Some elements of the blog are being re-designed live as you read this, so if anything looks weird, don’t worry it’s just me playing around with things 😛
Why didn’t I work on this offline and then put it online when everything was organized and settled down?
Because I foolishly though it was so easy I didn’t have to 😛
Anyway, when this seems to have settled down a bit, let me know if you have any thoughts about how it turned out.
Ok, so I have another 6 Gmail invitations to give away, but I thought maybe we should make it more fun this time around 🙂
All you have to do to get one of these Gmail invites is to comment and post a joke.
The people with the six funniest jokes get the invites 🙂
Let the jokes begin 😉
“Do not say, that if the people do good to us, we will do good to them; and if the people oppress us, we will oppress them; but determine that if people do you good, you will do good to them; and if they oppress you, you will not oppress them”
— Prophet Muhammad PBUH
Tina Arena, my all time favourite female singer and the highest selling Australian female artist ever, will be releasing a Greatest Hits album on October 18th.
It’s packed with all her hits throughout the past ten years, from “Chains” to “Sorrento Moon” to “Burn” to “If I Was A River” to “I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You” to “Symphony of Life”.
It also includes two new songs: “Italian Love Song” and “Take Me Apart”.
It actually will be a double cd with the second CD containing the songs she recorded in in French and Italian.
I also hear a Greatest Hits DVD is on the way with it, so that’s so cool.
Anyone who calls themself a music fan should get this album as soon as it’s out because Tina Arena simply rocks big time!
If anyone is interested in more Tina Arena news, you can always check out my Tina Arena website.
Evidently, even those who seek peace and condemn terror are not fit to enter the United States.
“How can America encourage the voices of moderation and tolerance and pluralism within the Muslim world when, because of fearful ignorance, we insult and exclude them ?..”
— Diana Eck, director of the Harvard University Pluralism Project
The rejection of prominent Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan and peace activist Yusuf Islam (a.k.a Cat Stevens) from entering the country has only furthered the view that the Bush administration
Andrei Tolstyk was discovered three weeks ago by social workers who wondered why the seven-year-old had not enrolled at his local school in the beautiful Siberian region of Altai.
Deprived of human contact for so long, Andrei could not talk and had adopted many dog-like traits, including walking on all fours, biting people, sniffing his food before he ate it and general feral behaviour.
In an extraordinary case of life imitating art, Andrei, like Rudyard Kipling’s fictional Mowgli in ‘The Jungle Book’, had spent almost his entire youth in the company of animals.
According to the local press, his existence had been forgotten.
[Via: Sabbah]
[Source: New Zealand Herald]
WOW.
This is amazing.
I’d never believe something like this could happen!
Branson, head of the Virgin Atlantic airline, said Monday that passengers in groups of five could be sent into orbit by 2008 at around $200,000 a trip.
Branson said the money raised in the early part of the business would be ploughed back to bring the cost of seats in space down.
Branson’s licensing deal is with Mojave Aerospace Ventures (MAV), owned by U.S. entrepreneur Paul Allen (Microsoft co-founder). Allen funded the SpaceShipOne project, designed by Rutan and built by Rutan’s company Scaled Composites.
[More: CNN]
Wow.
Now, if that’s not cool, I don’t know what is.
I hope the prices go down quickly so that I maybe get to travel on board one of these flights. That would be so out of this world! (literally :P).
I knew the main idea behind the movie but didn’t know how they’d build on to it.
So, the movie is a take on the chaos theory and the concept of time travel mixed together.
The chaos theory mainly says that as much as a little change in the initial conditions can result in a big difference later, and well time travel is time travel, basically going back and forward in time.
I liked how they put the ideas together and how they came up with the time travel possibility, I thought it was rather creative.
It’s quite a good movie although it was lacking a certain something I can’t quite put my finger on. But it was still fun to watch.
The end was sort of funny and unexpected (for me that is, as other people could see it otherwise) and I liked it ending that way.
If I had to rate this movie, I’d give it 7/10 maybe.
The human imagination is such a powerful and great tool. A simple thought or a piece of text will trigger our imagination to create a whole new world for us to see and enjoy.
In books, we often find ourselves imagining the places the writer is talking about and putting faces to the characters he’s created. It all adds to the great fun of reading a story by in fact living it too.
Anyway, now with blogs, other than all that, we also find ourselves trying to imagine how the blog writer looks like in an attempt to associate a face to that person.
We try to pick up certain little details from here and there in their posts to try and make up a better picture of them in our minds, because it’s more comforting to us in a way to know how the person we’re reading from looks like.
Blogs are quite a personal way of communication and expression, sometimes revealing quite a lot about the writer and his life. With time the people reading the blog grow to know this person really well and it kind of bugs them if they can’t even picture that person in their minds, and that’s why they start imagining how they might look like.
I find it funny and very interesting when I try to imagine how someone might look like through their writings, and I find it even funnier and even more interesting when I think about how people would think I look like by reading what I write.
I wonder how I look like in your imaginations.
Just thought I’d let you guys know that I’ve uploaded some photos I took in Jordan to my new photolog, so if you’re interested check them out here.
I’ll be uploading some of the pics I took in Syria soon too.
