This place seems to be populated with 40 year old men and 30 year old women, who complain all day about their jobs, complain about their babies, and complain about their relationships.

And there is the token 14 year old boy that posts fish recipes to everything.

And of course, I'm still smarting that my entry to the site design competition was soundly ignored.

If two computers are firewalled, or behind routers, you cannot build direct connections between them without the need of a 3rd client that is not firewalled.

Increasingly, there is a tendency to firewall everything in the name of security. Doing this is killing off direct peer-to-peer connections, and is taking us back to the server-client architecture.

Wireless routers with several clients hiding behind a single IP adress is causing the same problem - it is difficult for a single client behind the wireless router to create a direct connection to another client behind another wireless router.

Think about it, Jesus almost commanded them to spam. And is being a missionary not somewhat similar to sending spam mails?

Infinite monkeys (or real random machines) on infinite keyboards with infinite time can never produce the complete works of shakespeare.

That is my opinion, which I believe a lot of people share.

Generally, Turkish people are used as scapegoats for many problems. In a group of diverse germans from different origins, so long there is nobody of turkish origin, there will sooner or later be some anti-turkish remark. I do not participate, because I have never had any bad experiences with any people of turkish origins.

However, I recognize that the ghetto-attitude of turks, combined with their large population and their lack of proper integration can lead to cultural differences that can result in mild conflict. So I usually just ignore the comments.

However, sometimes it gets a little much.

I believe in trust. Generally, I would not snoop around in a persons closet and try to dig out whatever skeletons are in there. You invariably never find anything good, and though it may be good, you are always looking at things out of their context.

I somehow expect everyone who visits me to stay out of my email box and my smses, and to not try to discover my password. I EXPECT this.

All the same, I wouldn't be a ninja-to-be if I didn't install a keystroke logger on my own PCs. So if a visitor does do this, I know.

Some parts of the short essay I have written below make absolutely no sense, or are simply wrong. Figure out the parts.

West-African standard english (WASE) has recently been reclassified from an accent to a dialect. I am a proponent of either the disregard of accentual flux, or a strict delimitation of colloqualisms to within a certain range, and all departure from those boundaries automatically promote the language from an accent to a dialect.

In my opinion, the use of syllepsis in rhetorical formulations is extreme malapropism, and should be a primary criteria in the decision on the classification of SEs between accent and dialect. Even though it has almost become the norm in American standard english (ASE), and is in extensive vernacular use, ASE is still suppositionally held to be an accent.

As I have been talking about in the last few diaries, I am passing through a I-want-to-become-a-ninja phase. This is pre I-want-to-have-a-baby, that phase that comes immediately after leaving I-want-to-have-me-a-baby-momma, and I-don't-wanna-be-a-playa-no-more. Much later comes the I-hate-my-wife-she-hates-me-I-think-this-is-midlife-crisis  phase.

But now, I'm in the relatively uncomplicated ninja phase.

I don't like shaving. It is too much of a bother, and I always feel that the lines are crooked, and everyone on the street is looking at me and giggling inside.

So I let the beard grow free, a bit like a trimmed hedge. But then a trimmed hedge is not particularly free. But that is besides the point. The point is that I trim it, much like a gardener would trim a hedge.

So it is a low beard with random stubbles here and there. I looked in the mirror today, and it was looking a bit uneven. I didn't like it.

1st Topic: Obscure Nigerian Insults.

Here I present to you a collection of Nigerian insults, and you see if you get the point.

2nd Topic: Is a G-String morally correct?.

In Nigeria, a conservative society without few morals, the G-string is a subject of great controversy. We shall in this entry follow a messageboard posting on this topic.