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Scratch that itch 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Every person in the world wants something. There is no true altruistic act in existence. You can disagree, you can try, but you will be wrong. Give me mother Theresa, give me Jesus Christ, give me god himself, even they have reasons for doing what they have done.Lately I have come across a lot of fast talking, big mouthed know it alls who have promised me the world. In essence all that they are talking to me about is that itch. That little itch that keeps them guessing, keeps me feeling like they are lying to me to get what they want, to pick my brain and ravage me dreams. This might sound very drastic but it's how I feel to be honest. JHB is a place filled with opportunity and riddled with chance. But I've learned that people here are quick to talk but slow to act, quick to promise but never follow through and in actual fact are filled with horse crap.It just sometimes upsets me that people have this itch. Hell, I live for that itch, I thrive on the itch, I want to rule the fucking Read more:Scratch
Kill me - Stephen White 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I just finished reading an amazing book written by StephenWhite
called Kill Me. The book is about a man who is wealthy enough to afford the services of an end of life agency he calls the Death Angels. The Death Angels are paid for by you to end your life when you are diagnosed with a terminal illness.This is some variation of euthanasia but it is not as simple as that. What if you did not require the services anymore but could not end the contract? What if you wanted one last meal with your wife, child or best friend? What if you weren't ready to die no matter how badly ill you were and dependent on others you had to be?Read this book, it speaks from a male perspective and morphs itself in to the views of a father. There is a difference between a male and a father, trust me this book clearly defines that difference.I am pro choice and I loved the fact that this book presented both sides of the coin as equal. White does not make his characters decide for you, he lets you make your own
Media Whore 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Lately I've been feeling like somewhat of a media whore. I can't decide on a browser, I keep Opera, Firefox, Flock and Explorer installed on my laptop at all times just in case I get bored, frustrated or one of the options goes belly side up. So does this make me a cautious user or a nonc0mmittel fence sitter? I'm not sure.But on this point, Paul Stamatiou has pointed out that Opera 9.1 has been released. I am in the process of downloading the upgrades and testing it out and will definitely have an update on my experiences soon! Read more:Whore
I dislike christmas, alot. I am The Grinch 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I am really not sure what it is about this time of year that makes me despise it so much, but I do. I hate christmas with a passion, I hate shopping, presents, carols, cake, panetone, lunches, dinners, eve's and everything else that goes along with this holiday. I am not a religious man and I think that this is why this holidays frustrates me so much. I think that people have taken what used to be a tradition of holy proportion and bastardized it in to time of year to purchase exorbitant gifts for people that they should be loving the entire year and spoiling every day, not just on one day of the year.Silly, silly time of the year coated in joy, love and happiness. What a load of shit. Read more:Grinch
Google's top news searches 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Mike Stopforth has reported on Google
's top news searches. The list reads as follows:The top searches on Google News: 1. paris hilton2. orlando bloom3. cancer4. podcasting5. hurricane katrina6. bankruptcy7. martina hingis8. autism9. 2006 nfl draft10. celebrity big brother 2006What the fuck is this shit? Paris, Orlando, Martina, 2006 nfl shit, celebrity Big Brother. Need I go on? I am impressed with the cancer, autism and maybe even the podcast and bankruptcy searches but so many celeb and sports searches baffles me. Is it actually possible that there are hardly any news searches on the Google news site. What about congress, politics, history, public figures in Government, International law, journalism, Television programs and channels such as CNN, news sites and all the other topics that might possibly have featured in actual newspapers or news sites around the globe?On the other hand one needs to ask if these searches are representative of the proportion of news coverage that each t
Fresh Faced Comic - Joey Gay 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Joey Gay, Lets be happy he wasn't named Izzy Gay. Funny dude, loving the Brooklyn Iti' vibe. Read more:Comic
Windex now and then 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I read somewhere that the following Windex ad has been voted the best by the American public. I am close to agreeing but haven't seen the alternatives so I can't say for certain. Watch it and decide for yourself.Now watch the next ad from about a million years ago and see how far we have come in the advertising world.
philton.shuttp 1970-01-01 00:59:59 So apparently it's true, Paris Hilton has a marketing team that spans millions of paris androids (paroids). I call them paroids because they cannot actually be real people. These people have lost all feeling in the hearts and conscience in their souls. These people advertise on blogs whenever they read anything about their beloved leader philton. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE. Snap out of it. Wake up and smell the capitalist marketing ploy. You are all being played by an extremely intelligent team of marketers that work for miss philton, the leader of the paroids.This most recent outburst of rant and rage from me stems from a comment that I received on my Google's top news searches post. philton.org (please do not go and visit this turd of a site) felt it necessary to spam my blog with philton rubbish. This moron-paroid believes that it is necessary to create awareness for a girl (yes she is a girl not a women) who's claim to fame is a pair of nickers that she doesn't even wear rea
Samsung D900 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I am finally due for my phone upgrade on my vodacom talk 240 contract. It has been a long and happy two years with my Samsung
D500. I have had no problems with it at all. So I am considering sticking with the Samsung range and will most probably going with the D900.The D900 seems to be a great phone and has almost everything I am looking for. I was initially going to upgrade to the LG KG920 which has/had a 5 megapixel camera built in. Unfortunately Vodacom told me that they have discontinued the phone so I am unable to upgrade to it. I am a little bummed out about it but I think I can deal with D900 as a suitable replacement. Any suggestions let me know and I'll look in to it before I purchase the D900 tomorrow.
Eyepost - or is it Ipod? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I heard an absolutely hilarious story today. Apparently at CNA one of the staff was asked if CNA stocked a book called Ipod generation. The lady told the customer to wait while she checked on her computer system. About ten minutes later the customer went looking for the lady and found her staring at the computer screen. Subsequently passers by apparently heard the customer saying: "No, no it's spelled "I-P-O-D" not "E-Y-E-P-O-S-T". Who works in a shop like CNA and has never heard of an Ipod? Very strange and seriously embarrassing.The book is actually called Ipod therefore I am and I recently bought it after hearing much about it last year while I was in Europe.
Samsung D900 - update 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Finally received my phone today. Vodacom made it very difficult for me this morning, but eventually I made it through and have my D900. The phone is fantastic. I have never found it easier to personalise, customise and update my phone via my laptop. The Samsung
software is fantastic and is easy use. I can upload, download and synchronise to and from my phone to my laptop. I obviously have to move my birthday reminders from old to new phone and clean out my old phone before I can be completely happy with my upgrade, but that is par for the course.Anyways, it's almost that lovely day called present day - or was that Christmas? So to everyone who gives a fudge, have a happy happy. And to Jen from the Oh Boy! blog: Best of wishes for your brothers speedy recovery and I reckon 2007 will be incredible.
Wordpress offers .com hosting 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I have been seriously considering moving my blog to a .com url. I think that this is a necessary movement for bloggers in the very near future and thought that over December it would be a good idea to get started. So I have emailed some people that I regard as knowledgeable in this area and have done some of my own research. Thus far the best solution that I have found involves Wordpress
. A new feature has just been added to the Wordpress services; a feature that allows wordpress.com url's to be moved to .com url's. I think this is a brilliant idea. The only problem with this is that I am obviously a blogger user.Apparently Wordpress offers a service that allows for the importing of blogger blogs to Wordpress blogs. This might have to be done.There is a charge of $15 /per year if you are purchasing the desired url from Wordpress. If you have already purchased the url then the charge is a mere $10/per year or at the most R100/per year. I think this is a fantastic price for a brilliant
3 megapixels seems to work pretty well 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The pictures that the Samsung D900 takes seem to be of a very high quality. I am very happy with it all so far and will definitely be putting it to the test in the months to come. Below is an example of the quality: Read more:megapixels
James Brown, 73, dies. Who's next? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The father of soul, the man who put funk in to "funkadelic" and the pioneer who changed the face of music for millions has died. I will use no euphemisms because I don't feel that they are necessary.Brown
allegedly died of heart failure after being admitted to hospital for pneumonia. I say allegedly becuase one can never tell if pneumonia is simply pneumonia these days!I find it sad when public figures such as Brown die. I find it sad because it means that so many will grow up without his influence, the knowledge of his existence or simply put, his music.I've been thinking about this a lot lately and don't get me wrong, I know that the people I'm about to mention aren't pegging it as we speak, but they are getting on. What is to come of the likes of Al Pacino, Harrison ford, Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Diane Keaton, Bruce Springsteen, Cat Stevens, Paul Simon, Carly Simon, Aretha Franklin (is she still alive?), Diana Ross and many other prominent movie stars and singer/songwrite Read more:James
, James Brown
At the car wash 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Yesterday I decided that I needed to get my Red Zorba (read: red Fiat Sienna). So I mossied on down to the car wash on Rivonia Drive in Sandton. I waited in a que, a freaking car wash queue, for shit sakes for about 2 hours. They cleaned, polished, washed, waxed, vacuumed and wiped my little beauty. They made it look like it was almost just about and close to pretty new.See that little red car at the back...it's mine.Then it rained.At least my car smells good now. Thanks Murphy for those laws of yours.Speaking of Murphy's law: Is it just me or does everyone else think that Murphy must be a women, becuase only a women could have such a sick and twisted sense of humour?
Collective Unconscious 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I went to Melville last night to see a friends cousins band, CollectiveUnconscious
. I really felt the need to blog about this because this band was phenomenal. Not only was the song writing great, the lead singer's voice brilliant and the basis amazing but the drummer got off his stool (no pun intended) and played lead guitar on an acoustic song. To top it all of this a three member family band. The Drummer is father to the bassist and the lead singer and guitarist. The lead singer and song writer, Vincent is a mere 15 years old while the bassist is an astonishing 13 years old.Below is a video of one of their songs. If you are Johannesburg over the next while try catch Collective Unconscious live and loud:
Saddam hanged - wise move? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I received a text this morning at about 8am from a news website in South Africa. The text simply said: "Saddam
Hussein Executed". This was enough.Most people would think that this sort of text would fill you with something slightly positive. But not me. I'm not sure why. I'm not going to explain the intricacies of the hanging because it's all over the news anyways. I am going to say that I think that the killing of any man as an example is a silly move. Hanging a man will not end the violence in Iraq. It will not make the fighting stop and the people calm down. In fact I think that it will do the opposite. How can it be claimed that the death of a man, the murder of a man is a move in the right direction for a newly democratic state. Saddam deserved to die, he deserved to suffer but he was made an example of by the Americans who dominate Iraq. 30 people have already been killed in Iraq by a car bomb after the hanging. Violence will not stop. One man does not equal peace or war in ma
Greek cooking all day long 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Today I decided that I need to start living my Greek
heritage (that and I was asked to cook dolmades - pronounced Dol-Ma-Thes). So I asked my Grandfather (Pappou) to come over and help me make is famous pepper sauce.This sauce is filled with natural ingredients that make it one of the tastiest and healthiest I've ever tasted, used or had the pleasure of making!That little spat of creation took about 3-4 hours including shopping with the old old man. After that I braved the dolmades.Dolmades to the Englesi (English people)are little starter sort of bite size treats. Vine leaves wrapped around a mince meat and rice filling. It sounds fairly simple when put like that but is a very tasty treat and fairly challenging to get perfect (as if). So try I did and by the picture that you can see I think that I have done pretty well!! Read more:cooking
Stuntmen.la 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I just found stuntmen.la from a design site that I have linked to in my sidebar. Check it out. Throw the stuntman around for a bit of fun and enter action city after you have become an outrageous stuntman!
Tech Attack# 8 - Paint music online 1970-01-01 00:59:59 There is no attack present here other than to say that this site is addictive if you like and know music.I was supposed to go to bed about an hour ago. I have not been able to stop messing around with this paint music online
site. This is an incredible Flash creation that can and will entertain you for hours if you enjoy music, understand your mouse and have a grasp of notes, delay and volume controls!Check it out now and induce some insomnia! Read more:Paint
Old years eve 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I have always maintained that old years eve is somewhat of anticlimax. Due to this little fact I have been to and hosted house parties for the past two old years. This has yet to fail. No expectations, no queues, no terrible fools that are drunk (OK, there's always one at every party…thanks "shane-oh-no") and no disappointment. This year was no different. Party at Jen's house (thanks Jen) which turned out well. I did end up Braaing for about two hours thanks to lots of meat and a full chicken, but it was well worth it in the end.Herewith lies the record of our terrible dancing skillsI chose Malibu as my poison for the evening, topped off by some Archers peach schnapps. This drink did me so well and maintained a happy drunken state for the evening. I will not say that I was sober because the camera never lies (notice the blurred faces and skew framing!). Otherwise it was all good. Now for a brief list of my new years resolutions: Diversify in businessSave m
2Lazy4Video 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I have just posted my first post as a contributor to 2 Lazy 4 Video. This blog is a blog centred around music videos mostly old but some new, some brilliant kiddi muso's and some rubbish old gems from the past. If you are having a surf around and feel like checking out some golden oldies or if you are looking for an old music video or song feel free to email me or any of the other contributors and we will try to find what you are looking for!Check out 2 Lazy 4 Video now.
Fresh faced comic - Okey Bakasi 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I decided to get all African up in here and provide some Nigerian humour for everyone today. Enjoy.
There are no words 1970-01-01 00:59:59 There is nothing that anyone can say to make this feel less significant and saddening so I wont try. I am sorry for your loss."Oh Boy" indeed.
Don't mess wif my tootoo 1970-01-01 00:59:59 What is with all these bloody flippin' Afrikaans adverts on TV when there is sport on? Who buys this shit? Who listens to "Don't mess wif my tootoo
" kind of songs?Honestly if you cannot speak a language and write songs with correct grammar then don't bother. If you speak clutch plate the sing clutch plate, if you speak some other random language then sing it. There are those who can manage it such as good ol' Arno Carstens. But even he has his moments. I once heard him playing a concert and sound checking for it. The comment that flew out of his mouth at sound check blew me away:Arno: Nog delaaay assemblief, nog delaaay nowNic: *Jaw hits flaw, confustication sets in and beer started sinking*Now back to the TV advert issue. Why is it that the SABC thinks that only Afrikaans people listen to music and watch sport? Why can they not play kwaito, hip hop, or rock music while sports is on? Why not advertise those genres, those cultures and why not associate them with sports? Why is it t
2007 Bloggies 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The Bloggies
have arrived so check your rolls and butter your bread. Get on down to the 2007 Bloggies site and cast your vote for the vast number of categories available. The Bloggies are in their seventh year now and are going strong. The categories have grown, the exposure seems to be pretty vast and the the categories seem to cover many areas. Anyways, I think it's time to analyze your RSS feeds on Google/bloglines and see who you read the most and give them the props by voting for them for a Bloggie award.
Custom domains on Blogger 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Leon from BBD directed me to this post about Blogger
's new custom domain tool.You need to purchase your domain and make sure that it's working before you can select it as your new domain on blogger. Once these steps have been completed your old url will point to your new url so there wont be any links lost or time wasted in the past.I am now considering the move from Shutterview to nicharalambous.com. Not sure about this all, feeling somewhat apprehensive about it all but I will definitely make up my mind by the end of the weekend. Watch this space.
nicharalambous.com 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I think that I am going to be renaming my blog to nicharalambous.com. I am not sure why, I have no particular reason but I think that it feels right. I have outgrown shutterview and will always be me so I will never outgrow nicharalambous.com. Plus I have already paid for the domain name.Now I need to redesign template a bit and figure out DNS settings so that Google can start distributing new url and maintain links of old.Wish me luck!
James Brown, 73, dies. Who's next? 1970-01-01 00:59:59 The father of soul, the man who put funk in to "funkadelic" and the pioneer who changed the face of music for millions has died. I will use no euphemisms because I don't feel that they are necessary.Brown
allegedly died of heart failure after being admitted to hospital for pneumonia. I say allegedly becuase one can never tell if pneumonia is simply pneumonia these days!I find it sad when public figures such as Brown die. I find it sad because it means that so many will grow up without his influence, the knowledge of his existence or simply put, his music.I've been thinking about this a lot lately and don't get me wrong, I know that the people I'm about to mention aren't pegging it as we speak, but they are getting on. What is to come of the likes of Al Pacino, Harrison ford, Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Diane Keaton, Bruce Springsteen, Cat Stevens, Paul Simon, Carly Simon, Aretha Franklin (is she still alive?), Diana Ross and many other prominent movie stars and singer/songwrite Read more:James
, James Brown
At the car wash 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Yesterday I decided that I needed to get my Red Zorba (read: red Fiat Sienna). So I mossied on down to the car wash on Rivonia Drive in Sandton. I waited in a que, a freaking car wash queue, for shit sakes for about 2 hours. They cleaned, polished, washed, waxed, vacuumed and wiped my little beauty. They made it look like it was almost just about and close to pretty new.See that little red car at the back...it's mine.Then it rained.At least my car smells good now. Thanks Murphy for those laws of yours.Speaking of Murphy's law: Is it just me or does everyone else think that Murphy must be a women, becuase only a women could have such a sick and twisted sense of humour?
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