urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74 Círdan Calaelen Círdan Calaelen 2005-01-19T14:01:49Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:12216 2005-01-19T14:01:49Z 2005-01-19T14:01:49Z link : <a href="http://yellowball.org/music/08%20London%20Underground.mp3">http://yellowball.org/music/08%20London%20Underground.mp3</a><br /><br />Its an enjoyable tune, best played on a Monday when you think it cant get any worse. :) urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:11953 2004-09-01T09:01:30Z 2004-09-01T09:03:17Z * Two passenger jets in Russia explode & crash minutes from each other<br /><br />* Suicide bomber detonates belt by subway entrance in Moscow<br /><br />* 400 hostages, 200 of them children taken by over a dozen terrorists in North Ossetia in Russia<br /><br />* Two busses in Israel blownup by suicide bombers.<br /><br />Seems like a terrorist month. I wonder if all of this were happening in the US or Europe what kind of outcry and reaction will it cause? But since its the "poor and helpless" Tchetchen or Palestinian "freedom fighters" who are doing this the Western media will not see this as important articles. Typical.<br /><br />One day when Trafalgar Square or the Eiffel tower get blown up maybe they will react, albeit too late but at least they will taste how ignorance and pity for muslim extremism is expensive. Human Rights? Independence? Thats all B****T. Nuke them and all the world's troubles will go away. A bit extreme? Why not check were are all the terrorist hotspots are originated from? Islamic extremists who take cover behind their Khoran and call all others infidels. Bunch of retarded clerics who call on the masses to die for them. Just nuke them. All of them. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:11605 2004-08-09T05:22:42Z 2004-08-09T05:22:42Z happy women's day to the LJ ladies i know... :)<br /><br />as for us... enduring another day of normal work down here... wont say men do all the work coz that would sound too macho... *grin*<br /><br />the weekend... bad... All Blacks lost a thriller of a game against the Aussies, and Man Utd also lost the Community Shield... but note that Man Utd's team was mostly composed of junior's in the 2nd half.. but Smith...oh... what a goal!<br /><br />now SA has a real chance of winning the Tri-nations on home soil... if they play the 2nd half of each match that is.... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:11331 2004-08-02T14:16:09Z 2004-08-02T14:16:09Z so another month goes by... and at last an internet connection is available for a few hours... *sigh*<br /><br />this weekend was awesome... went to the Sharks game in Durban at the ABSA Stadium... my first ever rugby game and i was immersed into the game and people in it... TV viewing is nothing compared to this bliss!!!! and i also got tickets to see the Tri-Nations test on the 21st August so that is also going to be a BIG GAME!!! <br /><br />*widescreen grin*<br /><br />I wish i had pics but alas i have no digital camera... then drove back after the rugby game and was kinda bored to decided to pay a visit to the sakkie night club in Richards Bay... oh boy... was it fun... my next morning's headache reminded me of that... in a good way... <br /><br />as for my work down here... another 4 months to go and then... JHB perhaps? or ....<br /><br />anybody owns an iPod here by the way? urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:11209 2004-07-08T05:48:02Z 2004-07-08T05:48:02Z Seems like things are calming down again....<br /><br />1. Flu is gone, kaputt, dead, muerto, etc... thankfully after 2 weeks of medication i am done with it. Though my gastric system has taken a weird beating, i keep getting bloated from any meal i take. I suppose the medication has those side effects.<br /><br />2. Cold front is gone too. Geez, it was frigging chilly here... Cant believe that so close to the coast you have to wear thermal underwear...<br /><br />3. September. Thats when the Renault Megane Sport is hitting SA, 225 BHP... need i say more? I am in the waiting list... woohooo!!!!<br /><br />4. Durban Gateway Weekend. Spiderman 2 and Ladykillers and bowling... cant wait... <br /><br />5. What do you guys have planned for weekend? urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:10910 2004-07-02T07:10:04Z 2004-07-02T07:10:04Z i just found discovered something nice!!!!!<br /><br />i downloaded FIREFOX browser via my laptop's dial-up connection and installed it on the work PC to try it out, well, its free and has some features which IE doesnt have.... to my amazement it skips over the firewall settings the company who runs these settings and now i can access LJ and download stuff!!!!!<br /><br />it was all blocked before. yiipeee!!!!!!!<br /><br />just have to keep this a little hush hush or else i will get noticed... :)<br /><br />*humbly jumps in quiet joy* urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:10701 2004-07-02T05:20:32Z 2004-07-02T05:23:31Z Czech Rep 0 - 1 Greece<br /><br />i cant believe it... after Nedved got off due to injury the cookie crumbled, but i had to take my hat off for the Greeks, they played spongy football... absorb and then attack... its going to be a tricky final.<br /><br />but i am sad... :( urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:10402 2004-07-01T14:22:44Z 2004-07-01T14:22:44Z 1. open plan office, cellphones left on tables ring at loudes volume for minutes on end...<br /><br />viable solution - glass of water<br /><br />2. park at the shopping mall in a near empty area to return you find you cant open any of your doors coz you have been "squeezed"...<br /><br />viable solution - park sideways<br /><br />3. had a rough nite, get early to work, go to coffee machine, only it doesn have coffee at all...<br /><br />viable solution - bring your own coffee<br /><br />4. get your car from service and drive till you need to fill up, open bonnet and find the oil cap is missing...<br /><br />viable solution - get mechanics spleen to use as oil cap<br /><br />5. happily trod to make a cup of hot chocolate and in the ecstacy flip the Cadbury hot choc container in the air only to discover your friend didnt close the lid properly...<br /><br />viable solution - smile coz its almost friday!!!!!!!!! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:10046 2004-06-28T05:46:55Z 2004-06-28T05:46:55Z flu is a bastard of a nuisance. a week now... argh...<br /><br />anyways... weekend wise :<br /><br />Euro 2k4 - It seems that the final will be Czechs Vs Portugal... should be a cracker of a game... the Czechs are on top form lately, thrilled at seeing them overcome denmark easily and it looks like Greece's luck might be over... although surprises can crop up.<br /><br />Movies - Shrek 2 was a very entertaining movie, specially the end song was so well interpreted by the acting cast... :), Kill Bill Vol 2 was sharp and precise, Quentin Tarantino has made a classic<br /><br />Movies to wait for - Hellboy, Alien Vs Predator, Ladykillers, Chronicles of Riddick, Spider Man 2, I Robot, Ocean's Twelve. Did i miss anything?<br /><br />now back to work with lekka drowsiness in the air... sometimes you gotta love medication... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:8858 2004-02-09T05:29:25Z 2004-02-09T05:29:25Z yep. saw it... awesome movie... not for the faint hearted though... there's plenty of limbs and other body parts flying around but thats when you mix a cool looking blonde with a yellow leather suit brandishing a samurai sword... the movie has plenty of anime feel into it... and i cant wait for volume 2... i just WANT TO get my hands on the soundtrack too... all stores in the mall didnt have it... *DAMN*<br /><br />all in all a must see from Quentin Tarantino... :) urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:8465 2004-02-06T09:12:41Z 2004-02-06T09:17:04Z <p>just read of news of a terrorist attack on a subway train in moscow during rush hour...</p> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=535&ncid=535&e=1&u=/ap/20040206/ap_on_re_eu/russia_explosion <p>it just boils down to complaceny towards the people who do these acts in the name of FREEDOM or INDEPENDENCE... as many ordinary people in russia will tell you... chechnya is and will always be&nbsp;a lawless republic of thieves and murderers... why dont they just get nuked or go back to steal mules from their neighbours as they have done throughout their pitifull existence... i suppose as soon as 9/11 happened the WEST took a different stance to the so called Chechen cause for independence, they are just terrorists with murder and savagery in their hands... let them be handled in the terms which they understand best... they take one russian out we take a village out.</p> <p>sorry but some people are just too worthless to be tolerated and too backward to accept tolerance too.</p> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:8274 2004-02-04T05:12:04Z 2004-02-04T05:12:04Z i believe that many of you have received an email about the costs and charges that our cell companies charge and then compared them with the UK's and USA prices, thus then pleading you, the CONSUMER, to switch your phone off on the 4th of Feb... would you switch it off?<br /><br />I will not.<br /><br />I find it a tad absurd that our rates are compared with other more developed countries ( industrialy wise & technological implementation )... it just doesnt work this way... i mean.. in which of those countries compared do the cell companies have to worry about their rural towers having their sun dishes stolen to power a TV or a radio? mmmm... <br /><br />what do you think? urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:8052 2004-02-03T05:51:17Z 2004-02-03T06:02:54Z finally some quality has returned to my internet connection at work... the dial-up is much better now, cant use the work internet coz the LJ site gets blocked as a CUSTOM URL... *sigh*<br /><br />Found this interesting link on a supposedly peace sign on mars... :)<br /><br /><a href="http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20040202A.html">http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20040202A.html</a><br /><br />It surely is a funny coincidence of land and water combining to make a sign as such. I really wonder if any clues of an ancient civilization will be found on Mars though... maybe its all underground and a manned mission will uncover that with more ease than the current rovers.<br /><br />Upgraded my PC from spares bought from Claymore... did all the changes to the system on Sunday night, boot up.. and.. voila.. BSOD from windows 2000... couldnt get in to win 2k at all even in Safe Mode... and to make it worse my W2K CD wasnt with me... *bang head on wall*<br /><br />Next day borrowed a W2K CD just to boot from it and run a repair on the W2K boot partition. Sorted. Now sometime in the future just have to buy a top of the range video board... only when HalfLife 2 comes out though... coz they are very pricey in SA... <br /><br />now just have to wait for my dial-up to stop working after i post this... *sigh* urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:7925 2004-01-21T10:32:59Z 2004-01-21T10:32:59Z <img src="http://douweosinga.com/projects/visitedcountries/colormap?visited=AOBOBRDEMZPEPTRUSZZA"><br /><br /><a href="http://douweosinga.com/projects/visitedcountries">create your own visited country map</a><br /> or <a href="http://www.world66.com">write about it on the open travel guide</a><br /><br /><br />It was East Germany then... but i guess Germany counts nonetheless... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:7650 2004-01-15T06:06:34Z 2004-01-15T06:07:16Z <p>"the only winners in a war are the dead..." </p> <p>Plato.</p> <p>or something like that... why is our society the only one which favours research &amp; design of better means to eradicate their neighbours? could it be that our own self preservation causes such acts of hate and rage upon others? what could motivate sudden acts of war which may have dormant hate over decades to spring up like modern Europe's Bosnia conflict? The content of atrocities matched or exceeded what the modern society only remembered from the Holocaust.</p> <p>Yet the reaction of our peers throughout the world to usual massacres and genocides elswhere goes as a simple news update that is quickly forgotten, current flashpoints in Africa, Middle East and Asia have become "common" news.... i agree to the principle that peace is won through war... but there is no war in those places, just hate and misery.</p> <p>Will mankind ever see all this? Or will it only be noticed once it has engulfed the whole globe?</p> <p>I come from a family which has seen war first hand in their own soil, my grandfather was in the ruins of stalingrad fighting nazis while my grandmother helped build shells for tanks... my country had the highest toll in that war... 27 million.</p> <p>Yet 50 years from now all is forgotten, few remain to recount last stands and bayonet charges in despair... what is forgotten from history is replayed to the ignorant.</p> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:7257 2004-01-14T08:09:09Z 2004-01-14T08:09:09Z <img src="http://images.quizilla.com/L/lurichan/1067844013_esWyrmpure.jpg" border="0" alt="pure"><br>Pure: Your heart and soul are so pure it is as<br>though you where born yesterday. Somehow you<br>have managed to avoid all of the bad things in<br>life, and have led a very sheltered life. You<br>are a beacon of light in a world of shadows,<br>but your heart radiated a gentle kindness that<br>the shadows dissipate before.<br /><br />You have absolutely no taint upon your soul.<br /><br><br><a href="http://quizilla.com/users/lurichan/quizzes/How%20Wyrm%20Tainted%20Are%20You%3F/"> <font size="-1">How Wyrm Tainted Are You?</font></a><br> <font size="-3">brought to you by <a href="http://quizilla.com">Quizilla</a></font><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://images.quizilla.com/A/Antigone/1043030217_irrorball1.jpg" border="0" alt="You are Galadriel&#39;s Mirrorball. A gift to her from Sauron in the days when he masked his evil, you wreak havoc among the weak-minded. The elven queen herself has been seen sneaking aw"><br>You are Galadriel's Mirrorball. A gift to her from<br>Sauron in the days when he masked his evil, you<br>wreak havoc among the weak-minded. The elven<br>queen herself has been seen sneaking away to<br>her secret glade to dance the night away to<br>wicked music. You may be the downfall of<br>Middle-Earth.<br /><br><br><a href="http://quizilla.com/users/Antigone/quizzes/Which%20completely%20non-existant%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings%20object%20are%20you%3F/"> <font size="-1">Which completely non-existant Lord of the Rings object are you?</font></a><br> <font size="-3">brought to you by <a href="http://quizilla.com">Quizilla</a></font> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:7091 2004-01-13T12:35:25Z 2004-01-13T12:35:25Z <img src="http://images.quizilla.com/E/eveningmist23/1065747567_esdolphins.jpg" border="0" alt="water"><br>Your element is Water. You are a deep person and a<br>good communicator. Incredibably loving and<br>loyal when your trust is gained and you are<br>fairly mature.Myterious to the utmost water is<br>in everything. One can be an Ocean or a river<br>but nobody truly knows you.<br /><br><br><a href="http://quizilla.com/users/eveningmist23/quizzes/What&#39;s%20your%20element/"> <font size="-1">What's your element</font></a><br> <font size="-3">brought to you by <a href="http://quizilla.com">Quizilla</a></font> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:6787 2004-01-13T05:45:22Z 2004-01-13T05:45:22Z did it... finished Max Payne 2... excellent game... just like watching a movie... the plot was worthy of a good hollywood movie... just the ending was tragic.. made me shed a couple of tears... the special effects... graphics... story... voice overs... excellent... although the game was considerably shorter than the original Max Payne it is well worth a replay in the unlocked difficulty levels... so i will still be busy with it... i respect the Finnish development team on this well made sequel.<br /><br />in other news :<br /><br />it should hit over 40 degrees today here... yesterday it hit 39.<br /><br />monday was the most unproductive day i had this year so far... maybe the heat had something to do with it... i was just not in the mood for WORK... hope today is a better day...<br /><br />Kill Bill Part I is scheduled to hit SA on the 6th of Feb... woohooo!!!<br /><br />Anybody who would reccomment an Audio Shop in SA which would sell a high-fidelity Home Theatre system? I can only think of Hi-Fi Corp. Just looking for an amp ( DOLBY DIGITAL, DTS ) and a set of 5.1 or even 7.1 speakers.<br /><br />Hope you all have a better day...<br /><br />sometimes i feel like my icon... stuck in a box... around and around... *sigh* urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:5932 2004-01-09T10:53:03Z 2004-01-09T11:03:05Z <img src="http://images.quizilla.com/D/dphenreckson/1049378297_Hmiddleearthrohirrim.jpg" border="0" alt="Rohirrim"><br>Rohirrim<br /><br><br><a href="http://quizilla.com/users/dphenreckson/quizzes/To%20which%20race%20of%20Middle%20Earth%20do%20you%20belong%3F/"> <font size="-1">To which race of Middle Earth do you belong?</font></a><br> <font size="-3">brought to you by <a href="http://quizilla.com">Quizilla</a></font> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:5697 2004-01-09T07:49:36Z 2004-01-09T07:49:36Z <center><a href="http://www.geocities.com/krapdivad/quiz.htm" target="new"><br /><br /><img src="http://i.xanga.com/krapxdivad/mitsurugi.jpg" border="0"></a><br><br /><center>You are <b>Mitsurugi</b> - <br /><br />Both mysterious and attractive, you captivate people with the fact that you seem to be<br />good at everything! Spending quiet moments with a friend and talking about what life means to you is your ideal situation. You don't like to stand out very much and you seem to be more old-fashioned<br />than modern, but when you do take the spotlight -- you command the floor!</center><br /><br /><br><a href="http://www.geocities.com/krapdivad/quiz.htm" target="new">Which Soul Calibur character are you?</a><br /><br /><br>this quiz was made by <a href="http://www.xanga.com/krapxdivad">david park</a></center> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:5566 2004-01-08T12:50:15Z 2004-01-08T12:50:15Z at last... well deserved rain is scolding the roofs and factory down here.. big thunder as a buddy and strong winds as its leader... at least all this will summarise a successful free car wash... yyiipeee!!!!!!!!<br /><br />hope it stops at 1630 though... thats when i hit the road... <br /><br />*bow to loud thunder* urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:5346 2004-01-08T09:55:50Z 2004-01-08T09:55:50Z <table align="center" border="1">&lt;td&gt;<b>Pholph's Scrabble Generator</b><br><img src="http://www.solfire.com/scrabble/r.gif"><img src="http://www.solfire.com/scrabble/u.gif"><img src="http://www.solfire.com/scrabble/s.gif"><img src="http://www.solfire.com/scrabble/l.gif"><img src="http://www.solfire.com/scrabble/a.gif"><img src="http://www.solfire.com/scrabble/n.gif"><br>My Scrabble© Score is: 6.<br><a href="http://www.solfire.com/scrabble/">What is your score? Get it here.</a>&lt;/td&gt;</table><br /><br />rather poor score... *sob* urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:5090 2004-01-08T06:25:49Z 2004-01-08T06:27:16Z with all the attention on the mars missions ( US and UK ) it would be nice to ask whether you believe that Mars did actually sustain an environment suitable for human-like life to develop?<br /><br />My opinion is that the evidence that NASA are SHOWING us is still quite inconclusive, we will only get a clearer picture once everything gets uncensored and when a manned mission gets off to the red planet... <br /><br />now the dilema is whether such a mission is viable due to the cost and time taken... yet it would be nice to know that something could have existed, and if it did what leftovers of such a life would have been left on the ground...<br /><br />and maybe on the long term approach it would also be nice to use Mars as a future ground from where to endevour longer missions to other planets outside our system... too far fetched i know.<br /><br />what do you think about Mars? ( the planet, not the choc bar...)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.rednova.com/imagery/iod/0002/2004/01/010704_mars_surface_206big_spirit_color_nasa.jpg">http://www.rednova.com/imagery/iod/0002/2004/01/010704_mars_surface_206big_spirit_color_nasa.jpg</a> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:4664 2004-01-07T08:44:30Z 2004-01-07T08:44:30Z there is definetly a first for every year... and thus today i have my first serious migraine for 2004... ouch.<br /><br />and whats worse the pills were forgotten in JHB while i was there... dumb...<br /><br />on a creepier note... i noticed that Jeepers Creepers 2 is going to be released on the 9th of Jan... hehehe... anybody seen the first one?? its quite nicely gross and scary... and since it didnt have an ending i want to see how the story is going to go on... i just looooooove to see people jumping off their seats in a movie theatre... :)<br /><br />on gaming news... it seems that Silent Storm ( tactical turn-based-rpg ) is going to hit SA soon... and according to various friends who played SSX 3 on the PS2 it seems to be worthy of a buy... but still polishing off a couple of games before i dedicate myself to Final Fantasy X... that should take a while coz its quite a lenghty journey into a lovely world... <br /><br />gym was packed on monday and yesterday... hope today there wont be to many people who regret overdoing their xmas feeding carelessness... <br /><br />anyways... going to get some late breakfast now... i am starving... urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:ruslan74:4436 2004-01-06T11:11:04Z 2004-01-06T11:11:04Z yep... its that time of the day when you wish you had a choice... but i dont have a choice and that sucks...<br /><br />the notebook i use is the project's presentation notebook thus it has to be used for such use at 1330 hours of today... and that will leave me without internet access.. <sigh>... and it seems that the internet on the LAN will not be sorted out today... darn...<br /><br />on other news... car got washed before noon... until a sudden gust of wind brought some crying clouds... bummer...