A woman born weighing 6lbs 6oz on 6 June at 0600 BST, and who is 66 on 6/6/06, is refusing to drive on her birthday to help avoid accidents.

Mrs Dumas said she had come through her 26th birthday in 1966 without any problems and added: “I hope [this birthday] passes just as well.”

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86°F? Are you kidding me? Ok, I’m just checking the temperature on America Online… It is NOT 86 degrees farenheit. It’s impossible. It’s like 96 degrees. I’m going to go check on the weather channel because this is just unbelievable. It’s a real shame the internet is so slow today. Plus, I’m on DIALUP. So it’s taking forever.

86°F according to weatherchannel.com… it says “feels like 95°F”. What’s THAT supposed to mean? If it’s 86, why on EARTH does it feel like 95? If it feels like 95, then it’s probably because it IS 95. I no longer trust any sort of temperature-telling devices. I can’t tell temperature to save my life, but I KNOW when my skin is melting, thank you very much. Skin doesn’t melt at 86°F.

Ok. I just converted from Farenheit to Celcius. Oz was telling me that it’s 30 degrees over there today. And that’s EXACTLY what 86 degrees Farenheit is. So I guess Chester and Aguada are equally as hot. IF we trust these temperature-telling devices. I still hold true that it’s 95 degrees. Thank you that will be all.

Blogger has become extremely slow recently which has prevented me at times from making an entry since it relies on Blogger.com as opposed to my own website hosting. It also seems past its sell-by-date with regards to the Web 2.0 revolution. I’m not a fan of the inflexible template system and how I have to make changes using Blogger as opposed to FTPing files which I have worked on offline. The other week I made some heavy changes via Blogger and I hit ‘Publish’ to save the template and then the connection was lost. Went back to the template after an age and half the template was missing. Honestly. I expect better! I should of stuck to my old ways of self-coding and using my own CMS systems, but curiosity (and laziness) got the better of me.

So I’ll be moving to WordPress soon, which may mean some disruption of files and links but it’ll be worth it.

A Christian news website has listed seven methods for Christian mother’s to delay giving birth in an attempt to give birth to the ‘devil’s son’. Here’s how it goes, in case you are a mother in labour right now…

1. Keep your legs crossed until midnight has passed.

“As your demon child willfully pushes and kicks, causing your lady hole to dilate to the size of a drainage pipe, keep your knees locked together at all times. This will give your demanding child a wonderful, early lesson that he can’t always have his way.”

2. You could have got the doctor to induce the birth prior to today.

“The most reliable method to get a mother to go instantly into labor is to jump in front of her when she least expects it and scare the dickens out of her.”

3. If you hit the day, keep the child in a chicken cage guarded by two hogs.

“If one of the hogs starts grinning and snorting, prancing about, or just plain acting full of the Devil’s business by emptying its bowels all over the hospital floor, get it out to a lake and drown it as soon as humanly possible.”

4. Check testicles for signs of the Evil One.

“Creation Scientists have observed that the so-called “taint” (the disagreeable area between the genitals and the anus) is where demons are most likely to post messages for each other.”

5. Put your kid in the care of Creation Scientists for experimentation.

6. Sell your child for Creation Science.

“Our laboratory and research center will pay $18 a pound (17 cents a pound for mixed race infants) for any child under the age of 6-months.”

7. Buy yourself a large Korean wig .

“June 6, 2006 is no time for a pregnant woman to be walking around looking like a young boy, lest she be mistaken for Mia Farrow.”

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How long have you been blogging for? I would say four years. That’s almost as long as I have been running this website, which has been a blog in some form or other the majority of the time. But to be a touch more honest and accurate, it’s more likely to be four months in total.

Writing demands thought, which involves mental energy. Blogging demands creative thought, which must be maintained in order to keep the blog ‘alive’. And this takes a lot of effort and motivation to consistently be making posts on an every-couple-of-days basis. Put that alongside writing to yourself on a simple computer screen and it’s not too difficult to understand why many bloggers, like me, seem to make completely sporadic posts which are sourced from only spurts of motivation and creative thinking. And boredom. Sometimes I steal a slice of inspiration from another website or blog and try and encapsulate that here on oziz. I continue on my quest to achieve the success and popularity others have experienced however, after a while I lose interest - something else in life picks up or I get tired of the effort required; what’s the point, what am I gaining in blogging?

If I had something better and more productive to do right now, I would not be writing this entry. The reason I am making this post is because I have been motivated by this group writing project on ‘blog goals’. The motivation is gaining a link on problogger, and having not much better to do (despite examinations starting the end of this week). Similarly, my past blogging bursts of creative energy can be attributed to other incentives which I perceive to benefit oziz and my satisfaction, such as ranking in Google for certain themes I write about. Alternatively discovering sources to write up about gives me the motivation to make a blog. Recently I dugg up this site which is community news website. At other times (seemingly during the gloomy winter season) I just want to get something out of my head and onto a computer screen. Writing does help to clear up your thoughts. However, this can conflict with my readers’ interests who are looking to read something mildly interesting. Post-Christmas life is more than dull. I apologise now for that crap.

Anyway, to the topic - blogging goals. Setting goals is a very good method of acheiving and forcing some sort of motivation out of you. I tried this technique recently in developing a revision timetable where my days were divided into segments each of which had a topic to revise. Following a timetable gave my structure to my revision and it is had to ignore due to the guilt trip I imposed on myself if I didn’t stick to it. Needless to say, I don’t actually use the one I made because it didn’t fit my method of learning. There were too many topics in a day, so I adapted it a little but the time slots are still in my head.

I think this is a bit off-topic again. My main goal for blogging is really to acheive self-satisfaction which I measure on the number of visitors I get to parts, and all, of my website. It’s difficult to explain, it’s like a game. If I blog then I know that’s more content stored on my website which is another topic to be indexed in Google (and other websites). This bit is my goal really - seeing my daily visitor number grow. It must be weird to read, but I guess it’s related to that self-satisfaction motive.

At the end of the day, I don’t really gain much from blogging except enjoying the excitement of watching the unique hits to my website develop and noting how people get here. Blogging is sometimes personal venture which helps to clarifies thoughts and at other times a drive for success. But most of the time it’s because I just have nothing better to do.

Today I went to what seemed to be the longest Mass EVER. I was soo hungry. See, when I get hungry I get nausciuos. My friends, I don’t know how to spell the word nauscious, and I don’t really feel like looking it up right now, so I’ll do that later. K?

Thanks. Also, I was watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire tonight… I was able to see the graveyard scene finally. I’ve been scared to watch it cuz it’s just a horrible, horrible story. Whenever I’d get to that part of the movie, I’d turn off the DVD. But tonight, I saw it. Oz reminds me so much of Cedric. It’s scary.

So apparently my Design “Professor” is completely dimwitted. He gave us all “C”s for our final grades. See, I don’t know how you guys over in the United Kingdom are evaluated, but over here, we get A, B, C, D, and F. A being the highest.

I may be repeating what you guys already know, but better safe than sorry. It would suck if I were talking about something that didn’t make sense to you, my fellow and lovely readers. ANYWAY. YEAH, that moron gave us all a C. It was really unfair because he had us all convinced we were doing really well.

The day of the final presentation, we flopped. My group and I were completely humiliated in front of the rest of the Third Years, which was really really really aweful. But what can you do? I was shocked at how we were insulted and verbally abused. lol. I’m not kidding. Architecture Professors are really horrible to students. I had never gotten such a bad critique in my three years. It’s not my fault our “professor” doesn’t know how to teach. No, seriously. He doesn’t know how to teach. It’s so unreal. We learned nothing this semester, which is why we all did so horribly on our final presentation. Even the other Third Year students noticed our professor’s complete lack of professionalism and intelligence. I hope he gets sued.

I have a meeting with him on the 17th to discuss my grade. I hope he gives me a higher grade. Pray for me please. If he doesn’t, I won’t be able to post for a few years, as I will have been convicted of first degree murder. That man is going down. Kidding.

I know how sometimes when people DIE or get KILLED, the reporters all seem to go check out said person’s myspace page or his/her blogs. I totally don’t want to be seen as a “crazy man with murderer tendencies/desires” if something SHOULD happen to me. I’m not going to kill my professor, people. There are far worst things. Like being fired. Especially when you have a little daughter to take care of. :S

MOVING ON!

So Regner is going to have no summer this year. I have to take classes on both, June and July. This means I’m going to be completely miserable every day until December comes. I don’t have class in late December, so that’s going to be a nice little Christmas present. I DO hope I can visit the wonderful UK soon. I need a vacation and I would like to celebrate my birthday in January out of Puerto Rico. My father must be pursuaded though.

If I DO go, I want to meet everyone. Maybe a party? Yes? With lots of lights hanging from trees, very Bohemian. And I could bring some conga players and stuff so that we can have a taste of the Caribbean in the UK, yes? Dress nicely. January 13, write it down somewhere.

xo Reggles