Night times

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My eyes don't really work now. They feel like someone has poured sand in them - gritty... I do like sitting up during the night in front of the computer. Somehow I feel really productive, and dedicated (the little fact that I am not productive and dedicated at all just passes me by...). And it feels kind of nice to be up when everyone is asleep. I feel like I have the world for my self... It's all dark outside, and it's really quiet, and the air is cold and crisp... Somewhere, I can hear cars driving, but here, here I am all alone. On a little quiet island of light in this big dark world. I am pondering about all the others which are awake now, sitting on their little islands of light. Somewhere out there... There will be other windows with light, other people sitting in front of their computer, having a break from whatever they are doing, looking out of the window, and I feel a pleasant calmness...

Sometimes I think I forget to just be... It's too easy to neglect to just be during daytime. Most of the times I am too busy doing something, or if I aren't doing anything, very often I will then be too busy NOT doing something... I should just be more. Night times shouldn't be wasted with sleep or work, nigh times should be used to procrastinate, to think, to be, to stare...

Do stop the music!

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I have got a new pet peeve. It is something which has been annoying me off and on for the last few years, but unfortunately it seems to be more and more common, which results in me being annoyed more and more often.

Music on web pages!!!!

The first few times I came across it it was novel and rather cool. I thought it was a nice touch and a clever way of personalising a page. But, not for long. It soon became clear that the background music on various pages which i visited not necessarily matched so well with my taste in music. And, I soon realised that although more and more people seemed to have figured out how to put background music onto their pages, not all of them had likewise figured out how to put a mute button in as well.

Now, granted I am not strictly speaking supposed to but don't we all, I like to do a bit of recreational surfing during business hours. This tend to happen a bit concealed (due to reason mentioned beforehand) and on the lowkey, and I am a true master in switching to a more work-related window if there is any higher-in-command, and sometimes equal-in-command, closing in on my workspace. But, not only can strange bits of music occasionally be heard from my station, but it is also a dead give-away that you might not be working too hard on those excel sheets as you were supposed to...

Additionally, when surfing on the net in my own private time, I often enjoy listening to music which I have stored on my computer. When I then encounter pages with their own music on it creates a quite non-pleasant clash of sounds, which most often results in me shutting down the window with the web page with the offending music.

Well, I will admit that this might not rank high up on the 'most-annoying' list or even on the public 'annoying things worthwhile to blog about' list. However, it's my party (or blog as it is), and I can do what I want to...

The gadgets we cannot live without...

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The other day i thought about how many totally useless things that have been invented, or things that are created to make our life easier in one way or another... Take for instant my calculator... when i bought it, i was going to start studying physics and chemistry at uni, so i convinced my self that i needed this really expensive and ultra-functional calculator. when i came home with it, i relished in reading the user-manual, delighted over all the things this calculator could do, and eager to start to learn how i could operate it properly... but, somehow along the way i never did take the time to learn how to operate it. Of course, i learnt how to do all the basic things, but the extras i never seemed to have the time to learn. For God's sake, i could make small animations on that calculator... which was REALLY kewl for about a week... No, that's wrong... it's still really kewl, and i luv to tell ppl that I can make small animations on it, and ppl tend to oooh and aaah a lot when i do tell them. But, even tho it's really kewl, when do i ever NEED to make small animations on my calculator... actually, when do i ever need to make small animations, questionmark. Ok, back on track again... i don't study physics and chemistry anymore, and i still haven't experienced one incident that i felt i really needed to make small animations... i know my calculator can do probably a zillion things i don't know about. It could probably make coffee and run a bath if i only could figure out how... but, i don't really try to figure out these things either... i am happy that i know it can do these things, and content with not having to find out how...