Song of Solomon 8:6-7
Place me like a seal over your heart,
like a seal on your arm;
for love is as strong as death,
its jealousy [a] unyielding as the grave.
It burns like blazing fire,
like a mighty flame.
Many waters cannot quench love;
rivers cannot wash it away.
I really thought I could count on you,
I really thought we were close,
I really thought that you cared for me,
I really loved you like my rose.
Burning with rage, fire and sulphur billow from my nose,
my mouth is ready to consume you,
Madness and mayhem engulf my mind;
the things I will do, I will do to you.
No eye has yet seen, no human body felt,
the punishing torture and anguish,
I will unleash the madness of my soul
with a clap of lighting, striking, smiting, flash.
Revenge is my doom, and my doom is your doom,
and your doom is my pleasure my friend,
The dreams of my mind, and thoughts of my life
have all finally reached the point of your end.
Destroy and perish, the fate of life revealed,
but no fate is the same, now that I come
To take away your life and limbs,
and your friends will all die, and allies are all now gone.
Do you understand my anger, my vengeance,
my mind, my desire to crush your eyes,
And with the end of ends, when I end your life,
and bring my sweet revenge for all lives.
by Amrix A
The Pope was leaped upon by a lady, as he was walking to the podium to address the Christmas eve mass celebration. Last year the same lady tried the same, however this time she actually managed to knock him down before his security took her away.
The Pope is meant to be the modern day example of Peter or even Jesus, so it makes you wander how much security either of these two had 2000 years ago, that the Pope now surrounds himself by an army of personel and security guards.
There are countless examples of the mass of crowds pressing to see Jesus, yet at no point did he turn them away, refuse to see people, or at any point defend himself and march them away with his private army to some dilapidated mental hospital. Jesus may have even healed the poor lady, and beckoned her to follow him as he continued on his journey. Even Peter would have done the same.
It’s such a shame and great disappointment that such a hollow organisation has replaced a movement which was actually on mission to change the world and help lost helpless people, lead better lives.
Really, I can’t believe that Ayotollah Montazari is dead, first Michael Jackson and now him. Seems like Iran is just fresh out of luck. I bet the government must be reeling, you would almost believe that they had a hand in it?
Seems like a final twist to a tragic old tale, now we will await to see what the outcome will be, with new protests looming because of Moharam and another reason to mourn and defy the authorities, it’s impossible to say whether this will turn out for good or for worse. What is inevitable though is that we have a long winter ahead of us, and this is still early days in an unfolding feature length story.
Take a back seat, get the popcorn and candy, and make yourselves comfortable folks!
I am not a faithless fool, nor am i a weak little boy, that you should pity me or kick me in the side, I will overcome, I will overcome, this mountain shall not stay in my way, for today I live, and tomorrow I die, and the next day I shall be in glory!
I was trying to hax up a site, and wanted to get Delicious to show the number of links already in their db. So after a bit of reading from Tagometer Widget and some useful code (which didn’t work), I came up with this PHP code, that works.
function getDeliciousCount($permalink=''){
if($permalink!=''){
$hash = md5($permalink);
}
else {
$hash = md5("http://".$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);
}
$url = "http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/json/urlinfo?callback=displayTotalSaves&hash=".$hash;
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
preg_match("/\\\"total_posts\"\:([0-9]+)/",$data,$saves);
if (!$saves[1])
return "0";
else
return $saves[1];
}
I submitted my twitter username to the site, www.twittruth.com, and to my horror, it said 1200 seconds before it could calculate it. Now that is a long time for someone to wait for a computer to work. I went away and got a tea, in time to see what my Twit Truth was, and although I already knew it, it told me that I am an “engager” .
Here are some of my truths, if you care to read:
Amrix A hasn’t mentioned any other high profile users on twitter yet!
Amrix A is an engager. More than half of their tweets sent are a response or mention another user. Engager
Chances of Amrix A responding to a direct message 1 in 1.24
Direct Messages sent to Amrix A every day on average 2.81
Response sent from Amrix A every day on average 2.26
Time it takes Amrix A to read their direct messages everyday Based on taking 4 seconds to read 140 characters. If they actually read them. 0.19 mins
Time it would take Amrix A to reply to all messages recieved today Based on taking 20 seconds to reply 0.94 mins
Time Amrix A actually spends sending direct messages every day Messages that start @ 0.75 mins
Direct Messages sent to Direct Messages Recieved 0.8
Percent of tweets that engage a user 62.04% 85 out of 137 tweets.
Tweets that contain a username but not a direct reply 7.3% 10 out of 137 tweets.
Percent of tweets that aren’t replies 30.66% 42 out of 137 tweets.
Percent of tweets that mention other users in the top 1000 0% 0 out of 137 tweets.
Percent of tweets that contain a hashtag 6.57% 9 out of 137 tweets.
Percent of tweets that are retweets (start RT) 0.73% 1 out of 137 tweets.
Percent of tweets that contain a link 2.92% 4 out of 137 tweets.
Time since last tweet by Amrix AFrom when this test was carried out 8.5 hours
If you have got this far, then why don’t you try it yourself, and tweet me on twitter wit h the link to your results.
My twitter username is http://twitter.com/Amrix
Facebook being the largest social networking website in the world has also managed to supress freedom of speech and contribute to the supression of breaking news. Since the last few weeks, facebook along with twitter and youtube has proved essential for Iranians to release information and spread videos and warnings to others in Iran and the world. However the computer systems at facebook have been regularly identifying this mass communication as illegal spam, and subsequently disabling and banning real users who are in real life and death situations.
On top of that, facebook is too big to have humans identify problems and deal with issues and reactivate accounts. Facebook is too restrictive, too controlling, too automated, and not the social networking site of the future. It won’t be long before people give up with facebook out of frustration and move onto better systems and sites. Actually it wouldn’t be suprising if another site popped up and greatly improved on facebook, and subsequently overtook it at every level.
Facebook needs to take a step back, slow down and begin to improve on their core systems, and rework the relationship with the customer, which they seem to have forgotten a while back. Facebook could still change, but there needs to be a recognition of their failures before they are able to deal with those and future problems.
ok its official, the death of MJ has caused twitter to crash… the MJ effect has pwned the only thing able to pwn the Iranian government, so MJ really is greater than all???
