Just came across this language site on the BBC website. Use it to spruce up your language skills for free. Just came across this language site on the BBC website. Use it to spruce up your language skills for free. ...
I was just demonstrating to my little bro the miracle of widgets. In response he said (in his deep man voice), "Apple is forging boldly into the future." The little boy's got vision.This morning I found a postcard from my aunt and uncle who are off on a worldy excursion. This postcard came from Paris (although it didn't have any postage so I'm...
nor did i have your black hair Originally uploaded by *raffaella. I've been orienting myself to the little white beast... The poor machine has received a few scuffs in its time and when it gets going the harddrive chugs along like the little engine that could. The screen can in no way compare to the blazing beauty of d'ell (or silver bullet if...
I feel like a real geek today, I'm here in my room with two laptops on my bed, one with a beautiful screen, the other with a beautiful operating system. But that's not why I feel like such a geek. I spent a couple hours today solving some internet issues at my house. During the spring cleaning purge some information was misplaced... some...
while I watch Catherine Zeta Jones' musical number on PVR I just thought I'd post a little something from the little present that was brought home for me today. Yes, that's right, I'm posting from a dashboard widget on my little white beast, my almost new ibook that I'll be using for work. W. is helping with my indoctrination into the world of...
My replacement keyboard arrived today. The entire story of why I needed a replacement keyboard in the first place is long and painful to tell (synopsis, cats are evil), as is the story of why I hadn't replaced it earlier (synposis, I was blinded by rage and my research was faulty)... but I now have a fully functional keyboard that enables me to...
I found this meme on one of my blogs... thought I'd give it a bit of a whirl.Leave your first memory of you and me together. It doesn’t matter if I know you a little or a lot, anything you remember! Next, post this in your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. ...
I'm quickly dozing off here but I thought I'd share with the world a couple of the things (stats mostly about blogs and such) that I discovered tonight.From Feedburner: Daily Circulation Readership Details (last 24 hours)Bloglines 3NetNewsWire 3A Java-based feed reader 1FeedFetcher -Google 1My Yahoo 1Yahoo-Blogs 1From Bloglines: I have five people who subscribe to my flickr photostream within blogger (five people subscribe...
One kind word can warm three winter months. Japanese proverbI have had a hideous cough for several days now. What was a minor nuissance in the beginning has rancidified into something quite unpleasant. It wakes me from my deepest sleep and disrupts the zen atmosphere of my family home.In other news I returned to work today. As a general rule I tend to...
while I wait for some things to finish downloading I just thought I'd mention how today I met a man who is building a castle in his yard. It was interesting to say the least. I didn't take any pictures because it was raining and I wasn't brave enough to take out my camera (but probably a more accurate reason was that it...
what is exciting in my world? well, I am happy to report that one of my photos made the interestingness stream on flickr. The stream features different photos each time the page reloads so I had to go and search out the photo after someone left a comment to tell me about it being deemed interesting (what that means I don't really know),...
I was reminded that sometimes I am a bit much sometimes. I burden others too much, but I know why I do it. Here's my explanation, my justification if you will.Go in for a closer look here, the description on the photo is exactly the same as the text below.call me verbose, it won't hurt me. Well maybe it might, because my need...
hmmm... a few things to report on.On the strike front, the BCTF's assets were frozen, which apparently means that they can't pay strike pay... but I haven't heard any news yet that the teachers are returning to work.On the photography front, I took photos of my two brothers at the park across from my brother's house. The weather was very cooperative, it was...
I have been trying out Google Reader recently, comparing it to Bloglines. Both are web based rss readers, which I like because both are free and when I was spending a lot of time switching from computer to computer at school, I always had access to my feeds. It's interesting to see the threat that Google Reader posed on bloglines, because following suit...
I never chronicled my abba mania experience. I guess I forgot to, but I experiencing some minor fatigue earlier this evening I seem to have received a second wind so I will share a condensed version of my abba experience.On Friday W. and I attended Abba Mania. It was a funny experience, I fit into the middle age demographic as the majority of...
on strike Originally uploaded by *raffaella. the strike continues... unfortunately for all parties involved, for the longer the strike continues the situation for teachers seems to get worse. On Thursday the BCTF is expected back in court to receive the ruling of the fine for being found in contempt of court. It's a nasty situation... it really seems like there is no solution...
There are reasons to avoid movies that have romantic story lines. Mainly, they are depressing when you live and work in a place with seemingly no romantic prospects. I should just stick to gritty dramas that make me feel good about my life.One thing I have to feel good about, one of my flickr contacts wrote me a testimonial. Another thing to feel...
In the age of dvd and special features I usually like to watch the trailer for the film I have just viewed just to compare how much the trailer might have given away about the plot, or how much the trailer misconstrued the plot. I find that the english trailers for foreign language films tend to present a very different story than the...
heh... I came across this flash game where you can play a memory card game using tags from flickr. There's nothing really spectacular about it, but it's fun to play using tags that are unique to your photostream. Or you can search generic tags... but isn't it more fun to play a matching game of your own face? heh... I came across this...
On the eve of stage II of job action I'm pleased to announce that I now have more hours to work. Starting tomorrow I will be working as an Educational Assistant II. I'm absolutely thrilled. The hours work perfectly with my schedule... as I will have afternoons and evenings free for school, and I will be working 20 hours a week... which will...
it's 6:18am and I can't sleep. I'm not usually up at this hour but thanks to my ridiculous tendencies to feel to deeply I'm agitated and unable to sleep. My eyes hurt, my head hurts, and my body is tired. In short, I feel like super junk.and it seems that not even the cheesy tunes of the BeeGees help. ...
