Ferdie Flores - To be executed

There are reports that Christian missionary, Ferdie Flores, in East Timor is to be executed today by beating. Ferdie Flores and his family arrived in East Timor in April 21, 2001. With his wife and two young daughters, he is presently living in the capital city of Dili, with a population of approximately 200,000. There is very limited information on this particular case but it comes a day after 3 Christian High School girls were beheaded and another seriously injured, at a school in Indonesia. Sources http://www.bimi.org/worldmag/201A2.asp http://www.worthynews.com/

Competition Rules - Keep fit before the Christmas Turkey

There is around 8 weeks until Christmas and many of you will be reading this having spent 95%+ of your time this week sitting in your chair looking at this very screen. Do you want to take a look down a second to that mound that used to be your flat stomache.

If that's you then I'd suggest you enter this competition now!! You wouldn't want to relive the monty python film "the meaning of life" where the fat guy explodes!

Competition Rules

1) Anyone can enter 2) To win the prizes, one of the donators must know you. 3) You can enter by typing in your name and weight before Monday 31st October at midnight GMT (woooh spooky). You must enter your name and weight by commenting on this blog entry. 4) Each week you must enter your new weight before the Wednesday at midnight GMT 5) The competition starts from midnight GMT on the 31st October 2005 and will finish on 24th December at midnight.

The Winner The winner will be determined by the overall percentage weight loss between the start and finish of the competition.

Prize List PR4 Link for 3 months - worth $50 (Weirfire) $100 GC for Loriens nutrition site - worth $100 (Lorien) 5 hours PHP/MySQL work and/or consultation - worth $250 (palespyder) 1 hour PHP/debugging - worth $50 (Weirfire) PR5 link for 3 months - worth $100 (Dreamshop)

Disclaimer Weirfire takes no responsibility for the outcome of peoples actions due to the competition and will not be held liable in the case of illness, injury or death!

I think I'll go buy me some exercise equipment in preparation ;)

Good luck everyone!

Time to get fit

I've been sitting here working away for the last 2 years and have noticed that I can no longer fit into my size 32 waist trousers any more. It's probably the worst time for it but I'm going to start getting up early and going for a run in the morning. I'm still going to eat the same amount and I'll record both my weight and my waist size here each week and let you know of my progress. If anyone else wants to join in feel free to post your results in the comments. :-) I reckon I'll start on Monday because I don't actually own any scales yet and won't be down the street until Saturday. I may pick up a pedometer to help me track my steps.

The thousand dollar thread

What started as a practical joke played at the expense of myself by other members at Digital Point Forums has turned into a prize filled aggressive competition in which the winner walks away with over $1000USD worth of prizes. The thread which was started by myself was about the reputation system which has become a voodoo subject at Digital Point. I quickly realised my mistake and wanted the thread to close. Much to my discomfort other members starting donating prizes for the last person who posts on the thread with a 24 hour gap. Now the members are aggressively fighting for the prize which only results in the thread growing bigger and bigger and bigger....... Will you be the lucky poster?

Chemical Abstracts Service

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