Happy New Year!

Last edited by kahrn on Sat Dec 31, 2005 6:54 pm; edited 1 time in total

Happy New Year all!

Some of the highlights of 2005 for me were:

Going to university - and meeting some incredible people I will never forget. Maybe I will meet them again some day. And learning skills that will last forever.
Building my network
Learning PHP and Python.
Achieving things I thought I could not do.
Meeting New people
Pureownage and hak5
My blog
Getting involved in silent-thunder
My schools new House system.
Taking some of my Exams
London terror attacks
Finding pictures of me in the US/Florida from 1999
G8 meeting
The future of computers [ http://kahrn.blogspot.com/2005/07/future-of-computers.html ]
Seeing one of the worlds largest offshore windfarms built near me
Problem solving
Google expanded
Joining this forum? ;)
Vista beta
Recoding my site. Currently has around 1338 lines of php code for the framework.. proberbly around 10,000 lines for the site with all the content and css themes
Bird flu (Being told that everyone you know COULD POSSIBLY be dead by january isn't too fun)
Finding out that I'm not the only person that is well.. like me. And I'm not just wierd ;)

I'm sure I'll come up with more vital things I have forgotten.

Some of the highlights for the world.. from my point of view were:

February 16 - The Kyoto Protocol comes into effect, without the support of the United States and Australia.
February 22 - More than 500 people are killed and over 1,000 injured after entire villages are flattened in an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale in Zarand region of Kerman province in southern Iran.
April 19 - Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.
April 27 - The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 made its first flight from Toulouse.
May 5 - Two homemade bombs explode outside the British consulate in New York, USA.
May 10 - A live hand grenade lands about 100 feet (30 m) from United States President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but malfunctions and does not detonate.
May 21 - Greece wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev.
June 13 - Singer Michael Jackson acquitted of all charges of harming children (see 2005 trial of Michael Jackson).
July 2 - Live 8, a series of 10 simultaneous concerts take place throughout the world, raising interest in the Make Poverty History campaign.
July 7 - Four explosions rock the transport network in London, three on the London Underground and one on a bus. Over 50 deaths were reported, and over 200 injured. See 7 July 2005 London bombings.
July 16 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth book of the Harry Potter saga by the British writer J. K. Rowling, is released.
July 22 - A Brazilian electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, is shot dead at a London underground station by police who mistake him for a suicide bomber.
July 28 - The Provisional IRA issues a statement formally ordering an end to the armed campaign it has pursued since 1969 and ordering all its units to dump their arms.
August 2 - Air France Flight 358 bursts into flames after overshooting the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport; all aboard survive. - I found that an example of.. someone is certainly watching over us.
August 29 - At least 1,383 are killed, and severe damage is caused along the U.S. Gulf Coast, as Hurricane Katrina strikes the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coastal areas. Within hours, levees give way and New Orleans is flooded.
October 8 - An earthquake in Kashmir kills about 80,000 people.
November 13 - Andrew Stimpson, a 25-year old British man is reported as the first person proven to have been 'cured' of HIV.
November 22 - Microsoft releases the Xbox 360 gaming console in North America.
November 30 - Surgeons in France carry out the first human face transplant.
December 7 - European Union TLD .eu is launched, and replaced .eu.int. Initially this will be only for business purposes. From 7 April 2006 onwards, EU citizens can also register .eu domains.
December 11 - 2005 Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal fire north of London causes widespread damage. - Incredible nobody died. Dare I say it.. impossible.
December 12 - Scientists announced that they had created mice with small amounts of human brain cells in an effort to make realistic models of neurological disorders.
December 15 - The first parliamentary elections under Iraq's new constitution.
^^ Taken from wikipedia.

I think 2005 was an eventfull year. I don't think 2006 will be this eventfull.. but who knows.
Happy new year,

~ kahrn

meh i think in 2006 your going to be hearing alot more about bush might getting impeached, patriot act, and lots of volcanic activity. yellowstone is due to explode and the last time it blew it covered parts of northamerica in 2,000 feet of ash 200 ft. lava flows and covered where mexico city is now in 10 ft. of ash.

Liberals.... Pffft :(

Anyways... T-minus 20 minutes.

Last edited by Predator on Sat Dec 31, 2005 11:06 pm; edited 1 time in total

I'm NOT A LIBERAL YOU brainless, dazed, deficient, dense, dim, dodo, doltish, dopy, dotterel, dull, dumb, dummy, foolish, futile, gullible, half-baked, half-witted, idiotic, ill-advised, imbecilic, inane, indiscreet, insensate, irrelevant, irresponsible, laughable, loser, ludicrous, meaningless, mindless, moronic, naive, nonsensical, obtuse, pointless, puerile, rash, senseless, short-sighted, simple, simple-minded, slow, sluggish, stolid, stupefied, thick, thickheaded, trivial, unintelligent, unthinking, witless, ingrate!

*lol*
I was talking about the people who want Bush impeached.

You forgot eejit. :P

But, Happy New Year all !!

oh ok your cool then i take it all back.