Car Insurance...

So in the next 2 to 3 months i'll turn 17 and i'll begin driving and by law, it's required that i have insurance for my car...now insurance has become really expensive over the last while and for a young driver like me, not everyone wants to take me on and give me a good quote. Luckily i've found some great quotes from some of the sites listed below. To get additional information and quotes on car insurance, check out Connecticut Auto Insurance and Maryland Auto Insurance for some of the best deals for your car insurance.

100

well...welcome to the 100th post of 'life' ...or w/e you wish to call it. To be honest, i wish it felt much more important than it does but i'm pretty sure no one actually reads this blog anymore, in fact i don't think many people did read it that much to be honest but i'll try and not let this be so negative.

I've spent the last few days sick...at home...and i've come to learn that 2 days stuck in doors is enough to drive me insane. So i took a walk to the beach to try and clear my lungs and what not of all gunge sickness. It worked...but my throat is killing me. On the plus, i did get some pretty nice photos.....





And so i leave with 100 new thoughts in my head about who i am and where i'm heading in this life...

The sound of silence...

A few days ago in school i looked around the room and as we were doing some computer work, i noticed a few people with their iPods...listening away to dear knows what. At this particular time the teacher began to talk about something, tbh i wasn't too bothered to listen, So i thought to myself...hmmm, i could just listen to my iPod and then i thought a) it'd look rude to just whip it out and plug in while the teacher was talking and b) the music would only distract me from my work. I normally stay focussed when the whole room is silent...so i thought to myself...wouldn't it be cool to create a sound...a sound of silence...a way in which you could plug in your iPod and actually listen to silence. Now i know this maybe sounds a bit strange, you'd be thinking 'uhh...can't you just not listen to anything??' ...well no, because you end up hearing background noise. I'd like to create a sound that is purely silence...it drowns out all surrounding background noise and so what you would hear, would be silence...like you were in a totally silent room, hearing no background noise from someone talking...and it wouldn't be music that would distract you.

hmmmmm...

Pingo.com...

VOIP is becoming ever more popular…and it’s always a hassle trying to get a calling card to ring people internationally. Now you can get the best mobile India calling card rates you may ever find. Pingo provide a great service…and it’s not just India you have to call, anywhere in the world you can get a calling card for and save up to 90% or more on international calls. This is probably the quickest and most efficient method of calling internationally I’ve seen without running up a huge bill and when you sign up you receive $5.00 USD worth of free calls…refer a friend and you get another $5.00 USD. Probably another product I’ll try out in the near future.

When Influenza Attacks: Volume 3, Return of the virus...

So that flu i had a while back...it's returned...i woke up this morning and felt like absolute crap, floating all over the place, head dizzy, pounding, gungey...it's worse than before. What a bad week this has been...to top it off incubus had to postpone their tour because Mike Einziger has to have surgery on his hand, he has carpal tunnel syndrome which sucks...so i don't get to see incubus until september, it was only a week away too.
I can barely type right now i feel so ill and haven't been online since thursday. Clocks go forward tonight, so i better get some rest and hope this flu clears up by tomorrow. I really can't afford time off of school either, i have some dealines to meet this week and i REALLY have to meet them or i'm screwed.
On the plus, the time away has been inspirational and i have a whole load of new post ideas.

Big Web Links...

A new web directory and a whole new concept has just landed on the virtual door step. This really is a great concept and a great new way to list websites within a directory. Big Web Links Directory lists websites by bid amount rather than popularity, PR or alphabetically. Big Web Links organises posts by contribution amount or bid amount. This allows webmasters to have much more control over their websites position on the directory.
Personally I feel this really is a great concept and a great new way to get sites out in to the open world (wide web) …by allowing it’s users to contribute to the site. It allows a more accurate ranking as it shows which sites do well amongst it’s users and allows the webmaster to put even more money in to the site to make it more enjoyable for the user. This really is a great new service and a really innovative concept and I really think this will do well in the future.

Ugh...

i probably will post here a bit more in a while, i'm just too stressed from school and i'm having touble finding the time to just sit down and post something.
What is it with teachers thinking they're much better than their pupils? i've lost all interest in learning psychology due to a particular teacher, i really can't be bothered anymore...i feel like dropping out of school but i have nothing else planned. This year has been a farce, an absolute farce.
I'm gonna go do some ICT, a subject i actually enjoy.

Intimidation...

Have you ever felt intimidated by someone? I know i have...and it's not hard to be intimidated at school...but today i realised something, intimidation is silly...it's easy to be intimidated but it's so stupid...we're all humans, which means we're all of the same kind...so why do we get initimidated by others? size? size of what? an ego? an ego which accompanies the size of someones muscles? ...why should someone be intimidated by someone who's bigger than them? sure you might look like a coward, but inside it's the person who intimidates someone else who is the real coward...they have no sympathy for the weak.

'Kindness can't be expected from the strong, sympathy comes from the weak'

I always have a song inside my head....

I noticed something today, whilst listening to a song by a band called 'Million Dead' ...the lyric repeats "i always have a song inside my head" and it struck a chord with me...i really do always have a song inside my head, no matter where i am, what i'm doing, how i'm feeling i ALWAYS have a song inside my head! Is this normal? is it an obsession with music?
I think being a hopeful musician with earphones in my ears 24/7 (almost...and they aren't too loud either) that i've become accustomed to having music in my head...and that's probably why there's something in my head all the time for me to relate to. Currently Switchfoot are the band i'm listening to the most...i seem to be relating with their music more than anything which is a good thing.

Warehouse Skateboards...

I used to be really in to skating (skateboarding that is).....until my back started messing up (yeah yeah, i'm acting like an old granda) ...if during my time skating i'd found a site like this it would of been the mecca of the skate world. This place really is amazing, the amount of skate decks, all different brands and what's great is that you can search by particular size so you can narrow the decks right down to the size you prefer to skate. Personally i always preferred 7.5 ...small but not too small that you can't get good pop out of it without getting penciled. Really is an amazing site with so much to offer for skaters of all kinds...definitely worth checking this place out.

Narrow Minded People...

Ever hear someone say 'i hate narrow minded people' ? ...i know i've heard it maybe one too many times and it sparked a thought...wouldn't saying 'i hate narrow minded people' make you a narrow minded person yourself? as you aren't open to just accepting them as they are and seeing past what you may consider as their biggest flaw (narrow mindedness)...
... Our world is a very judgemental place, especially when we pick out flaws in people and base our relationships upon those flaws. 'i don't like her, she's too judgemental' ... would that just be attentive towards a personality? or isn't that being judgemental too?
These are the kinds of thoughts i try to keep at the front of my mind every day...as hard as i try, it can sometimes be impossible...for a human so imperfect to judge imperfection as though they are superior to it on an every day basis only allows for our imperfection to shine even more and dampen our maturity to accept any and all as they are.

Back to work....

So back to work for another day tomorrow...i'm hoping to sell my playstation tomorrow as it gets NO use now, the xbox gets all the use which unfortunately i have strayed from playing at the minute because of the size of the TV hooked up to it! 15" ?? it's difficult to see anything on that!! especially since it's LCD as well...but sure it's better than nothing and i shouldn't complain really when there are people who don't even have a TV, period.
I've been listening to a lot of switchfoot really which is suppppper cool! i LOVE this album 'Oh! Gravity' it's worth checking out, i'll put a link to it in my sidebar to amazon soon so feel free to check it out there. It's a shame i never got in to them sooner, they really are inspirational. Good band indeedy.

Wirefly...

It's getting to the time of year where i begin to notice a lot of new phones and start reading reviews and checking prices locally to get the best deal possible. Generally i look for phones without plans and i've found a place online that does just that. Wirefly phones without plans have plenty of phones and accessories at great prices. You can get a MotorollaPink Razr for just $189 with FREE shipping! A brand new phone with full warranty and everything necessary just like you’d buy direct from a retailer on your high street. Wirefly is definitely a service worth checking out and I think I’ll maybe even buy my next phone from there too.

Feminism? Bullocks! An excuse to belittle a man...

What is it about feminism? you know....'oh i'm a girl, i can fit in with the lads, i deserve equal rights etc' ....sure a lot of girls might think this, but if you were walking along a footpath towards a girl along the same general line of direction they'd expect you to move (the feminists would) ....and of course, you move out of their way...now if this was a guy, you'd move out of each others way and there would be no fuss, but why would a feminist who insists on equality etc. still expect a man to move if they want to be so equal? wouldn't they just move from your way as you move from theirs??
Why is it that the same feminists talk down to men and talk about them amongst peers as if they are stupid, slow, dumb creatures who are good for nothing on this earth?? I've witnessed this on several accounts and to be honest i don't understand the need to belittle men in such a manner, wouldn't a true feminist just accept the way men are and get along without complaint? but then inevitably someone will always find something wrong in everything...like right now i have found something i feel is 'wrong' with feminism...it kind of makes me think feminism doesn't even exist and it's merely used as an excuse for women to belittle men.

Giants back on fire…

The Giants were happy to be back at the odyssey for the first home game in a LONG time...after signing a new netminder Philippe DeRouville we've been on top form...he only signed the other day and tonight was only his second game. .............Spectacular game, we hammered the Edinburgh Capitals 7 - 0...probably our best win of the whole season! Reminded me of the kinda games we were seeing last season, only thing missing was Theo Fleury. The game was a little rough too, i was almost expecting a fight from Shawn Skiehar after someone knocked his helmet off, he followed them for a bit but gave up when they didn't want to fight.

The man of the match call was a tricky decision, after Ed Courtenay stepping down from the bench to join his team on the ice for the first time since last season (on home ice) and scoring 2 goals and an assist....it made it tough...also with our new netminder who's only been with the team for 3 days now who doesn't know any of the team tactics, plays, barely knows the lines and hasn't even trained with them....and he made a shutout on his second game with the team and first time in the odyssey! ...Personally i think he should have got MOM.

The team played really well, with Minard (current netminder) out with an injury the team had a bit more confidence knowing their goalie wasn't in pain. I'm still in awe :D

Ohhh what a cool widget :D

I share a lot of files...like an awful lot and i'm always looking for the quickest way to do it. After finding the Box.net Widget i think i'll be using it a lot more. This widget can streams podcasts, music, photos, videos, and loads of other file formats and what's great about it is there are NO bandwidth limits with up to 1GB of storage of files...all for free! Check out the one below...i think i'll definitely introduce one of these to the blog and have some downloads every so often.
It seems like a very efficient way to share files and the upload speeds are pretty quick and it only takes 3 simple steps to create your own widget. You can only upload 3 files at first but once your widget is live you can update it and add more files to the selection. I really recommend checking this out.


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Work Experience...

All next week i'm supposed to be on work experience...what a farce that has been! First of all i was supposed to go to city beat (local radio station) and then i was supposed to go to ANOTHER local radio station...and then iw as gonna go to some recording studio...each time they all stopped responding except the recording studio who said they weren't ready to take people on as yet because it's a pretty new project. So now for a week i'm doing work for dad...which will be interesting, i worked for him before briefly...and i mean briefly but occasionally i go and do some stuff (wow my spelling is bad) ...it'll be interesting, i'm hoping to spend most of the week doing coursework as i'm REALLY behind now and i'm not procrastinating...it just takes forever, but i'll get it done. ....School is becoming such a hassle haha.