Weblog Wannabe

I'm back and I'm tired as hell. The vacation sucked. The only thing about it that you might find slighly interesting was that there was actually an internet cafe called "Disconnect" in the town that I visited. Not sure who'd want to go there to get online. Thanks for the guest bloggage, Troy! :) I will blog more later. ♥

Friday Morning Haiku

Firda should be back
Very soon, maybe today
Hope she had much fun

As the haiku says Firda should be back soon. I don't think she had a set date that she was coming back. I kind of hope she is having so much fun that she decides to stay at her relatives for a couple more days. Not that I don't want to chat with here, or have her get back to her blog (since I imagine most of the regular Weblog readers want her to come back as well). I just want her to be happy and hope she's having fun.

I don't have any topic to ramble about so no long boring bout of verbal diarreha for the masses today. ♥

Thursday Morning Haiku

Writing my thesis
Turns my brain into Jello
Cosby would be proud

For those of your who don't read my blog you may not know that I am a graduate student and at this very moment (well not this one precisely) I am writing my thesis. I won't bore you with my thesis topic since only 0.1% of the population would find it remotely interesting with the other 99.9% either not understand what I am talking about or just not caring.

I've been writing this thing for a little over a month. I'm well on my way to getting it done and would like to have a complete rough copy by the end of this month so I can join the real world. One thing I've found is that thesis writing is a real test of willpower. You have to be motivated enough to want to sit down for hours at a time and just write and/or analyse data. A lot of the time I find my motivation dwindling and don't end up doing much during the day, then the guilt sets in. You know the guilt I'm talking about. The type of guilt that sits in the back of your head while you sitting around watching TV or surfing web sites. The type of guilt that makes you keep thinking "I really should be working on that thesis/project/homework/will etc". This guilt can be useful sometimes. For me if I slack off one day I tend to come back the next day with a vengance. I start to set goals and attempt to meet them before I go home. If I don't meet them during the day there is the slim chance I will work on it at home or I'll push myself even more the next day.

Now I forget what the real point of this post was. I probably didn't have one. Or maybe I'm just procrastinating so I don't have to write my thesis. Oh oh here comes the guilt. I've got to go! ♥

Wednesday Morning Haiku

Firda is away.
Let the Anarchy begin
but orderly please!

It's been a while since I've posted a Haiku on this weblog. So as you know from the previous posting by Firda she has left us for a couple of days to have fun in another part of Indonesia. A family visiting, volcano climbing and boy-talk chats with her younger cousin. I'm sure she will have a good time. In the meanwhile I, Troy (shameless promotion), will be taking her place. Actually I could never take Firda's place. By taking her place I mean posting infrequently (maybe once a day), not posting any links (since I'm not a very good cool link finder) and putting a lot of side thoughts in brackets (like this). If you don't want to hear someone babbling about nothing I would suggest you return in a couple of days when Firda returns. If not I am overjoyed that you stayed.

On to a story. Firda and I were talking last night about her trip. She is going to a relatives place and will be hanging out with her 16 year old cousin. I mentioned something along the lines that she, Firda, will have to take some of the music CDs that I've made for her and teach her cousin what good music is all about. I realized during that conversation that I am a egotistical audiophile who only believes his music is "good music" and that what everyone else listens to is crap. I think I am pretty open to different types of music. I listen to a lot of different stuff and even like some of the top 40 stuff that is out there (though very little of it). I just think that some people out there listen to bad music when there is much more superior stuff out there to listen to. In a way I feel like it is my mission to introduce as many people as I can to new music. I realize that not everyone is going to enjoy what I listen to but it's well worth a try. ♥

Well folks, I'm off for my vacation. My friend Troy will keep you entertained here while I'm away and my friend Jordan will keep an eye on Haiku the Blog for me. Be nice to them and be good. I'll be back this weekend. I'll see you then! ♥

I'm probably the only person in the world who is not so crazy about the idea of having their website listed on Yahoo! *grumbles, grumbles* And that's my full name in the description. Ack! I thought you had to submit your url to get listed. I know I never submitted mine. Oh well. ♥

blogChalking is a pretty neat idea. Would be even cooler if the implementation was more like warchalking, by writing a symbol with a chalk on the pavement or on the wall in the area where a weblogger lives. No? ♥

Do you want people from the future to come here and bring you along with them back to the future? Well, invest 10 bucks to The Time Travel Fund[tm]. But really, don't you think if time travel really worked, there would already be people from the future among us now? I don't think I know any. ♥

Bah! All I can say is bah! Forgive this very uninspiring post but it pretty much sums up how I feel right now. If you want to cheer me up, go to Haiku the Blog, register for an account, and post a haiku or two. And I know you love me and all, but please no more haiku for me. (Thanks, Jordan!) ♥

To the person who just stole this weblog design, could you please remove my Nedstat code? You're messing up my site statistics! Sheesh. This is beginning to feel like PMS: it happens monthly and is always annoying. ♥

The new Haiku the Blog is ready for your enjoyment. Feel free to join the fun, but remember to follow the guidelines. You may now post not only haiku about weblogs, but also haiku about news. It was the only change I made in the rules. Well, go there already and post a haiku or two! ♥

I don't know what it is about me that made these two webloggers [1] [2] to want me to be in their movies. I must have a movie star quality that I don't know of. Hrm. ♥

Did you recently buy a new PC or make the switch to a Mac because your old PC kept on annoying you? Want to get rid of that evil PC but not quite sure how? Get some ideas from PC-Killer and taste the sweetness of revenge. Or something. ♥

elgooG is a Google mirror, and I mean it almost literally. Standard comment that some people have too much time on their hands applies. ♥

Find out how lame your website is with xpenguin, the webpage content and lameness check. According to it, this page has no negative point so it's not really lame. It's neutral. Aren't you proud of me? ;) ♥

Help Stop Hockey Puck Abuse! But if you stopped torturing the hockey puck, there wouldn't be a game of ice-hockey because if you replaced the rubber discs in the game of ice-hockey with something else like, say, rubber balls, the game would be called field hockey! Man, I'm such a genius. ♥

Friday Night Haiku

There is no email
Not even annoying spam
No comments, either.

So I'm in a pissy mood right now. Just shoot me. But you've got to admit that you did miss my stupid haiku :P ♥

Play a game of Battleships. Hopefully, this game is not as lame as the Space Taxi. I didn't really get it, though. I did manage to sink a battleship, but I'm not sure if it was mine or the enemy's. Yeah, I am a pathetic excuse for a gamer. ♥

From O'Reilly Network Weblogs come Antenna on the Cheap (er, Chip), which is a guide to building an antenna for wireless network from a can of Pringles. I didn't understand most of the technical jargons, but there were bits and pieces there that made me giggle. ♥

Happy Independence Day to all American readers! I blogged an oldie but goodie Canadiana site on Canada Day so today, just to be fair, I'm going to blog another oldie but goodie Americana site: Congratulations on Becoming a U.S. Citizen! Read with sense of humour intact :) ♥

Woo, I'm more than a wannabe! Who would've guessed? ;) Yeah, I know. I am such a media whore. Thanks for the mention, Christian! ♥

Who were you in your past life? I was F.I.R.D.A., the Famously Inhuman Roman Drudge from Atlantis. That's amusing :) Kinda reminds you of the Cyborg Name Generator, doesn't it? ♥

Hey, if you could land one single SpaceTaxi on the platform, I will worship you. What a frustrating game. ♥

The Food Timeline is pretty interesting. I learned from it that pasta and macaroni were invented some 190 years before Chinese noodles. I really thought it was the other way around. ♥

Are you drawn to the light or dark side of the force? Take the Force-O-Meter to find out. I scored a 6, which means I am Supreme bad-ass Jedi who resonates with the Force. Yoda is my best mate. Cool! :) ♥

Metric sucks? I don't think so. I think metric system kicks pints, quarts, inches, feet, and miles' collective butt! ;) Feet is especially silly because -- let's face it -- people don't have uniform-sized foot! ♥

Now I'm going to re-design this weblog. Wish me luck! :) Update: It's not going to happen. Nope. I'm still in love with this design, and I still haven't found the right duck for the new design. Anyone wanna draw me one? ;) ♥

Worst Case Scenarios offers incredibly useful survival tips, such as: how to survive if your parachute fails to open, how to control a runaway camel, how to determine the gender of your date, and many more. ♥

Instant Bureaucracy provides you with form letters that may (or may not) make you sound important. I think it would be most useful if you work for the government. Heh. ♥

Infinite Wheel will surely entertain the easily amused reggae music lovers among you. Even if you're not into reggae music, you can still have fun anyway with all the dub selectors as long as you're easily amused. ♥

CSS Stylesheet Editor looks like a neat little software. It doesn't support CSS positioning, but still it's good for creating simple stylesheet for your HTML. You can download it here for free. ♥

If you have nothing to do this summer vacation, why don't you modify your mouse and make it the envy of, uh, me? I'd love to have one like that, but I just don't have the skillz. ♥

Happy Canada Day to all Canadian readers! Now I felt the need to link to the Canadian Internet Licensing Board just to show you that the deadline to apply for a licence to operate a Canadian Web site has long passed ;) ♥