...but tired, dreadfully tired. And worried about all these deadlines ( Read more... )

...is that you spend too much time gloating over (NOT doing) the formatting that the actual content of your paper gets neglected.

Livejournal has been inaccessible for two days. Traceroute shows that the route is broken at 202.112.61.214--so it is, again, likely due to sabotage. How ironic it is, that exactly the same thing that had sent me here from MSN nearly a year ago is now forcing me to leave this lovely place ( Read more... )

Last night I spent 2.5 hours browsing through this TV series for the nobody-knows-how-many time. It had been one of the first few romantic stories I came across, and I was quite crazy about it during 2001-2003. Later I got to watch the original (1986 version), and even though it was simply gorgeous and in many ways better (fewer silly fights and ( Read more... )

...if there are enough wealth in this world to allow everybody to get reasonably good food, clothes, a place to live in, essential medicine, books and televisions and computers, and in general all sorts of mass-produced modern conveniences, without having to constantly worry about losing everything in case someone falls ill or loses a job. After ( Read more... )

Is Your Son a Computer Hacker

Apart from the excessive number of links, some of which pointing to inappropriate places, this article is a priceless piece of gem.

Though I don't feel as excited about fireworks as I once did, it is still nice to have a holiday once in a while.

I saw PP1 shown on TV again today. I used to be such a fan of it, having watched it around four times since 1999, but now I find myself unable to like it as much as I once did. The plot seems much too dramatic, and the actor's looks are hard to get used to. Have I changed? Or maybe the actors and actresses have changed more? But no matter what ( Read more... )

...is to read the stuff I wrote over ten years ago, which had spent some time on six different hard drives and had, as of ten minutes ago, a single surviving copy left in this world. And to find that my programming and English skills have not improved that much in ten years--at least, not as much as I thought. As one grows up, experience is ( Read more... )

When I got the network problems fixed, I told mom that she could surf the Internet on her laptop. "Just be careful. Don't go to strange websites or download strange software ( Read more... )