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I told The Friend I wanted something to occupy me all December….Bar the first two weeks of December - when I get to wrap up multiple work projects - I will be lazing around on an extended holiday… She knows I have a thing for writers… and writing…. and that I’m more comfortable writing stuff than saying stuff… So we thought I’d blog every day for sixty days.. First thirty will be following the 30 days of truth meme over at Hope Blog; the next thirty… I’m yet to decide… Hopefully, its therapeutic…. Even I am slightly concerned at what I might see when I begin to dig beneath the surface of me…. ...

The Big Freeze hits…. [Pics included] Sigh….

One of my essential life principles is never allowing myself to exercise regret. Time and time again, when decisions appear in hindsight to have been poorly thought out, I try to prevent myself from slipping into regret mode.. I am of the opinion that time spent in regret analysing the what-might-have-beens would be better served breaking the problem into smaller bits and devising a means of resolving its constituents. Recently though, I have allowed that tightly held principle to slip from my grasp. ...

More on cheating in Universities… A statistical approach at the University of Central Florida The many uses of Facebook - Oo.. Another reason to dissolve a marriage? Religious differences.. Sigh… Wanna ’live’ forever? Enter the bluetooth enabled e-tomb. Indonesia’s the world’s biggest Twitter users? Getting the girl is all in the angle of the tilt.. Football by biting... Wonder what the bloke was thinking though..

6 years on - the 66 year old woman who gave birth to a kid.. Selfish? Playing God or a real chance for re-inventing life? .. Celebonomics.. Why you’re not famous.. Con artist.. Not Nigerian.. Gasp! Another take on the homoepathy debate.. Apparently the talk not the tincture is what works. The danger of desensitization - The daily telegraph’s Geoffrey Leon compares BP’s Gulf disaster to Chernobyl. Ghost writers.. A shadow scholar ‘bares’ all.. Ultimate gadget? Or quirky? The remote control + pillow combo… Google street view - weight loss tip.. Apparently its not only Nigerian cops who are camera shy.. The demise of marriage? Or just a blip.. Time ponders the relevance of marriage

Or an apology for all the nights you worry about me….. One of my mother’s slightly more compelling arguments against the notion of - in her words - entrenched singleness is the false simplicity that being single and responsible for only oneself brings. Over the past ten years I have learnt to do my things, my way and in my time - considering the consequences only as they impact me. That has been useful when I have had to make potentially life changing decisions - like quitting my day job at a fairly well known engineering firm to head back to full time study in 2008 or loaning a friend a hefty pile of money (which he is vacillating on paying back by the way). Mother is wrong on one count - my being single isn’t the only cause; there is after all my natural proclivity to be a loner of sorts. Perpetually plugged into my iPod, having my nose stuck in books, emailing and SMSing friends instead of calling have all contributed to my increasingly tenuous connections with the real world. Living alone for all those years hasn’t helped either. ...

Recently rediscovered via the wonderful gift of shuffle on my iPod…

More reason to be careful about your twitter activity - The twitter ‘joke’ that’s been blown out of proportion.. iPhone apps that could save your marriage? The mean gene.: apparently one in four people have this gene.. Taking email (and the internet too seriously)… Laptops and male fertility.. Interesting piece over at Wired Science… Another take on the Yahoo vs Gmail argument…Gmail appears to be inherently ‘safer’.. (HT Trae Days) Interesting take on the Marine Corps, Appearance and Tradition over at The Art of Manliness.. Ribadu is interviewed on the Economist’s Africa blog. Amazon briefly lists the inappropriately named ‘The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover’s Code of Conduct’ before bowing to pressure and taking it down.. Skype wedding? The possibilities are endless… (HT The Daily Dish)

Almost on a whim, I signed up to sponsor a child via World Vision. The decision was taken without much thought whilst passing through the Mall at Union Square. November 11th is a special day in the RustGeek household; its the day the patriarch and the matriarch completed their nuptials as well as the day the one we lost to the genes was born. In the part of the world where I am, it is also Remembrance day. ...

For Gracie, who the genes took… You never saw the thirteenth summer through- before the genes claimed you. You always were - the sallow one, knuckle- kneed, paper thin, but - the lights in your jaundiced eyes shone: through pain and fear, and hope and tears. The strength in your voice never dimmed, never waned, until the genes - like a belligerent marabout’s curse - turned you, to a mound of red- dead earth ...