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Not sex toys.. but still funky anyways

If you’re around Malta / Valletta / 222 ..

Some of the works here and there

A british artist who was commisioned and then waived to make a portrait of the US president has delivered anyway!

http://www.lazinc.com/news/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/29/bush_portrait_rumpus/

I think I saw others do this .. but Movavi make it quite simple to convert your videos online, say to view the video on your mobile. They also allow you to convert video from youtube and other similar sites.

Supports the following formats:

• AVI
• MPEG
• MOV
• FLV
• MP4
• 3GP

Hi guys,

Since the last time I posted nothing out of this world happen, and since I sent the address of where am I to Sandro and he still wonders where am I, as it is a long address in the middle of nowhere I thought of (finally) upload some pics from the dial up connections and tell you more about me, and where I am.

So, first of all, I am in a centre called Don Bosco Ajjanahali. Ajjanahali is the name of the village it is situated in. This centre is in the middle of a forest, far away from society and it is so on purpose. It is a centre for children who used to abuse drugs, or has been a victim of child labour and who don’t have a family or so. So they try to keep them far away from cities so they don’t get again any old habits.

Well, first of all this is my room , erm no sorry, this is my room :). Quite attractive ay? Yes, that net on the bed is because of flying creatures in the night, they have a lot of them around So, as soon as I would out of my room, I have this beautiful scenery / view . Nice ay? Obviously around here you don’t hear cars or people, just birds and animals shouting and singing etc. This is a picture of the centre from the same hill I see from my room.

Well then I take the kids to school, obviously, if they see you with a camera at shool, this is what happens Then there is the assembly and then back to the centre.

Then usually I visit our cook, whose name is Gangamesh. This is the guy who makes that spicy food and make me go to the toilet more often than usual lol. And the normal day continues. Then it is football time in the afternoon and then the usual day proceeds, as I explained in other posts.

Well, for now don’t have much to say, here it is Sunday morning and still 8am in the morning, just woke up, so don’t feel like socializing much neither.

Well hope you enjoy the pics guys

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Hi guys,

Hope you are all well. So after 5 weeks here, obviously I couldn’t avoid not going to a typical Indian restaurant, although my stomach situation most of the time is worse than the situation in Iraq. Obviously, no tourist restaurant or things like that, a real restaurant, where it is dirty more than the dirtiest place in Malta You know the typical old Maltese tea shops? With light blue wall painting, and most of it is black with dirt and things like that? Yeah those kind of restaurants. So, as an image it is not welcoming at all, but still, if you are around it is worth a visit. Even the people that are inside, THE ARTISTS, they are cool. And yes, you can smoke everywhere here, even in shops, restaurants, bars, homes, anywhere.

So, as soon as you go in a restaurant, you have to leave your shoes outside… as you cannot wear your shoes in the area where you eat or pray or things like that…, you have to wash your right hand, as that is the one you will eat with. There is no need to wash your left hand as you won’t be using it to eat, that is just used to wipe the ass after having some friendly conversation with the toilet.

Once you go in and sit down, yeah, apitizers!!! Yeah they have them as well, but guess what? Instead of peanuts, or garlic bread or so, they get you a plate with cucumbers, uncooked onions and a small plate with 4 different spices on it, with cool colours, like bright orange, yellow and things like that. Obviously, the uncooked onion is not spicy enough for the indians, so you have to dip it in all the spices and eat it. If you ask for water in restaurants, it is free, you can take as much as you want, but obviously, depending on the restaurant standard, some water is good for drinking, and some is not. So it is worth to have some Indian guide with you, or else, you would just notice from the way the restaurant looks if water is good or not for drinking, the image says it all

Well, then it is time to order food, obviously especially in non touristic restaurants, no english menus or english speaking waiters and even worse sometimes, no menus at all. So they just have like 3 options, 3 different spicy sauces (these are the only 3 options) and then you choose, or rice or ciabatti. Once you order the food, cuttlery doesn’t exists. Again, you can ask for cuttlery but in touristic restaurants, in these kind of restaurants they don’t even know what a fork or knife is. After you wait for something like 10 -20 minutes for the food, the kind of waiter starts delivering food. Obviously, don’t expect that all the people on the same table will be served at the same time, your friend / partner might get the food like 5 minutes before you, but don’t hesitate the waiter, it is more than normal. That is how catering is in these areas.

Well once you eat, you can always ask for more ciabbatti or rice, they are for free and they can get you as much as you want. After lunch? Time to wash your hands, so you go to this common “Clean” washing sink, and wash your right hand. Towel? Tissues? who care, there are just pieces of newspaper and you have to wipe your hands with them. Once ready you order the drink, typically, they order or coffee, or tea or hot water. Usually I order hot water as that is the best around, coffee I don’t drink, and tea don’t know they way they make it, but it is not that good….

Once you are ready of all this process you pay, usually it is always a fight with the owner for a good price (as we are coming from a rich country, that is what they say) and then you pay. Receipt, cash point or some other type of fiscal things don’t exists at all. Well, then you pick up your shoes (yeah, no one takes someone else shoes or so, you can really trust that here) and you leave the restaurant.

Then an hour later you might want to visit some interesting place called the toilet, it can be nice lol

cya

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If you’re a geek that never managed to get your constellations and stars straight, no worries. This picture tutorial makes quite a good job and promises you that in 15 minutes you’ll be turned into a fully fledged astro-geek.

This is a pretty neat hack ..

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More here.

Modern art takes all forms. The overall effect is quite nice though. Colourful to I should say, I wonder what smell the dress has.

Found through: Life after coffee

Aparently it was DDoS after all, by skype clients themself!
After patch-tuesday every updated windoze had to reboot and all the skype clients trying to log in created a DDoS.
Colateral damage
More here.

This article is hilarious. Wondering what BSOFH? Read up. You thought you were hard with the word security compliance? Read up.

“We’ll roll the dice and disable whatever comes up.  Three dice for the last two octets of the IP address, and the last two dice for the port number.  Then if someone complains, I’ll make him fill out a change request form in triplicate to get it opened up again.”

This is a typical day in SecurityLand for this guy!