Guam

Pulled into Guam.
My first time there.
Nice place.
American territory.
That means everything is american.
Not quite everything.
Cars, money and signs that is.
Nice place though.
I have one complaint.
They use pennies.
Yeah, thats right.
I'm complaining about pennies.
You don't get them in Japan.
Everything is rounded.
Sometimes you gain,
and sometimes you lose.
But you don't have pennies.
Useless for everything,
unless your in a store.
But honestly,
who uses exact change,
all the time?
How about 98 cents?
Or even worse, 93 cents?
Before you know it,
your pocket is over run.
Loaded down,
full of pennies.
Other than that,
I ate at the outback steak house.
Got a tattoo.
the usual.
Wait...
tattoo...
not usual.
Some of you know what I got.
Some of you don't.
I'll get pictures,
and of course post them later.
But it's the three stripes brand,
on the right ankle.
Thats enough vertical reading for you.
I'm off for some sleep.

Sydney

Been a while,
but then again,
a bit has happened.
Not much really,
On a bus for 2 hours.
At the airport for 4.
stuck on a plane for 9.
All in all,
15 hours traveling,
in one day.
Spending all day in Sydney.
Good time there.
Had some kangaroo.
Pretty good.
Watched a movie.
At a theatre.
Truly shocking.
Fantastic 4.
Not too bad, just cheesy.
Lots of good action,
and some spiffy effects.
Got some pictures,
but those'll have to wait.
Can't post them yet.
Not even too sure of the quality.
Should be decent,
but you never know...
There's one thing I don't like,
thats the future,
and I see alot of hard work.
No more slacking,
and spending all day online.
Oh well...
Nothing I can do about it.
It's now 1:20,
and I have to be up by 7.
Up at 7 ready for a full day of work.

Shiny things...

I've made far too many jokes about girls liking shiny things in the past. Truth is I'm a sucker as well. I'm reading the wired magazine, and come across advertisement. So much shiny stuff... All stainless steel. I've never been much for pendants and jewelry, but man. I happen to really like this pendant. Something about the simplicity of it all... But stainless steel is nice. Just a short post about something that caught my eye. Hope you all enjoy.

Nice article

I came across another good article from wired. Beijing Clinic Treats Web Addicts. While it's a good article, I find it frightening that the internet is gaining ground as being addictive. I've always known it was, but soon, using the internet will be looked apon as gambling is now. Something that is often bad. The internet is the greatest network for information ever. Many are addicted to load of information. (that'd be me) I don't play games online, I rarely play games on my computer. I can chat, but it's not all I do. I also don't actively seek pornography. Hard to avoid though as my e-mail is flooded with about 200 messages for sex related services or products every day. While I may be addicted, it doesn't affect my work, and I can happily go without it. Most people can. It's quite simple. You just need other stimulation to replace the internet. That can be anything from sporting events, to reading a book. Learning to play music or a second language is also a good replacement. From my experience, when theres no way to get access to a computer you quickly overcome the loss. You realize that you don't need to worry about playing that next game or seeing who's on every waking moment. Why should you? Theres no way it's going to happen. It's not like physical dependancies like you get with drugs. It's a mental thing, and the most powerful and adaptative part of the human body is the brain. (might have made a word up there) If your worried about losing your gaming skills, or typing speed, well get over it. A few hours and your back at your old abilities. Especially from a short time like 15 days. I find the best cure for internet addiction is to give them a computer with a 24k modem. Lets see how quickly they get bored of the internet. Constant cut offs, long dial up times. Multiple dial up attempts. Slow speeds barely capable of sustaining msn messenger. Just for realism, put a phone in the room with them, with caller waiting. Give the number out to their family and friends, and have them call at random times. Every call will kick you off the internet. The best part is that the internet is sitting there taunting them, and yet they learn to control the urge because they will quickly learn it's better to go without that it is to almost get that page loaded and get the server timeout page, or hear the phone ring. You want to make it even worse, give them an old computer with internet explorer 3. Yeah. Have fun finding compatable pages. But enough of that. Starting to get a bit mean there. I don't want anyone to commit me to an internet abuse center.

Thoroughly amazed...

While googling myself,
yes, I do.
I like to keep a low profile on the internet.
But back to the subject.
I came across and old free web site I had.
Old as in 6 years old.
I had this when I was 15.
I'm amazed it's still around,
and even more amazed that I just found it.
Ahhh... so nostalgic.
Back in the day before the dotcom boom,
and then the dotcom crash.
Back in the day when the web was still young,
just a wee young lad at that.
It was said anything could be found.
Too bad it wasn't true at that time.
Of course google has changed all that.
This really takes me back.
a 56k modem was top of the line,
and some isp only provided up to 33k.
I thought most of the old internet,
and most of my accounts died.
Went the way of a ghost town,
leaving search engines full of dead links,
making the internet desolate.
Those were the good ol' days.
popups were few and far in between,
low risk for you computer to get an std.
Spam was just canned ham.
Napster was just catching on,
and chat rooms actually had people chatting in them.
But most of all,
there was still intelligence on the internet.
No aol speak,
little leet speak.
Flame wars were large and caused many fueds.
You learned on your own for fear,
no mercy for the newbie who didn't read the manual.
Well, I'm done for now.
I hope some of you find this as great as I did,
and some you were able to remember the days of old.