Tomorrow I'm back to work since last Tuesday, even though I'm still not in tip top condition after this tedious flu. At least I've managed to work on the holiday video editing in the morning which is much easier after 11pm. When working on larger sequences of video at the once give the end result a much better flow and identity. Additionally this left my nights free to get gobbled up by blogshares maniawhich has replaced the very brief chess phase I've been through in the last weeks.

Blogshares is getting me paranoid to the extent that I decided to buy a premium membership. After hesitating for about a week I was completely determined to buy the membership until I saw the damn paypal graphic. Our country is still not supported so all my plans burnt up in flames leaving a very nasty e-mail residue to paypal.

The best thing about blogshares is that apart from being a bomb to play making millions of virtual blog cash, it is a huge manual blog directory with more than 2200 categories. You get to categorize any blog in the system to earn chips depending on the detail and accuracy of your categorisation. In fact something rather funny happened when Kitty from Traces of time categorized mindspill in the love life category which I found rather amusing and quite strange. It turned out that my references to my girlfriend led to this intuition.

As expected a number of blogs are featuring posts about our new pope, Benedict XVI. As I'm not one to formulate predictions based on total ignorance I thought it would be more worthwhile to point to a couple of articles that seem to be more familiar with the new boss.

• Pope Benedict XVI: The History Behind His Name
• A new pope