Food For Thoughts

I just spent a most wonderful afternoon and evening. Me and my lovely friend Toril took some well deserved time off, abandoned our books and computers, and philosophized over a nice Thai meal accompanied with a bottle of red wine. (Yeah, I know what you want to say, but I don't care that much about wine "rules", if I want red wine, I drink red wine.)

Allthough our histories have a lot of similarities, and we do discuss them too, I think we both agree that what's going on right now and the future are far more rewarding topics. Not only our personal future, but in general, and on the bus on my way home I had all these ingenious ideas I wanted to blog later. I thought I had a brilliant strain coming about reader/writer and identity, and another one about the concept of evilness. But what happened when I got home? I just hit the couch, watched a very interesting program on National Geographic together with my children, and did virtually nothing. And it felt great! Great because I was relaxed for the first time in a very long time.

I can always write another day...

Being Nice

I'm not a religious person, but since this post isn't about personal beliefs,I'm not going to explore that point now. But I do believe the basics in most religions hold some value, and to put it simple: BE NICE! I know a lot of people have said it before, but it can't be said enough.

Even though some research shows that it is the more aggressive types that will survive, what's the point passing your genes on, if the offspring has nothing but violence and cruelty to look forward to? So be nice. To yourself and to the people close to you. Instead of trying to save the world while you at the same time have a silly argument with your neighbour about his overgrown hedge, why not be nice? If everyone did their best to treat the people they actually meet the best way they could, and left the rest in peace, I think the World would look much better.

I have for long now tried to live by the simple law of Cardamom Town:
"You shall never bother others, you shall be both fair and kind, and whatever else you do I shall not mind."

Simple, right?

I've also tried to be nice to myself, and that is actually quite hard. Today I treated myself with the latest copy of Computer Arts Project. (Hopefully I'll find some time for it.) And tomorrow I'll meet Toril for some Wining&Dining. On a Wednesday! That's a students life...

Dear Anonymous!

I hope I didn't offend you! As I said, your comments have been nothing but positive, and my decision to enable comment moderations has not that much to do with myself as with someone else. A dear friend of mine has been very unfortunate, and I will do anything to protect her. Your location indicated that you in some way could possibly be connected to that, therefore my words about "coincidenses". I will still communicate with anonymous people on my blog though, I just wanted to be able to inspect and approve comments before publishing. Does this sound fair to you?

Also I've realized that things usually works my way sooner or later, and my worst fears have so far rarely proven to be true. I think I'll stay positive from now on, hopefully I won't loose my writingskills because of it.

Locomotion

Have you ever been on a train, when suddenly it stops in the middle of nowhere, and you have no clue where you are or why the train stopped? Well, obviously you're somewhere on the line between the stations, but the stop was totally unexpected. There's no information given on the PA system, and you just sit there, waiting for the bloody train to get moving again. While you wait there's plenty of time to wonder about why you're stuck in the desolation. Has anything happened to the locomotive? Engine problems, maybe? Or is it something further down the track? Another train coming? Or maybe some poor soul is lying on the rails? You look out the window and perhaps the scenery is breathtaking, but you really don't perceive because all you can think of is The Train. What happened? How long are we supposed to stay here? Hello? Is it ever going to move on again? Still no answer. And then, as sudden as The Train stopped; a barely noticable movement, almost nothing but a faint tremble. You realize The Train has come alive again, slowly the engine is building up power. And you're on your way.

A Spanish Fox

Hola!
I'm stunned. I can write in Spanish! And I didn't know before. Just kidding, but what I didn't know is that Google has a translation tool, and someone used it to have my page translated. It made me giggle.



So many things I don't know, every day is exciting: what will I learn today?

("time elapsed, about 5 min...")

I'm back after checking out Googles tools, and it turns out that I can write in a lot of languages including Korean and French. Excellent! It's also evident that I never before really have taken any time in exploring Google. Sorry about that, folks! I'm sure I will find many uses for Googles Help Central in times to come. But that's also kind of typical, the most obvious things can take forever to discover, even if they're right in front of your nose.