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“Aliens could exist!” - The Vatican

I never actually thought that I would ever write the word Vatican in my blog…. however today I’m gonna make an exception.

The Vatican is officially now accepting the theory that Aliens could actually exist - and that their existance is not incompatible with God. These words were not said directly by Pope Benedict, but these are the words of the Pope’s “chief astronomer” (I didn’t know that there were astronomers in the Vatican!!) Father Gabriel Funes.

I wonder what brought about this change all of a sudden… maybe we are about to experience some sudden revelation or fact that aliens are for real! Maybe they are about to reveal us their super secret stuff, alien findings and alien technologies?

Sounds also strange since I think i heard that the UK have just removed the TOP SECRET tags off the files related to alien investigation stuff.

Will Grand Theft Auto IV blend?

Of course it will!!

UT Loop!


nice flash animations, kinda cool…. cant say the same to the clothes though…. definately not my style =)

Nokia N95 8GB - My experience so far…

I bought the Nokia N95 8gb version a few months ago, and I can surely confirm that this phone is absolutely the best phone I ever owned! It has all the features I can think of and it exceeded my expectations big time!

Reception and voice quality is great, and I didn’t experience any problems at all. Sound is very clear and unbelievably loud! On most phones I used to set the setting to high since that was the only setting i could hear very well, on the N95 8gb, i had to actually lower this a bit cos it was a bit too loud! - quite useful though for loud places!

The screen is totally awesome, very crisp and vivid images, even when you use the screen as a camera viewfinder, it responds very quickly with no delays.  One thing that i don’t like in the screen, is that when the phone switches off the screen for standby, sometimes it just starts to flicker when the screen goes on  . - nothing really major, but it would be better fixed ey :)

The recently released n-gage application is really cool, and I already purchased 2 games! It has also options for screen orientation, allowing you to play the games either vertically or horizontally. Tetris is a very good quality and really addictive game!

Keyboard  is good too, typing sms is fast and since each button is slightly raised up, you can easily get adapted to it and type sms without even looking at the keypad. Sometimes though, I think that the light sensor is not working too well, cos sometimes the keypad just doesn’t light up when it should. One feature that I miss a lot from the Nokia 6288 is the ability to press the * button twice, and a set of emotion icons can be easily inserted in the message you are typing (I use those a lot!! :) !) -  would have to type them in manually.

Built in 5MP Camera is quite good too…. I mean… I don’t expect a lot from a phone camera, however this one is quite good and the video camera is also very handy as you can catch your co-workers trying to play bowling :) and some others showing off their awesome skills!

OS is the standard s60 symbian, I quite like it since you can find loads of software and games for it (Not as much as Windows Mobile though!) This OS can be customised with themes etc… and therefore you can look around the net for a theme about virtually anything and apply it to your phone.

Conclusion:
This phone is just awesome - buy it :)

Logitech diNovo Mini - a sexy mini keyboard!

Very sexy keyboard indeed!

A co worker had recently forwarded me a link to show me his future gadget purchase… when i opened the link i was shocked to see the smallest, sleekest and sexyest keyboard i’ve ever seen.

I had completely forgotten about this since then… However a blog reader yesterday suggested the link to this keyboard (thank you!!!!) so here I am now… blogging about it (Sorry couldnt resist!) 

Well, part from being just a keyboard that looks damn good, its also very handy and functional Media Centre remote control. Also good as a decorative item on your desk/table when closed!

As the guys over ubergizmo described - it’s a dream come true keyboard for all Media Centre users!

Logitech diNovo Mini

Optimus Maximus Keyboard

One of the most talked over keyboard ever is definately the Optimus Maximus Keyboard. As you might/might not know, this keyboard features an oled screen in each keyboard button as to allow for full customisability. Its totally freakin cool and freakin expensive as it started shipping recently at about $1,860!!

As specified on their website:

“Each key is a stand-alone display that shows the function currently assigned to it. Optimus’s customizable layout allows convenient use of any language—Cyrillic, Ancient Greek, Georgian, Arabic, Quenya, hiragana, etc.—as well as of any other character set: notes, numerals, special symbols, HTML codes, math functions, shortcut buttons and so on to infinity. “

Optimus Maximus Keyboard

Long time no blog!

I’ts been some time since my last post! I have just arrived back from my short 3 day holiday in Italy!

I went to a small city called Lucca, with my mum and sis. It was their first ever flight and they were both very excited and they enjoyed it big time!

We spent most of the time in lucca, and we also had the time to visit Florence and also Pisa. Pictures will be posted soon :)

Samsung Instinct

At last, we have the first real iPhone competitor! The guys at Gizmodo managed to get their paws on this a 3.1″ touchscreen phone with haptic feedback, GPS, HTML web browser, Visual Voicemail, 2MP camera with  2X zoom, bluetooth and more… As a phone it looks really good, and can compete quite well with an iPhone in my opinion. i’m not really sure about the OS, lets just cope it runs as smooth as the iPhone OS. now….

If I could re-route the guy calling right now (for the millionth time this evening) to some other planet i would definately buy this phone! 

служба доставки - What on earth is that??

Over the past month/s our office’s exchange antispam filter has been pretty busy filtering out all e-mails (thank God!!) using a weird language (like the subject line above) that I have absolutely no clue what they mean!!! 

I definately can see the point why anyone would send a spam message in English, trying to sell me some miraculous fat blasting pill, or breast enlargement pills!!! or handbags, or replica watches and all imaginable stuff under the sun… however I really dont see the point of any of those messages written in a language that most people wouldnt understand! For me these e-mails are kind of pointless what would you do if you receive an e-mail with a bunch of text like this :

двукратная доставка
по “Бизнес-Москва”
2 x I,57 млн.писем
ЧООO рублей трёхкратная
доставка по “Бизнес-Москва”

Simply press DELETE!!

I have absolutely NO IDEA!! what the text reads!!! actually I’m not even sure what language is that… my guess is Russian! I can understand and speak Italian, and understand basic french and even a bit of sign language…. but Russian is definately not on my list.

Please send me English spam only! LOL
Russian spammers… learn some English please!!! or at least use Google Translate!!

Yay! I’m a fax hero!