.mojo.

if i believed in mojo, or any other kind of magic charm, i would tell you that i have a very bad geek mojo going on right now. most of the things i touched during the last day acted funky or stopped working altogether. i am in desperate need of displaying some glorious geek bravado.

it all started with my laptop battery charger in the office. it only worked for a second, then it did not work for a second, so my laptop screen was flickering like a christmas display. the good thing is that when i tried a day later, it worked fine.

after that came the brand new (and very brand fake) 16gb pen drive i purchased on ebay for dirt cheap from a very reliable (i am naïve, you can laugh at me) seller in hong kong. my precious posession started corrupting files (not quite what you want from a pen drive) and stopped working altogether after owning it for less than a day.

thirdly, it was time for the internet to mess up my life. i am not going to go into details, but let me just tell you that i wasn't able to complete any of the tasks planned for yesterday. my to-do list now is longer than it was yesterday morning - always a bad sign.

then it was time for a very reliable product marketed by steve jobs (namely the ipod nano we own) to just stop working altogether. no signs of life, no flickering, not even a half-eaten silver apple to reassure me that there is still a chance to enjoy this ridiculously overpriced product.

i really hope this is it for today. if not, i will make sure to give you further updates for your entertainment - if my laptop will be working, that is...