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First up in this news roundup is the story of an English student who took his revenge out on his two-timing girlfriend by putting up explicit photos and videos on his website, and also on her profile for friendsreunited. The full details can be found here at The Register as always.

Next comes a warning for people inclined to use their laptops as the name suggests - on their laps. A 50 year-old scientist was admitted to his doctor because of burns he had received whilst using his portable computer on his lap. And yes, he did have clothes on.

Keeping the same theme (sorry, it was the only thing in the news) a man (well it's not going to be a woman, is it?!) has been forced to remove his masculinity from that well known auction site Ebay after offering advertising space on it. It isn't mentioned if Durex had made an offer...

And for all those out there that keep on saying that size doesn't matter - it does. Apparently it accounts for 1.5 percent of accidents in the home, not many of which are fatal, we are told.

One for the other gender now, a lady in Taiwan was taken into hospital with a novel internal mobile phone. That is to say, that during her adventurous bedtime-games with her partner, something went wrong. Let's hope that her boss didn't ring in the morning...

Other things that have been happening, the Miss World contest has been moved from Nigeria to London today, due to the number of deaths occuring (last count over 100) due to it's presence there.

Hechtsheim is more or less empty this weekend, due to Laura, Giulia, Noelia, Jorge and Ramsy going off to Amsterdam. If you see them walking funny on monday, don't mention body-cavity-searches.

Congratulations go out to Luca who has just passed his English exam in Milan. The celebrations will be held tomorrow at his place (he doesn't know this yet).

Photos are up

OK, just a quickie to say that the first lot of photos (ie those from my digital camera) from our trip to Holland are now up. You can find them under Photos-Places-Roadtrip.

Also, photos from the first twister party of this semester can be found under Photos-Parties-New Twister.

And an endnote, photos of how Noelia's room looked when she came back from Switzerland can be found under Photos-Others-Teeth.

Good viewing

Roadtrip

If you have read my spanish site, you would know that the weekend just gone was spent visiting Holland and Belgium with Jordi, Javi and Alberto.

However, our plans changed before we even left Hechtsheim. The BMW 3-series we were meant to be hiring was not available, so in the end we had to make do with a Mercedes CLK-240 !!!

The visits to Den Haag, Rotterdam, the dykes, and Brussels were great, but it was this car that made the holiday that extra bit special.

Well, you'll be seeing the photos of this holiday later on this week and you can judge for yourself...

Brooooooooooooooom

Birthday Parties

The last few days have seen me rushing around getting things done, seldom having chance to check my email, let alone write something here.

However, I can now state that I am fully registered as a postgraduate of the University of Mainz. This of course means that I am giving classes to physics and chemistry students in basic physics - at least I hope it's basic!!!

Now to the interesting part. On the the evening of the 31st we went to Mainzer Kolleg to celebrate Halloween. After much time and effort on the part of Giulia and Laura (and a bit from Ramsy too) our faces were painted grotesquely (which, of course, is good for such a night). We turned up first to the old favourite Kulturcafe only to find that no-one was dressed up and that it still cost 4.5 euros to get in, whatever you wore!! We quickly changed plans and headed for the Kolleg. Here we danced the night away and enjoyed ourselves a lot.

The following day was quite special. Not only because it was my birthday, but also that of our old Erasmonian Mavi. We, of course, wish her all the best for her following year of old age, and let's see f she motivates herself to come over here to visit us (which Marilo and Julio were wanting to do as well).

As my parents had come over with all my stuff, I felt obliged (only kidding, I enjoyed it really) to accompany them (along with Jordi) to dine at Mykonis (the Greek restaurant by 'An der Philipsschanze' tramstop). Here we had a very filling meal with a good shot of 'digestive'.

For this night we went to Caveau. Here we met up with Patricia (whose birthday it was on the second of November) and a load more of the spanish lot. The evening was spent as usual there - drinking and dancing. We made our way home some time later (so I'm told), during which certain ape-noises were enacted by a member of our group.

Saturday was spent with my parents going around Media-Markt looking for a DVD-player (yes, I do have it installed now ready to set up for cinema nights :) and then to Real where I used the space in the car to put my weekly shopping in. During this outing we ate at a restaurant that was within this building, and you're not going to believe me, but the food was worse than in the Mensa !!!! In fact, up until today I have been quite ill as a result of eating there.

For the evening I entertained a few (about ten) of the people in Hechtsheim to a game of Feigling-Twister. The photos of which you will see up here soon.

Sunday saw Noelia return from Switzerland to find about fifty sets of teeth moulds in her bedroom. These were placed there by Ramsy and Company after there visit to Wiesbaden (the only interesting thing they found there, apparently).

Today I attended a shift in the experimental hall in order to learn what I should be doing the following wednesday. Apart from it not working for the first two hours, everything else went fine.

One last piece of news, the German Secret Service have been bugging people's mobile phones, and because of a bug in the software, the users have paid for the calls !!!

Ok, that's it for now, back home for a rest, bye.