After my post the other day about my trendy new pens. I began wondering what other websites there are out there for the mundane and trivial items in this world. So I decided to do a quick google search for shoelaces. Oh the weird things people write about. The first result is a page written by a guy who lives in Melbourne Australia, called Ian, who, among other things, has developed his own technique for tieing shoelaces....

I just realised what makes being at university and school so much better than working mostly fulltime - its the variety to experiences we can talk about. You see when your at work most of your life, you really have very little life outside of work. Sure you might do stuff in the evenings, or on the weekends. But by 11am on monday morning you’ve told your immediate colleagues what happened on the weekend, with each evening requiring a 5 minute recap the following morning....

I bought two of these today. You know humanity has come a long way when you can lookup the pens you buy on the internet.

A slight delay in the proceedings. I was gonna write a large entry about this site. But after trying to find some background information I decided enough commentary had been given on this site in journals, forums and blogs all over the net and it didn’t need any more from me. Not only that but the site appears to be a joke, with only circumstancial connections to anything in meatspace (for example, all but one email address on the site is a freebe)....

<rant> For the last few weeks I’ve been thinking on and off about the problem of obesity in the western world (or as my highschool geography teacher wanted us to use: the north). It seems that we are having lots of trouble with fat. There are loads of statistics that show an increase in the number of obese people. A quick google search will turn up many sources. Not only that, but there are so many diets, diet foods and other heavily marketed health foods an outsider could easily be mistaken into thinking we are having a lot of trouble just staying skinny....

Before I say what I’m about to say, I will point out for my uninformed readers - i am a computer geek. Now that you have placed me into a box based on my personality, let me share with you, for a moment (well technically I have already shared, your just wasting your own time now), the joy of tricking stupid parsers. A parser is basically a computer program that uses a formal grammar (language rules) to break up some input to get something useful from it....

Whats up with the blogger.com times on my posts? They say AM instead of PM. I swear I set them to PM. I think they have gremlins. Or maybe I’ve been mixing 24 hour time, which is far superior, with their 12 hour format. In any case the problem has been fixed. And for those who like aggregators try this link.

Well as my day draws to a close, I thought that I would contribute to the sea of blogged opinion that is the internet with a comment on the very thing that I am doing now. It seems that just about everyone with an internet connection has a web-log these days (yes there is a history behind the word). It took me a while, but I finally surcumed to the trend....

started a blog. how exciting.