I have been always fascinated by all the stuff that you can carry with you on the keyring. While my own keyring is nothing more but a threaded shackle that my dad gave me (he's a sailing instructor) with a bunch of keys on it. I like the simplicity of this solution, and the fact that the shackle adds weight and changes the sound that the keys make making it easier to find them and harder to forget.

Still, there are a few keyring additions that I would like to have - but probably one at the time:

I wrote recently about my external HDD dillema: capacity vs portability. This week I noticed that a new Western Digital HDD has appeared on Pixmania.com, one of my favourite online stores. It's a MyPassport Essential edition with 1TB capacity.

It finally arrived, day earlier than expected, my new external HDD.

First of all I was surprised how light it actually felt. Sure one kilo doesn't seem like much, but it was just simply lighter than I imagined. It was also a bit smaller than I imagined and above all SLEEEEEEK!!!! :> I was very happy to unpack it and set it on my desk.

Since I decided to de-clutter my apartment and my life I have soon found myself staring at piles and piles of CD's and DVD's that I had stashed in a nice box beside the TV and in columns on my desk. I have over 100 CDs and about 25 DVD's worth of backups and archives, never mind all the other stuff like movies and music. I also had a look at all the magazines that I want to have handy for reference (majority are Computer Arts and Computer Arts Projects)and piles of documents.

This is a rather scary view for someone who is aiming to be able to pack-and-go when relocating to another country. While there are a few bulky items that might make it difficult, it's the little bits and pieces that would be my demise right now; the disks and magazines are the very things that should be easy to get rid of.

I was pointed to Evernote by various blogs here and there. I have managed to somehow ignore it for a while, but not any more. I have signed up and downloaded the Evernote for Windows and Evernote Firefox plugin.

My life is forever changed.

I went to the Church this Sunday.

No, really, I did. It was not a church, it was The Church of the only type you could find me in, a pub/club/restaurant in the city centre.

I don't have a car.

I don't even have a driving licence.

I have, however, extensive experience in changing tires and cursing at the SatNav. After the car trip to Nice and back I thought I will never desire owning a SatNav because of the one E. had in the car, nicknamed Amber (for being Cutthroat Bitch).

Few months ago I was researching various games and found a parlour game called "Elephant's foot umbrella stand". It is a funny game, similar to one we used to play as kids, where each player adds a word or a phrase to an ever expanding sentence that then has to be repeated by the next player before he adds in a new word or phrase. Click on the link above to read more about the rules on Wikipedia.

I enjoy good advertising.

The treatment I got at Ultralase was much better than the way they have treated me at Optical Express.

I was only late 10 minutes, I swear.

My new webcam and my new Genius tablet arrived today.

The webcam is ok, pretty cool tiny Logitech thingy.

The tablet is... OH MY GOD AT LAST I HAVE MY OWN GRAPHICS TABLET I AM SO CHUFFED!!!!

My iGoogle page is an endless source of information and daily joy.

Dear Friends and Family.

If you're reading this, I'm already in jail for dropping a bomb on Microsoft offices in Dublin.

Since this note may be of some interest to people I know and it's conclusions were a surprise to all my co-workers (including software developers) and most friends (excluding Acid, a guru), I decided