Superb car handling.

This guy is having way too much fun. (Jealous)

You can see that the making of the video was not flawless, but the sheer skill needed to perform some of the challenges is amazing.

Ken Block Gymkhana Practice

Round Dog vs. Square Hole

Cute clip of a young puppy trying to squeeze through a tiny hole.

Google Chrome

The new browser from Google is here in all of its simple goodness. Seems to work well in Vista Ultimate x64. Can't wait for the Mac version to come out.

Download it here www.google.com/chrome

Chrome a small download and takes almost no time to install. That's gotta be good for the overall speed. Oh, and get this, each tab gets its own process, which means it should work really well with my Quad core. True multi-threading for the age of the multi-core processors.

Looks like the browser wars have heated up to a red-hot tempo.

Google Docs in Plain English

I really like this video

iChat Screen Sharing

I had a problem with iChat screen sharing via Bonjour on my Mac. The screen sharing screen button was grayed out when I was using my LAN connection (10/100) and the connection doctor said that the connection was to slow, but when I switched to a wireless connection, it worked perfectly.

Thankfully, I found something that cleared everything up wonderfully

emeryemery on whirlpool.net.au posted this. This is a simple problem to resolve. It is caused by corrupted preferences. simply quit iChat, go to your home folder/library/preferences and delete all the files that have com.apple.ichat in the file name. Launch iChat and set up your username and password and screen sharing will be an option to enable and use.

Thanks emeryemery

What Lies Beneath

Things have not changed here. Everyone is hoping that the peace talks will succeed. Hoping and praying for a miracle. No one is sorry for what has taken place so far. The same people that have been chased from their own homes are not hesitant to chase others from their homes.

If there is nothing that comes from the peace talks that satisfies everyone, soon, Kenya will definitely go through round two of all the violence.

A news article that caught my attention:

NAIROBI, Kenya: (Associated Press) Kenya's opposition on Wednesday threatened mass protests within a week if the government fails to start work on changing the constitution to pave the way for any type of power-sharing government.

Parliament must convene within a week to enact constitutional changes that will be needed to restructure the government in a way that will divest some of the power from the presidency, said Anyang Nyongo, secretary-general of the opposition Orange Democratic Movement.

"If that does not happen, ODM hereby gives notice that we call our supporters to mass action within one week," he said.

Another senior party official, Najib Balala, said any such action would be peaceful. However, previous political protests have turned violent and deteriorated into ethnic clashes.

Weeks of violence sparked by the flawed Dec. 27 vote have left more than 1,000 dead and forced some 600,000 to flee their homes.

A goat for a slap

Sun 17 Feb 2008, 11:55 GMT

NAIROBI, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Kenyan elders have demanded a goat from President Mwai Kibaki as compensation for an alleged assault by First Lady Lucy Kibaki, local media said on Sunday.

The government denies the allegation by member of parliament Gitobu Imanyara who had threatened to sue Kibaki's wife. Imanyara said he was assaulted last month at State House.

The Sunday Standard newspaper said a council of traditional elders, the Njuri Cheke, met on Friday and decided to take up the legislator's case.

"They have demanded a fine of a he-goat and an unreserved apology from the First Family." The paper said the elders wanted the matter resolved according to Meru tribal customs.

Kibaki is wrestling with a crisis over his disputed re-election that has triggered widespread ethnic bloodshed.

The Presidential Press Service said Lucy's lawyers would take action against Imanyara's "wild allegations", which it said bordered on character assassination, blackmail and were part of a wider political scheme aimed at tarnishing her office.

Kibaki's wife is known to be fiercely protective of her husband and has courted controversy several times. In December, local media said she slapped an official who called her by the name of a woman widely reported to be Kibaki's second wife.

On Monday, Kibaki is expected to meet chief mediator Kofi Annan again, and also U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whose visit is meant to shore up the Annan-chaired talks aimed at finding a solution to the Kenyan crisis. (Reporting by Daniel Wallis)

I find something like this is, at the least, interesting. If high Kenya government officials are so concerned about a slap on the face and a goat... What are the chances of them being able to reach a peace deal?