Year: 2004

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The sad thing about Canada is that they could’ve gotten british culture, french cooking and american technology. Instead they got french technology, british cooking and american culture.

My first reaction, when I got to The Official Ninja Webpage, was to close the browser tab. But my mouse jerked and I couldn’t hit the close button immediately, so I stayed for few moments.

Aparently, this is site is some fun! :) It reminds me of myself about 10 years ago…

I heard that there was this ninja who was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon the ninja killed the whole town.My friend Mark said that he saw a ninja totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.

There is all sorts of stuff – stories, movie scripts, flash clips, hate mail, and what not. This guy is pretty cool… :)

I’ve stambled upon an interesting book at Project Gutenberg. The book is called “Cyprus. As I Saw It In 1879” and it is written by by Sir Samuel White Baker.

Those who don’t like reading books, can imagine this text as a blog of this Samuel White Baker guy. It is an good set of travelling notes, that includes descriptions of the places and people, notes on politics and economy, as well as observations and statistics.

Continue reading Cyprus as it was in 1879

<%image(20040421-ball-smile.gif" alt="">There is a story on Slashdot today about Microsoft paying $12 Megabucks to Opera Software saying that it was indeed guilty and appologizing for its childish behavior.

This is not particularly interesting or entertaining though. On the other hand, the comments the story – are.

Here is my favourite so far:

Subject: In other news by Phekko

It has been confirmed that water is, indeed, wet and that it may not be necessary to pay SCO $699 to keep using Linux

<%image(20040525-alexander_sorokin.jpg" alt="Alexander Sorokin">Today is the 40th birthday of my uncle – Alexander Sorokin.

I wish him all the best and hope that he will continue helping me with the family tree research. His support and information survey is priceless.

Happy birthday and good luck! :)