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I'm sorta hoping the mulberry/rasberry plant grows well so I can make some jam out of it ... it'll be my first so I'm really excited ! Hmmm I'll try and look out for those reccomends Lady, but first I'll have to find their equivalent local names so they understand what I ask for since most of these vendors may not even speak in English ... once I order my print cartridge maybe I can take a printout and show it instead . Thanks !!! I'll google it ...

Heh, NO ! The red mud you see is the mountain itself . The soil is rich in iron, which explains the coloration. f you look at the mountain from a distance, you see a thin line ... and part of that line is what we see in the pic x_x Hacking up n stuff, hey, I remember studying it in college and you could even cross-breed (I'm sure it's called something else ... *thinks*) em, but only if my caretaker could not touch them and make them survive ... I've really wanted to try cross-breeding and creating hybrids ... you've tried it Lady, Sledge ? Any recommendations ? Hmmm Sledge's suggestion of growing sunflowers rings a bell. Actually, they're well suited for the climate and yeah, I'll try it the next time I visit. You're a pro ! I could rework the beds, but there're less chances of it to survive if I'm not around because the caretaker will kill em all . And, that's good advice .. how'd I know the acidity of the soil ?Can't wait for your garden's new pics .... disaster my ass !

I swear ! It'll atleast make my browsing / downloading / internet speed faster by a slight bit because of a better processor on board

12,000 bucks hehe ... Indian currency which's roughly 43 bucks to a dollar (blooooody economy!), makes everything on ebay and distro's or webstores all the more expensive X'D

I'm planning on a system overhaul, spending 12 grand to replace my motherboard with 1.something GB RAM and the works. Either that or an appointment with the dentist ' ... I'm sorta cross with my computer techie because I paid through my nose for my Sony Dvd Burner and that bum gave me an import which carried Ntv as the software instead of Neogeo.

*waves* welcome aboard Prowler , don't think we've met.

I concur with Dubird on The Lord Of The Rings book, and the movie does leave out battle parts and a few interesting characters here n there. I'm probably gonna pick up Shantaram this weekend, another fatassed book, since it's pretty interesting - a bestseller written by an Australian (who serving a 19 year prison sentenc), he fled to India, and after a decade was recaptured and extradited. It's basically about his life here in India and a certain taxi-driver who becomes his side-kick. It digs into the roots of Mumbai city and is entailed with real life events (I think )

Digital Fortress was really unimpressive and The Sphere is so much better on paper than it was on film. Reading (on and off) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, when will I ever finish this X'D !

Here's a peak into my rocky deserted garden at the hillstation ... ' Couple of 'flocks' (purple flower plants) and there's supposed to be a lily somewhere ... *looks for it .... goddamn* All flocks and random flower plants lined up, there's one Gladioli plant at the far left of the line. That's a rose plant in the basket - lower right. Poor ol Kaizer's grave (my earlier dog - dalmation by breed), but it's always covered with these tiny white flowery plants Yaaay finally atleast one blossomed white rose X'D ... I dunno how my caretaker managed that. To the immediate left of the rose, one step back is a shoeflower plant and right next to it is a rasberry / mulberry plant. He's gonna kill them soon, so I had to take pictures >_> ... That's me (with my eyes closed as always \m/) beside a 'Marigold' flower bed that I planted myself ... it took an hour when I went there a few months back and was surprised to see them alive even ... in the background is my aunt's cottage with her garden. Off Topic: Now that was supposed to be a road ! The monsoon this year was really nasty and about 15 meters of the road alongwith the tar and soil sorta got washed away ... ofcourse part reason could also be the increase of hotels in the area resulting in cutting of loads of tree land, amounting to things like this. The drop is around 50 - 60 feet ...

Pretty smooth ... how do you get rid of all the excess icons on the desktop ? I have 3-4 columns to the left of my screen '

How huge is the entire series ?

Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow my camera role will go to the studio for processing and I'll post pictures of the garden at my cottage ... I was surprised when I visited 2 weeks ago and you'll know why very soon.

Great quality pictures, smooth looking wp. What desktop resolution do you recommend for this ?

I think I've seen only till about episode 18 or so of Destiny and Athrun is the most tolerable character.

I think Nero's pretty popular when it comes to being a burner software, however with my new Dvd-drive I picked up in December, my computer techie cheated me and bought me a pirated version which has NTI as the burning software.

Kreuk's such a hottie ... good drawing xelloss.

Thanks for all the recommendations guys Before getting to read anyone elses messages, I downloaded Aqu's recommended codec pack. There's good news and bad news; Good news - the file opens and I get to see something *phew* Bad news - there is no sync between video, audio and sub-titles. I think I'll have to un-install it or something and try Eppy's codec pack and then if that too doesn't work I'll try out Dubird's (next in line) . I only hope the un-installation doesn't wipe out other stuff ... EDIT: I tried Eppy's pack, afterwards Dubird's software and each time the result was the same - video ran slow and very jerky, sound came late as did the subtitles with no synch between any of the 3 things. I think this may have to do with my computer settings / video / graphic card thingie or something ? Considering I'm at borderline cpu useage with 128 Mb ram, a PIII and XP

Just downloaded a movie that is a .mkv extension format. I have Windows XP and tried playing it on DivX6.1, WinMediaPlayer, WinAmp and RealPlayer. I don't think they support it, and even when they go back to check if they need to download an update, it still doesn't find anything. What do I do ? Is there a bundle pack for DivX I don't know about ? Weeehelp.

Reviving this topic for curiosity purposes ... Ok here's the scenario - if there is a one-on-one duel, taken in isolation of the circumstances or mainly injuries, who would be the last man standing from the group ? I haven't watched the OVA's so I haven't added those names but you guys could . Kenshin, Hiko Seijuro VIII, Saito Hajime, Seta Soujiro, Amakusa Shogo, his teacher Hiko Seijuro VII, Shishio Makoto. Consider Kenshin (not injured) battle Shishio, the outcome could very well be in favor of Shishio, remember the battle was prolonged only because of help from Saito, Aoshi, Sano; which let to his fight being prolonged to that 15 or 20 minute deadline. However even if we consider Kenshin winning this one, he couldn't possibly win over Shogo who has a counter-technique for some of Kenshin's moves and has also mastered the same. We can see this evidently from their first duel, however we can't take into accord the second duel because Shogo is shot. Hiko Seijuro VIII is the grandmaster of the Hiten-Mitsurugi yes, in a battle against Shogo, I bet he could win because of his vast knowledge, experience and / or presence of mind. Saito is a formidable opponent indeed but doesn't stand a chance against high level Mitsurugi attacks I think, same with Soujiro, however Souijiro almost beat Kenshin, so you would have to consider him as well.

Holy crap, the signature n avatar combo of Oro-sama is just awesome ! That is a great picture on the signature Lady, is it from the manga ? *can hear Oro-sama's music in his head*

Holy Crap !! All by himself or with help from a team or that certain pervert hermit

Thanks for the descriptions guys. From the looks of it, I'm tempted to buy this soon.

You are NEJI! Proud. Driven. You fix on your objective and stick to it. Some people may see you as cold or even cruel, but they just can't see past your prickly surface. At heart, you care about your companions and may be a little more sensitive than you'd like to admit. uber sweet.

Off Topic: It's what ... 3 am for ya, Az ? What're you doing awake so early in the morning ? Watching anime ? hehe ...

How big is the series ? And what's it about ??? All I've read of is that it's gory, and highly recommended.