Monthly Archives: September 2004

An E-mail that I received today…

You’re invited to shop for large selection of bombs and different kinds of rockets such as surface-to-air, surface-to-surface and weaponry available at reduced price. With the following types of rockets you will be able to commit terrorist attacks, destroy buildings, electric power stations, bridges, factories and anything else that comes your mind. Most items are in stock and available for next day freight delivery in the USA. Worldwide delivery is available at additional cost. Prices are negotiable.

Today special:

Air Bombs

• OFAB-500U HE fragmentation air bomb
• Fuel-air explosive air bombs – Not in stock
• BETAB-500U concrete-piercing air bomb
• ZB-500RT incendiary tank
• 500-KG SIZE RBK-500U unified cluster bomb
• RBK-500U OAB-2.5PT loaded with fragmentation submunitions
• RBK-500U BETAB-M loaded with concrete-piercing submunitions – Not in stock
• RBK-500U OFAB-50UD loaded with HE fragmentation submunitions

Unguided Aircraft Rockets

• Main-purpose unguided aircraft rockets
• S-8 unguided aircraft rockets
• S-8KOM
• S-8BM-Not in stock
• S-13 unguided aircraft rockets
• S-13, S-13T, S-13-OF, S-13D, S-13DF
• S-25-0
• S-25-OFM
• S-24B – Not in stock
• RS-82
• RS-132 – Not in stock

Rocket Pods

• B-8M pod for S-8 rockets
• B-8V20-A pod for S-8 rockets
• B-13L pod for S-13 rockets

Recently Received *NEW*

• Hydra 70 2.75 inch Rockets
• Air-Launched 2.75-Inch Rockets
• FIM-92A Stinger Weapons System
• Stinger 101: Anti-Air

Our clients are well known Al-Qaida, Hizballah, Al-Jihad, HAMAS, Abu Sayyaf Group and many other terrorist groups. We are well known supplier in the market and looking forward to expand our clientage with assistance of Internet.

Impatiently awaiting for your orders,
ShadowCrew

Oh yeah, put me down for a concrete-piercing air bomb and an incendiary tank. A quick question though, do they come in different colours and patterns? I like my weapons to match my outfits.

I’m upgrading to WordPress 1.2, please excuse the mess…

Done.

I have to say this. WordPress is like that awesome friend you have that is always amazing and surprises you with their constant coolness. Last night I expected my layout to break and hours of messing around to follow, so when I refreshed and saw that the index.php wasn’t broken, I was pretty damn happy.

WordPress is sexy.

People e-mail me quite a bit to ask if I’d consider hosting their website and even though I’d love to host everyone’s Hilary Duff fan blog or “I love ducks” blog, I can’t due to the fact I don’t have much space or bandwidth to spare.

I have some news for all you Hilary and ducky fans though. Xaxax Hosting – the lovely people who host this website – are running a contest where you could win a domain name registration and hosting for a year. Imagine how many duck love could be had in a year!

I’m getting dizzy thinking about all the duck love.

Each Month Xaxax Hosting will select a winner who receive a ‘Starter’ hosting package, along with domain name registration (com/net/org) and a Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000. The ‘Starter’ hosting package includes:

• 1000mb Disk Space
• 20gb Monthly Bandwidth
• 4 MySQL Databases
• 20 Email Accounts
• cPanel Control Panel
• PHP/CGI/PERL/PYTHON/MYSQL Support
• IMAP/POP3/Webmail
• Web and FTP Stats
• Web File Manager
• Unlimited Email Forwarders/Autoresponders
• Unlimited Domains/Subdomains
• Spam Filtering/Spam Assassin
• 24/7 Support

For more information go to the Xaxax website and click on the ‘Contests’ section. Good luck to all you ducky fans.

Before I hit ‘Publish’ on the last entry that I posted, I thought “am I being silly or overdramatic about this?”. I wasn’t sure how to feel. Should I tell people I’m fine? Or should I share my pain? In the end I shared, and hoped others had been through the same thing.

“Our little friends become such a part of our lives, that to see their face can brighten our day, but losing them feels like losing a piece of our souls. We loved unconditionally, without regard for faults or mistakes, but with a shared bond of friendship and adventure.”

This last week I’ve felt sad, tired and pissed off – to the point where I even threatened to choke the local vets with one of their overpriced leads that they sell. The amount of cyber love and well wishes I’ve received this last week was un-expected and made things a lot easier, so I want to say thank you. The internet can be so fucking amazing at times.

We also received a card from the Emergency Vet Centre that we took Harry to, it had his paw print and a kind message to us inside. It’s nice to know some people still care.

I was going to take you for a walk Friday afternoon Harry, it was the second day of spring and the sun was out, also, my back seemed up for a walk. It had been so long since we went for a walk, I could hear the bushes and poles crying out for you to pee on them, your pee was the coolest, the other dogs pee wasn’t the same.

I was just about to come tell you about the fantastic walk we were about to set upon, when I was told that you didn’t look well and I had better come see. I really didn’t expect to see you in the state you were in. You were on the ground, struggling to breathe, and you didn’t respond to anything I said Harry-Boo. You’d start howling now and again and move your legs like you were trying to run, but your eyes were rolled back and you couldn’t move, it’s was horrible. I had to hold your jaw open so you could breathe.

We took you to the local vets and they said you were probably bitten by a snake and we let them give you an injection of anti-venom. It cost $400, but we didn’t care about the cost, we were told it would save you. Then we were told to go home and wait a few hours for it to take effect, those hours were so long. Finally the phone rang and a nurse told us to come pick you up, when I saw you I didn’t know what to think. They said you were stable, but you looked like you were in a coma. They told us to take you home and watch you over the weekend; they were all going home and couldn’t look after you. We asked if you might have had a seizure and they said no, it was not a seizure. They also said you were burnt and your hair was failing out, we saw no signs of burns or your hair falling out before we took you up there.

We decided to take you to another vets even though the local vets said you would make it through the night, we felt that we couldn’t care for you at home and you’d be in better hands at a vets. We didn’t want to be in the situation where you stopping breathing and we couldn’t do anything. We took you to an Emergency Vet Centre which was about an hour away – we told them all the details and waited while they assessed you. After 15 minutes the vets finally came to talk to us. They told us you were in a coma, you had severe brain damage and they wanted to know why we brought a comatose dog in. They told us they had to put you down, they could not send you home with us or put you in the ICU because you wouldn’t recover. This was a far cry from what the local vets told us earlier on.

You apparently had a brain tumour, which caused the massive seizure that you had, I’m told you didn’t feel any pain – I hope that is true. Even if the local vets had of treated you properly it wouldn’t have made a difference, you’d been having the seizure for too long and it cut off oxygen to your brain. It would have been less traumatic for us though. I feel so angry – we listened to them because we thought they knew what they were talking about. I’m not a trained vet, but even I could see you were in a coma.

I wish you could have talked old chap, told me you weren’t well. Looking back, you clearly had a few signs of a brain tumour. You definitely had Geriatric Separation Anxiety and your personality had changed, it was like you were a little puppy again. Remember how we told the local vets about this ages ago and they said you were just being ‘a blue heeler’? We shouldn’t have listened to them. Just four days ago I was outside throwing you your dog beer – it’s hard to believe you’re gone.

Did you know the dog next door sounds exactly like you? It barked a few times today and for a split second I thought “What is Harold barking at?” and then I remembered that you weren’t there.

I miss you Harry, Saturday morning pancakes and TV won’t be the same without you.

I took a drive down to ‘Australia’s Marina of the Year’ last Sunday afternoon to have a look around, I have to say it’s quite peaceful and beautiful there, perfect spot for a relaxing Sunday arvo. It was also the perfect place to test my new Ricoh Caplio G4 wide camera.

Later that day, I sat out in my backyard taking photos of bell flowers as the warm sun went down, I was trying my hardest to keep the camera still enough to get a good picture, while Harry tried his hardest to get me to throw him his dog beer toy.

More images in the ‘Sunday Afternoon’ gallery.