Don't know where this picture came from, but it's lying around wasting space on my HD, so it might as well waste some space somewhere else as well. OMG, treeible consequentional happenings of the disease!

Don't know who the hell Confucious is? Increase your limited knowledge here.

Today is Confucius day, a day we dedicate towards the great philosopher with the same name, who was born this day a long long time ago and lived between 551 B.C.E. - 479 B.C.E. He lived in China, and he died a long time ago, but his wisdom will live on forever. Honestly I know not much more about him than his name, so in honor of this great day I'm on my way to Wikipedia to read through the long streak of info they have on him. Good day.

Confirmation "a rite administered to baptized persons, in some churches as a sacrament for confirming and strengthening the recipient in the Christian faith, in others as a rite without sacramental character by which the recipient is admitted to full communion with the church."

My buddy Bear, since a year back Catholicfrom toes to hair, decided to seriously catholizize himself this year. Of course I was there, dressed up in a striped black shirt with backslicked hair. Felt strange being in a church, specially a Catholic one, and even stranger ones the public prayers and god-worshipping songs began to take place. I didn't join in on any of them, just didn't feel right (i'm not religious you see), but I stood up with the rest of the crowd and listened to the bishops & priests interesting speeches in respectful silence. It was a pretty pompous event, with lots of hatchanges, big goldenlike staffs and headsqueezing as well as a general stream of people towards the altar. I laughed a bit inside when time for the "friendly gesture" came, and everybody shook hands with everybody nearby, seeing as the government has tried to change the way people greet each other in order to halt the rapid increase in swine-flu nationally ... not that swinefly bothers me any, all the people who have died in it so far were either sick in something else or really really old. Anyhow, once the whole ceremony was over and the confirmands (rough translation from Swedish) had all exchanged the traditional confirmatory greeting with the Biship and pledged alliegence to the flag of God we all exited the room and Bears dad gave me a ride to Bears grandparents place where the afterparty was to be arranged.

We ate great, smoked salmon under a bed of majoneese and cucumber, surrounded by lemon slices, potato sallad, pasta sallad, marinated salmon, regular sallad, sour onions and a little bit of everything. For drink there was Pommac and Wine (both red and white). Four of Bears other buddies were there as well and we all sat together and spoke on the terrace for a few hours. For dessert three delicious cakes were brought fourth, and following them personal icecream slices as well. It's Swedish tradition (not Catholic) to give presents to the Confirmand, so everyone did. I brought the game Taifho (in fear that Bear might read this I will not reveal price or location of buy), which was seemingly an appriciated gift, Bears mom had played it before and gave it great praise to my upcoming content. We played it too, four players, I won. :)

One after another the guests left and after a while only I was left. We took a couple of long walks, first with Doris (dog) and then without, in the forest, in complete darkness. Youtubed half an hour, ate dinner (Quorn fillets with potatoes, sallad and olives, some strong sauce, tasted good) and then I left at about ten. My mother waited patiently at the trainstation after having seen both a cat sorrowfully meowing by its owners bicycle and a mouse run across the road before her. No Pokemon tonight.

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It feels like every time I have a lot of things I need to get done, I stop doing any of the things I need to doing, and devotedly dive into any other supreme projects I've been looking forward to working with for some time. Sometimes I create whole new concepts, spawn great creativationals that I wouldn't ever have though of otherwise, but as all good things it comes with a downside. I don't get what I should be doing done, so I should stop doing other things and start doing things I need to be doing. Like this blog, writing this blog is a waste of at the moment very valuable time. I have a website client waiting whos site I haven't yet completed, schoolwork soon due and some siterelated tasks I set up for myself at the spawn of fall in Northern Sweden. I spend more time by the computer than I spend outside . . . or sleeping, and the more time I spent trying to get things done, the slower I do things. Plain logic.

Exercise is needed to set the mind in motion, I don't get enough of that, and I don't get enough sleep, so, yeah, I should do things differently. I will be doing things a bit differently tonight, I won't be working until late night when I really can't get anything done at a valid pace at later hours of the day. Instead I'll be leaving the computer at maybe about nine, working a little manually in my room, then playing Pokemon for a while until I go to sleep. Until then I'll so USEFUL things on the computer. Instead of sorting seventy albums and browsing galleries in order to stack up my wallpaper directories and maybe reading the latest IT news and searching for "How to brush your teeth properly" when I already know how to but somewhere deep in mind hope to learn a new secret technique that will let me clean my teeth waaay better waaay faster than usual I'll write a wishlist for this Christmas, post this blog, program a calculator in PHP (schoolwork) and if time remains, gather links for the coming special double Webox updates on CyberDB (falling a bit behind there, with some of the sitework I've been speaking about).

If you're wondering about Pokemon, I did during this so far a bit indecisive week pick up my old copy of Pokemon Gold and start playing it again, this time with a serious dedication towards gathering all twohundredfifty pokemon. I'm so dedicated I've been bidding on various Pokemon games online, bought a cheap link cable, will buy another GBC alternatively GBA console unless linking together my green GBC and purple GBA work good enough. I'll trade Pokemon between my different games and this way finally achieve the greatest success of all within the games. And also, the Pokemon games are just so damn fun I feel like playing more. I've played through Yellow and Gold before (without getting all Pokemon though), so now I'll try both of those two again, and, maybe I'll try red as well, and blue, and green, and silver, and crystal, and emerald, and ruby, and those two new ones in which you play as Pokemon instead of trainers, they sound fun (damn, that's a lot of them, specially seeing as just the two I've played took at least a total week nonstop to get through... without getting all Pokemon).

Eh, so what else have I done this week? I've watched the latest episodes of Anime I follow, added pictures for maybe a hundred series on my site, done some schoolwork, written in some writing from my notebooks of this summer, played out Quake 2, tried reinstalling Flash 8 again without plugins so I could open someone elses sourcefile for a Chess game and make one for Madness day ... without luck. I've been out walking a few times (way too little), made a big collage on my closet doors (will post a picture of that later, once I get a new camera), received the Golden Sun 2 game I bought by online bid (and realized the loading function didn't work anymore, big SHIT), and eh, hmmm, I've been browsing through a lot of galleries, and many other open directories, searching for good scripts, reading webcomics, gathering together lists of links. Actually I've been doing a shitload of things this week, it's just that I shouldn't be doing this shitload of things, I should be doing another one. So, that's all I have to say for now. Last week was great though, maybe a bit too effective, I typed in a whole notebook (just that a major accomplishment, usually takes at least a couple of months, I write a lot), and eh, did a lot of other things, but the week did pass way too fast. It's been a blast.

On an unrelated sidenote, wth is wrong with my spellcheck?! ¨Just read through this text and found "notebbok" and "bougt" and "webcmics" with no red underlining, so pardon anything my robotic helper didn't find for me, leaving things like that intact would surely decrease my web cred by two hundred fifty points or something. ;) Happy days peoples.

The title conveys my message perfectly, no need for further speech. :)

This game is pretty addicting. I picked up the old disc a few days back and started playing once again, this time set on completing it (I got lost somewhere in the sewers last time I played it), and it went pretty well! I even found a secret room with credits, and beyond it a posse of foes in a spectacular pose. Thought I'd take a print screen and share it here, but wth, it didn't work so well, see the fcuked up pi below, how it turned out.

You can see the outlines, but why the colors became this distorted beats me, it's not how it looks when playing, I can assure you that! If you feel like seeing the scenery with better image quality just download my savefile. I saved about eight times on the last level, so you can enjoy all the moments it has to offer. The entrance, the weapon pick ups, the boss fight stage one, the boss fight stage two, the boss fight after the boss is dead, the secret room, the credits room, and the escape just before the outro movie starts playing. That's it.

I've always appreciated good FPSs, and it's no surprise that this one goes straight to my soul seeing as my old favorite Doom & Doom 2 were made by the same developers just a decade earlier. ID Software still manages to throw together games that revolutionize FPS as we know it for a while, and this one wasn't an exception. Quake 2 stayed in the store shelfs longer than any other game the year it was released, and the year after, and it stayed in stores long after that. Two official expansions were released for the game. I tried playing the first one after completion, but it won't run, gives me an "Initialization Error" ... I wonder what that is? Anyhow, it was fun as long as it lasted, and if you don't have anything against lesser quality graphics, it is highly recommended. My control config is included in the download above too btw, snap that in your folder to use the modern WASD keys and mouse to look around, as well as reasonable graphic and video settings instead of the outdated default. With all the options included, it seems like they were planning for the future, though.

Oh my god! I made a blog!
What more can I, do with my time?
Maybe fish for cod, maybe cattle prod.
Maybe watch the sunshine, falling down.

Oh my god! I wrote some more!
Have I ever written this much before?
At least not in such poetical grace.
I bet you could read this poem for days!

For weeks, for months, for years on end!
No use in trying to not pretend,
That you don't like this poem so,
It will in your list of bookmarks go.

Now I leave the line at last
My little sublime rhyme stops again
Time is ticking down too fast
Until next time I write, my friend

So watch the grains of hourglass
And wait for me.

My Computer has been acting real strange since I came back. First thing I noticed was that the computer time went going wrong, didn't think much about it then, just doubleclicked and set the time right. Next morning the time was still messed up, so I changed it again, this time a bit suspiciously. I doubt the time has ever gone wrong before. During this day I decided to connect one of my external drives, so I did, actually I connected two of them at the same time. Explorer froze. I plugged the drives back out again and everything returned to normal. I tried plugging in one drive at a time, but that didn't work either. I had to shut down a couple of programs I had running (so I basically had nothing other than explorer pumping on in the background) until they connected, just one at a time now. Since then the time has been wrong every morning. I think I have the cause figured out (after browsing the net some) - a battery is dead. Replacing it shouldn't be too hard following the posted instructions, but I've never opened up my computer, and I don't see much reason in doing so now either, I'll just put a tabletop clock on the desk beside the computer. There, problem solved, and onto the next one.

I've connected my external drives once in a while the past few days, and sometimes they don't show, sometimes they take at least 10 minutes to appear in "My Computer" and sometimes my internet connection just dissapears on me. Even though the cables are delivering a nice 400 mbps according to the Control panel, and the modem seems to be working alright, and what else can it be? I think maybe it has something to do with the external drives, since internet gives out on me only when I conntect them. But I know the drives in say aren't faulty, so it must be explorer that somehow fucks things up. I don't have an anti-spyware installed at the moment, so I shall try a few, and see if something evil might be bugging somewhere on my PC. My AntiVirus(es) show no infections and the defrag, though long due, didn't change anything. I'm looking for a cheap computer at the moment, and I've found many, will chose one, pay for it, and drag it home. Then maybe I can start working as effectivly as I should be without all this annoying moments happenin' all the time.

The 512MB RAM is bugging me too, new computer will have at least four times as much, and a harddrive twice as big at least, and I don't know jackshit about drivers and graphic/video/sound cards, but no doubt they'll be much better than the ones I have now. Looking forward to playing GTA 4 as well, I've been waiting long enough now. :P

Summer closing
Darkness rising
Fall approaching
Slight surprising

Midnight moonshine
Slicing rays
Bitter skyfalls
Dream away

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IOW, checking in at NG after a three month summer vacation. :P
Hello peoples!