I’m a speedy typist and it’s often the case that my fingers run away with themselves – words quite often suffer the ignominious fate of having their internal letters swapped around. Often my fingers will assuming I’m typing another word (usually one that I type quite often) instead of the one that I actually want. I experienced this a few seconds ago when I typed “internet” instead of internal: I wanted the latter.
So it is not at all surprising to me that the OfficialAres.com website gets a staggering number of visitors to the site that have spelled Ares incorrectly. Some of these typos appear to be genuine mistakes – Aers is ‘Ares’ with the middle two letters the wrong way round, while Aeres and Aris appear to be common misspellings of a common word – but some seem to have their roots in the linguistic differences of many of the visitors.
As an example, take the variation ‘Arez’. This is most common from our French speaking visitors. Another common variation is Aries (and Aires) which are predominantly from those users from Latin America. The strange spelling ‘Areas’ appears in the logs and is largely from those users from Greek and its beautiful surrounding islands.
Patong girls are an enigma, of that there is no doubt, and any attempt at trying to understand Patong girls is doomed to failure.
Some people don’t even feel like trying to understand Patong girls, nor their motives for doing what they do, and these people can get into serious trouble. These girls can bleed a wallet dry in a matter of hours. Once the vacation money (and probably some of next month’s rent money with it) is gone, the girl tries for the security of marriage. Sound scary? You’d better believe it.
So what is it about Patong girls that has Western guys so enthralled? And why do they have so much trouble trying to understand Patong girls? The Patong girls are masters of stroking a man’s ego, and really hitting him where it hurts. They are charming and sexy in equal measure and anyone who doesn’t make a serious attempt at trying to understand Patong girls risks being dragged seriously under by their siren-like qualities.
The girls are masters at games – Connect 4 and the classic ‘hit the nail into the wood with the wrong end of the hammer’ games are just some of the ways the girls will try to snare a man and his wallet.
I am not one to turn down a challenge, so when a buddy of mine dared to tell me I shouldn’t try smoking Salvia, he knew exactly what would happen.
So we sat down in my living room and opened the packet that had come – quite legally – through the postal system. Neither of us had tried smoking Salvia before so we were not prepared for the horrendous smell emanating from the packet. Really.
We got our pipes, sprinkled the black flakes that came in the vial onto them and lit them up. A short puff later and we were away, smoking Salvia. Within a minute we were both bordering on coherent and within two we could do nothing but giggle. I felt like I was drifting slowly up and to the right, away from my body.
I’m a veteran of quite a few mind altering drugs and I can say with complete honestly that smoking Salvia is up there with the strongest of them. If it weren’t for the relatively short time frame involved – I clocked seven minutes from start to finish – then it would undoubtedly be as popular (and as illegal) as LSD and mushrooms. Smoking Salvia is serious business.
Ares Galaxy, the P2P filesharing software, is synonymous with the concept of filesharing. But like in so many other industries where the most popular and well known brand is not the best product, Ares Galaxy is not at the top of the tree when it comes to filesharing applications.
The original version of Ares was Ares Galaxy and this remained the case for some years; during this time, it seems, the name was ingrained on users’ minds and has remained there since. Everything else that did the same job was quickly dismissed as a pretender or a clone.
But today we look at some of these ‘pretenders’ and ‘clones’ and it becomes apparent that they are in fact superior in every way to the original. Take Ares Vista for example. Ares Vista is all the best bits of Ares Galaxy, but is easily setup to work with Windows Vista. Ares Vista also provides to its users customer support. Ares Vista is just better than Ares Galaxy. The same can be said for Ares Ultra and Ares Ultimate.
Not all the new versions of Ares are up to scratch, however, and it is advisable to steer well clear of Ares Destiny and Ares Gold, both of which are inferior to Ares Galaxy and both of which package adware with the software.
I was interested to read the result of a recent survey conducted by, no less, Gene Munster. Munster is an analyst at Piper Jaffray and he had the initiative and foresight to discuss the potential prices of apps that would be appearing in the forthcoming app store. The developers announced that around 71% of their apps would be placed in the app store for free distribution. The remaining 29% would be priced, on average, at just $2.29.
This is fantastic news for all of us waiting with baited breath to get our grubby mitts on the app store.
It is dreadful news for Apple who, it seems, didn’t think to make a similar survey before they calculated in an comically misguided $10 as their expected average price. When one considers that the only direct profit that Apple is due to make from the app store is in the 30% cut on anything sold there, it is easy to see the magnitude of the blunder.
The survey also revealed that the final destination of the wares in the app store was split pretty evenly between the Mac computer platform and the iPhone. We suspect that Apple was hoping it would be weighted rather more in favor of the iPhone!
If you live in Kansas or Oklahoma then beware: laws have been passed that make Salvia banned.
Salvia Divinorum – or Diviner’s sage, or Sally D – is legal under US federal drug law, and remains legal in most of the US states. It is legal in most countries worldwide. The naturally occurring plant has hallucinogenic properties that can cause disorientation and can impede judgment in users. It is the most potent naturally occurring hallucinogen.
The call to see Salvia banned across the US may have stemmed from the tragic death of one teen in Delaware. The teen’s parents attribute his untimely suicide to his heavy use of Salvia. Understandably these parents are upset and one can sympathies when they say they want Salvia banned; the plant, in their eyes, took away their son. There have, however, been no recorded deaths where Salvia has been noted as being the sole or major cause. Neither is there any medical evidence to suggest that making Salvia banned will save or help anyone.
Unfortunately it seems that some State lawmakers – like those in Oklahoma or Kansas – want to score political points and find they can do this if they pass laws to see Salvia banned.
Ares Lite was a revelation in its day. Somehow this little piece of software was considered the only version of Ares that was not bundled with some spyware or other. This, the punters thought, was why it was Ares Lite, the ‘Lite’ signifying the lack of ‘bonus’ software.
Of course then, as now, this assertion is incorrect. There are many great versions of Ares that are not, and never have been, packaged with adware. Ares Ultra, Ares Ultimate, Ares Galaxy and Ares Vista are all clean and perform admirably.
The concept behind Ares Lite (and the real reason it was ‘Lite’) was that it was a cut down version of Ares Galaxy with no integrated chatroom and fewer concurrent connections allowed. The reduced code footprint meant that Ares Lite consumed fewer resources and worked quicker on older computers.
More powerful computers and cheaper hardware has rendered the need to compromise over functionality for the sake of older and less powerful machines no longer necessary. Are Lite served its purpose with distinction, but now, perhaps, is the time to let it rest.
I am writing this note from a hotel in Phuket. It is 6am and I have just experienced the Phuket nightlife for the very first time. The Phuket nightlife is varied and lively, to say the least, and while it is not quite up to the level of places like Bangkok it can certainly offer a lot to the island’s visitors.
This is a marked improvement for Phuket’s nightlife which, last time I visited, was relatively tame in comparison. Now though, as I have just found at the expense of my night’s sleep, it is anything but tame. The key here now is variety.
I moved into Phuket town and sampled something slightly more authentic: a Thai-style club with a local band doing famous covers. This was more like the Thailand I know and love, and this is the Phuket nightlife that I am used to seeing.
Then I went somewhere a little different and found something that I really hadn’t seen – or expected to see – in Phuket nightlife before. It was a ‘real’ club with hardcore dance and hip hop music. People were there to dance hard, and the organizers made sure that music was their top priority.
It is this kind of variety that really makes Phuket an absolute pleasure to visit.
I was a complete novice at filesharing yesterday, now I’m ready to take on the world (or at least download a few more music files…). I blame this in part on the website www.officialares.com which I was fortunate enough to stumble across when I was doing research into the origin of Ares, the mythological God.
I found the site and quickly realized that it had nothing at all to do with the subject for which I was researching. It caught my eye though, so I carried on reading.
And am I glad that I did!
So it turns out that Official Ares is the best site on the web when it comes to getting an Ares download. Choosing a suitable Ares download was my first (rather painless) step. It was here that the site’s reviews really came into their own. I read through them and decided on Ares Ultimate. I clicked the download button and in it came.
After I’d got the Ares download and installed it I had some problems working with Windows Vista’s ‘improved’ security settings and I had to do a little digging to find a solution. Luckily for me Official Ares has an FAQ that really hits the spot. It solved this particular query and answered a few nagging questions that I had.
I would definitely (and I am!) recommend this site to anyone looking for an Ares download.
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Thailand is a wonderful place which is famed for, amongst other things, its food. Thai food offers perhaps the most diverse and versatile dishes in the world. Thailand’s proximity to a lot of excellent fish and crustaceans means that seafood is always a particular specialty. You must try the oysters.
The restaurants in Phuket are an excellent example of this versatility and choice. On top of these attributes the food sold is fresh, delicious, voluminous and has a value for money second to none. I do not believe I am being too bold when I claim that Restaurants in Phuket are amongst the best in the world.
Part of the attraction of eating out in restaurants in Phuket is that you really don’t know where the next meal is coming from… but I mean that in the most positive way. Breakfast may be spent on a roadside street stall, a trip at lunch to one of the many food centers that are in most of the malls in Phuket, and in the evening you might pop down to one of the luxury hotels like Indigo Pearl or Burasari for a slap up meal. Whatever restaurants in Phuket you choose you can be assured that there will always be more choice tomorrow!