Well…I already know where I stand with this! 😛 I mean…if I wake up to get a glass of water in the middle of the night, I check my emails too on my way to bed…Anyway, check it out:
“It seems that the Japanese always have some newfangled idea that it appropriately spun to sell product. For only 2980 Yen (this mouse that’ll nag you about addicted to the Internet you are. Alternatively, your boss can use this mouse to record how active you are at work on your computer.”
read more | digg story

2006 sure started the best way for me. 🙂 In the new year eve I found my cousins that I had no contact with in my 22 yrz! And now I have a whole new part of my family to explore and a lot of kool people to get to know. It’z quite amazing. As for how it happened, well one of my cousins found my name on the web. It’s pretty much like one of those classic movies [except the part about the web I guess! :P] Yeah, it’s definitely my unpredictable life. I’m just so happy about it…
And the new semester in Ryerson….well it’z kool so far! All my profs seem to be just great. I was so worried about the “field theory” [every ELCE student’s beloved course (!!!)] and it’s oh so popular killer charms…but now I feel just a bit better since I actually have an amazing [& I mean AMAZING] prof for it. Not that I’m not worreid anymore, cause believe me, I am…. 😛
Advanced Spanish which I’m taking for my elective has already started to get “interesting”. The basic course was pretty easy but this is definitely not going to be the same. And NO, that does not mean that I’m gonna stop learning Greek and I probably will start mixing up the 2…in fact I’m already seeing signs…
So….this semester is sure going to be a lot of fun.

I just found this article on “digg”. Been looking for something like this forever!!
“Tunatic is a software that listen to it and get you the artist’s name and the song’s title within seconds.”
Here u can read more about this software or dig this story.

2006 is here! 😀
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE, Have a great 2006! 😉

I’ve been looking for a “good” feed aggregator [aka feed reader] software for quite a while. There are a lot of online aggregatorz and some of them seem to do a good job, but somehow I feel more comfortable with the onez that I can have on my desktop. It’z probably because there’z more u can do with desktop aggregatorz than online onez, plus they’re simply faster and easier to use. However, obviously not all the available desktop aggregators are so great! I’ve used THIS RssReader for quite a while but I’ve never really been happy with it.
– It’z not compatible with all versionz of RSS/Atom
– For some reason it finds errors in feed formats that really contain no errors (!!)
– It exports the feeds in an XML file that’s not compatible with any other aggregators [seemz to contain errorz!] and no OPML outputs whatsoever [so what’z the point of having an export feature like this anywayz??]
– Worst of all, somehow it managez to jump up to about 106MB mem usage in no more than 2 secondz after it’z run!
And these are only a few of it’z problems, but since I couldn’t’ find any better desktop aggregators I kept using it until today….yes… today I finally found THIS. It’z called RSS Bandit and so far it seemz to be the best one I’ve seen. It’z:
– Light
– Fast
– Easy to use
– Compatible with all sortz of feed formatz
– Low in mem usage
– Got OPML import & export
And so many other kool features. Plus, I gotta admit, the little bandit smiley face tray icon is cute! So if u’re looking for a good feed aggregator too, make sure to give this one a shot.

Merry Christmas everyone and happy holidayz! 😀 Wishing all the best for EVERYONE….

I) I got this pretty kool article yesterday in my RSS reader…it’z from Robots.net. Apparently there’z this new robot that can tell the difference between a mirror image of itself, and another robot looking exactly like it. It is said that this breakthrough can lead to creation of robots that are capable of emotion. Interesting eh? Somehow I can’t stop thinking about this….

II) Last night I started up on Greek grammar. [So far I know the alphabet, I’ve developed an understanding of the pronunciations and how things are supposed to sound like, and I know a bunch of words and short sentences.] U know what’s interesting? The grammar actually seems to be not so difficult. Then again this could be only the beginning…..
I’m also having so much fun with the Greek vocabulary. I don’t know how to put this in words…things “sound nice” in Greek! Also a lot of Greek words seem to have found their way into other languages, including Spanish and Persian. [In case of Persian I still don’t quite know which one has found its way into the other, although I’ve been doing a lot of “history” homework!] As a result, a lot of these new words are not so new to me!

Back when I started “blogging” there were no such thingz as “blogs” in existence yet. My first online journal was a plain simple HTML page which would take forever to load since it contained kilometers of text. Later on I tried using a database…creating my own elementary “blog system”… wasn’t too bad. But then came blogger which I didn’t find out about till 2002. That’z when I got this blog. It just made life easier. I wrote here for a short while but then “Persian Blog” happened and since it seemed a little bit easier to use @ that time, I moved there. Plus I’m Persian… well…. “Persian Blog” sounded kind of kool. Little did I know that was the biggest mistake I could make. It’z almost 2006 now and Persian Blog has somehow managed to only go backwards through time, meaning that the service has only gotten worse. It takes forever to publish and [ok forget it I’m not even gonna start…] and hey, the biggest online Persian society does not even offer any kind of Syndication System. Still, I was trying to be faithful to the Persian Blog so I stayed there for as long as I could… but it finally managed to drive me out. It’z been months now that my blog has had a publishing problem, it shows some FTP error that is impossible for me to solve and the people in charge don’t seem to have any interest in solving it either, no matter how many emailz I’ve sent them. So… I ended up moving back here. It seemz that blogger has actually became a lot kooler since the last time I checked…. so I think I’m gonna be here for quite a while this time.

I think I finally got tired of thinking “I really wanna speak this language” every time I listen to a Greek song or hear 2 people speaking Greek. So that’z it, as of now I am officially learning Greek! It definitely is not gonna be easy and it’z gonna take forever and I’m gonna get tortured but it’z worth it. It’z a beautiful language, well developed and deep. Pretty close to Persian from many aspectz too [that is my mother tongue which I’m deeply in luv with].
So if any Greek people happen to read this…”Your help would be greatly appreciated!” 🙂

1384….Going to school on Monday March 21st was the most painful thing to do. I’m supposed to have 13 dayz off….ah….& even worse than that was not being able to run around and say happy new year to everyone without people thinking that u’ve lost your mind. It was only about 1:00 PM when I got some break from all the weirdness….I saw my friend Shiba by accident & given that she’z Persian too I finally got the chance to say happy new year to someone & hear it back…..ah….what a pleasure! U think I’m sounding silly? Well u gotta believe me that’z the way it is….. It’z difficult when it’z your new year & not anyone else’z. & if I thought that was unfair…well…that was just the beginning. Apparently because of the beginning of the new year everyone & everything have decided to show me their tough side. Everyone who’s had expectationz before, have tripled it now. Anyone who was tough to deal with before seemz to have gone exponential on me now. What’z with u people? Give me a break I do deserve it! Stop asking me for miraclez, I’m just a human being! Stop acting like I’m responsible for everything! Stop with the power lecturez I’m not trying to challenge anyone or “outsmart” anyone….I’m just not like that….& oh yeah stop asking me to FLY! Well….this is the beginning of 1384….God help me with the rest of it…