There is a saying that goes along the lines of '..you can try to forget your past, but it'll always come back to haunt you'. This morning I got a call on Skype which just blew my socks off, it was a call from Robert, whom I haven't seen nor heard from in close to 29 years! The icing was to hear Flavia's voice on-line as well, although I've e-mailed her in the (recent) past it we had never talked on Skype before this day.

Just to add a bit of strangeness, they were in fact calling me from the 'past'. Let me explain, Flavia is in New York, Robert in the Netherlands and me in New Zealand, so Wednesday 6:20AM my time is Tuesday 8:20PM for Robert and Tuesday 2:20PM for Flavia, and since Robert initiated the call...................my past was indeed calling me! :-) ;-)



Ah, the Internet is a wonderful place indeed! I had never before imagined that we'd ever be conversing across the world, in different time zone in different countries at the same time!

On Sunday, out of the ether I got an e-mail from an old classmate of mine, Robert. He managed to track me down thanks to our AOSR (American Overseas School of Rome) coordinator, Flavia. Utterly unreal, man! Who would have ever imagined that after all this time we'd hear from each other? Hmm......makes me wonder who else will emerge from that vast ether of the Internet next!

Remember not to forget thatwhich you do not need to know.

and

Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement.

Finally got a new laptop, the last one, a Dell Inspiron 5150 finally died a horrible death, the hamster finally kicked the bucket..........

So I ended up with a Dell XMP M1530, 4Gb RAM, a 320Gb hard disk and Windows Vista Ultimate. After hearing all the horror stories about Vista I was a like warry of what it would be like. But you gotta take a chance sometime and try something new.

It came pre-loaded with Roxio Creator, IE 7.0, Windows Media Centre and a suite of Windows applications So far I've installed:
- Google Earth
- Skype 3.8.0.115
- SecondLife
- VLC Media Player 0.8c
- Putty 2.0
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 8
- Adobe Flash Player
- Wireshark

So far so good! No crashes yet!

Darn, have been busy lately, so busy that I've neglected to update this blog! Lots of things have been happening on both the technical and non-technical fronts.

A while back I decided to get a dog, a black labrador-retriever to be precise. Well, it happened and on March 17, I picked up Betty. And of course being puppy, toilet training was the top priority (over anything else of course).

Betty, being a labrador she is a quick learner, in fact it only took her less than a week to figure out where she's suppose to leave her deposits. And like all dogs, she's make a good companion even if she smells of dog food! Nothing like the sight of coming home and being greeted by a wagging dog tail!

Betty, being a labrador is a quick learner, in fact it only took her less than a week to figure out where she's suppose to leave her deposits. And like all dogs, she's make a good companion even if she smells of dog food! Nothing like the sight of coming home and being greeted by a wagging dog tail!