With every year of the internet, there is always a migratory cesspool which stews controversy. In the early days, it was clandestine chat rooms and Netscape Navigator versus Internet Explorer. Subsequent years brought us email spam, peer to peer crackdowns, phishing, and the ever present vat full of viruses and key-loggers. The newest iteration of freshly brewed feces is of course MySpace.

Now to begin, I am not saying that MySpace in and of itself is a bad thing. MySpace is of an evolution of the earlier days of free website hosting for the self-enamored. Way back in the day, services like Geocities, Yahoo, Angelfire, and Tripod were the places to be. School kids, including myself, put together blinking center-text aligned websites with MIDI music blaring in the background, their favorite collection of pictures downloaded from other websites, and of course, hideous color schemes.

Fast-forward ten years later, Xanga, Blogger-powered, and MySpace have become the evolutionary result of many months of binary genetic mishaps and miraculously having the best traits for survival. Think of these tribes of denizens as modern day early Homo sapiens, Homo erectuses (Homo erecti?), and Neanderthals. The essential ingredients are all the same, primates remained primates, and kids building personal homepages remain kids building personal homepages.

Replace generic blinking center aligned text with generic Blogger-style templates.

Replace MIDIS with MP3's.

Replace downloaded pictures with blurry cell phone pictures taken at funny angles in order to hide glaring physical flaws.

Hideous color schemes will never be replaced.

MySpace is now a virtual bubbling stew with a rich stock of angst-filled youngsters, a healthy flavoring of lamers, and a dash of pedophiles and sexual predators. Its salty aroma, of course, causes the media dogs to salivate in Pavlovian delight every time something scandalous happens.

Check out the annual myspace stupid haircut awards if you want to be amused.

Speaking of lamers, I need to update my profile page...

I will update later this week. I need to finish a presentation for tomorrow.

The squirrels are back out in droves by my apartment building, must be spring.

Despite the fact that the Calgary Flames seem unable to score goals in hockey, they will be making the playoffs this year. In fact, if the hockey season were to end today, they would be first in their division. Miikka Kiprusoff, the goalie of the Calgary Flames, is probably the only reason why the team has so many wins this year. Jarome Iginla is but a shadow of his former self, and the rest of the players on team are at best, mediocre. With the trade deadline come and gone, I was sorely disappointed that they did not acquire any new players with the ability to score goals. It is a shame that no team was able to scoop Sidney Crosby out of Pittsburgh. Though he is their franchise player, his talent seems wasted there unless Pittsburg gets better players, or at least more goons to protect Crosby.

The above is just my opinion of course. I cheer for all of the Canadian teams, and hope either the Calgary Flames or the Edmonton Oilers will win the Stanley Cup again. In reality, Ottawa is by far the best Canadian hockey team this year, and have the highest chance of winning the cup. I wish I played professional hockey.

Days pass by in slow motion frame-by-frame muck of grainy monochromic vision and tinny monaural sound. My life on the geriatrics service has been, shall we say, slower than the chaos of general medicine. After two days on the job, I have seen only three patients. I wish I could condense work on the geriatrics into a sweet, syrupy concentrate that I can gulp down at the beginning of the day. Unfortunately, it is thin and dilute, and the days do not seem to end quite as early as I would like. Somebody save me.

So thus another weekend is done. Only 2 more days of vacation left. When I return to London, I start my geriatrics rotation. On the upside, it is a slower paced rotation with lots of down time. On the downside, it is a slower paced rotation with lots of down time.

The Oscars were presented tonight, and surprise, Crash beat out Brokeback Mountain. I have yet to see either film, though everyone I've talked to who has seen both thought Crash was a better movie. Below is a list of movies I plan on seeing from this past year (in no particular order):

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Munich
Crash
Walk the Line
Good Night, and Good Luck
Capote
Syriana

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Ever have one of those days were you just felt like doing X. Where X is something somewhat random? As lame as it is, I have the urge to work on this website today. Go figure. I was perusing February's site traffic information, and found some interesting statistics.

Top search terms:
1) hallucinations
2) lung fish
3) bleach
4) mudskipper
5) grey's anatomy

Top referrers:
1) myspace
2) xanga
3) google

Top browsers:
1) internet explorer - various versions (~60%)
2) mozilla firefox (~10%)

Work is such a subjective term.

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