3 letters... 1 podcast

I got 3 letters in the mail today.

One was my student card that finally got here. I've been waiting for so long! Now I can finally borrow books from the library...

Another was a letter from my bank to remind me to pick up my new card (my old one expires tomorrow).

And the last one was perhaps the most welcome of the three: the confirmation that I will get a scholarship this year and that it should be pouring into my bank account this month!!!

Three things that have been pending for a long time. So I'm glad that's taken care of. All I have left is changing my phone plan, and getting my "Carte Vitale".

Anyway... Here is a great podcast you should check out. It's some sermons by Tom Hovestol :) The most recent one I'm listening to right now is on depression.

4 geeks, 1 kitten

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No, seriously, I'll make an effort for my fellow bloggers and dear readers... I have to admit the combination of qwerty and a different OS (Solaris) is somewhat confusing especially for someone used to typing fast enough to get a "wow" from most easily-impressed people...

This zeek I hgqve qzqy q kitten to q good friend zho zqnted onem... ugh... I need to look where I'm typing! I found an owner for one of the kittens, in case you didn't get what I just typed.

I went over to his house the other day (Tuesday) after classes to have a karaoke evening, which was very fun. I'll (eventually) put up some pictures. What do you get when you put 4 geeks in the same room for an evening? Very hot, for one, no matter how cold it is outside, even with the window open. There were tons of computers running, printers, digital cameras, a TV, sound system... And hardly any room to breathe! Fun ;) And wacky. The guy who was organizing the evening has a pro camera, so we went overboard picture-wise. Some are so funny that they might end up on a promotional poster for the next Dazibao...
I'm surprised the neighbors don't complain. They must be used to him lol

It's cat-paradise... Little Neko-Chan 5`(that4s what he calls her for now until he can think of a more original name for a cat) has a blast hiding out in his room lol...

Apart from that, I've been mostly studying, learning java, I've started to learn regular expressions. Turns out one of my friends in college is also learning them so we have fun talking about it at lunch just to bug our biology-major friends :p

nothing

Don't you just hate the feeling of having "wasted" a day? Even when you did do a few important things? It's almost depressing :( Like nothing in the world could bring back the time lost.

Links (the browser)

I was curious/bored today. And frustrated for some reason that I'm not learning enough, fast enough. I'm just too impatient.
And I was talking to a friend who told me to just learn the basics in math, and in the meantime get to know my Terminal, and LaTeX, etc... So that's what I've been doing.
I had heard of lynx somewhere, so I wanted to try it. So I tried downloading it but there isn't a version for mac os x 10.4 yet, if I understood correctly. So I tried Links. And I tried viewing my blog, posting a comment (which I deleted because it was just to test) and even posting. I didn't manage to log in to blogger though... Might not be possible. I couldn't seem to log into gmail correctly either.
I also tried some surfing, which generally speaking works like a charm. It's nice to have your page load immediately and not be slowed down by all the images... And it's very easy to toggle and see just the source of the page, and search it.
I'm also going to try and learn a bit more about Vi. I want to be able to survive with a terminal.
Obviouly I love "eye-candy". Too much, perhaps. I'm making a fool of myself because most of my readers probably don't have a clue what I'm talking about, and the few who do will probably say I sound silly.

Reading the tables

In classes, it's sometimes interesting to read what's written on the tables. Sometimes it's vulgar, sometimes it's funny, but very rarely anything intelligent.
Today I found something pretty smart. It's in french, so I'll translate (very approximately) for you.

Dieu a dit (God said)
Il faut pacifier (Make peace)
Il faut désarmer (No weapons)

Bush a compris (Bush understood:)
Il faut pas s'y fier (Don't trust them)
Il faut des armées (You need armies)

Why is this smart? Well, because if you pronounce it in french, "Il faut pacifier" sounds exactly like "il faut pas s'y fier". And "Il faut désarmer" sounds like "il faut des armées".

Apart from that, I went online, found the classroom for a class this afternoon, but there were lots of people there, all in Master 1. So I don't know where that class will take place. Don't you love university?

Another dream

I've been dreaming quite a lot lately... Last night I dreamt I managed to blog about something people actually are interested in and my stats exploded to the point where I couldn't even answer all my comments anymore.

On a more realistic note, I drove for the first time today without my driving instructor, but my mom instead. I don't feel quite ready to drive all alone yet- and perhaps not even tomorrow. I shouldn't even drive today any more. I have such an awful migrane, it started to hit me before driving, but when I got out of the car it was head-splitting. I'm amazed I can even type. Thankfully my computer screen is nice on my eyes (the PC's monitor really gets to me).

But I'm going to take a nap, soon as I e-mail the girl I'm doing the german project with. We need to do a little presentation next Monday, and I probably should have done this sooner, but before I didn't have a german dictionnary on hand and as much as I am relying on the internet for nearly anything now, I still don't quite trust it when it comes to the German language. (I'm billingual and so I know what it's translating services spit out sometimes from French to English and vice-versa)

On the traces of the iPod bus... #1

Here is a picture I took "on the go" of one of those buses... Enjoy. Well, I'll try to get a better snapshot this week.

A fairytale

Last night I had a dream, and I think it would actually make a pretty good kid's book.

Here goes:

Once upon a time, a poor man and his wife lived in a small cottage. They had 3 children, and to live, the man needed to sell objects from door to door. So every week he would leave and come back only a week later, with enough money to live for the next week.
In the land, a beautiful queen had a very expensive piece of jewlery, a rare diamond, but one day, while swimming in the lake, she lost it.
Now the poor man was walking along the path near the lake, and saw something shining. He turned around and picked it up. He immediately knew his wife would love it, but had no idea how valuable it really was. So he went back home and put it in a box so that he wouldn't be robbed while travelling. He would give it to her on their wedding anniversary in a month, he decided.
At the first house where he went to sell his goods, the man invited him inside to eat dinner, and at the table they discussed all the lastest news. That's when he discovered that the queen would give a gigantic reward to whomever would return her jewlery. The man kept quiet about having found it and decided that he would bring it to the queen as soon as he came home the next week.
Meanwhile, the wife decided to clean out the house, and found the box, as well as the jewlery. She immediately understood that he would probably give it to her for her anniversary, but since he wasn't home, decided to wear it until he came back so that she could enjoy it anyway.
The man was so excited about being able to finally live with his wife every day, once he received the reward, that he decided to come home a day early and see her sooner. This took her by surprise, and so she hid the diamond so that he wouldn't know she'd found it, and decided to put it back in the box only after he had left.
The man, upon finding the box empty, assumed it had been stolen and went searching for the thief throughout all the land. He vowed to not come home until he had found it. A month later, he caught one thief, but he didn't have the diamond. So the years passed, he caught many thieves and murderers, and became a quite famous hero, with a mysterious identity. He never forgot his wife but didn't dare go home after all this time with nothing to show for it. So his children grew up, the wife wore black because she assumed her husband had died, she mourned him, and so she wore the diamond every single day in memory of him.
After twenty years, old and grey, he was too tiered to continue his search, and so he went home. He found his wife, in tears, weeping over the diamond. He said her name and took her hand, explained where he was, what he was doing, and then saw it. She told him: "why didn't you come home? I missed you so much; I don't need all of the nice things you wanted to get me, i need YOU".

Bad day....?

I've been dragging along a headache for the last couple days, as well as, last night, a slight fever. (I think walking home in the rain a couple days ago didn't do me much good) So I didn't go to classes yesterday. But today, I was feeling slightly better, so I decided to go, despite the pouring rain and the fact that I would probably be 5 minutes late even if I took the bus. The thing is, I missed it by a minute. And one of the bus lines doesn't stop at that stop anymore, and the next bus was 30 minutes later. Obviously, in such a case, walking was the quickest solution.
Under pouring rain with non-waterproof shoes, even an umbrella doesn't help this to be a pleasent situation. So I got to the building, and made a nice discovery: there's a cafeteria right underneath the classroom part, so I got a nice hot cup of tea. But between walking perhaps an extra kilometer or so (you need to see the way to my classroom as a triangle. Trying to take the bus and walking from there is like being at one angle, walking down to another angle which happens to be the right angle, and walking from there to the other angle. MUCH longer), under the pouring rain (so not as fast) and taking a cup of tea and drying off, I was over half an hour late. Instead of disrupting the class, I decided to wait in the hall and do some math on a little table with a chair that was conveniantly put there, until the mid-class break. When I walked in at that point, I explained the situation to the teacher, and he was very understanding and nice and said that I should have come in anyway, no matter how late I was, and that it didn't matter so long as it didn't happen every week! To top it off, he's a GREAT math teacher!!
And today is Friday, which means I'm going home.

apple special event video

I've just finished watching it online... And I do wish I had waited. The problem with Apple is their stuff keeps getting cooler and cooler faster than I can spend my money... :(
My iBook is only one year old, and since then there has been iLife 06, the MacBook with intel chips, iSight...
My iPod is only 2 months old and since then... well you know if you've been on the Apple site.

I like the search feature in the new iPods.
At least I didn't buy a battery charger- the new ones are much smaller. (40% I think, I don't feel like checking my info- but I know it's way smaller) So that's my consolation.
My second consolation is that I at least didn't get the 60Go one.

iPod bus

Today I was walking in town, solving a couple of my problems... and I saw a bus. A bus painted top to bottom, throughout the entire length with album art, and an iPod nano. Even the windows on the bus were painted...
Now that's what I call a commercial. I think it's brand new, because I never did see it before, and considering Apple's iTunes 7 update, as well as the new iPods (I'm soooo glad I didn't get the 60Go a couple months ago!!)... it makes sense.
I've heard people say that the Zune will beat the iPod- I don't believe it.
Only one thing I'm not too excited about: iPod movies. 10$ is too much. I can get a DVD for that price. Granted it's a huge operation if I want to put it on my iPod, but if I want to watch a movie when travelling I just use my iBook- has more battery life anyway.
The games (especially Tetris!) sound fun though...

If I can get a picture of the iPod bus I'll put it up here and on iSmile, too :)

Problems

Problems: either you deal with them, or they deal with you. That was my main though this lunch break - because I have many problems to deal with.

Sometimes a problem will solve itself. Last year that happened with social security. If you hate spiders and there's one in your room, it might go away on its own if you're too afraid to squish it- but then again it might bite you in the night! Sometimes if you don't deal with it, it'll lash out on you so hard that it's even worse than it would have been had you dealt with it yourself.
It's a bit like the "howlers" in Harry Potter: red angry letters that, if you open them, a loud voice houls at you, yells at you... but if you don't open it yourself, it will eventually explode and the yelling will be so loud that absolutely everyone will hear what it says.

We have lots of "problems"- some we can ignore for awhile, some we just have to live with, and others need to be dealt with immediately. Some are so awful that we know that dealing with them might just cost us everything... so we assume that leaving well enough alone, ignoring it, will make it go away.

Imagine you have no insurance on your car. This isn't a problem if you're never stopped by the police and you never crash into anything. But the day one of those events occur... you're in deep trouble.
Imagine you've told a "small" lie. If the person leaves it at that, isn't inquisitive, and the issue never comes up again, you might not see any consequences. For instance you may say "I had a very important phone call from my bank, which is why I'm late", instead of admitting you were sleeping and didn't want to get up so early - that sort of lie probably won't catch up with you. But imagine you tell something about yourself to a friend, to make yourself look better. You might have to keep on lying to covor up your lie, the lies will get bigger and bigger and eventually it might blow up and destroy your friendship.

The main problem we all have is sin (don't let yourself be put off by the word- please read on and comment if you disagree). Most people ignore it, try to hide it, or decide to declare "it's not a problem!"- but it is. Some people try to do all three, which isn't logical. They say "it's not a problem"- but they doubt this enough to try to hide it, even from themselves, and therefore try to ignore it. If it wasn't a problem they would live it in the open. The other approach is to try to deal with it. Some people try to deal with it by trying to stop. This doesn't work. Try it- just for one thing- and if you're like me you won't last a week.
Others figure that since they can't stop, they may as well try to outweigh the sin by good works. Doing random acts of kindness is a good thing, but it doesn't erase the problem of sin. It just makes you a nice person.
The only way is to be forgiven and redeemed, purified, by Jesus Christ.

You can decide to deal with your problems now, or wait until they deal with you to start working on your problems, or, worse, wait until it's too late to do anything about them. You can get away with a lot for a long time, but not with everything forever.

My sister's new blog

My sister now has a new blog, you can read it here. It's a bit like her old one (and in french) but she is very artistic and takes beautiful pictures, so even if you don't understand french it's worth the visit!

First day of classes

Today is officially my first day of classes in Rennes 1.
When I got up this morning, I didn't know what groups I was in (the lists hadn't been updated yet and for some reason they had forgotten my name- I checked last night, the update came about mid-morning - which meant that I wasn't on the list in german class!) I also didn't know where my classes were, because last night the internet connection was so slow that it wouldn't load the university's class calendar. So I got there only 5 minutes early because it took me slightly longer than usual to walk over... And yet I had no trouble because I just followed people who I heard talking about the class I was going to.

I had 8 hours of classes today- a big day, considering that tomorrow I have 4 hours, and the rest of the week only 2 hours per day.
I was glad to find out I actually know some people who were with me in high-school. That was very helpful.
So I had B04 this morning, but as it turns out I had followed the beginning of that class last year so it was somewhat boring. And then I had german. I didn't take german last year, so I was overjoyed to find out I understood everything the teacher said! I just lost most of my own capacity to speak because the vocabulary and grammer doesn't come back that easily.
This afternoon, C02. A harder class, in theory.
And now I'm in OFI, "Outils formels pour l'informatique"- but my break is over so back to work!

Got my licence!!!

I just got the call from the driving school, and after having told my closest friends and family, here comes the news to all my blogging friends :)

I'm sooo happy! Especially since I was far from sure I would get it!

New links

I've been surfing lately, and I've found blogs I like. So here are the recent additions in my sidebar (quite a few, as I got behind)...

Post Secret

A day in the life...

Controlled Chaos

World of Yaxlich

books, cats, life

So... If you want to check those blogs out, they are definately worth the visit.

My licence

OK, now that I've explained how it works, may as well tell you how it went for me this morning. I was first to pass the exam, and I had to drive in town for 5-10 minutes, until we got to a residential area. There, I was asked to backup into a street - and I completely messed up that manoeuvre.

From there, I drove some more, mostly on the freeway, and then came back into town, and had to park, which I did rather sucessfully! Then I had to check the tires, make sure they weren't torn on the side, etc... and I also had to use the back window-wipers.
So I'm not sure if I got my licence or not, in Rennes, since many inspectors got attacked after giving the results directly, they are always given by mail now. So I'm hoping to find out tomorrow. I'll keep you posted!

French driver's licence

I figured that today I'd tell you a bit about the french driver's licence. The exam lasts 35 minutes, and costs 60 euros (so it's a bad idea to mess up because then you have to pay for more lessons and for another exam).

There are two manoeuvres, one of them is necessarily in reverse.
There are also two questions, one about the ouside of the vehicle, and one about the inside. For example, I could be asked to check if there's enough oil in the motor, or if my break lights work. For the interior, it could be turning my lights on, or opening my window (that's the easiest question on the list!)

I also need to drive for 10 minutes in town, and the rest of the time out of town (either on the highway or a country road or both).

There are 3 possible grades: A, B, and C. C is if I make a terrible dangerous mistake, B is if I make a few tolerable mistakes and A is good. On the questions I can only get A or B.
Everything else is graded A, B or C. I get my driver's licence if I have at least one A and no C.

I'm going to pass it in the southern part of Rennes, which is somewhat a calmer area than the north, except for one particular street near Clemenceau, and the roundabout at La Poterie.
Apparantly in the south they are very picky about trajectories at turns.

I'm guest blogger for today!

Check out my review on Bestest Blog, or just read it here from the comfort of my own blog ;)

If you like reading teaching anecdotes told with lots of humor, as well as other funny stories,A day in the Life is the blog you need to read! (Or should I say, the garden you need to visit?)

She is an excellent "gardener" (blogger), and as such, always has "fresh flowers" (recent posts). There's a new bloom nearly every day.
It's a beautiful garden, I personnally enjoy blogs with an interesting template, it highlights the content and makes you want to read more.

Quilldancer teaches in a school as well as a Sunday-school class, and always has interesting stories to tell about the children, and even better, parents. The class pets vs. parent episode is hilarious.
She also gets confused with employees in Walmart, with hilarious outcomes.
She loves teaching, she loves her students, and her students love her, too. She asked them to "grade" her as a teacher, and the lowest grade she got on her report card was a B+.

She also has a "Wordless Wednsday", where she posts funny pictures and videos.

So if you havn't already, go to her garden and if you like it, leave a "bouquet" (comment). Tell her that Bestest Blog and Alessia sent you!

IE, comments and french culture

Thank you for commenting and reassuring me that my blog is indeed popup-less... I'm sorry I havn't had much time to get back to you, visit blogs, etc... and my linking hasn't been updated in awhile as well, because I just started back in college this week and I'm passing my driver's licence exam on Friday, and in France it is hard. So don't expect to get too much blogging out of me for a week or so, a post here and there but not much.

I didn't know that IE7 had tabbed browsing, thank you for pointing that out to me. Must admit I don't use Windows unless I'm undergoing serious internet withdrawl (like now... I can't use my mac here yet).

OK... And here's one off-topic cultural item: I love smoothies... They've finally come to France (I've been waiting for that for years now!) and it's really nice because it's so hot out right now.
That's pretty random I suppose, but I guess it's interesting because most people don't know that Dr. Pepper is unknown here, nobody's ever been to a Taco Bell and smoothies are a novelty.

Blogexplosion=blind?

I was curious to try blogexplosion. I actually read some of the blogs in their random blog button and left comments and all that, and liked it well enough.

But then I tried submitting both of my blogs. Apparantly this blog looks scrambled in IE and is un-readable. Well, I got on a PC, tried IE, and nothing odd appeared except for my "get firefox" message. And I realize there's a little problem in my CSS I havn't had time to fix, but it does not scramble my blog, and it does not make it unreadable. In fact, you won't even notice it unless you go into my archives. (if you have a problem with my blog, please let me know and tell me exactly what browser you're using)

As for iSmile, they say there are empty popups. Now that is weird. I didn't put any code to put popups on it, and whenever I open the blog from any browser, I never get popups, even when I disable the popup blocker. (do you see any popups there? If so, leave me a comment and I'll try to get rid of them.)

I don't know what the BlogExplosion moderators are talking about.

Pff... who needs BlogExplosion anyway? On blogexplosion, I bet most people are just waiting until the 30 seconds are up to get their credits and don't even take a glance at my blog.

Explorer Destroyer

I don't like Internet Explorer. Really. Not just because it's Microsoft, although I suppose that's reason enough ;) I do use Microsoft Office though, but I've been recently converted to LaTeX and rarely use Word anymore.

ANYWAY- back to IE bashing :p

I don't like not being able to do tab browsing. I'm addicted to tabbed browsing. I figure I have enough open windows as it is (all my Gimp projects, e-mails, iTunes, Adium -thank goodness Adium has tabs, too!- iSync...). So when I get on a PC, even more windows are open, my desktop is a real mess, so tabbed browsing is even more handy. I use Firefox whenever I can (that is when I have the authorization to install it). On my mac, I like Safari.

I don't like popup ads. How come IE doesn't block them?

I hate spyware.

And I really don't like the design of it. If I'm going to spend 8+ hours per day on my computer, I like to have a pretty interface.

Firefox is nice. It's free. Better yet, it's Open Source.

So I think that using level 1 of Explorer Destroyer is actually doing a public service. It's just a message on the top of my blog for people who are using the browser, and it doesn't stop people from reading my blog normally, so I think it's just a suggestion.
If you have money to get a new computer, just get a mac. Or if you don't, why don't you consider intalling Linux? If neither of these options appeal to you, at least get Firefox, it's worth it. And if you don't like it (for some obscure reason I couldn't imagine), you can always revert to IE.

For all you fellow bloggers, check out Explorer Destroyer. It's easy and fast to add to your template. And if you use AdSense, you'll get 1$ for every referral to Firefox. Personally, I don't. I'm not doing this for the money.

Another Sony Ericsson theme!

Here is another adiumy, the Lederhosen one. I love Adiumy he's so cute. I download them off AdiumXtras. And then I let my creative juices flow to make the theme :)
You can't tell here, but I figured out how to make the SMS composition screen look like the Mail.app e-mail composition window.
Figures... I get a new phone and the first thing I do is create my own themes and sync it with my iBook. I havn't even called anybody with it yet!

making V600i themes

I downloaded the software and some starter themes here.
From there, I just fire up the gimp and it's fun, fun, fun :)

Here is the main page of the theme, I've been having a blast making this Yoda adiumy one!
There were no adium themes on the website, so I've been working on it.
My theme is only good enough to go on my own phone for now, so I'm not going to be uploading it. And also I doubt there are very many adium users with my exact phone... Sooooo it's pretty pointless. Except to make me happy :D

syncing the V600i and the mac

I just got this cute new phone. I'm happy now, but at first I was extremely frustrated with it. It just wouldn't work with iSync. Then I found this hint and it helped A LOT.
If you do this, back up your .plist file before making the changes (Open With TextEdit), and you should be OK. Also, when you're done, you need to quit iSync and THEN, only then, add your device to your device list. That's where I went wrong and got very frustrated, but now it works like a charm. It syncs with my iCal, and with my address book. I love syncing things :)
My only remaining frustrations are that it's impossible to buy an additional memory card, and my iBook doesn't seem to realize anything is plugged in when I use the USB cable. But as long as the Bluetooth works, I guess I don't need the USB that much. Except that it's a better way to "unload" my pictures, which will be necessary since the memory card is so small. (like 24 Mo if I remember correctly)

I think it's kind of lame that you have to be slightly geeky or at least very persistant to do something that should be easy. Most people don't care for editing .plist files (I don't really mind that much).

As for the phone menus, I'm still used to my Alcatel phone's menus, which were a charm to work with. But I'll eventually get the hang of it.
I don't care for the fact that there's a Vodafone live button on the side. I'm afraid I'll connect (and pay big bucks for it) by mistake.
But I love the Visio :)

iSmile

Please check out this new blog. It's a brand new project I started and I hope it'll gain momentum... It's meant as a tribute to my favorite computers, iPods and fruit :)

The idea is to post a picture of yourself with your favorite apple product on your blog, put a comment, link the blog on yours, and I'll link you and put your picture up...

Blog vision

The Bestest Blog of All Time has got me thinking. I consistantly don't want this to be categorized as a "personal" blog because I feel I have very recurrent themes. But I decided to change categories. Before, I was in the "Writing" category (but nobody seemed to care about my Prodigal Son series (check the archives if you want to read it)). Now I'm in the Internet/Technology section. I tend to talk a lot about geek stuff, but still throw in an occasional post about other things, such as spiders, my *personal* life, college, or my faith, or a book I'm reading. I find it very difficult to stick to one theme.
So what are my options?

I could decide to orient my blog in one direction or another and limit my "other" posts to one designated day a week.

I could give up and become a "personal" blog- but honestly, that's not really what I want. I wish there was a "randomness" category. Because I think there's a difference between "personal" and "random". Most of my "real-life" friends don't even really visit my blog that much, although some do. I don't make a habit of talking of myself beyond that subtle limit of what I think might interest random-blog button surfers.

I could decide to orient it according to the title, Waiting, Wishing. Perhaps say "I am waiting for Leopard to come out, and wishing I had a MacBook". "I am an aspiring geek."
That way none of my posts will be off-topic. And considering my major in college, technology will be a big theme on here. More than this summer- I tend to read book after book during the long summer nights. So I tend to blog about litterature and philosophical themes in summer.

I do like the "one day a week" idea, though. So, let's say, Saturday is random day. Expect funny pictures, random things I found online, etc...

A light in the darkness...

Here are some positive things to end my day:

Billy Mac, from Critique My Blog, a blog that reviews other blogs, talks about Adsense and a lot of other topics that interest most bloggers, has reviewed my blog. Here is what he says:

Here is a cool blog by a young girl who is doing what blogs were made for in the first place. Expression. I'm guessing you're not from the USA from the (A) sticker you have to put on your car. Nice job with the blog...I'd keep posting and keep adding content. Keep a running journal and you'll have fun looking back years from now to see how your blog has progressed and matured. Maybe add some adsense, that's my only critism. Nice job.

Thank you :) And yes, I am from France, but blog in english by choice. About the adsense, I don't think I have enough visitors to justify messing up my template. :p I just don't like ads in general.

Another positive thing is that next Thursday, I've been booked to be "Guest Blogger" on the bestest blog of all time, which is a nice place to read random blogs. I'll be reviewing a blog I like and giving it a "Bestest blog of the day" award :)

So despite killer spiders, life isn't that bad.

Spider season is open!!

In every sense of the term. Of course, thoses evil creatures are omnipresent. All year round. But they get worse in September/October. They are big. They are black. And they are in the house.
I saw one. But it's so late I can't even do anything about it except pray it's too large to get in my room through the crack in the door. And pray it will be in the same place tomorrow morning so my dad can invest in a bazooka.

The second sense is that I want to start a worldwide conspiracy. We need to exterminate evil spiders. Especially big black ones and ones that bite people. I guess daddy long legs are ok. Little tiny ones I don't mind so much.

If you like the idea, leave a comment, and post about this on your blog. We might create a support group of people trying to get spiders out of their houses. I mean I understand full extermination, aside from being impossible, might not be best for the ecosystem, but I at least need them OUT of my house.

How come only the cute, furry, animals are in danger of extinction? Why not mosquitoes and spiders?

testing MySpace

Now what compelled me to do that?

My best friend thought that would be a good way to keep the whole group in touch this year without actually skyrocketing our phone bills and overloading our e-mail boxes with pictures, news, and all that.

I read an article in the newspaper about it's success. So I guess I supposed it wasn't as bad as it looks.

So... much as I was reluctant to do so, I set up an account. And I updated my profile.

The french beta is really not ready to be online at all. Good thing I speak english!
I don't like the fact that you're a MySpace "loser" if you don't have any "friends". I really don't care for that sort of community. Doesn't seem all that much better than skyblog. I also don't like the way they manage blogging. I don't like the layout. I don't like the profile settings. I just plain don't like it.

And what I really don't like is that you're not sure what you're seeing. Your admin interface? Your "blog" as it appears to your friends? Something entirely different?

There are too many menus. I hate menus. Seriously. Well I don't mind menus that much if I can move them around as I like, customize them. And find ways to avoid them altogether.

MySpace. Ringo. So many services to keep track of birthdays, friends, photos, whatever. Gets confusing. And none are usable unless you sign up.

Crabby mood tonight...
Maybe MySpace isn't that bad. I guess I've only been using it for a day. There are some things you don't like from the get-go, but that are nice in the long run. Just take getting used to. Don't know if that's the case here