I like the Internet. It's a vast web of wikis, chats, forums, blogs, games... and games. I like playing games. I especially like those multiplayer games where you chat and play games and stuff. I liked them all. Until I came across Howrse.

Howrse is a great game where you get to own and breed virtual horses and ponies, get your own virtual equestrian center, send virtual messages, and enter virtual competitions to win virtual prizes.

It is mostly a simulation of real life, apart from magical stuff like unicorns, pegasuses, immortal horses... the list is endless.

But then so is the fun!

Howrse must be the grand prize winner of "Best online game ever... so far".

And if you think a horse game has to be a girls' game, you're wrong. Howrse is the only online game I have played that my brother likes

Most games have faults and missing bits and pieces, but right now, I can't think of a single one.

Howrse home page

Howrse (sponsored)

P.S. Howrse has a sponsorship system, which is like a database of who invited who, and who told other people about the game. As I kind of have invited you to this game, please click on the sponsored link to get registered. I get prizes for sponsoring you, and who knows, maybe you get prizes for being sponsored? Or maybe sponsors of sponsors of sponsors get special prizes? I'm not sure.

I haven't blogged for a month. I'm just an average person... with an average mountain of homework.

At school, there is something known as "Graffiti Corner". It's in the Grade 8 room, and it's a broken-off piece of a desk. On the bottom of it, there is lots of graffiti.

DIE

Me?

School is like a lollipop. It sucks to the end.

I agree with the last one. Very good quote actually.

Title says all. No explanation needed. It's basically just a to-do list of useful stuff that you can do when you're stuck in your house because of cold, icky snow, with nothing but your trusty laptop. Well, let's get going...

1. Empty your inbox. Many people have thousands of emails in their inbox, where many are already read and left in the inbox because "they may be important later" but "later" never seems to come. You need an Archive folder (In Gmail, this is the button "All Mail". In other email programs, you have to make your own folder, but it is so worth it.) Inbox clean in no time.

2. Sort out your computer calendar. Even if you don't have one, consider desktop application Rainlendar. It rocks.

3. Sort out your browser's bookmarks. Same as with the email, you ought to have lots of "read me later" stuff in your bookmarks that you just forgot about. Clean them. Now.

4. Decorate your laptop. Mine looks exactly like a 4-computers-in-one Vista, but it's a one computer XP. Amazing, the stuff you can do with an old XP, eh?

Bookcrossing is a cool site I found. It lets you get rid of old books by signing up on the site, registering a book to get a "book ID number", write a little message in the book, and leaving it somewhere for other people to find.

It's like a message in a bottle, or a chainletter, or whatever, but with books. You get the ID, then you write a message like this inside the book:

Hi! I have registered this book at bookcrossing.com so I can track its journey through this world. Please go to www.bookcrossing.com/123-4567890  to let me know you found it, then read it and/or leave it somewhere for someone else to find! Thank you.

Of course, bookcrossing.com/123-4567890 is not a real web address. The 123-thing is supposed to be the ID number of the book, in my blog I just used 123 for an example.

Join Bookcrossing! It so rocks and I am going to release lots of books into the wild!

I hope I find some as well as releasing them

If you have been reading my blog, you might have asked a few tiny questions. So, here are the answers to most of them (with the oldest ones at the end, so you can see how far down you have to go until you don't know what I'm talking about):

The deletion of your guestbook posts. Yes, I have deleted many of your guestbook posts, but the guestbook is only for things like "I was here" and "this site is good". Feedback, questions etc. are sent to me by a personal message, and questions about one of my blog posts go in that post's comments. By the way, any posts like "do you want to date me" and "where is your school" will be permanently deleted and never brought up again.

The conferences. Yes, I know, I should have written how they went. It was neither good nor bad. That's why I didn't bother to write about them.

The school. Well, you might not understand much of my school-related posts, but the fact is, I don't either. I don't understand the weirdness of that school, and chances are you don't either. Makes me think why I bother to write about them. Well, I need somewhere to get these thoughts out of my head...

Leap day. I said that Leap Day adds 1400 minutes to our average year. Actually, I quoted someone else. I would not bother to work out the extra minutes of homework time you get in leap years.

Widgets. I don't use Yahoo!Widgets any more, but I still have Rainlendar. I should include the updated desktop snapshot in a blog post... later...

My candy addiction. Yes, I am still candy crazy. It's just that I'm not very blogging-about-being-candy-crazy crazy.

My wallpaper collection. Yes, I did post wallpapers on this site, but now I have stuck to one wallpaper and deleted all the others. So, no more wallpapers. Not for now.

The school disco. No, I never went to it. Should have written that.

My mobile phone. Yes, I found it. It was on my bedside table, as said in that blog post. Lucky me.

So, that was it (I guess) so you should not have any more questions.

If you do, why not post them in the comments?

Hmm... I ate 100% of my breakfast and 80% of my lunch. Obviously, that comes to 180%. But that can't be right, only 100% exists (according to my math teacher. More on her later.) 60% of the teachers are gone. I understood 0.01% of what the math teacher said, but I understood 90% of what to do in the math book. Her way of explaining stuff to us is down to 0.5%. I ate 300% of a kiwi, and 50% of an apple. I understood 10% of what the science teacher said, and 15% of the teachers are quitting. I am 60% good at math, but I think math sucks 100%. I am doing 5% of my homework right now, as well as typing on 80% of the keyboard. I have 0.01% of a pencil in my pencil case (hey, that's the same as my level of understanding of substitute math teachers! Strange, huh?) and 990% of a colored pencil (so out of the substitute math teacher's ideas). We also saw a 100% drunk man on the street...

Sooooo, that comes to...

Two thousand and forty point fifty two per cent?

That can't be right!

At least not according to my math teacher...

Honestly, have you ever seen such a small start menu? I bet you haven't, and neither did I, until I stumbled across SMOz (Start Menu Organizer), a program that lets you easily drag-and-drop the stuff in your start menu into a set of files, so that your start menu significantly shrinks.

Thanks, Lifehacker!

The hour of doom. The time of danger. What is it? You guessed it. Parent-Student-Teacher Conference Day. I crossed out "you guessed it" because I don't think you did. If you were close, you would have said "Parent-Teacher Conference Night". That is wrong. Most of the time, our school has Parent-Teacher Conference Night, but that's mostly for the little kids' conferences. We leave school early so we can have Parent-Student-Teacher Conference Day. That's why I didn't wait with this blog post until after school. 'cause school's already over.

Black saves energy. True?

It sounds silly, but a screen displaying stuff that is mostly black with (for instance) white text saves more energy than displaying mostly light colors.

One example can be found at blackle.com, which is the same as Google, but black. Make a difference!

Leap Day — oh, it’s such a mysterious date on the calendar. Every four years it appears and gives us an extra 1,440 minutes. It’s a bonus day just hiding out in February. Sneaky, sneaky.

I spent ages on my math homework. Because we got even more now. More algebra. That's just rubbish.

We're doing algebra at school. I've been sitting here for hours, and I'm still not finished with half of it. I bet I'll be sitting here all night. I know you guys can't help me with algebra, but if you know any shortcuts, will you please help me?

5m/2=3

5?a/2-4=0

etc. etc. etc.

That's a million hours of work for me!

I know this looks like a bit of a ripoff so you guys will download Rainlendar, but it is sooo cool. This is what my desktop looks like now:

The dark blue things are Rainlendar. (By the way, the rest of it is from widgets.yahoo.com.)

It looks cool, doesn't it?

Today was Pyjamas Day at school. I wore red snoopy pyjamas. Practically everybody wore pyjamas to school. It was fun. Pyjamas should be the new school uniform.

Now I am doing my homework. It is so boring. Here is a quote from my essay:

The Earth spins round the sun (indicated by long arrow) because of the sun’s gravitational field (the short arrows). The gravity keeps the Earth in orbit.

Ok, that is my "essay language". In case you are wondering, the "arrows" are things in my diagram. That is, my really ugly diagram.

Got to go to dinner now . See you later (that is, in my next blog post)

I love candy, even the really gross kinds. Not sure why. I ate a whole packet of cherry cakes, that I bought because I'm addicted to the orange and raspberry kind. Now I'm addicted to cherry as well. Stupid me!

School is a funny place. So is home. At school we have a million different substitutes for maths, as well as doing a group project that nobody understands (!) and when we get home, all we do is homework. I only have REALLY little time to be online today. Btw, here is today's wallpaper pic:

I love chocolate. I just ate a whole box of orange-flavored chocolate sticks. That was gross. Why did I do such a thing? Anyway, I have started a wallpaper collection, so here is the one I am using right now:

More to come soon!

                                     

As you notice, I might have deleted your guestbook post. The guestbook is a place for stuff like "I was here" and "Love ur site". Things like "the background is ugly" should be sent to me by a personal message, and messages about a specific blog post should be put in that post's comments.

Sorry about all this boringness, my next blog post will be more fun... 

This day has been full of clicks. The clicks of the remote as we zap the channels for a good film, the clicks of the keys as I type this, and the clicks of the knitting needles that I have just learnt to use. Also, there have been quite a lot of clicks when I changed my picture, after negative comments in the guestbook so I hope this picture is better than the old one. I have inserted the old picture into this blog post for future references:

This is fun but boring. No school, that's good, but there's lots of homework, etc. etc. etc. Not that blogging like this is fun either, but I just want to keep my ditched new year's resolution...

Can't believe I haven't blogged for 2 weeks! What's gone into me? Well, here is a recent update of the things I should have blogged ages ago:

New Year's Disco: There's going to be a dance at school! I hope it will be fun...

Teachers back from strike: Yes, that's right! Except for the maths teacher who was sick before the strike, during the strike she was not sick, and now she is sick again... wonder if this sick stuff is true... is she sick or "sick"?

But I will be online the rest of the weekend LOL!