This has been the longest no blogging span since the beginning of the blog which means I'm getting a life. Today I intend to make up for it though, sparing any details about work and other disturbing events of the week.

Last Friday I spent most of the day battling with my girlfriend's n-gage because I couldn't get it to read the MMC card through the USB port. After reading the few forums that were not blocked at work I came to the conclusion that the card is corrupted and can only be accessed with an MMC card reader. The card got corrupted with some strange magnetic field which was freaking out monitors about a month ago at work.

The last two hours of the week aged me by ten years, but as soon as they passed our joy to life was restored. We lost no time and went for a game of squash which I won 2-1 after my two last defeats in last weeks. Playing squash at a temperature of 35 degrees Celsius is an arduous experience to say the least and a very sweaty one also. To cool ourselves we went to the north coast of the island for a late evening swim. Any fat lost at squash was regained with a bottle of African wine which tasted like Vermouth.

Saturday started with a struggle between going to go to work on overtime or staying at home to tidy my room, risking having to paint our front gates. I opted for staying at home avoiding dad as much as possible. I remember that the last time I ordered my room I had just started blogging (April) and since then the room became comparable to aftermath of the matrix shootout scene hall. The final outcome consisted of four bagfuls of garbage and about a kilo of dust. At least the room is now fit for human habitation again. After this we went for the Saturday volleyball match and won 6 sets to 0 (we had a very unbalanced strong team though). We finished the day couching in front of TV hoping for something decent which never materialised.

Sunday was an ultra hyper day and considering that my mate woke up before 1pm is an event in itself. We planned a day at a remote beach with my ex-work pal and his girlfriend. The beach is actually a grotto about a kilometre away from a famous crowded beach, and is accessible only by swimming to it. In order to get the bags inside the grotto, you have to hang the bags from a rope. Walking for a kilometre on a rocky path in the scorching heat is a great deterrent for normal humans. The whole day was one of the best in months, the water was crystal clear making swimming wonderful, and the whole ambient was very peaceful.

Enough of my ranting now. Take a look at these shots from National Geographic, they make great desktops too.

Some Links worth noting

i laff in de face of evil...then i run & hide 'til it goes away!!!

There are two things that are difficult to integrate into a web page, music and images. Cindy's site is the only site I ever managed to endure with the sound on and her image selection is the main driver behind my adding her to my top 15 links in the toolbar. The day to day accounts are also getting interesting as time goes by.

Defective Yeti

Matthew Baldwin's site has become a daily click. If you've never been there go there and read today's post. If you've already been there, go there and read today's post.

Word Count

Word Count is an experiment to rank the most 86,800 most frequently used words from a corpus of 100 million word collection. The simplistic yet appealing flash display is extremely effective and addictive. My name ranks at 2303.

Disturbing Auctions  Snap Club

Two sites highlighting the stupidity of humans. God forbid aliens ever get access to the internet or we'd be doomed forever.

Twiz TV  Awesome film

Ever wanted to impress your friends with your movie/TV premonitions?

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I got two new words which have been scribbled on the whiteboard for quite some time now:-

Word: fickle
Meaning:

1. Characterized by erratic changeableness or instability, especially with regard to affections or attachments; capricious (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language)
2. Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious (Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary)

Synonyms: capricious, erratic, unsteady, untrue, variable, volatile, casual
Usage: They know how fickle common lovers are. -- Dryden.
Comment: Used to describe our boss

Word: guano
Meaning:

1. A substance composed chiefly of the dung of sea birds or bats, accumulated along certain coastal areas or in caves and used as fertilizer
2. Any of various similar substances, such as a fertilizer prepared from ground fish parts.

Synonyms: manure, maul, mulch, dung