Since a while my room was quite a mess. I’ve just sorted it.

Order makes me happy and makes my mind clearer.

What I enjoy is the lack of objects. I don’t need a lot of objects: they distract me. What I need is the essential and I need that it is sorted well.

I like also order in my computer files. Actually they aren’t very ordered, but at least I can find almost whatever I want without trouble in searching (I use the [1] Total Commander search engine which is one of my favorite features fo this file manager and helps to make my life easier).

In the last weeks I enjoed dancing merengue and salsa with a girl of my course. Thanks to her company I could improve a lot. Today in fact, during "class" I had the impression i learnt nothing at all (I’ve jsut ahd the 3rd lesson), because I’ve already practised 2 times.
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I also enjoyed winning a bid on ebay. I’ve purchased a new graphic card - an [3] ATI Radeon 9800 Pro - to play my favorite videogame better: [4] Joint Operations. I’m really looking forward to get it. It costed me 172.5$ + 22.5$ shipping = 195$. With the swiss customs taxes it will be around 223$ (260.- CHF). [5] The same card costs in Switzerland, -at Steg- about 360.- CHF (307$). I’ve read that the cooler is quite silent, while now I have an old Nvidia Geforce 3 Ti 200 which makes a lot of noise. I really hope that my computer will be more silent later

This is the year where I started to be myself again: goal oriented, active, planner and with lot of enthusiasm. 2004 was the opposite, it was almost a failure.

Besides dancing salsa (and merengue and bachata) I also started to do body building. This is the end of my first month of training. Today I got some [6] integrators that my friend Greg ordered for me when he did a massive order for himself and for some other people. I don’t want to take drugs that will pump up my muscles, like some body builders do. Greg is doing "natural body building, he is my friend and my coach and I trust him.

This week, as freelancer, I finished a small website which should make me earn some money. not bad… after doing 2 times the inventory in the shops where my father worked and after this website I’m looking forward to get new part-time opportunities.
This website made me learn some new Internet Explorer problems… and some new work around techniques to fix them. As I’m a perfectionist and I couldn’t find the solution myself I even posted a question in a couple of forums: on [7] webdesign.about.com and on [8] Dev Shed. Nobody answered me, so I decided to subscribe to a non-free webdesigners resource: [9] Experts Exchange. There not only I got the answer I was looking for, I got it in less than 24 hours! That’s an efficient service! If I’ll go on as freelancer I think I’ll keep my subscribtion to the service, as it’s making me learn new techniques and it s saving me a lot of time to solve some really boring annoyances (especially with Crappy Internet Explorer).

I’ve been also active in the [10] mozillazine forums and in the [11] gallery 2 forum. I like to contribute to the open source community, especially by giving suggestions…

Oh, yes, I almost forgot: Yesterday I enjoyed a nice tunisian dinner in the AIESEC office Thank you Nader, you did a great cooking.