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August 14, 2007

Wordless Wednesday #48: Love

Filed under: Memes — Rav'N @ 3:01 pm

Hela&Jad

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August 13, 2007

Wet my Gullet

Filed under: Science & Nature, Stuff — Rav'N @ 5:12 pm

From drunk to sober in 2 minutes? New Scientist published a fairly interesting article last month about the efforts to develop alcohol-replacement drugs and drugs that neutralise the adverse effects of alcohol, while maintaining the relaxing, feel-good effects that draw most of us to alcohol. Is it really possible to experience all the pleasure of drinking, without the pain? And would these drugs really solve alcohol-related problems or just promote irresponsible drinking? The article covers most of the issues pretty well, I think.
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August 12, 2007

Pink Justice

Filed under: Stuff — Rav'N @ 4:48 pm

Hehehe, I found this at the New York Times. Apparently, the Thai police force has devised a new way of punishing undisciplined police officers. Officers caught committing misdemeanours such as littering, tardiness, parking in prohibited areas, etc, will be forced to wear a Hello Kitty armband for a day. We Asians are a strange lot sometimes. I wonder if it will have any effect. If they’re not averse to committing minor misdemeanours anyway, who’s to say they’ll put the armbands on at all or keep them on for a day? What’ll be their punishment for not wearing the armband? And yes, what’s stopping them from taking it home to their daughters or girlfriends or something as souvenirs? They have to wear it for another day? Weird disciplinary methods not-withstanding, I have to respect the fact that the Thai police are actually making an effort to clean up their force. The same can’t be said for too many other Asian countries.

August 8, 2007

VW Touareg’s new ad

Filed under: Vroom-vroom — Rav'N @ 10:02 pm

The Advertising Standards Council gets plenty of complaints about car ads inciting irresponsible behaviour, circles in paddocks, running around town naked. That sort of thing.
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August 7, 2007

Wordless Wednesday #47: Hela; 6 months, 40kg

Filed under: Memes — Rav'N @ 1:18 pm

Hela 6mth40kg1

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August 3, 2007

Refreshing!??

Filed under: Stuff — Rav'N @ 12:04 am

Well, a cold shower at 6am on a winters morning does do a good job of waking you up.
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August 2, 2007

RSIng

Filed under: Stuff — Rav'N @ 6:55 am

Blah, between being so busy and not having much access to a computer, I haven’t had the time to make a PT post even. That kind of thing requires way too much time and thought for me to afford today. I barely even made the WW post yesterday.
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August 1, 2007

Wordpress 2.2.1 is a go!

Filed under: Stuff — Rav'N @ 1:09 am

I logged into cpanel today to give this whole wordpress updating thing ago, after a suggestion from Chris (of Thermal, Autofocused and blog-op fame. Geeze, got enough blogs Chris? Did I miss any? :P ), and I discovered that cpanel had completely changed it’s look. With the new look, all of a sudden I could find and figure out how to use the database backup tool without any trouble. So, I managed to do a backup and upgraded Wordpress, and now Rav`Ns Realm is back with the times and running on Wordpress 2.2.1. Yay!… I guess. Took me aaaall bloody afternoon. Special thanks to Chris and sachqua for their efforts to help.

Fingers crossed that everything is working ok.