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2005-12-11T20:33:00.000-06:00

http://www.aroooo.com/rpg_stuff/dice_roller/index.php#

A cool program for online RPers. It lets you roll dice in the program, but it has the d20 sytem, along with many other systems integrated in it and you can add bonuses and what not. It's great for RPers.

I Haven't Posted Here in Ages So I'm Returning With a Mediocre Splash!

2005-12-10T15:45:00.000-06:00

www.fargoth.com
A cool RP site where some people are making a really complex fantastical world. They're not even close to done and I don't think it's that active right now but I was on the internet and felt liek posting.

Another One Of Those Mystery Emails

2005-09-21T20:17:00.000-05:00

A lot of secrets of these mysterious African looking emails were revealed in this edition of,
DIAL "M" FOR "MAGUNGA"
To quote:

"Apologies to non-Amredi members. Keeping you informed, and feel free to comment. Especially have a look at the Village Bank proposal and let us know if it could be taken up by Inderema rather that Amredi alone.

Ladies,

Below is an update on the Mabanga project, as discussed by members who attended the Inderema meeting on Sunday (Mabel, Frader, Rebecca and myself).

Update on bee-keeping at Mabanga
Mr. Lino, the K-Rep field officer, visited Mabanga, and subsequently held a meeting with interested farmers, including the chief of the area. Frader kindly attended this meeting, in which it was decided that a CBO be registered, through which K-Rep can loan hives to interested members. During discussions after the Inderema meeting on Sunday, members agreed that the CBO be named Amredi-Mabanga. It should have been registered yesterday. I will keep you informed.

Following this development, it is imperative that we get actively involved by acquiring more hives. The following two options are available:

a. Buy Langsthroth hives on loan from K-Rep

Cost of bee-hives: Kes. 4700/-
Maximum number per person: 100 beehives
Interest rate: 16% (flat rate)
Conditions:
· 10% down payment
· 2 months grace period
· Thereafter,
o repay Kes. 50/- per hive
o Use 50% of proceeds from the harvest to repay.

Attached is a sample schedule that assumes a loan for 100 hives, from which a harvest of 10kg per hive is realised beginning from month 8, and thereafter, the next harvest is a year later. However, it is expected that when well-looked after, subsequent harvests should take place every following three months. The harvest should also be higher than 10 kg per hive.

Another assumption here is that the honey is harvested by K-Rep, and sold to them at Kes. 100/- per month. However, we have the option of buying the centrifuge at Kes. 150,000/- at 16% flat interest, payable within 2 years. We would then extract and sell the honey ourselves.

Buy JKUAT hives and extractor on loan from K-Rep.
The meeting was informed that JKUAT is now producing hives and extractors that are cheaper than those from Honeycare. After discussions with Cheruiyot, he will visit JKUAT to see the possibilities offered by the JKUAT option. I will inform you of any progress in this direction. Meanwhile, could Mabel and Rebecca kindly give us information on the type of hives, cost and expected harvest, so as to enable us go ahead with the decision making?

Action required: Members to decide on how many hives each would like to get from K-Rep. Kindly let me have your indications by 30 September 2005.

Update on Village Bank
At the last meeting, we discussed the possibility of starting a village bank in Bukembe. Cheruiyot has promised to send a document with comprehensive information on what this would involve. My rough understanding of our discussion is as follows:

· Requirements: Minimum of 300 members required; the more members the better
· Each share costs Kes.300/-
· A registration fee should also be set (between Kes. 200/- and Kes. 500/-)
· Basic office set up requirements (direct costs):
o Safe Kes. 90,000/-
o Furniture Kes. 20,000
o Recruitment officers 4 @ 8,000/- Kes. 32,000
o Stationery Kes. 60,000/-
o Salary for manager Kes. 120,000/- (Reports to K-Rep)
o Launch Kes. 10,000/-
o Renovation of premises (fitting grills) Kes. 30,000/-
o Rent for 3 months Kes. 30,000/-
o Mobilisation of K-Rep officer to be done by K-Rep
§ Total Approx. Kes. 400,000/-

There are two options to raise the start-up: either we come up with it, and it goes towards our shares, or we use the registration fees collected.

Action: Your advice on how to move this forward is required as soon as possible.

Best regards,

Kentice."

Hmmmm, so for whatever this "Armedi" does, they need bee-hives. So I can infer that they either supply bees, or honey. There is also a mention of an "Inderema" which I guess is something like Armedi. There is also more mention of the Mr. Cheruiyot. He is either a big person in Armedi, Inderema or the group that they BOTH might be a part of or he may be associated with the "Village Bank," though I doubt the latter. My best guess is that it is a group of people, probably African, and apparently all female, that try to help African villages and their people in whatever their needs are, be it a bank or a bunch of bees, or honey, or helping someone start a bee or honey business. Apparently there is a big deal going on with then need of bee-hives that is a pretty big issue with them right now. This is all very odd and I bet if they find out I've been publishing private emails of this random group of ladies that I shouldn't be getting in the first place revealing details of how much money they are spending and everything that they'd be quite angry with me but I don't care, bees are mean anyway.

The First One Kind Makes Up For The Other Two...

2005-09-17T16:50:00.000-05:00

http://www.lswproject.com/
This is why the internet was made. The Star Wars movie in Legos. And this isn't like that Lord of the Rings Lego stuff I had on here earlier. This is a MOVIE. And you know what? It's actually good. I actually watched all of this instead of sitting down and going "Ha! Lego Star Wars! That's cool!" Download it, it's amazing.

http://sprites.fireball20xl.com/, http://tsgk.captainn.net/
Two of the biggest sprite websites on the internet. This is what I meant by the title, these are are pretty specific to someones interests. I use them to make GIFs and Flash stuff and comics. They're really good, ckeck them out.

http://www.classic-zone.de/review.php?id=64
Scroll down for the full 4096x4096 LoZ:ALTTP Light and Dark worlds. Again, a pretty specific link, but I searched for this for a LONG time so and found them in some foreign site so just scroll down and you'll see them.

Because We Had Enough Art and ASCII I Threw In Some LOTR. And Legos.

2005-09-10T10:15:00.000-05:00

http://www.daveallsop.co.uk/index.htm
Hey, art is cool, and this guy does it well. The first pic is of some of his art and it pwns. It's all copyrighted though, so don't go stealing. Not much I can say, his art's really original, go check it out. You'll hvae like 6 new wallpapers in one minute.
http://www.ozbricks.com/bricktales/lotr/lotrmain.html
This guy makes LOTR with legos. He has the story, whicch has a bunch of stills an text. It's pretty amazing. He has link to www.brickshelf.com which is where lego-ers can put up pictures of their creations AND images you can print out and stick on your own legos. I printed out some white tree of Gondor stuff and have some blank templates saved (contact me if you want them) so now I have a bunch of Ithilien Rangers. Check out both sites, they're both worth it. If you specificaly want to see other LOTR creations on brickshelf, go to his links page and he'll have abunch of names whos images are hosted by brickshelf (at least most of them are).
http://www.rofl.name/asciiart/
You know you love ASCII. These are a bunch of ASCII art things that are all basically rip-offs of lollerskates and roflcopter and steamloller. Some are pretty good though. My favorite is the one at the very bottom, of the walking man.

John Perkin's And Tony Jaa Together at last!

2005-09-04T17:46:00.000-05:00

http://johnperkinsart.com/contents.htm
First up is the website of John Perkins' art. A pretty good artist and a pretty good site. He's got awesome paintings that "real" painters wouldn't do. He's got some King Kong paintings, LOTR paintings (look up) an all this fantastical stuff. Warning, a few paintings have some nudity.

http://www.tomyumgoongmovie.com/html/trailer/trailer_wm_large.asp
Tony Jaa, star of Ong Bak: The Thai warrior is going to be in another movie. I think the plot is basically that his elephant is stolen and he wants it back. That is the URL for the large window's media player theatrical trailer, and trust me, it's worth the wait. The second pic is of Tony Jaa pwning a guy from Ong Bak.

http://www.freewebs.com/jjjohn/randomdownloads.htm
Lastly, is a folder I made of screenshots of highlights from Ong Bak (like the one above), possibly the best martial arts movie ever, and definitely the best one I've seen. Now be warned, there's 107 jpegs compressed in there and no matter how cool compressing is, its still 4.6 MB. Now don't go looking at these screens and think you've basically seen the movie. You obviously haven't. An I seriously think you should NOT ge the screens without seeing the movie. I don't wanna ruin some of the awesome-er moments. It just came out on DVD this week so BUY IT.

Aww, Peas!

2005-08-31T17:09:00.000-05:00

Due to school interrupting my cool-stuff-on-the-internet-searching I've decided to post 3 sites or downloads every week. I would rather do daily but I've missed quite a few so I have to act. None today, saturdays'll probably be when I do it. So yeah. !

Episode 7?

2005-08-26T20:03:00.000-05:00

http://members.tripod.com/~prequelrumors/hero.html
Everyone who's anyone already knows about the Star Wars Episodes 7, 8, and 9, but it is still unknown whether George Lucas plans on making movies of them. This may be bogus but here is the story of episode 7: The Fallen Hero. Remember, probably bogus.

Exploding Dog

2005-08-25T21:28:00.000-05:00

www.explodingdog.com
Exploding Dog is a site where a guy (Sam) makes drawings based on titles you can email him. Some are not funny at all, or meant to be funny, but some are hilarious. This one is titled "I Think I need Some Space To Think"

I'm Not Gonna Lie, A Pretty Good Site

2005-08-24T20:31:00.000-05:00

www.narutoex.com
A pretty good naruto site if i do say so myself. It's got that feel where it seems easy to look at and stay there for loong periods of time. Sites that are all black and stuff (hey it's not like I have to read my own site!) seem less comfortable to be at for long periods of time. The main draw of this site is all the INFO!!! To be frank, there's a lot. Dont feel like saying much, so if you like Naruto, go!

MIDI Making Awsomeness

2005-08-23T16:24:00.000-05:00

http://mp3.downloadatoz.com/midi-maker/
WARNING! TRIAL VERSION ONLY! You have to register this program to be able to export your creations to a MIDI after a certain number of uses. Now be warned, this is MIDI, and you CAN hear it, so those of you who use prgrams like Fruity Loops who are used to the completely realistic sound and apparently "fruity" loop system may be dissapointed. But what I like better about this than Fruity Loops is that you can save your creations as music in the demo/trial versions. Now it might seem like you downloaded an old version or something when you load it up but believe it or not (you should, though0) you are operating in the latest version. It doesn't look like much with it's eight tracks (and it seems like programs that are brighter seem less professional) but it's pretty good and you can actually change a track's instrument halfway through and the old notes will still keep their old tones so you CAN have drums be one track! You should DL it, a creation of mine using this is up as BG music at www.freewebs.com/jjjohn, a site I basically stole from my cousin.

By the way, today has been my first day of school so my posts may be less consistent but I will try to make up for it on days I can post.

Ninja Official Website

2005-08-22T10:29:00.000-05:00

http://realultimatepower.net/
Let me make something clear right at the beginning. This site was made by a kid (who's picture can be seen in the explanation of sepukku) and there is no real information on it. But it's kinda funny. And plus this is totally relevant to my site because it's about ninjas, and occasionally (in his ninja scripts) they fight pirates. This person is obviously in favor of ninjas on all fronts. Now I gotta get a good site on pirates........

NOTE: There is some questionable humor in this site. Stay away from any scripts with "babe" os "babes" in the title and the timeline if you want to steer clear of any of that. Sorry if I missed any, I wasn't exactly looking.

Star Wars Fans

2005-08-21T18:35:00.000-05:00

http://c3po.barnesos.net/homepage/tech/stack/
I don't actually know what these people are trying to do but boy are they awesome.

Video Game Glitches

2005-08-20T11:17:00.000-05:00

http://kontek.net/davidwonn/
This guy has tons of glitches from video games, with pics and video for some. My personal favorite, as I have tried to do it for a long time is the video of him getting to the top of the castle with no stars in Super Mario 64.

Guinness World Records

2005-08-19T18:19:00.000-05:00

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/ You all know what it is. Good vidoes, like cricket spitting and spaghetti nasal ejection to name a few.

The Coolest House I've Ever Seen

2005-08-18T12:06:00.000-05:00

http://www.rogerdean.com/architecture/index.htm
Roger Dean is an artist, does a lot of work for album covers (Yes, Asia, Pink Floyd) and has the coolest house I've ever seen. Check it out. Foo'

Song To Wear Pants To

2005-08-17T12:28:00.000-05:00

http://www.songstowearpantsto.com/
"I make songs in any genre, for free or for money, based on instructions people send me." A quote from the creator of the site, that pretty much sums it all up. The best part is that these songs aren't just done on a keyboard, it's real instruments! So if you need a song to be made (John, I know you do) you can go here.

My Evil Twin

2005-08-16T13:17:00.000-05:00

Today I got an email from a certain "Kentice" to my hotmail address, Magunga@hotmail.com. It was obvious from the start that the sender was not sending to me, but my evil twin, another Magunga@hotmail.com. The email read's as follows:

From :
Tikolo, Kentice(ILRI)
Sent :
Tuesday, August 16, 2005 5:35 AM
To :
, "Anita Nyikuli" , "Catherine Mumma" , "Christine Nakitare" , "Ethel Monda" , "Everlyn Nasimiyu Nandieki" , "Grace Magunga" , "Josephine Oliwa" , "Mabel Imbuga" , "Magunga@Icdc. Co. Ke" , "MARGARET SHIVELE" , "Rebecca Emali Eshiwani" , "Rodah Masaviru" , "Sharon Okinda" , , "mabel majanja" , "theresa salasia"
Subject :
RE: K-Rep Meeting

In-box//>
Ladies,

I have been scheduled to meet Mr. Cheruyiot at the K-Rep offices tomorrow at 4.30pm to discuss possible collaboration with Amredi. If any of you is available, please do come along. If you have any questions you feel I should ask him, please send them to me as soon as possible.

Many blessings,

Kentice.

As you can see from the receiver's of this email there is a "Grace Magunga" that has the same hotmail address as me, and it definitely is not for me, because I have absolutely no idea what the heck any of this email means. And i'm not a lady. I think I should email myself and see if my evil twin replies. We have a lot to talk about. Wierd, huh? I just though that since I put up two tthings yesterday I needed to put something up today. (EDIT: Blogger, got rid of all of their email addresses, but Grace Magunga's is the same as mine)

SHUT UP

2005-08-15T19:26:00.000-05:00

I know I said i only do this once a day but you better shut up or I'll kill you. http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/win/downloadwin.shtml It let's you create terrain and landscapes and stuff. Well no other stuff but it's still cool. It may take a while to get used to it. And this isn't the full version (the full version is $100) so there's no textures, and the graphics aren't as ultimate as they could be but it is still neat. So DL it.
Mine is the green one, with the un-full version, the one above is with the full version.

Elgoog

2005-08-15T09:24:00.000-05:00

This is a search engine that IS Google, the searches and hits are all the same, but there's one difference: It's backwards. http://elgoog.rb-hosting.de/index.cgi Not much more to say about it. Just go!

Gleesome Threesome

2005-08-14T16:58:00.000-05:00

OK I'm back and to make up for what I missed is THREE cool things on the int4rw3b.
1) http://www.fileplanet.com/110356/110000/fileinfo/Morrowind-Interactive-Map
This is a great program for those who play Morrowind (which is mostly likely everyone who will be viewing this). The program is a hi-res picture of Vvardenfell, with a bar on the bottom that has nearly every location in Vvardenfell, and once you choose a location, it will zoom to where it is in Vvardenfell (very useful if you're trying to complete a quest but don't know where to go). It's Fileplanet so you'll probably have to wait ten minutes or more (unless you're reading this a few months after I'm typing it).
2) http://www.buttersky.com/morrowind/
Hey, I like Morrowind, and this site is really great for Morrowinders too. This site has the locations of tons of rare items and NPCs and locations, complete with maps on most things. The site is pretty self-explanatory and doesn't need any more explaining than that.
3) http://www.asciimation.co.nz/
Here is an all time favorite site of mine. If you're 1337 you've probably seen people make drawings aout of letters and symbols on the keyboard. This site has a java movie applet that shows most of Star Wars in asciimation, or drawing stuff with your keyboard. It's not finished, and it hasn't been updated in a long time so I doubt it will ever be finished but it is still great. There are also a few more asciimations to watch (death of jar jar being my favorite) that are fun. Enjoy!

REAL QUICK

2005-08-11T10:54:00.000-05:00

I just found out I'm leaving in like 10 minutes for 4 days so I'm in a bit of a hurry. www.lf2.com if you're cool at all, you already have this. Just go and download te game. it's great. When I get back from this prolonged weekend I will make up for the days I've missed. Again, sorry about this kinda lousy post but I didn't have time to look for something cool.

I Found It

2005-08-10T22:39:00.000-05:00

While my cool internet finds will only posted once a day, things of other matters can be posted.
This is the XBox of Kevin Pereira, a host of AOTS (If you don't know what that is, I don't care to know you, let alone tell you what it stands for). It took me FOREVER to find this and it wasn't easy. I'm not going to say where I found it though because then you'd think I'm stupid. So I put this up here just in case you haven't seen it or if you have seen it but wanted a picture. Unfortunately it doesn't look as good as it did on the show, as you can't see it gleam in the lights, but it was all I could find.

Cool Site

2005-08-10T22:24:00.000-05:00

I always love it whe I come across a site that clearly was not made using some sort of online web-page maker (ex:freewebs) and are clearly of hilariously low quality. Like this. www.coolfool.com

EDIT: GoDaddy.com has just claimed this URL so the site is gone now. But anyone who will ever come here probably already has anyway.