[sounds like something to with insurance providing of somekind....]
It takes a long time to become an auditor/assurance provider...
3 years at uni
2-5 years work experiance
2 years doing CA or CPA exams
2 years min work experiance actually in auditing
then you goto apply to ASIC to be registered...
New Glasses
Went to the optomertrist today and the news is pretty much what I expected. Last time there was a small change and today we found a small change. Two small changes = a significant change. Therefore I now have to get new glasses.... So I decided to get new frames and get rid of my round tiger print glasses that are falling apart and faded....
So far I got a squareish pair which are silver. Only problem with these is that the frame it self is quite thick
So far I got a squareish pair which are silver. Only problem with these is that the frame it self is quite thick
self reminder
MIX UP - THE RESIN DOGS
- Sat 17.07 @ 10:00pm
All 3 RESIN DOGS: DJs KATCH, DAVE & GEOFF BLUNTED
Not realy sure how becuase they said they were going to the UK for a tour or something on wed so a bit weird to be "live"...
Double the Fist
Lately I have been watching double the fist on ABC firday evenings (11:30pm) and it is a very entertaining program. Which everyone should also watch. My favorite character is mephesto. Its just great television.
They even have "cards" which you can download and "collect"/trade etc
Tina is now gone or something but hopefully she will be back next weak...
double fist...
They even have "cards" which you can download and "collect"/trade etc
Tina is now gone or something but hopefully she will be back next weak...
double fist...
Prodigy
Well i guess its because its been a while but I thought that they had just decided to pack it in. But thankfully not. The new album is supposed to come out in september. Theres been quite a bit of good stuff this year/late last year, which means it cant be bad...
I cant remember
I was going to write/blog about something which is why opened this up in the first place. But now I cant remember what I was going to write.... Its just one of those days where you go downstairs and then your in the kitchen looking around and realise you dont know what/why you came downstairs... and then you get confused wheather to go back up stairs... The worst thing that can happen in this situation is when you do go back up stairs and then cant re-stimulate your self to remember why u went downstairs or even remember wtF you were doing up stairs in the first place...
When writting and you get writters block/cant remember what you were going to write after going through it in your head... the best thing to do is just to write. Write anything, apparently that helps.
WHOO!
It works. I scanned a few more post cards into the puter today. And I even adjusted the contrast and brightness. What I found was that photoshops auto contrast/brightness/colour thingy(s) dont work very well and you might as well just use the manual slider. That reminds me I goto read up on what all that crap means and how to adjust after a scan. Gona try using paintshop pro to see if thats anybetter (once I download it...) because I'm lazy and want it done automaticly and not have to use my own skill to change it to make it look correct.
So goto the secret postcard page and view them.
When writting and you get writters block/cant remember what you were going to write after going through it in your head... the best thing to do is just to write. Write anything, apparently that helps.
WHOO!
It works. I scanned a few more post cards into the puter today. And I even adjusted the contrast and brightness. What I found was that photoshops auto contrast/brightness/colour thingy(s) dont work very well and you might as well just use the manual slider. That reminds me I goto read up on what all that crap means and how to adjust after a scan. Gona try using paintshop pro to see if thats anybetter (once I download it...) because I'm lazy and want it done automaticly and not have to use my own skill to change it to make it look correct.
So goto the secret postcard page and view them.
Results
Got my results today. And I am glad to announce that I have passed all my units. HOORAY
I actually managed to get a 6 (75%) for Law of Business associations which is very nice and also means that I got 90% of the final exam which is rediculous and I definatle want to have at look at it...
Everything else was a pass (4 (50%)) but I am actually gratefull that I have passed. And all that hard work has paid off and am actually pleased that it all worked out.
I actually managed to get a 6 (75%) for Law of Business associations which is very nice and also means that I got 90% of the final exam which is rediculous and I definatle want to have at look at it...
Everything else was a pass (4 (50%)) but I am actually gratefull that I have passed. And all that hard work has paid off and am actually pleased that it all worked out.
Its pretty hard to stuff it up
Went to see the resin dogs yesterday with Karl in the valley which the festival was on. It was free so thats why we went... it was ok but we didnt realy get a good spot in which to view the performance so that sucked. But I think it was still pretty good. Not much deviation from the actually music you hear (from the CD etc...) but I gues you cant realy stuff up electronic tpye music...
Remember what you read
Remembering what you read
Purpose -> Have a specific purpose when you read. This will help you to:
1. ASSOCIATE: Relate ideas to each other.
2. VISUALIZE: Try to see pictures in your mind as you read.
3. CONCENTRATE: Have a specific purpose, associating, and visualizing will help you to do this.
4. REPEAT: Keep telling yourself important points and associate details to these points.
bookmarks?
Purpose -> Have a specific purpose when you read. This will help you to:
1. ASSOCIATE: Relate ideas to each other.
2. VISUALIZE: Try to see pictures in your mind as you read.
3. CONCENTRATE: Have a specific purpose, associating, and visualizing will help you to do this.
4. REPEAT: Keep telling yourself important points and associate details to these points.
bookmarks?
Feedburner
feedburner has kindly added a couple more buttons to the already crappy website....
There is a feed for the site now and its in rss 2.0 so its super compatible -> http://feeds.feedburner.com/BeanCounting <- the old atom feed is still around but I proberly wont be promoting it as much -> http://beancounting.blogspot.com/atom.xml <-
Now all you need is an agregator
There is a feed for the site now and its in rss 2.0 so its super compatible -> http://feeds.feedburner.com/BeanCounting <- the old atom feed is still around but I proberly wont be promoting it as much -> http://beancounting.blogspot.com/atom.xml <-
Now all you need is an agregator
Tax Time
Its tax time again and undoubtably will also come accross tax tips. I have one tip:
Get your tax return in by 31 October or get it done by a tax agent (or at least get on their client list...) Then it can be lodged at practicaly anytime... another interesting statistic is that 75% of personal tax returns are lodged by tax agents (CPA).
Everything else is pretty straight forward (cant belive this has created an entire industry...) The ATO also has a new website which is a real improvement to the old teal coloured one of 95... and this one actually loads reasonably quickly and is easy to navigate. But it does require IE to download the eTax program (something to with security) just a little stupid when people are supposed to have a choice....
The tax return it self (the paper one) is a lot more "internet" style with the grey/silkscreen boxes.
Get your tax return in by 31 October or get it done by a tax agent (or at least get on their client list...) Then it can be lodged at practicaly anytime... another interesting statistic is that 75% of personal tax returns are lodged by tax agents (CPA).
Everything else is pretty straight forward (cant belive this has created an entire industry...) The ATO also has a new website which is a real improvement to the old teal coloured one of 95... and this one actually loads reasonably quickly and is easy to navigate. But it does require IE to download the eTax program (something to with security) just a little stupid when people are supposed to have a choice....
The tax return it self (the paper one) is a lot more "internet" style with the grey/silkscreen boxes.
Quote of the Week
Just another thing to blog about...
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
Warren Buffet
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
Warren Buffet
Back Pain
Wow! Today I am experiancing REAL back pain. Apparently something todo with the muscle/fat in my back from over use/bad useage. Not surprising since I was mowing and gardening etc pretty much all day today. And after having 3 weeks of just sitting behind my desk and the subsequent layoff from the gym has all contributed to my current non-moveable self. Its very limiting.... Its supposed to go away with time, but now I cant goto the gym tomorrow (which I had planed to) which would of averted this problem in the first place....
I just hope I can sleep.
I just hope I can sleep.
500th post
Whoo. 500 posts!
But wait it wasnt long ago that it was teh 200th post? (and no I havent been going crazy blogging) Instead just taking the total as all the blogs are now part of the same 'website'.
A bit of reflection. I think my blogging has improved but the news blog has not. But just the information I get now is just different and different things excite me now.
But wait it wasnt long ago that it was teh 200th post? (and no I havent been going crazy blogging) Instead just taking the total as all the blogs are now part of the same 'website'.
A bit of reflection. I think my blogging has improved but the news blog has not. But just the information I get now is just different and different things excite me now.
Datadodo
Normaly I just use excell when i want to collect data over time. But sometimes this isnt enough. So I decided to re-open access. Access is good for storing and collecting data as it is a database program, but when you want quick and easy viewing of data, "reports" just dont cut it. So I have been busy trying to get the graphing thingy working. The main problem I have is that I dont name things properly and then everything becomes confusing. Also to build something in access takes so much longer then excel. If only access was as easy to use as excel I think it would be a great program, Access just makes things too complicated for simple tasks....
Databases currently trying to make:
Costing of university (just to remind myself it does cost money (HECS))
Gym (how long etc)
and thats all for now... I guess this is realy the whole point of databases, I can make a database that is good at just holding data, but now i want something from it, it just breaksdown into wasted time.
Databases currently trying to make:
Costing of university (just to remind myself it does cost money (HECS))
Gym (how long etc)
and thats all for now... I guess this is realy the whole point of databases, I can make a database that is good at just holding data, but now i want something from it, it just breaksdown into wasted time.
Loot
The loot which premiered on ABC on friday (8:30) is a TV program about accounting. So I watched it. Here is the summary crap
"A man is dead, millions of dollars have been lost and a mafia boss is missing. Someone's laughing all the way to the bank, but one man is on the hunt to find those who believe they are above accountability. Jason Donovan and Anita Hegh star in Loot, a fast-paced mystery that premieres Friday 25 June at 8.30pm on ABC TV.
Jon Peregrine (Jason Donovan) is an investigator with a difference - the trail he follows is a paper one, chasing money as it is hidden, laundered and fast-tracked around the world.
When his brother-in-law commits suicide after losing thousands of dollars when a share float goes belly up, Peregrine must face his sister's (Tara Morice) grief at losing her husband and vows to hunt down those responsible. Although mum and dad investors have lost millions, none of the corporate heavyweights have got burnt and no one from the top end of town is talking.
His ex-wife Cynthia (Anita Hegh) might hold a piece of the puzzle, but she's not giving anything away... at least, not officially... and certainly not until Jon looks at the divorce papers she's been trying to get him to sign for the past few months.
Together with his eccentric silent partner Charles (Barry Otto), and genius offsider Bruno (Russell Dykstra), Peregrine works to track down those involved in the deal and bring them to account. Jon smells blood money and he's not about to give up the chase. Perhaps white-collar crime doesn't pay like it used to?"
ABC
What acutally happened?
Someone dies, his brother in law then he seeks revenge the only way he knows how.... So he ends up with his sisters car which he fights with throughout. When he's solving the puzzle the other members of his team come up with the solution before just as he finds it out himself. So was a little silly in that sense. But on the plus side we get back surrealism, which I quite enjoyed. Everynow and again the dead man kept poping up in his mind, but he thought he was real....
Will watch next week to get a better picture. Overall 6/10 as there wasnt realy too much suspense.
"A man is dead, millions of dollars have been lost and a mafia boss is missing. Someone's laughing all the way to the bank, but one man is on the hunt to find those who believe they are above accountability. Jason Donovan and Anita Hegh star in Loot, a fast-paced mystery that premieres Friday 25 June at 8.30pm on ABC TV.
Jon Peregrine (Jason Donovan) is an investigator with a difference - the trail he follows is a paper one, chasing money as it is hidden, laundered and fast-tracked around the world.
When his brother-in-law commits suicide after losing thousands of dollars when a share float goes belly up, Peregrine must face his sister's (Tara Morice) grief at losing her husband and vows to hunt down those responsible. Although mum and dad investors have lost millions, none of the corporate heavyweights have got burnt and no one from the top end of town is talking.
His ex-wife Cynthia (Anita Hegh) might hold a piece of the puzzle, but she's not giving anything away... at least, not officially... and certainly not until Jon looks at the divorce papers she's been trying to get him to sign for the past few months.
Together with his eccentric silent partner Charles (Barry Otto), and genius offsider Bruno (Russell Dykstra), Peregrine works to track down those involved in the deal and bring them to account. Jon smells blood money and he's not about to give up the chase. Perhaps white-collar crime doesn't pay like it used to?"
ABC
What acutally happened?
Someone dies, his brother in law then he seeks revenge the only way he knows how.... So he ends up with his sisters car which he fights with throughout. When he's solving the puzzle the other members of his team come up with the solution before just as he finds it out himself. So was a little silly in that sense. But on the plus side we get back surrealism, which I quite enjoyed. Everynow and again the dead man kept poping up in his mind, but he thought he was real....
Will watch next week to get a better picture. Overall 6/10 as there wasnt realy too much suspense.
The effect has worn off
Well today I did my LOBA exam and feel quite tired. In every way imaginable. Also bought two books ($130) which was exciting. I didnt want to get the wrong book because then the old bookshop lady gets angry when she has to sign for a refund etc. I have to get my books early this semester because the govt is taking away our misely 8% discount to compensate for the 10% introduction of GST, now its all gone.... Plus I got my HECS bill the other day, looks like I will have a nice $10k debt when i get finnish.
I also have a clash of timetableing with auditing and eco 2, which means I will have to fill out a form, AND hand it in.... I think im too tired to think.... I knew I wanted to record soemthing but cant remeber what. which is just great...
I also have a clash of timetableing with auditing and eco 2, which means I will have to fill out a form, AND hand it in.... I think im too tired to think.... I knew I wanted to record soemthing but cant remeber what. which is just great...
This is a joke
Its 1.5 days till my LOBA exam and well, its not looking good. dont my "summarys" but have no idea wtf the contents is. Mainly becuase I just copied everything....
Lucky for me I tape my lectures, so Thats what I'm going to listen to constantly. Hopefully I will remeber the content and not the bad jokes...
As you can the see the website is still in construction becuase of my experimentation with css is taking a long time... And will proberly have to move to css 2 soon anyway, but not untill I get this right. I have almost got complete control off the css but theres always the control 'points' in the html that need to be fixed up, as I just copied it straight from one of the blogger templates. Then theres the firfox thing which doesnt like my css at all, but most ppl use ie anyway so doesnt realy matter.
Lucky for me I tape my lectures, so Thats what I'm going to listen to constantly. Hopefully I will remeber the content and not the bad jokes...
As you can the see the website is still in construction becuase of my experimentation with css is taking a long time... And will proberly have to move to css 2 soon anyway, but not untill I get this right. I have almost got complete control off the css but theres always the control 'points' in the html that need to be fixed up, as I just copied it straight from one of the blogger templates. Then theres the firfox thing which doesnt like my css at all, but most ppl use ie anyway so doesnt realy matter.
Crazy Marketing
heheh
Yes well I have uploaded another comic I drew... (hahahahh (I'm realy funny today...)) about a year ago
Promote my self
(get it...)
Yes well I have uploaded another comic I drew... (hahahahh (I'm realy funny today...)) about a year ago
Promote my self
(get it...)
20%
Yesterday I had my GBS exam, I knew all the content so it was ok, Just my exam plan didnt realy work out. Two sections 6 short answer questions and 2 newspaper things. The newspaper things are piss easy and 10% for each is realy generous... Anyway figuring that newspaper thing was so easy I will do that last. Mistake. Do the thing you are good at first, then mess around with stuff you dont know. But I think I lost maybe 3% from one of the newspaper things. ARGH. I'm just hoping I pass or get a 5 or 6 would be nice considering my GPA ATM.
Century
Well as you have proberly guessed, I have been blogging quite a bit lately. And upon looking at my profile page, which I was trying to update but have not been able to for some reason. I noticed that I have 105 recent posts?
What I want to know is what constitutes a recent post. as in I only post about 3 per day now so that equates to about a months worth of blogging, which I dont think is quite right. Remeber the rant I had earlier about me being 5th or something. Well it seems like I'm going backwards now as I am now on the second page (proberrly something to do with excessive blogging and blogger is trying to say. "DO SOMETHING ELSE")etc...
What I want to know is what constitutes a recent post. as in I only post about 3 per day now so that equates to about a months worth of blogging, which I dont think is quite right. Remeber the rant I had earlier about me being 5th or something. Well it seems like I'm going backwards now as I am now on the second page (proberrly something to do with excessive blogging and blogger is trying to say. "DO SOMETHING ELSE")etc...
The Secret Postcard
Well I started that Postcard blog. Its still in development. Mainly becuase I havent updated the template links etc and still got a few other things to do, like study for exams and fix up major things on the site etc, but other than that here is the link, theres only one more postcard so far, but who knows how long it will take me to upload another....
because its tactile!
because its tactile!
Exam Tomorrow
After a good week of visiting this site realy has died. I have had no hits since the 7th. So the old question arises. if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it does it make a sound? Similary -> If I blog and no one visists the site to read it is there realy a blog? Yes in both cases, because we know this to be true scientific fact. Unless this is just a figment of my imagination and I am infact blogging in my sleep (quite possible)...
Well I have my exam tomorrow and only have about 8 hours till i fail. So what am i doing instead of cramming... The answer isnt blogging. Its actually procrastinating (not my best work I know, but this might not even be a real post (so who realy cares (well no one becuase no one visits...))).
Also I noticed food actually helps studying becuase ur not constantly thinking... HEy I'm hungry, just 8 more chapters till I can eat... If you eat then that whole being distracted by food will be illiminated and you can get more study done.
ATM I am also distracted by my flashoholicness with surefire. (since I bought my a light for night riding (bycicle) I think it kinda re-ignighted something I didnt need during exam time) CURSES!
Well I have my exam tomorrow and only have about 8 hours till i fail. So what am i doing instead of cramming... The answer isnt blogging. Its actually procrastinating (not my best work I know, but this might not even be a real post (so who realy cares (well no one becuase no one visits...))).
Also I noticed food actually helps studying becuase ur not constantly thinking... HEy I'm hungry, just 8 more chapters till I can eat... If you eat then that whole being distracted by food will be illiminated and you can get more study done.
ATM I am also distracted by my flashoholicness with surefire. (since I bought my a light for night riding (bycicle) I think it kinda re-ignighted something I didnt need during exam time) CURSES!
What am I listening to
Audiomatch is an winamp plug in that allows you to "broadcast" what you are listening to. Basicly takes the artsit and song title and out puts it handily as an image or text file, you can also view the last 50 songs I have listend to.
Cool eh.
Not sure what this does -> What am I listening to?
Yeah, so another cool/dynamic element to the website.
Cool eh.
Not sure what this does -> What am I listening to?
Yeah, so another cool/dynamic element to the website.
Harry Potter 3
Went to go see HP3 with Karl yesterday at southbank on the 25 meter screen (it realy is big (its actually the old Imax screen....)) This time the movie experiance went well as in we got home... So the movie was pretty good. It wasnt as long and was kinda more straight to the point, but when u see the movie u will think its over, but its not (spoiler) so it was a bit hollow
[SPOILER] ->(as in this is a dum concept and is just realy crap, because that means u cant fail.... ) <- [SPOILER]
It was still a good movie and I think im still impressed by the size of the screen.
[SPOILER] ->(as in this is a dum concept and is just realy crap, because that means u cant fail.... ) <- [SPOILER]
It was still a good movie and I think im still impressed by the size of the screen.
HAHAHAAH
I also thought it might be a good idea to just publish it here....
First there was forensic science television dramas, now forensic accounting will have it's turn in the spotlight.
The ABC will soon be screening an action packed television drama based on a fictitious Australian forensic Chartered accounting practice.
The script is complete with mystery, death and crime. The pilot program called 'Loot' will be launched by a strong cast including Jason Donavan, Barry Otto and Tara Morice, at 8.30pm on Friday 25th June.
The concept for this production came from our former Deputy CEO, Allen Blewitt, now the CEO of the Associations of Chartered Certified Accountants. He worked on this project for sometime developing concept outlines and then sought 'backers' for the project.
Watch it and enjoy!
I actually laughed at the this, then realised they were serious.... It even stars Jason Donavon, what more could you want. I can just imagine some people getting excited (I know I am).
First there was forensic science television dramas, now forensic accounting will have it's turn in the spotlight.
The ABC will soon be screening an action packed television drama based on a fictitious Australian forensic Chartered accounting practice.
The script is complete with mystery, death and crime. The pilot program called 'Loot' will be launched by a strong cast including Jason Donavan, Barry Otto and Tara Morice, at 8.30pm on Friday 25th June.
The concept for this production came from our former Deputy CEO, Allen Blewitt, now the CEO of the Associations of Chartered Certified Accountants. He worked on this project for sometime developing concept outlines and then sought 'backers' for the project.
Watch it and enjoy!
I actually laughed at the this, then realised they were serious.... It even stars Jason Donavon, what more could you want. I can just imagine some people getting excited (I know I am).
To post or not to post
Its come to my attention that I maybe holding back posting becuase I want people to read the good posts, eg the last post about the postcards, is usefull and entertaining. Its also true that there arnt many people that actually read this. So do I wait till the next day or so to post so that people have a chance to read or just keep on going, and if u want to catch up then yay, if not doesnt matter.
Hmmmm.
The reason I have been thinking about this is that I apparently have 62 new posts. Which is a lot. And whats the point in posting so much if no one gets to read it. Of course the top posts will get read, so something will get read. yes, yes it will. (i think its time to go check how many hits i've got before i goto bed)
Hmmmm.
The reason I have been thinking about this is that I apparently have 62 new posts. Which is a lot. And whats the point in posting so much if no one gets to read it. Of course the top posts will get read, so something will get read. yes, yes it will. (i think its time to go check how many hits i've got before i goto bed)
Postcards
I collect postcards. OK. now thats out of the way. I would like to introduce you to maybe a new section, a post card section, which has no name yet. But I'm sure I will come up with somehting within the next six months. In the mean time I'm note sure if I should polute my photo stuff with postcards. I think not.
So Yeah, now I have to go and set up a new section.
yay for me
ofcouse I could just not do this but I think that postcards are cool so yeah. ATM I only have about 100 postcards so that should keep me busy.
Too wet your appitite I have posted one, and ONLY ONE postcard (note: I lie hehehe, maybe if i find another cool one before the launch of the new section....) to D-Pict
So Yeah, now I have to go and set up a new section.
yay for me
ofcouse I could just not do this but I think that postcards are cool so yeah. ATM I only have about 100 postcards so that should keep me busy.
Too wet your appitite I have posted one, and ONLY ONE postcard (note: I lie hehehe, maybe if i find another cool one before the launch of the new section....) to D-Pict
Children
Today on the bus, a whole class of students from the esteemed AHS High School boarded the bus, and maybe I never noticed it before because I was also a student, by they SMELL.
relay. Had to open all the windows. And it wasn't like I've been drunk for 14 days and have only now decided to go home, but more like a smell that wasn't supposed to EXIST. It was like the smell had GERMS in it or something that could make me ill and then make me fuckup my exams. Is very frightening...
Also I have a picture of my old and new bag up on the D-pict page. Tomorrow I will try and get something good to show.
Till then. Good bye
relay. Had to open all the windows. And it wasn't like I've been drunk for 14 days and have only now decided to go home, but more like a smell that wasn't supposed to EXIST. It was like the smell had GERMS in it or something that could make me ill and then make me fuckup my exams. Is very frightening...
Also I have a picture of my old and new bag up on the D-pict page. Tomorrow I will try and get something good to show.
Till then. Good bye
Solar Flare
Look at some of my great solar flare pictures. (Since no one seems to be visiting that page thought i might as well give it a little plug (proberly because there was no pictures....)
A click with flare
A click with flare
Number 1!
Who is the first website you see when you search for "bean counting" on yahoo?
Thats right. The one you are reading now. Welcome.
[Note: the news is over at www.dnews.tk]
Yahoo! Search Results for "bean counting"
Thats right. The one you are reading now. Welcome.
[Note: the news is over at www.dnews.tk]
Yahoo! Search Results for "bean counting"
An interesting turn of events
With blogger new profile thingo you can search for things similar to those you entered in your own profile (so you can find people that like the same shit as you do)
Now this wouldnt be a problem except for the irrationalness of my self and my low self esteem that can only be boosted by webstite performance.....
I clicked on brisbane
just so you know I am number 3 (in terms of posts (357) - this the measure by the way.)
number 2 is some geek called james (415) who has a collaborative posting arrangement with 5 other equaly geeky men. It should proberly also be noted that the other person who is in the 3 digits is nathan on 252. So who is first. TADA. as if you couldnt guess, it is mill on an amazing 1388 (note: colaboration with pig).
So by my own reasoning and logic and the fact that I will contradict my self in about 5 mins time with another post. With out further adoo I declare my self the greatest SINGLE blogger.
Oh wait, thats not quite right is it. ARGH. my theory.....
Ok here is a new theory.
Now the only thing that counts is the number of posts or total hits to the SITE. Now using this criteria. I am now pretty much last. with Beancounting coming in at 4 and Dnews 5! I know..... If I combine D-news and Beancounting i move upto 3rd which is nice considering who is number first (that realy is a lot of posts). Note: even if i post once a day it will take me another 5.49 years to get 2000 posts.... atm on avg I only post 4 times a week.
This is an interesting turn of events, which I will now consider while sleeping in my own tears (j/k). Why? because all of this actually means nothing, however I just thought it was interesting.
Now this wouldnt be a problem except for the irrationalness of my self and my low self esteem that can only be boosted by webstite performance.....
I clicked on brisbane
just so you know I am number 3 (in terms of posts (357) - this the measure by the way.)
number 2 is some geek called james (415) who has a collaborative posting arrangement with 5 other equaly geeky men. It should proberly also be noted that the other person who is in the 3 digits is nathan on 252. So who is first. TADA. as if you couldnt guess, it is mill on an amazing 1388 (note: colaboration with pig).
So by my own reasoning and logic and the fact that I will contradict my self in about 5 mins time with another post. With out further adoo I declare my self the greatest SINGLE blogger.
Oh wait, thats not quite right is it. ARGH. my theory.....
Ok here is a new theory.
Now the only thing that counts is the number of posts or total hits to the SITE. Now using this criteria. I am now pretty much last. with Beancounting coming in at 4 and Dnews 5! I know..... If I combine D-news and Beancounting i move upto 3rd which is nice considering who is number first (that realy is a lot of posts). Note: even if i post once a day it will take me another 5.49 years to get 2000 posts.... atm on avg I only post 4 times a week.
This is an interesting turn of events, which I will now consider while sleeping in my own tears (j/k). Why? because all of this actually means nothing, however I just thought it was interesting.
Music genres
Today I was updating my blogger profile, so that now it includes music that I like. So i opened up winamp and recorded the genres of all the music that I listen to. Most of the stuff I like is:
Alternative
General Alternative
Ambient
Misc
Miscellnaeous
Other
What this means is that all of my music has no genre or catagory, yet each artist sounds completely different and deserve a catagory. It could also mean that the music I listen to is so crap that its uncatorgorisable and no one gives a shit about that music to even create a catagory. Or it could mean that its just so wide spread only lonners like my self will ever listen to such nonsense and think its cool. However, the theory that is most likely to be correct is the one where the ppl ripping the music have not been bothered to properly catagorise the music and hense their genre has not been flaged.
Alternative
General Alternative
Ambient
Misc
Miscellnaeous
Other
What this means is that all of my music has no genre or catagory, yet each artist sounds completely different and deserve a catagory. It could also mean that the music I listen to is so crap that its uncatorgorisable and no one gives a shit about that music to even create a catagory. Or it could mean that its just so wide spread only lonners like my self will ever listen to such nonsense and think its cool. However, the theory that is most likely to be correct is the one where the ppl ripping the music have not been bothered to properly catagorise the music and hense their genre has not been flaged.
My mistake?
In opening dreamweaver up for the first time in months I find that Its crapped it self and all my setting and side pannels have disapeared. Which is very annoying, so I spent most of today fixing that up. Anyway, I said in my last post that I wouldnt be able to get it centerd. Well I was wrong. Just look at this page now its in the middle. I think the only thing I may have a problem with is the horizontal menu and the titlebanner thingy. But I think Its looking pretty good atm, I realy like the dark blue/green colour.
So I think it will work, but it may take a few revisions.
So I think it will work, but it may take a few revisions.
Service Disruptions
OK. I'm actually trying to update the old templates with some new blogger tags, so Thats why it looks kinda different, but dont worry. The old template will be back, but with some modifications.
What I was thinking of doing was making it a 2 collumn layout, as that seems to be the fasion of late. Also I can make the "side" or as I like to call it the secondary collumn bigger, that way it can be more spread out. Of course this means the main collumn wont be in the middle, and am not sure how that will go with my link menu or beancounting banner. So this is proberly going to take a lot longer than I thought. I'm going to set a dead line of by friday, or I'm going to switch back to the old one, untill I get it right.
What I was thinking of doing was making it a 2 collumn layout, as that seems to be the fasion of late. Also I can make the "side" or as I like to call it the secondary collumn bigger, that way it can be more spread out. Of course this means the main collumn wont be in the middle, and am not sure how that will go with my link menu or beancounting banner. So this is proberly going to take a lot longer than I thought. I'm going to set a dead line of by friday, or I'm going to switch back to the old one, untill I get it right.
Its all over
Now that I am over the whole 200th post I have decided now is the time to winge about blogger. Basicly blogger now has all these cool features, and now I have to redesign my page so i can accomodate some of this stuff or at least put singular links to say; profile or xml feed etc. I also kinda like some of the new templates so I think im going to steal some stuff from there. I still like my 'clean' design but maybe its time for a bit of a change if i cant intergrate the new stuff into the old template then its gona have to be redone.
200th post
Ok this is the 200th post for Bean Counting, seems only like its just getting started and I have already racked up 200. Anyway I think a bit of blogging is in order for this auspicious occassion.
Today, I went to uni and nothing realy interesting happened. But what didnt happen is more interesting. That makes no sense at all. Continuing... Today I was supposed to do my homework for tomorrow, which is worth 2%. Since its midnight and can hardly stay awake, i doubt i will finnish it. So I'm in a bit poo at the moment in regards to getting anything higher than a 4. I basicly spent most of the day reading and researching for the homework, so hopefully this will help me tomorrow morning when I begin to write it all up. It normaly only takes me about 2 hours but I think I can do it in 1, which is what is needed if I am to get my 2%. I have done pretty well on the assinghment, so i dont want to stuff it up now and only get a 4 for all of that hard work. So I will leave now in an attempt not to be further distracted and return with updated info on website matters in the near future.
Good Day.
Today, I went to uni and nothing realy interesting happened. But what didnt happen is more interesting. That makes no sense at all. Continuing... Today I was supposed to do my homework for tomorrow, which is worth 2%. Since its midnight and can hardly stay awake, i doubt i will finnish it. So I'm in a bit poo at the moment in regards to getting anything higher than a 4. I basicly spent most of the day reading and researching for the homework, so hopefully this will help me tomorrow morning when I begin to write it all up. It normaly only takes me about 2 hours but I think I can do it in 1, which is what is needed if I am to get my 2%. I have done pretty well on the assinghment, so i dont want to stuff it up now and only get a 4 for all of that hard work. So I will leave now in an attempt not to be further distracted and return with updated info on website matters in the near future.
Good Day.
Reelin' & a Rockin'
Ok since I havent had internet for a while I will update you/me (becuase well then its not realy an update... (its ok just confuse yourself)(note that note is for me))
Anyway. must of been the pevious last sunday me and Karl decided to go and see the movie troy. the movie was ok, better then van helsing....
So we get there and the session is booked out. so we decide without any hesitation to go and see the next session at 8:40. we then walked over to the city for no reason and came to the conclusion that food would be good. So becuase we didnt want to eat hungry jacks we walked back to southbank and went to the fish and chip place. Karl wanted a beef burger but they didnt have any (again). [note the stupidity of advertising something you dont sell] so we goto the ol favorite snappy jacks or something, which is infact another fish n chipper but they also sell food from the heat trays or as some people like to call them, the trays of death. Karl finds out that salt is salty and find out that a walnut for a bladder is contagious and has moved to the stomach.
Time for the movie. We got out the movie at 11:40 (its an epic) stroll down to the train station only to find the last train out of town left at 11:00. So at this stage we are dazed and confused as to how the last train is at 11:00 because we are pretty sure that the trains run pretty late at least till 12. but thats not the case so we walk around for a while trying to figure out how to get home. then karl rings home and no one picks up. I ring home and mum tells me we are stupid. cant ask mum to pick me up as i took the car to get to the train station and because we live in alex hills we only have one car.
So we walk around, Karl suggests we goto jerremys place but at this stage its quite late and we would proberly just get hit over the head with a frying pan. so we decide to goto the computer labs at uni. She's waiting for us and I tell her karl will wait outside as i just need to use the toilet. anyway to cut a more probable than not long story into a short story, she says "you cant go in there or you will be forcible removed". Because I couldnt be bothered arguing and obviously getting spraying in the face with capsicum spray and getting permanent respiatory problems decided it would be best to just go away. apparently the toilets are D block are open all the time so we could use them.
We walked around a bit more before the idea of taking a taxi came to mind, we asked how much it was and $50 sounded like a lot. So we walked around a bit more and ended up near roma st station. At this point we had been "discussing" wheater to take a taki or not. So in the end we decide, yes lets just take a taxi. so we walk back to the taxi place in the city. When we get there we have a brain wave and decide to walk across the bridge to save money. we walk across and finnaly meet up with a taxi who will take us for $55.
Eventualy we get home.
Basicly we spent the night discussing the pros and cons of either waiting for the morning train (1.90 @5:30am), which would be cheap or catching a cab ($55 @ now)
In other news, I got internet back which is good.
Also i signed up for my gmail account. beancounting@gmail.com so im gona use that for my "webmaster" account because apparently you can save a gig of messages. One of the problems is the privacy where gmail (goodle) searches the text you are reading (the email) and pics ads that ping key words just like in the search engine... some say this is an invasion of privacy, but as long as its only ads i dont realy care. which is why im only using it for my webmaster stuff. as thats normaly pretty safe. of course the other email address (geewhiz@beancounting.tk) still works etc.
Oh also K-mart has/had 25% off bike stuff which was good becuase i needed a new tube for my bike as it EXPLODED. And that was very scary. so yeah, got my bike fixed but now i have another problem. the wheel isnt straight. as in it occasioanly touched the brake. so now i have to adjust that AGAIN. I dont realy like my bike anymore. I'm gona look for another one that isnt so crap. ooh and I get my self a blinking light for my bike so i dont get run over (they dont call it the redlands for nothing...) I came to this conclusion when i was walking home from the bus stop (a short 10 min stroll) as I walking home a man in a small white hatch (filled with people hahah (shouldnt laugh but it was clear he needed a larger car for his larger size....)) decided to beep at me and swear etc. (now for the reasoning) not realy sure why as i dont know him or cant remember the last time I actually spoke to someone in alex hills other than the newsagent, at woolies or my neighbors. so i couldnt of offened anyone. Other possible explinations is the strawberry theory or someone else that looks like me offended them or no one loves me.
Other things... well had more trouble with my groups this semester, but still managed to get a good mark so thats all that counts (more on this later).
Anyway. must of been the pevious last sunday me and Karl decided to go and see the movie troy. the movie was ok, better then van helsing....
So we get there and the session is booked out. so we decide without any hesitation to go and see the next session at 8:40. we then walked over to the city for no reason and came to the conclusion that food would be good. So becuase we didnt want to eat hungry jacks we walked back to southbank and went to the fish and chip place. Karl wanted a beef burger but they didnt have any (again). [note the stupidity of advertising something you dont sell] so we goto the ol favorite snappy jacks or something, which is infact another fish n chipper but they also sell food from the heat trays or as some people like to call them, the trays of death. Karl finds out that salt is salty and find out that a walnut for a bladder is contagious and has moved to the stomach.
Time for the movie. We got out the movie at 11:40 (its an epic) stroll down to the train station only to find the last train out of town left at 11:00. So at this stage we are dazed and confused as to how the last train is at 11:00 because we are pretty sure that the trains run pretty late at least till 12. but thats not the case so we walk around for a while trying to figure out how to get home. then karl rings home and no one picks up. I ring home and mum tells me we are stupid. cant ask mum to pick me up as i took the car to get to the train station and because we live in alex hills we only have one car.
So we walk around, Karl suggests we goto jerremys place but at this stage its quite late and we would proberly just get hit over the head with a frying pan. so we decide to goto the computer labs at uni. She's waiting for us and I tell her karl will wait outside as i just need to use the toilet. anyway to cut a more probable than not long story into a short story, she says "you cant go in there or you will be forcible removed". Because I couldnt be bothered arguing and obviously getting spraying in the face with capsicum spray and getting permanent respiatory problems decided it would be best to just go away. apparently the toilets are D block are open all the time so we could use them.
We walked around a bit more before the idea of taking a taxi came to mind, we asked how much it was and $50 sounded like a lot. So we walked around a bit more and ended up near roma st station. At this point we had been "discussing" wheater to take a taki or not. So in the end we decide, yes lets just take a taxi. so we walk back to the taxi place in the city. When we get there we have a brain wave and decide to walk across the bridge to save money. we walk across and finnaly meet up with a taxi who will take us for $55.
Eventualy we get home.
Basicly we spent the night discussing the pros and cons of either waiting for the morning train (1.90 @5:30am), which would be cheap or catching a cab ($55 @ now)
In other news, I got internet back which is good.
Also i signed up for my gmail account. beancounting@gmail.com so im gona use that for my "webmaster" account because apparently you can save a gig of messages. One of the problems is the privacy where gmail (goodle) searches the text you are reading (the email) and pics ads that ping key words just like in the search engine... some say this is an invasion of privacy, but as long as its only ads i dont realy care. which is why im only using it for my webmaster stuff. as thats normaly pretty safe. of course the other email address (geewhiz@beancounting.tk) still works etc.
Oh also K-mart has/had 25% off bike stuff which was good becuase i needed a new tube for my bike as it EXPLODED. And that was very scary. so yeah, got my bike fixed but now i have another problem. the wheel isnt straight. as in it occasioanly touched the brake. so now i have to adjust that AGAIN. I dont realy like my bike anymore. I'm gona look for another one that isnt so crap. ooh and I get my self a blinking light for my bike so i dont get run over (they dont call it the redlands for nothing...) I came to this conclusion when i was walking home from the bus stop (a short 10 min stroll) as I walking home a man in a small white hatch (filled with people hahah (shouldnt laugh but it was clear he needed a larger car for his larger size....)) decided to beep at me and swear etc. (now for the reasoning) not realy sure why as i dont know him or cant remember the last time I actually spoke to someone in alex hills other than the newsagent, at woolies or my neighbors. so i couldnt of offened anyone. Other possible explinations is the strawberry theory or someone else that looks like me offended them or no one loves me.
Other things... well had more trouble with my groups this semester, but still managed to get a good mark so thats all that counts (more on this later).
NetComm are the best
NetComm are the best because they have graciously allowed me to connect to the internet.
Thank you
Thank you
Van Hellsing
lalalalalal
NO!
This is a movie about Van Helsing.
Hes supposed to be a bounty hunter with cool ancient gadgets etc. In this movie he is the left hand of GOD. Yes thats right he is Gabriel, but cant remember. Dracula is satans spawn or made a pact with satan or something. I'm not christian but from my TV knowledge isnt it that gabriel is satan, fallen angle blah blah blah becuase he has to kill the evil on earth for god, and this gives him nighmares and then they have a domestic dispute and gab says "i put food on the table and u dont even respect me" but becuase "god" is a bitch s/he said get out of my house and gab said "i was having an affair anyway" and so gab moved to the center of the earth (hell) which is where he used to stay when on business trips...
anyway if van helsing is gab (satan) but not in satans for yet (before the break up) how can dracula exist???? how can he make a pact or be born from someone who doesnt exist etc....
Note to EVERYONE: do not go and see this movie.
just rent it out and then you will know what im rambling on about
now onto the plot
dracula wants to have babies so natuarly he has 3 wives the babies are in these alien type pods hanging from the cealing. I should also point out that dracual isnt a normal vampire but someone who cant die (more on this later). frankinstien is created by the dr now dracual gets the idea that he can bring his babies to life (because dracual and vampires are dead and dracual doesnt acutally exist... (in the movie)). so he has an idea to use frankinsiten to give life to the babies by passing electricity through frank to the babies (i bet clipsal made a bucket load on this movie). while batling a warewolf van gets infected and only has 2 days till he becomes a wolf... so he still tries to find dracula and kill him as his last 2 days also convenintly dracula has the cure for being a warewolf (which is mentioned through out the movie). Draculas castle is place which can only be goten to through a mirror (or if ur a vampire then u already know where it is...).
Van and drac have a bit of a get together in this time we find out that van is actually hundreds of years old becuase he has nightmares describing stuff that hapend ages ago. Dracual and van have always been fighting. Remeber van cant rember his past, well drac does and van wants to chat and find out more.
in the end sequence van finds out that a warwolf can kill dracual (convenintly van will soon turn into a warewolf). But wait dracual has warewolfs doing his biding for him, why have they not killed him???? apparently they dont hate him enough for taking away their lives and turning them into warewolfs.... of which there is only one cure and dracula has it (but isnt that enough for them to kill him and take the cure...). basicly van goes to drac turns into a warewolf and kills him, in the mean time the other main character in the movie is not even needed and is just a nusiance.
any way so goes and gets the antidote. Since van is now a warewolf hes a bit clumbsy and knocks the bitch to the ground just by looking at her (of course throughout the movie she has taken greater beatings but who cares for consistancy) and she dies. Conventintly van has also knocked himself onto the needle of the antidote and returns to normal.
The end scene is even more absurd and nicey nice then the lion king. im not even going to describe in fear of remebering it.
NO!
This is a movie about Van Helsing.
Hes supposed to be a bounty hunter with cool ancient gadgets etc. In this movie he is the left hand of GOD. Yes thats right he is Gabriel, but cant remember. Dracula is satans spawn or made a pact with satan or something. I'm not christian but from my TV knowledge isnt it that gabriel is satan, fallen angle blah blah blah becuase he has to kill the evil on earth for god, and this gives him nighmares and then they have a domestic dispute and gab says "i put food on the table and u dont even respect me" but becuase "god" is a bitch s/he said get out of my house and gab said "i was having an affair anyway" and so gab moved to the center of the earth (hell) which is where he used to stay when on business trips...
anyway if van helsing is gab (satan) but not in satans for yet (before the break up) how can dracula exist???? how can he make a pact or be born from someone who doesnt exist etc....
Note to EVERYONE: do not go and see this movie.
just rent it out and then you will know what im rambling on about
now onto the plot
dracula wants to have babies so natuarly he has 3 wives the babies are in these alien type pods hanging from the cealing. I should also point out that dracual isnt a normal vampire but someone who cant die (more on this later). frankinstien is created by the dr now dracual gets the idea that he can bring his babies to life (because dracual and vampires are dead and dracual doesnt acutally exist... (in the movie)). so he has an idea to use frankinsiten to give life to the babies by passing electricity through frank to the babies (i bet clipsal made a bucket load on this movie). while batling a warewolf van gets infected and only has 2 days till he becomes a wolf... so he still tries to find dracula and kill him as his last 2 days also convenintly dracula has the cure for being a warewolf (which is mentioned through out the movie). Draculas castle is place which can only be goten to through a mirror (or if ur a vampire then u already know where it is...).
Van and drac have a bit of a get together in this time we find out that van is actually hundreds of years old becuase he has nightmares describing stuff that hapend ages ago. Dracual and van have always been fighting. Remeber van cant rember his past, well drac does and van wants to chat and find out more.
in the end sequence van finds out that a warwolf can kill dracual (convenintly van will soon turn into a warewolf). But wait dracual has warewolfs doing his biding for him, why have they not killed him???? apparently they dont hate him enough for taking away their lives and turning them into warewolfs.... of which there is only one cure and dracula has it (but isnt that enough for them to kill him and take the cure...). basicly van goes to drac turns into a warewolf and kills him, in the mean time the other main character in the movie is not even needed and is just a nusiance.
any way so goes and gets the antidote. Since van is now a warewolf hes a bit clumbsy and knocks the bitch to the ground just by looking at her (of course throughout the movie she has taken greater beatings but who cares for consistancy) and she dies. Conventintly van has also knocked himself onto the needle of the antidote and returns to normal.
The end scene is even more absurd and nicey nice then the lion king. im not even going to describe in fear of remebering it.
coffee
i had some coffee about 2 hours ago and now my brain feels like it wants to sleep and has shut down (cant think/do my assinghment) but my eyes wont shut...
ARGH cant just sleep and get it over with and cant study and sleep later
ARGH cant just sleep and get it over with and cant study and sleep later
template work
becaue blogger now has new features, it would be wrong of me not to include these features into my blog/dnews etc so for me to do this I will need to use one of bloggers premade templates to steal design ideas and education on howto actually put the tags in etc.
"is it hot in here? Or is it just me?"
Well lucky for me i used the save draft feature for the last post which helped when the mess under my desk broke down because I just recently added a 1400w 12 fin oil heater to the mix. Any, its sorted and all is now good except the assinghment I'm trying to do.
Its goto be 1500 words and I only got 900 and I can exactly make the conclusion go for 600 words.... i'm just going to add some more waffle. I only need 5% (out of 25%) to pass the subject so as long as I get something on the page I should get something (see also: economics assinghment....)
i shouldnt even be in this situation, what happended to all the planning.... ARGH *stress* (note that words in the asterix are either sounds or emotions or the like (keep up its not cool to be non-intuitive/asleep))
Its goto be 1500 words and I only got 900 and I can exactly make the conclusion go for 600 words.... i'm just going to add some more waffle. I only need 5% (out of 25%) to pass the subject so as long as I get something on the page I should get something (see also: economics assinghment....)
i shouldnt even be in this situation, what happended to all the planning.... ARGH *stress* (note that words in the asterix are either sounds or emotions or the like (keep up its not cool to be non-intuitive/asleep))
Because I care
Because I actually give a shit about what I write here and then read (possiblt the only reader....) later on I am going to try and reconstruct/re-write what went missing.... (this will now be done through the aid of the "save as draft" method, hopefully it will work)
(why not just type everything in brackets....( it kinda makes sense (but could get tiring (does it realy matter anyway.... (no one cares (see note above for carefactor (you are just trying to copy toopasete (drew) with his p.s/p.p.s/p.p.p.s..... (GeeWhiz 0 Drew 1))))))))
(why not just type everything in brackets....( it kinda makes sense (but could get tiring (does it realy matter anyway.... (no one cares (see note above for carefactor (you are just trying to copy toopasete (drew) with his p.s/p.p.s/p.p.p.s..... (GeeWhiz 0 Drew 1))))))))
Ctrl+C
I hate. I also hate it when blogger stuffs up...
but luckily i had copyed it
but wait crappy dialup takes so fucking long to load that i have inadvertantly copied another text, clearing the text i had before.
but luckily i had copyed it
but wait crappy dialup takes so fucking long to load that i have inadvertantly copied another text, clearing the text i had before.
Driving with lack of sleep is as dangerous as drunk driving
By Aaron Levin, Staff Writer
Health Behavior News Service
BETHESDA, Md.
Lack of sleep may seem like a minor problem to millions of people but it is also a major auto safety issue, a leading sleep researcher said Monday.
Drowsy driving represents perhaps the single greatest risk to people who have had inadequate sleep due to medical disorders, work schedules or life styles, said David F. Dinges, Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine at a conference on sleep at the National Institutes of Health.
He said fatality rates and severity of injury among sleepy motorists is similar to those in alcohol-related crashes.
A driver awake for 22 straight hours, he said, has ?psychomotor performance equivalent to a 0.08 blood alcohol concentration.
Once sleep drops below seven hours a night, perception and reaction time start to suffer, he said.
Tests that require a person to push a button in response to a light flashing show that greater sleepiness results in not only more missed signals but also more unwarranted button-pushing in an attempt to compensate.
Even though these lapses may last just seconds, that may be enough to precipitate a disaster, he said.
A drowsy driver doing 60 miles per hour can drift off the road at a 4-degree angle and get beyond the shoulder in just four seconds, Dinges said.
Response time isn t the only killer, either. The more tired people are, the more sharply they drop off into sleep, even when they re trying hard to stay awake, he said.
Yet people tend to blame the problem not on physical exhaustion but on the situation a long drive, a repetitive job, a boring lecture instead of the physiology of sleep.
The real consequences of sleepiness may not even be known with any accaccuracy, he said. People can recall the time they spend in bed, but this is not the same as actual time asleep.
To combat the risks posed by sleepiness, Dinges offered three prescriptions: training doctors to recognize sleepiness as a symptom; setting up a standardized system to rate the sedating effects of prescription drugs; and updating sleep-related regulation of working hours and conditions based on scientifically proven information.
If you sleep and drive your a bloody idiot
Health Behavior News Service
Health Behavior News Service
BETHESDA, Md.
Lack of sleep may seem like a minor problem to millions of people but it is also a major auto safety issue, a leading sleep researcher said Monday.
Drowsy driving represents perhaps the single greatest risk to people who have had inadequate sleep due to medical disorders, work schedules or life styles, said David F. Dinges, Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine at a conference on sleep at the National Institutes of Health.
He said fatality rates and severity of injury among sleepy motorists is similar to those in alcohol-related crashes.
A driver awake for 22 straight hours, he said, has ?psychomotor performance equivalent to a 0.08 blood alcohol concentration.
Once sleep drops below seven hours a night, perception and reaction time start to suffer, he said.
Tests that require a person to push a button in response to a light flashing show that greater sleepiness results in not only more missed signals but also more unwarranted button-pushing in an attempt to compensate.
Even though these lapses may last just seconds, that may be enough to precipitate a disaster, he said.
A drowsy driver doing 60 miles per hour can drift off the road at a 4-degree angle and get beyond the shoulder in just four seconds, Dinges said.
Response time isn t the only killer, either. The more tired people are, the more sharply they drop off into sleep, even when they re trying hard to stay awake, he said.
Yet people tend to blame the problem not on physical exhaustion but on the situation a long drive, a repetitive job, a boring lecture instead of the physiology of sleep.
The real consequences of sleepiness may not even be known with any accaccuracy, he said. People can recall the time they spend in bed, but this is not the same as actual time asleep.
To combat the risks posed by sleepiness, Dinges offered three prescriptions: training doctors to recognize sleepiness as a symptom; setting up a standardized system to rate the sedating effects of prescription drugs; and updating sleep-related regulation of working hours and conditions based on scientifically proven information.
If you sleep and drive your a bloody idiot
Health Behavior News Service
More features
Yay! Blogger now has more features.
The main one would be:
Comments
email 'a' blog
Profiles
and other interblogwhizbang (basic DB stuff)
This is proberly in response to other 'blog' services coming online with more features. We all know blogger is reliable and thats half the battle...
Anyway this is just a normal post, posted in the normal way etc.... Just gona go see what the templates look like.
The main one would be:
Comments
email 'a' blog
Profiles
and other interblogwhizbang (basic DB stuff)
This is proberly in response to other 'blog' services coming online with more features. We all know blogger is reliable and thats half the battle...
Anyway this is just a normal post, posted in the normal way etc.... Just gona go see what the templates look like.
Opportunity
Its taken me a long time to develop the skill of identifying opportunity and now it seems that not enough. Not only do you have to see where it may be, but you also have to do something about it just to have the opportunity and not only that you have to still do something to take advantage of the opportunity. Makes me wonder if life really would be better in the slow lane.
not happy drew
the man who draws toothpaste for dinner -> drew <- (kinda funny why u say drew draws toothpas.....) anyway.... he seems kinda upset at the moment because some crazy people are stalking him from the internet and into reality. Its also the first time we get to see him angry it just seems so out of character as he's never like that. I might as well get to the point before I start sounding crazy.... I just recognise this as an example for my theory that when on the internet you communicate in a kinda different personality type thingy (as in your internet self is different from your reality self) so drew is normaly very happy person, but thats not entirly it, over the weekend his internet self colided with his real self this forced his real self to take action and write the letter.
When you read the letter and other stuff he has written then you will notice the difference.
Also it should be noted that drew does not want more internet friends as he has a life and just posts his cool pictures on the internet for the enjoyment of others and not as a giant personal add to meet hot women or make friends with other women.... or to sound cool that you have a cool website when talking to women....
When you read the letter and other stuff he has written then you will notice the difference.
Also it should be noted that drew does not want more internet friends as he has a life and just posts his cool pictures on the internet for the enjoyment of others and not as a giant personal add to meet hot women or make friends with other women.... or to sound cool that you have a cool website when talking to women....
Sacrifice a chicken day
Since its the holidays I have decided to actually use my own writting to fill the blog.
I have 3 exams next week and the first starts in 5 days. considering I have wasted about 7 days of study already this is not exactly a timely post, but one that is required for me to live.
The good thing about these mid-semester exams is that they are all multiple choice. Although what I have found, is that it does not make it any easyer. The first exam is the LOBA exam which is on monday. Accounting exam is on wednessday which is also hard. The last exam is Business statistics exam which is gona be piss easy and its only worth 5% so I can study for that next week.
Whats good about the holidays is that I can now have 2 days for accounting and 2 days for LOBA. And hopefully no distubances. The point is that now the only disterbances I have is from my self and all motivation etc must all come from me. Which is hard when you have so much flexability. So what did i do today to change the last couple of days. Well I just broke the day up into "sessions". Each session is 2 or 4 hours long. It is not dependent on what I do in that time rather it is a session of the day. eg. 8->12 then lunch 12->4 then snack 4->6 dinner 6->8 fruit/snack 8->10 as you can plainly see the day is broken up by food breaks. So far this has been working well. Tomorow is thursday and as everyday requires that I get up early to get the gym out of the way so I can do other stuff. Its not realy a system, just something I felt like doing today. Tomorow will proberly be a different system...
I have 3 exams next week and the first starts in 5 days. considering I have wasted about 7 days of study already this is not exactly a timely post, but one that is required for me to live.
The good thing about these mid-semester exams is that they are all multiple choice. Although what I have found, is that it does not make it any easyer. The first exam is the LOBA exam which is on monday. Accounting exam is on wednessday which is also hard. The last exam is Business statistics exam which is gona be piss easy and its only worth 5% so I can study for that next week.
Whats good about the holidays is that I can now have 2 days for accounting and 2 days for LOBA. And hopefully no distubances. The point is that now the only disterbances I have is from my self and all motivation etc must all come from me. Which is hard when you have so much flexability. So what did i do today to change the last couple of days. Well I just broke the day up into "sessions". Each session is 2 or 4 hours long. It is not dependent on what I do in that time rather it is a session of the day. eg. 8->12 then lunch 12->4 then snack 4->6 dinner 6->8 fruit/snack 8->10 as you can plainly see the day is broken up by food breaks. So far this has been working well. Tomorow is thursday and as everyday requires that I get up early to get the gym out of the way so I can do other stuff. Its not realy a system, just something I felt like doing today. Tomorow will proberly be a different system...
Fact of the day
Mrs. James Brown once tried to get out of traffic charges by claiming she was entitled to diplomatic immunity for being married to the 'ambassador of soul.' "
What ever happened to a fair go?
The Murali muddle is more than just cricket
The Wisden Verdict by Paul Coupar in Colombo
March 28, 2004
Chris Broad's decision to report Muttiah Muralitharan for a suspect bowling action will reverberate far beyond the cricket field in Sri Lanka.
There is genuine anger here. Not quite of effigy-burning proportions. But anger all the same. This seems odd, even absurd to some outsiders. But to understand the importance of Murali you have to understand a little about Sri Lanka.
For a start, cricket is the national game. It is said that the economy suffers when the national team plays, because attendances at work drop. For one-day internationals, this might be true. Certainly the cricket team is one of the focuses of national identity.
It also important to remember Sri Lankan history. It is a small island, about the size of Ireland. It was long subjugated. From the 17th century until 1948 it was ruled, in whole or in part, by foreigners. And even their post-independence history is troubled. Civil war broke out in 1983, and 65,000 people died. But Sri Lanka is now on the up, something that is the source of justifiable pride. Since a ceasefire in 2001, tourists and foreign investment have returned; GDP grew by 3% in 2002, and 5.5% in 2003.
So the country is delicately poised between a sometimes difficult past of subjugation, poverty and war, and the prospect of a bright future. In this society Murali is a potent symbol. He has taken more Test wickets than almost any other bowler. He is one of the world's most feared cricketers. Every time he takes the field he demonstrates that Sri Lanka can be the best. That makes him a powerful symbol of what the nation is capable of.
So when people say he cheats they are questioning something that goes deeper than cricket. This can be difficult for outsiders to understand. As one Englishman from Leicester told me in Colombo after the one-day series: "You wind them [Sri Lankans] up about him being a chucker but they don't get it. And you end up having to say 'No, he doesn't throw really. It was just a joke'."
For these reasons, Murali overtaking Courtney Walsh to become the highest wicket-taker in Test history is eagerly anticipated in Sri Lanka. He currently has 513 wickets to Walsh's 519. So he would surely have taken the record in Zimbabwe in mid-April. Although he is eligible to play, there have to be questions now about whether he will tour. And even if he does pass the record there, the shine will have been knocked off the achievement.
Many Sri Lankans will feel that this decision was timed to block Murali and allow the glory to go to Shane Warne, a white man. Several sets of officials, Sri Lankans protest, have passed Murali's doosra since it appeared in a new more vicious form against England in December 2003. Why does Chris Broad, they say, in his first series as a match referee, think differently?
Even this morning, before the story broke, a major national broadsheet, The Island, carried a waspish piece saying: "Match referees these days tend to be following double standards … it seems like the Aussies and the English could get away with anything." In such a volatile atmosphere, this will be a huge story. And one that's about more than a cricketer with a bent arm.
Paul Coupar is assistant editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
The Murali muddle is more than just cricket
The Wisden Verdict by Paul Coupar in Colombo
March 28, 2004
Chris Broad's decision to report Muttiah Muralitharan for a suspect bowling action will reverberate far beyond the cricket field in Sri Lanka.
There is genuine anger here. Not quite of effigy-burning proportions. But anger all the same. This seems odd, even absurd to some outsiders. But to understand the importance of Murali you have to understand a little about Sri Lanka.
For a start, cricket is the national game. It is said that the economy suffers when the national team plays, because attendances at work drop. For one-day internationals, this might be true. Certainly the cricket team is one of the focuses of national identity.
It also important to remember Sri Lankan history. It is a small island, about the size of Ireland. It was long subjugated. From the 17th century until 1948 it was ruled, in whole or in part, by foreigners. And even their post-independence history is troubled. Civil war broke out in 1983, and 65,000 people died. But Sri Lanka is now on the up, something that is the source of justifiable pride. Since a ceasefire in 2001, tourists and foreign investment have returned; GDP grew by 3% in 2002, and 5.5% in 2003.
So the country is delicately poised between a sometimes difficult past of subjugation, poverty and war, and the prospect of a bright future. In this society Murali is a potent symbol. He has taken more Test wickets than almost any other bowler. He is one of the world's most feared cricketers. Every time he takes the field he demonstrates that Sri Lanka can be the best. That makes him a powerful symbol of what the nation is capable of.
So when people say he cheats they are questioning something that goes deeper than cricket. This can be difficult for outsiders to understand. As one Englishman from Leicester told me in Colombo after the one-day series: "You wind them [Sri Lankans] up about him being a chucker but they don't get it. And you end up having to say 'No, he doesn't throw really. It was just a joke'."
For these reasons, Murali overtaking Courtney Walsh to become the highest wicket-taker in Test history is eagerly anticipated in Sri Lanka. He currently has 513 wickets to Walsh's 519. So he would surely have taken the record in Zimbabwe in mid-April. Although he is eligible to play, there have to be questions now about whether he will tour. And even if he does pass the record there, the shine will have been knocked off the achievement.
Many Sri Lankans will feel that this decision was timed to block Murali and allow the glory to go to Shane Warne, a white man. Several sets of officials, Sri Lankans protest, have passed Murali's doosra since it appeared in a new more vicious form against England in December 2003. Why does Chris Broad, they say, in his first series as a match referee, think differently?
Even this morning, before the story broke, a major national broadsheet, The Island, carried a waspish piece saying: "Match referees these days tend to be following double standards … it seems like the Aussies and the English could get away with anything." In such a volatile atmosphere, this will be a huge story. And one that's about more than a cricketer with a bent arm.
Paul Coupar is assistant editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.
The Murali muddle is more than just cricket
Google Search: moin kahn
More irrelavent cricket links to my own blog... but a number one on google is still nice to have
Thanks Moin Kahn.
Google Search: moin kahn
Thanks Moin Kahn.
Google Search: moin kahn
Its just not cricket
I can hardly belive that my website is the only site on the yahoo directory which has circket commentary
Weird (or yay becasue i got one click out of it)
Yahoo! Search Results for: comentray online for cricket matches
Weird (or yay becasue i got one click out of it)
Yahoo! Search Results for: comentray online for cricket matches
Finding the Quiet
What I wouldnt give for a bit of quiet.
Finding the Quiet:
"Finding the Quiet
Is noise annoying you? Most of us accept the daily racket of modern living ? sirens, garbage trucks, airplanes, television, hair dryers, whining computers, blaring car stereos, hollering sports fans, endless talking ? as normal. "
Finding the Quiet:
"Finding the Quiet
Is noise annoying you? Most of us accept the daily racket of modern living ? sirens, garbage trucks, airplanes, television, hair dryers, whining computers, blaring car stereos, hollering sports fans, endless talking ? as normal. "
Voluntary Student Unionism
I am against voluntary student unionism, becuase it means less services... and as a student it makes sense to pool resources in this manner.
anyway...
One of the concessions secured in the negotiations to have recent higher education changes passed was the elimination of Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU) from the package. However, the Liberal government has recently reneged on this deal and announced its intention to introduce the VSU Bill. This issue will be debated in the next few months.
VSU means that membership to your student organisation is not automatic upon enrolment rather, students opt in. Our current system of universal membership means that all students become members upon enrolment - this ensures that students remain in control of student affairs and student unions are able to provide the many essential services and representation to its members. Where VSU has been introduced it has had devastating effects. At Curtin Uni in WA the unions membership income was reduced from $3million to $100 000 and as a result departments such as womens, queer, and disabilities were closed down. For more information on VSU please visit www.guildonline.net/getpolitical
The Education Action Group and Student Guild is encouraging all students to write to the independent senators (Len Harris - QLD, One Nation; Brian Harridine - TAS; Shane Murphy - TAS, former ALP; Meg Lees - SA former Democrat).
The result will depend on the independents as the ALP and Greens will vote against the bill.
We will also be placing petitions on EAG Stalls and Student Guild Information Centre Desks.
So please send an e-mail to each of the independent senators and sign a petition. (There is an example leter below.)
Len Harrris
senator.harris@aph.gov.au
Brian Harridine
senator.harridine@aph.gov.au
Shane Murphy
senator.murphy@aph.gov.au
Meg Lees
info@megsdesk.com or senator.lees@aph.gov.au
And a reminder that Campus Education Action Groups will be meeting again in Week 4 and preparing for the National Day of Action to Fight the Fees.
Monday 12pm KG, A Block Lawn
Tuesday 12pm GP, Kidney Lawn
Wednesday 12pm CA, Student Lounge (outside Guild Info Centre, Level 3, C Block)
Details for the National Day of Action:
Meet 12pm, Kidney Lawn, Gardens Point for free BBQ. March to King George Square for 1pm Rally.
(Note KG and CA students will be meeting on their respective campus and catching bus to GP - more details to come).
See ya
Kirsten Harte
Education Director
Dear Senator [Insert Senator's Last Name],
As you are aware the Government has again raised the spectre of voluntary student unionism. I know that in the past you have shown good judgement and rejected this policy. I thought that I would write to you to reiterate why voluntary student unionism is an extremely flawed policy in order to reinforce your opposition to it.
Universal membership of student organisations is necessary to fund the many essential services that such bodies provide to students. For example, each year the QUT Student Guild successfully assists hundreds of students appeal their exclusion from the University for poor academic performance. Many of these students are from rural and disadvantaged backgrounds who have had trouble adapting to life at a major urban university. Without the help of their Student Guild they would be forced to leave without a degree. The Student Guild also runs an employment and accommodation service that is of particular use to disadvantaged students, especially those from a rural background who desperately need to find a place to live and a job to support themselves. Other examples of the valuable services the QUT Student Guild provides includes: free legal advice, free centrelink advice, free advocacy in disputes with the University, and subsidised childcare. QUT Student Guild representatives also sit on various University boards that make decision that effect all QUT students to ensure that their rights and interests are taken into account.
Under voluntary student unionism these services would not exist. The QUT Student Guild plays a similar role to a local council in that it charges a levy that is used to provide a number of essential services to the community which it represents. As everyone benefits from the services the QUT Student Guild provides everyone has an obligation to make a contribution. It is interesting to note that the ACCC has recently ruled that the public benefits of universal students unionism outweighs any disadvantage. Further numerous court cases in Australia have ruled that universal membership of student is not an infringement of one's rights to freedom of association. It is also important to state that students at QUT and in most other Australian universities can already opt out of membership to their student organisation by becoming a conscientious objector.
I sincerely hope that you will resist all attempts by the Government to introduce VSU.
Kind regards.
[Insert your name
and address here]
anyway...
One of the concessions secured in the negotiations to have recent higher education changes passed was the elimination of Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU) from the package. However, the Liberal government has recently reneged on this deal and announced its intention to introduce the VSU Bill. This issue will be debated in the next few months.
VSU means that membership to your student organisation is not automatic upon enrolment rather, students opt in. Our current system of universal membership means that all students become members upon enrolment - this ensures that students remain in control of student affairs and student unions are able to provide the many essential services and representation to its members. Where VSU has been introduced it has had devastating effects. At Curtin Uni in WA the unions membership income was reduced from $3million to $100 000 and as a result departments such as womens, queer, and disabilities were closed down. For more information on VSU please visit www.guildonline.net/getpolitical
The Education Action Group and Student Guild is encouraging all students to write to the independent senators (Len Harris - QLD, One Nation; Brian Harridine - TAS; Shane Murphy - TAS, former ALP; Meg Lees - SA former Democrat).
The result will depend on the independents as the ALP and Greens will vote against the bill.
We will also be placing petitions on EAG Stalls and Student Guild Information Centre Desks.
So please send an e-mail to each of the independent senators and sign a petition. (There is an example leter below.)
Len Harrris
senator.harris@aph.gov.au
Brian Harridine
senator.harridine@aph.gov.au
Shane Murphy
senator.murphy@aph.gov.au
Meg Lees
info@megsdesk.com or senator.lees@aph.gov.au
And a reminder that Campus Education Action Groups will be meeting again in Week 4 and preparing for the National Day of Action to Fight the Fees.
Monday 12pm KG, A Block Lawn
Tuesday 12pm GP, Kidney Lawn
Wednesday 12pm CA, Student Lounge (outside Guild Info Centre, Level 3, C Block)
Details for the National Day of Action:
Meet 12pm, Kidney Lawn, Gardens Point for free BBQ. March to King George Square for 1pm Rally.
(Note KG and CA students will be meeting on their respective campus and catching bus to GP - more details to come).
See ya
Kirsten Harte
Education Director
Dear Senator [Insert Senator's Last Name],
As you are aware the Government has again raised the spectre of voluntary student unionism. I know that in the past you have shown good judgement and rejected this policy. I thought that I would write to you to reiterate why voluntary student unionism is an extremely flawed policy in order to reinforce your opposition to it.
Universal membership of student organisations is necessary to fund the many essential services that such bodies provide to students. For example, each year the QUT Student Guild successfully assists hundreds of students appeal their exclusion from the University for poor academic performance. Many of these students are from rural and disadvantaged backgrounds who have had trouble adapting to life at a major urban university. Without the help of their Student Guild they would be forced to leave without a degree. The Student Guild also runs an employment and accommodation service that is of particular use to disadvantaged students, especially those from a rural background who desperately need to find a place to live and a job to support themselves. Other examples of the valuable services the QUT Student Guild provides includes: free legal advice, free centrelink advice, free advocacy in disputes with the University, and subsidised childcare. QUT Student Guild representatives also sit on various University boards that make decision that effect all QUT students to ensure that their rights and interests are taken into account.
Under voluntary student unionism these services would not exist. The QUT Student Guild plays a similar role to a local council in that it charges a levy that is used to provide a number of essential services to the community which it represents. As everyone benefits from the services the QUT Student Guild provides everyone has an obligation to make a contribution. It is interesting to note that the ACCC has recently ruled that the public benefits of universal students unionism outweighs any disadvantage. Further numerous court cases in Australia have ruled that universal membership of student is not an infringement of one's rights to freedom of association. It is also important to state that students at QUT and in most other Australian universities can already opt out of membership to their student organisation by becoming a conscientious objector.
I sincerely hope that you will resist all attempts by the Government to introduce VSU.
Kind regards.
[Insert your name
and address here]
Bean Counting...
I dont like the template. Why because i just dont. anyway, since u can see its very late at night and i couldnt sleep so i am now working on a template for this blog which will most proberly be identical to the D-news one
india win
ODI # 2116
India in Pakistan, 2003/04, 4th One-Day International
Pakistan v India
Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore (day/night)
21 March 2004 (50-over match)
Result: India won by 5 wickets
Series: 5-ODI series level 2-2
Toss: Pakistan
Umpires: Asad Rauf and SJA Taufel (Aus)
TV Umpire: Nadeem Ghauri
Match Referee: RS Madugalle (SL)
Man of the Match: Inzamam-ul-Haq
Pakistan innings (50 overs maximum) R M B 4 6
Yasir Hameed st Dravid b Kartik 45 93 68 5 0
Shahid Afridi c Yuvraj Singh b Pathan 3 10 10 0 0
Yousuf Youhana lbw b Pathan 9 28 19 1 0
*Inzamam-ul-Haq b Balaji 123 160 121 9 4
Younis Khan c Pathan b Kartik 36 69 48 1 0
Abdul Razzaq c Kaif b Tendulkar 32 48 24 2 1
+Moin Khan b Balaji 0 1 2 0 0
Shoaib Malik c Kaif b Khan 13 13 8 2 0
Shoaib Akhtar b Khan 2 6 4 0 0
Mohammad Sami not out 0 4 0 0 0
Shabbir Ahmed not out 0 1 1 0 0
Extras (b 10, lb 9, w 6, nb 5) 30
Total (9 wickets, 50 overs, 221 mins) 293
FoW: 1-8 (Shahid Afridi, 2.2 ov), 2-39 (Yousuf Youhana, 8.6 ov),
3-89 (Yasir Hameed, 20.6 ov), 4-194 (Younis Khan, 38.6 ov),
5-264 (Inzamam-ul-Haq, 46.4 ov), 6-264 (Moin Khan, 46.6 ov),
7-283 (Abdul Razzaq, 48.4 ov), 8-290 (Shoaib Malik, 49.2 ov),
9-292 (Shoaib Akhtar, 49.5 ov).
Bowling O M R W
Pathan 10 1 53 2 (1nb, 3w)
Balaji 10 0 64 2
Khan 10 0 43 2 (2nb, 1w)
Kartik 10 1 48 2 (2nb)
Tendulkar 8 0 48 1 (2w)
Yuvraj Singh 2 0 18 0
India innings (target: 294 runs from 50 overs) R M B 4 6
V Sehwag c Younis Khan b Mohammad Sami 26 53 29 5 0
SR Tendulkar c Moin Khan b Shoaib Akhtar 7 22 13 1 0
VVS Laxman b Shoaib Akhtar 20 23 18 4 0
*SC Ganguly c Moin Khan b Abdul Razzaq 21 23 15 2 1
+R Dravid not out 76 141 92 9 0
Yuvraj Singh c Yousuf Youhana b Mohammad Sami 36 44 35 5 0
M Kaif not out 71 79 77 8 0
Extras (lb 9, w 19, nb 9) 37
Total (5 wickets, 45 overs, 195 mins) 294
DNB: M Kartik, IK Pathan, L Balaji, Z Khan.
FoW: 1-34 (Tendulkar, 4.1 ov), 2-69 (Laxman, 8.4 ov),
3-75 (Sehwag, 9.6 ov), 4-94 (Ganguly, 12.6 ov),
5-162 (Yuvraj Singh, 23.4 ov).
Bowling O M R W
Shoaib Akhtar 9 1 63 2 (6w)
Shabbir Ahmed 7 0 62 0 (5nb, 1w)
Mohammad Sami 10 0 50 2 (3w)
Abdul Razzaq 7 0 42 1 (3nb)
Shoaib Malik 7 0 38 0
Shahid Afridi 5 0 30 0 (1nb, 1w)
india win
India in Pakistan, 2003/04, 4th One-Day International
Pakistan v India
Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore (day/night)
21 March 2004 (50-over match)
Result: India won by 5 wickets
Series: 5-ODI series level 2-2
Toss: Pakistan
Umpires: Asad Rauf and SJA Taufel (Aus)
TV Umpire: Nadeem Ghauri
Match Referee: RS Madugalle (SL)
Man of the Match: Inzamam-ul-Haq
Pakistan innings (50 overs maximum) R M B 4 6
Yasir Hameed st Dravid b Kartik 45 93 68 5 0
Shahid Afridi c Yuvraj Singh b Pathan 3 10 10 0 0
Yousuf Youhana lbw b Pathan 9 28 19 1 0
*Inzamam-ul-Haq b Balaji 123 160 121 9 4
Younis Khan c Pathan b Kartik 36 69 48 1 0
Abdul Razzaq c Kaif b Tendulkar 32 48 24 2 1
+Moin Khan b Balaji 0 1 2 0 0
Shoaib Malik c Kaif b Khan 13 13 8 2 0
Shoaib Akhtar b Khan 2 6 4 0 0
Mohammad Sami not out 0 4 0 0 0
Shabbir Ahmed not out 0 1 1 0 0
Extras (b 10, lb 9, w 6, nb 5) 30
Total (9 wickets, 50 overs, 221 mins) 293
FoW: 1-8 (Shahid Afridi, 2.2 ov), 2-39 (Yousuf Youhana, 8.6 ov),
3-89 (Yasir Hameed, 20.6 ov), 4-194 (Younis Khan, 38.6 ov),
5-264 (Inzamam-ul-Haq, 46.4 ov), 6-264 (Moin Khan, 46.6 ov),
7-283 (Abdul Razzaq, 48.4 ov), 8-290 (Shoaib Malik, 49.2 ov),
9-292 (Shoaib Akhtar, 49.5 ov).
Bowling O M R W
Pathan 10 1 53 2 (1nb, 3w)
Balaji 10 0 64 2
Khan 10 0 43 2 (2nb, 1w)
Kartik 10 1 48 2 (2nb)
Tendulkar 8 0 48 1 (2w)
Yuvraj Singh 2 0 18 0
India innings (target: 294 runs from 50 overs) R M B 4 6
V Sehwag c Younis Khan b Mohammad Sami 26 53 29 5 0
SR Tendulkar c Moin Khan b Shoaib Akhtar 7 22 13 1 0
VVS Laxman b Shoaib Akhtar 20 23 18 4 0
*SC Ganguly c Moin Khan b Abdul Razzaq 21 23 15 2 1
+R Dravid not out 76 141 92 9 0
Yuvraj Singh c Yousuf Youhana b Mohammad Sami 36 44 35 5 0
M Kaif not out 71 79 77 8 0
Extras (lb 9, w 19, nb 9) 37
Total (5 wickets, 45 overs, 195 mins) 294
DNB: M Kartik, IK Pathan, L Balaji, Z Khan.
FoW: 1-34 (Tendulkar, 4.1 ov), 2-69 (Laxman, 8.4 ov),
3-75 (Sehwag, 9.6 ov), 4-94 (Ganguly, 12.6 ov),
5-162 (Yuvraj Singh, 23.4 ov).
Bowling O M R W
Shoaib Akhtar 9 1 63 2 (6w)
Shabbir Ahmed 7 0 62 0 (5nb, 1w)
Mohammad Sami 10 0 50 2 (3w)
Abdul Razzaq 7 0 42 1 (3nb)
Shoaib Malik 7 0 38 0
Shahid Afridi 5 0 30 0 (1nb, 1w)
india win
geewhiz's FotoPage
Just signed up for this photoblog thing. Seems like a good idea so I can post pictures and not use up valuable space on my webhost et....c.....
and link and so forth etc...
and link and so forth etc...
Pakistan win despite Tendulkar's ton
Pakistan win despite Tendulkar's ton:
"Sachin Tendulkar emulated Inzamam-ul-Haq's Karachi heroics with a dazzling 141, but it wasn't enough to inspire India to an improbable victory after they were set 330 to win by Pakistan at Rawalpindi. Shoaib Akhtar, playing his 100th one-day international in front of his home crowd, winkled out India's lower order as they fell 12 runs short at the finish. "
"Sachin Tendulkar emulated Inzamam-ul-Haq's Karachi heroics with a dazzling 141, but it wasn't enough to inspire India to an improbable victory after they were set 330 to win by Pakistan at Rawalpindi. Shoaib Akhtar, playing his 100th one-day international in front of his home crowd, winkled out India's lower order as they fell 12 runs short at the finish. "
something to rember
"In 1940, Isaac Asimov invented the 'Three Laws of Robotics'...
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law."
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law."
argh Kryptonite....
Today the phone borke. As you can see I have come back to the blog (yay?). The point is that all that self esteem built up yesterday is gone. Which is why I'm just going to goto bed and wake up as if this never happend (see the viscious cylce developing.... [the sleeping part {if you didnt get it}]).
Now that our powers have combined....
Now that my self esteem is fully restored. I think I might goto bed.
INDIA WIN
49.6 Nehra to Moin Khan, OUT: got'im! fulltoss on the middle and off,
Moin swings hard and ends up hitting it to Zaheer Khan at extra
cover, Nehra does his job! Indian win by 5 runs !!
Moin swings hard and ends up hitting it to Zaheer Khan at extra
cover, Nehra does his job! Indian win by 5 runs !!
the last ball
49.5 Nehra to Naved-ul-Hasan, one run, another single! terrific over so
far! on the middle and off stump line, only manages to play it
straight to the cover fielder, single is taken and Moin is back on
strike
49.4 Nehra to Moin Khan, one run, played away to the square leg region,
the fielder moves in quickly and keeps it down to one run,
Tendulkar was the fielder there, well done
49.3 Nehra to Moin Khan, no run, another dot ball! yorker lenght
delivery on the pads, Khan misses out and the ball hits the pad
and falls dead on the track
Ganguly comes forward and has a word with his bowler
49.2 Nehra to Naved-ul-Hasan, one run, pitched up on the middle and leg,
driven down to the long off region, just the one run, tension
mounts!
Pakistan require another 8 runs with 3 wickets and 4 balls
remaining
Moin Kahn is the perfect man for thse situations, can he take
Pakistan to victory here?!
49.1 Nehra to Naved-ul-Hasan, no run, dot ball! short delivery on the
middle, Hasan swings hard but makes no contact
Pakistan require another 6 runs with 3 wickets and 1 balls
far! on the middle and off stump line, only manages to play it
straight to the cover fielder, single is taken and Moin is back on
strike
49.4 Nehra to Moin Khan, one run, played away to the square leg region,
the fielder moves in quickly and keeps it down to one run,
Tendulkar was the fielder there, well done
49.3 Nehra to Moin Khan, no run, another dot ball! yorker lenght
delivery on the pads, Khan misses out and the ball hits the pad
and falls dead on the track
Ganguly comes forward and has a word with his bowler
49.2 Nehra to Naved-ul-Hasan, one run, pitched up on the middle and leg,
driven down to the long off region, just the one run, tension
mounts!
Pakistan require another 8 runs with 3 wickets and 4 balls
remaining
Moin Kahn is the perfect man for thse situations, can he take
Pakistan to victory here?!
49.1 Nehra to Naved-ul-Hasan, no run, dot ball! short delivery on the
middle, Hasan swings hard but makes no contact
Pakistan require another 6 runs with 3 wickets and 1 balls
ARRGH
Pakistan require another 9 runs with 3 wickets and 6 balls remaining
And like I predicted Nerha will bowl the last over
We are all doomed
And like I predicted Nerha will bowl the last over
We are all doomed
over 49
Pakistan require another 17 runs with 4 wickets and 12 balls remaining
since zahre is bowling the second last over and Balaji already has had his ten who is going to bowl the last over?
Nehra?
I think Ganguly has stuffed it up just a bit....
since zahre is bowling the second last over and Balaji already has had his ten who is going to bowl the last over?
Nehra?
I think Ganguly has stuffed it up just a bit....
India vs. India
Today India and Pakistan are play cricket for the first time in ages. So far India have scored 349 runs, which is realy good.
However because India are stupid they are likely to throw the match away in a way only they can. As I write this its the 46th over and Pakistan only need 28 runs with 21 balls to go and lets not forget they still have 5 more batsmen to come.
I just wonder why India can make such big scores and still not be able to win the match.
However because India are stupid they are likely to throw the match away in a way only they can. As I write this its the 46th over and Pakistan only need 28 runs with 21 balls to go and lets not forget they still have 5 more batsmen to come.
I just wonder why India can make such big scores and still not be able to win the match.
references
as you can see I have been looking at the referes to my site, as I do on a regular basis to keep my self esteem up.
so far the web site has had about 560+ hits over the past couple of months....
yay gone past 500
next stop 1000
so far the web site has had about 560+ hits over the past couple of months....
yay gone past 500
next stop 1000
Google Search: "monkey magic" stamps
Welcome to the Number 2 site on the internet of Monkey magic stamps
Google Search: "monkey magic" stamps
Google Search: "monkey magic" stamps
MSN Search -- More Useful Everyday
Number one for a seach on "silyva" and I even got a website preview (although so did everyone else...)
MSN Search -- More Useful Everyday
MSN Search -- More Useful Everyday
Google Search: toothpastefordinner pirate cartoons
Super YAY
I am also number one for "toothpastefordinner pirate cartoons"
Google Search: toothpastefordinner pirate cartoons
I am also number one for "toothpastefordinner pirate cartoons"
Google Search: toothpastefordinner pirate cartoons
MSN Search: bean counting -- More Useful Everyday
Holy fuck I am now number one for "bean counting"
double yay
MSN Search: bean counting -- More Useful Everyday
double yay
MSN Search: bean counting -- More Useful Everyday
XML dirven Flash
XML dirven flash seems to be the only way to extract any usefullness out of flash. Of course my website now have an XML feed.....
p.s. Dont worry I wont be doing anything like that untill I can get the XML to work in old fashioned HTML (compliant of course)
p.s. Dont worry I wont be doing anything like that untill I can get the XML to work in old fashioned HTML (compliant of course)
Portfolio
I was actually just following a link when I found this site. Not only is it cool, but it also has a world map thingo (somewhere....)
the winner of the 2001 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in the category "Net Excellence," the highest honor in international net art and design.
I like these kinda sleek websites and seeing what they get upto, especialy when they get to work with cool products
the winner of the 2001 Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in the category "Net Excellence," the highest honor in international net art and design.
I like these kinda sleek websites and seeing what they get upto, especialy when they get to work with cool products
The world is mine
I found this realy cool Flash script with displays map coordinates on a world map and all you have to do is insert that information into an XML file. How cool is that. Plus its using Flash (and people say that flash is useless). Plus its using XML (and people say that XML is only for enterprise).
p.s. I have wood after playing with this.
p.s.s. I need atleast the weekend to get this up and running smoothly...
p.s. I have wood after playing with this.
p.s.s. I need atleast the weekend to get this up and running smoothly...
Everyone needs one
Just to demonstrate the power of blogger I present.....................
Gawker
Gawker is editorialisation of NY citys news, not only that it provides its own take on NY etc... Making it a good source of information if you're in NY. I propose that all major citys should have something like this or maybe in Australia (because we are small in number) just a national one. Its run by a small team of people who have the same dream of blogging... (becuase you can)
Gawker
Gawker is editorialisation of NY citys news, not only that it provides its own take on NY etc... Making it a good source of information if you're in NY. I propose that all major citys should have something like this or maybe in Australia (because we are small in number) just a national one. Its run by a small team of people who have the same dream of blogging... (becuase you can)
The answer: Community websites?
essays :: weblogs: a history and perspective: "I don't have an answer. In our age the single page website of an obscure Turk named Mahir can sweep the web in days. But the unassailable truth is that corporate media and commercial and governmental entities own most of the real estate. Dell manages more webpages than all of the weblogs put together. Sprite's PR machine can point more man-hours to the promotion of one message--'Obey Your Thirst'--than the combined man-hours of every weblogger alive. Our strength--that each of us speaks in an individual voice of an individual vision--is, in the high-stakes world of carefully orchestrated messages designed to distract and manipulate, a liability. We are, very simply, outnumbered."
Maybe Community Website could help counter act this by facilitating more into one individual "blog" a bit like seti...
However I still think Individual blogs could be usefull, because they can provide news where there was no news. As in reporting and reviewing things we actually see. Of course searching through this mess to get the information we want will be hard.
Maybe Community Website could help counter act this by facilitating more into one individual "blog" a bit like seti...
However I still think Individual blogs could be usefull, because they can provide news where there was no news. As in reporting and reviewing things we actually see. Of course searching through this mess to get the information we want will be hard.
The reason why its broke
essays :: weblogs: a history and perspective: "So why doesn't every bookmark list contain five weblogs? In the beginning of 1999 it really seemed that by now every bookmark list would. There was a bit of media attention and new weblogs were being created every day. It was a small, quick-growing community and it seemed to be on the edge of a wider awareness. Perhaps the tsunami of new weblogs created in the wake of Pitas and Blogger crushed the movement before it could reach critical mass; the sudden exponential growth of the community rendered it unnavigable. Weblogs, once filters of the web, suddenly became so numerous they were as confusing as the web itself. A few more articles appeared touting weblogs as the next big thing. But the average reader, hopefully clicking through to the Eatonweb portal, found herself faced with an alphabetical list of a thousand weblogs. Not knowing where to begin, she quickly retreated back to ABCnews.com."
Its just the most credible answer I can find.
Its just the most credible answer I can find.
Maybe I need a business plan
Some reasons I started blogging:
1. Practice Writting
2. confidence in writting
3. having a point of view (maddox)
4. Being creative (toothpastefordinner)
a journey of self-discovery and intellectual self-reliance.
1. Practice Writting
2. confidence in writting
3. having a point of view (maddox)
4. Being creative (toothpastefordinner)
a journey of self-discovery and intellectual self-reliance.
Reintergration?
essays :: weblogs: a history and perspective: "Certainly, both styles still exist; certainly the particular mixture of links, commentary, and personal observation unique to each individual site has always given each weblog its distinctive voice and personality; and certainly the weblog has always been an infinitely malleable format. But the influx of blogs has changed the definition of weblog from 'a list of links with commentary and personal asides' to 'a website that is updated frequently, with new material posted at the top of the page.' I really wish there were another term to describe the filter-style weblog, one that would easily distinguish it from the blog. On the principle of truth in advertising, this would make it much easier for the adventuresome reader to find the type of weblog he most enjoys."
Maybe if I can get my templates right....
Maybe if I can get my templates right....
Its a journal stupid
The reason I originaly started blogging was to firstly be able to articulate what I was thinking/feeling, I couldnt do this in D-news becuase it had 'expectations' which is the reason for its separation (not to mention the relavence).
Now that I think about it, what is the point of actually writting all this down? who even cares? Will I even read it?
Back to sanity... I think in a sence my own weblog experiance follows with the history of blogging (disregarding the fact that I am lagging)
"The original weblogs were link-driven sites. Each was a mixture in unique proportions of links, commentary, and personal thoughts and essays. Weblogs could only be created by people who already knew how to make a website. A weblog editor had either taught herself to code HTML for fun, or, after working all day creating commercial websites, spent several off-work hours every day surfing the web and posting to her site. These were web enthusiasts." (History of weblogs)
[Note to self: look into microcontent]
Now that I think about it, what is the point of actually writting all this down? who even cares? Will I even read it?
Back to sanity... I think in a sence my own weblog experiance follows with the history of blogging (disregarding the fact that I am lagging)
"The original weblogs were link-driven sites. Each was a mixture in unique proportions of links, commentary, and personal thoughts and essays. Weblogs could only be created by people who already knew how to make a website. A weblog editor had either taught herself to code HTML for fun, or, after working all day creating commercial websites, spent several off-work hours every day surfing the web and posting to her site. These were web enthusiasts." (History of weblogs)
[Note to self: look into microcontent]
One day...
"A blog is a web page made up of usually short, frequently updated posts that are arranged chronologically" (Blogger.com, 2004)
I think what is more important now what I will use the blog for. I already have a blog for news/links/comentray etc
This is just a personal blog, of well I hate to say it but...: Ramblings, musings, feelings, what am i doing/feelings/listening/reading/not doing/hoping to do type blog. I guess when I say it like that I dont like blogging. Which is why I am searching for a different definition.
I think what is more important now what I will use the blog for. I already have a blog for news/links/comentray etc
This is just a personal blog, of well I hate to say it but...: Ramblings, musings, feelings, what am i doing/feelings/listening/reading/not doing/hoping to do type blog. I guess when I say it like that I dont like blogging. Which is why I am searching for a different definition.
Create
Create is normaly associated with artistic things or as the implicit meaning goes, anything we make.
So a blog is realy about the recent past.
To make it easyer for my small mind to comprehend all this, and to try and clarify it in such a way it makes sense. I think it would be best to look at it from the perspective of just one entry and not thing about the archiving purposes just yet.
So a blog is realy about the recent past.
To make it easyer for my small mind to comprehend all this, and to try and clarify it in such a way it makes sense. I think it would be best to look at it from the perspective of just one entry and not thing about the archiving purposes just yet.
So what do I have to say
The next question I ask my self is what do I do in this 'space'?
Write? [see title stupid]
I realy dont know. Anyway.... The seperation of the bloggers cycle has enabled a more effeciant blogger cycle with a smaller down period, becuase it is not (shouldnt be....) linked to closely to emotion. Therefore it makes the product, in this case D-news more accessable to the market and is just a better product because of it.
From this we can summerise that seperating the bloggers cycle out of the blog into a seperate blog (D-news) to satisfy my need for "interesting" news and the need to archive and collect it like old people do with news papers (but in a more enviromentaly and physicaly less exhausting fashion) and the other need to look like I have something interesting to say. (getting closer).
Summerising the summary into a conclusion brings us to the fact that D-news is hella cool and purely for the public domain. However, what is apparent is that people do not find the ramblings/etc of anyone talking to them selves the least bit interesting (except maybe to stalkers and voiourists). Hence we have now taken the bloggers cycle out of the blog.
This still leaves us with what is supposed to go here...
Logic will tell us that we just wack in everything else that is not news or anything that I create. [essentialy whats been happening in our lives; Such as new purchases, how we are feeling etc...]
Write? [see title stupid]
I realy dont know. Anyway.... The seperation of the bloggers cycle has enabled a more effeciant blogger cycle with a smaller down period, becuase it is not (shouldnt be....) linked to closely to emotion. Therefore it makes the product, in this case D-news more accessable to the market and is just a better product because of it.
From this we can summerise that seperating the bloggers cycle out of the blog into a seperate blog (D-news) to satisfy my need for "interesting" news and the need to archive and collect it like old people do with news papers (but in a more enviromentaly and physicaly less exhausting fashion) and the other need to look like I have something interesting to say. (getting closer).
Summerising the summary into a conclusion brings us to the fact that D-news is hella cool and purely for the public domain. However, what is apparent is that people do not find the ramblings/etc of anyone talking to them selves the least bit interesting (except maybe to stalkers and voiourists). Hence we have now taken the bloggers cycle out of the blog.
This still leaves us with what is supposed to go here...
Logic will tell us that we just wack in everything else that is not news or anything that I create. [essentialy whats been happening in our lives; Such as new purchases, how we are feeling etc...]
So this is a blog
This is my blog and I can write what ever I like here.
Now that I have seperated the dreaded bloggers cycle from this blog (bean counting) and called it D-news. I have now found that this blog is now lacking, in comparison with D-news.
Now that I have seperated the dreaded bloggers cycle from this blog (bean counting) and called it D-news. I have now found that this blog is now lacking, in comparison with D-news.
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