to be happy with the goldfish. I named one of the goldfish Troy, after him. I'm not sure what to call the other three. Any suggestion?

On a completely unrelated note, "Loverboy" by Mariah Carey has got to be one of the worst songs of the century. I think one could torture someone to death with that song. It's truly awful. Ick! ♥

If you're a concert-goer, you will appreciate Soundcow's Guide to Concert-Going. I'm sure you'd complain about the same things. It's a pretty amusing read despite all the swear words. The writer must be one cranky concert-goer :) ♥

I wonder if there are really 911 things on the list of 911 Things To Hate About America. It doesn't look all that many. Anyway, that list was compiled by Americans. I found some of the things pretty amusing. But then again, I'm not American. ♥

Learn how to be a `web' `designer'. One of the requirements is a copy of an early version of Photoshop. Hrm. Does my beloved Photoshop 5.0 count as an early version? ♥

Do you have a hippo that you'd like to ship somewhere by mail? The U.S. Postal Service have some tips on how to pack a hippo. I wonder how much the shipping would cost. ♥

After seeing this Flash animation, you'll never look at a chocolate bar the same way again. Well, at least I think it's a chocolate bar. Or isn't it? ♥

New design! Do you like? It's not finished yet but I couldn't wait to show it to you so I uploaded it anyway. I spent all day working on it. It doesn't look it but oh well. Let me know if it looks crappy in your browser. It should look fine in IE5.5 and Opera 6. If not, it's the browser's fault :) And the Quack-O-Matic is back up. Not that it's ever been down. I just forgot to put up the link the other day. ♥

Hey, look! It's The Random Masturbation Synonym Generator! Sigh. I just can't find anything blogworthy tonight. I'm not even sure if this is blogworthy. I just needed to blog something. ♥

In case you missed it, yesterday's Blogger parody can be found here. Enjoy! ♥

Tuesday Evening Haiku

What a lousy day
Will tomorrow be better?
There's no guarantee.

Well, this is just a temporary design. I got tired of the super clean look. At least this one has a crappy image on top. The duck is supposed to be floating in a bath tub full of foam. You know, just in case you can't figure it out yourself. Tomorrow there might be yet another new design. I'm in a design frenzy right now. Web design is fun, as long as you don't do it for money. ♥

Which Blogging Tool Are You? Yeah, it's yet another of my stupid blogging quiz. I was bored, okay? Besides, the quiz suits the theme of today's design. Anyway, the blogging tool that matches my personality is, of course, Blogger. I love being Blogger :) ♥

It's that time of year again and blah blah blah.

(You wouldn't believe how hard it is to find old Blogger-powered blogs that are not dead yet. Finding weblogs that used to be Blogger-powered but are now powered by Greymatter or Movable Type is so much easier.)

Someone must be stepping on Nikolai Wheaton's toes when that picture was taken. Love the cheesy Weblog Wannabe button, though. Must steal it.

Chunshek has links to more weblogs with April Fools' design. ♥

Watch Out Behind You, Hunter! It's a pretty nice shooting game, if you're into games that involve shooting some naked men. I only managed to shoot two naked men to death before I ran out of bullet. ♥

Weblogs.Com: Top-100 Links from Weblogs must be the new version of the old Weblogs.Com Hotlist. It lists the Top-100 pages linked to by the weblogs who pinged Weblogs.Com. I'm sitting at #79 for today. I think I will be out of the list on the week days. ♥

Andrew Nestler's Guide to Math in "The Simpsons" chronicles the appearances of mathematics and mathematicians on -- you guess it -- "The Simpsons". Some of the math-related dialogs are pretty amusing. ♥

Monday Morning Haiku

Only 1:30
So early in the morning
I haven't slept yet.

My birthday is in less than a week from now and I'm really dreading it. I hope my father will forget all about it, which is not very likely because even if he didn't remember, my mother and brother's enthusiasm to wish me a happy birthday me would remind him of it and then he would take that opportunity to preach me and make me feel like hell, like he did every year. Sigh. Woe is me. ♥