It isn’t just about the endless resources and information on any field of knowledge (and un-knowledge) that you can reach in a few tappings on the keyboard and a left click of your glowing mouse; it’s about social potential.

What that means, the social potential of the web, is the numerous mind-blowing opportunities that the internet with its various applications can grant you to explore other people. That is right, you explore people.

Personally, I cannot imagine my life without the internet. But I am a hopeless junkie so this may not apply to many people out there who use the internet for strictly business-related affairs. I have met great people online, some of whom have helped shape my character of today (shape, not define). Some of those people restored my faith, if any existed, in the human persona. Others, well, made me think twice about the web-socializing scheme I enjoy.

But good or bad, all of those individuals have taught me things impossible to capture had I met them face-to-face in the first place. Can you relate to this?

We are in the final of the FIFA World Cup 2006. L’italia ha vinto!!!!! Negli ultimi minuti abbiamo vinto e cosi’ finisce una bellissima partita. Dove e’ la germania adesso? Sta piangendo.

All you haters eat your hearts out. Viva Italia, viva azzurri. Who was it again that said we should “expect an early return home”? Germany is out. Brazil is out. Heck even Argentina is out (although I liked their play) but Italy is not. So much for predictions, eh?

I am ecstatic! This is thrilling and I am still wearing my Cannavaro shirt, jumping on the couch and screaming my lungs out. Ah, the beauty of those tanned & talented footballers.

Gli azzurri hanno giocato molto bene mentre i tedeschi dependevano su un tipo di gioco brutale, e l’arbitro non e’ stato tanto imparziale ma ma e’ finita bene ed i migliori hanno vinto la battaglia.

I am happy beyond words- Viva italia. Viva azzurri.

In a heated conversation of yesterday, I was explaining to someone how much I love to sleep and all about how I cannot function well without my siesta. Some people cannot sleep during the day or are very light-sleepers, I am certainly not one of this kind.

I came across a bunch of useful tips to help you get a good night’s sleep, and here they are:

1- Don’t take sleeping pills. This includes over-the-counter pills and melatonin.

2- Don’t go to bed until you’re sleepy. If you have trouble sleeping, try going to bed later or getting up earlier.

3- Get up at the same time every morning, even after a bad night’s sleep. The next night, you’ll be sleepy at bedtime.

4- If you wake up in the middle of the night and can’t fall back to sleep, get out of bed and return only when you are sleepy.

5- Avoid worrying, watching TV, reading scary books, and doing other things in bed besides sleeping and sex. If you worry, read thrillers or watch TV, do that in a chair that’s not in the bedroom.

6- Do not drink or eat anything caffeinated within six hours of bedtime.

7- Avoid alcohol. It’s relaxing at first but can lead to insomnia when it clears your system.

8- Spend time outdoors. People exposed to daylight or bright light therapy sleep better.

This is the source (Live Science), let’s hope nobody sues me this time.

Pills - checked, alcohol - checked, but no worrying and no bedcentric-ness?

“It is never perfect and always a chase”

- Tololy

‘ I could tell you my adventures -
beginning from this morning- ‘

‘ At least I knew who I was
when I got up this morning,
but I think I must have changed
several times since then.’

- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X

Through Pandemia, who is an Italian blogger I follow, I got introduced to a delightfully interesting little notion.

Pandemia says that in the USA every 60,000 people have one serial killer living amongst them. This he links to the possibility of having a serial killer in the Italian blogosphere and he even suggests bloggers try to spot that person through potential fishy blog entries or behaviour. (Read Pandemia’s entry here, if you know Italian)

This idea is fascinating to me personally because I am fascinated by the working of criminal minds, especially those of serial killers. So why don’t Jordanian bloggers start hunting for the Jordanian serial killer whose blog they could be reading and commenting on? Eyes wide open.