This is something someone copied me, that I found quite funny. Comment if you appreciate the irony :)
< Codegen> one day my gf and I were watching TV, when the news reports came on talking about how there were suicide bombers in london, and how they destroyed the transit system. The news reporters said that these bombing were similar to the previous suicide bombings from a week before. Then my gf turns to me and asks, “Do you think that they are the same suicide bombers?”
It’s just gone midnight on the fifth here, I know the timing on this post is out a little. Despite the fact that I have to get up for my bus in less than 6 hours, I’m still here. And tweeting. I must be nuts.
Right now, McCain is winning by 5 Electoral College (points?), 8 to 3. Personally, I support Obama, and not because of his colour (doesn’t really concern me). One of those two men will be the most important person in the free world soon, and I think it’s better that it’s Obama. I’m not going to go into why.
The entire US Politics system just seems very complicated to me. Why they couldn’t make it nice and simple, lord only knows. What’s with this Electoral College thing? I guess I can understand why it’s done, but that doesn’t mean I like it.
Interestingly, someone called Obama666 on Twitter replied me with a slightly cryptic reply, which I can only assume to be his/her annoyance with what I said , which as far as I know, is correct, right?
It’s all fun stuff. Go Obama!
I started playing with ExpressionEngine today, and I’m really impressed with it. I love how it lets you be you, and assumes that you know exactly what you’re doing. It’s far more complicated than any CMS I’ve ever used before, and I like that.
I don’t think I like it enough to convert from Wordpress, I don’t think, but I may use it for something cool that I’m making, because I think it’d be more suitable than Wordpress, which I normally use. I’m considering making another site, which I’m going to use to play with it a bit, learn the templating and extending and all that whatnot, which will be the ultimate decision maker as to whether I decide to jump ship.
The biggest issue is that it’s not GPL, like most of the stuff I use now. It’s a licensed model, with a free version, which is both excellent and suckish at the same time.
In other news, I start college again tomorrow. What fun. Back to the homework!
I’ve just taken asides out of my blog design totally. The idea behind that is to stop myself making crappy little posts so often, which lead me to be disappointed in my blog. Someone I knew felt the same as me, but he’s nuked his entire blog to start again. I’m not being that extreme, but as of now, my ‘asides’ will be on Twitter, and shown in the sidebar (and a digest post, maybe).
The intended effect is that my posts will start to become more interesting or at least something that I’m proud of, intead of the junk I’m posting at the moment.
I’ll see how it goes..
One month in with my phone, and I’ve already run into a decent sized issue. Whenever I push 1 twice on my keypad while texting, the phone restarts. It means I can’t text properly anymore, which is really annoying, considering how much I text. Orange refuse to help, and the Nokia service line is closed. Wonderful.
Update:
I called Nokia a today, and they were very helpful. They ran me through a variety of troubleshooting options, and then helped me through a software update, which cured the bug.
I guess I screwed up the software somewhere or other, that’s the first report of the bug Nokia have had, which means it’s something I did. At least it’s fixed :)
I’ve been stalling recently, not really doing much in the way of project stuff online. I’ve written here a fair bit, but that’s more or less it.
Anyway, with me starting 6th form now, I decided to make a wiki for all of my revision notes, that myself and various people studying with me could modify and help with and such. I’ve gotten it going, and although I still have some interface bits to sort out, the content is starting to work it’s way in.
I hope that, by the end of this, the wiki will have an entire AS / A2 syllabus in it, which can be used by others for revision purposes (I’ll keep it online etc). The aim is to use simpler language than Wikipedia and similar, and to make it understandable. Instead of defining, explain :)
I am aware that sciencehq.com is already a relatively popular science learning site, and I didn’t know that when I obtained the domain. However, I will continue, the site can be found here: ScienceHQ. My plan is to get at least some of the articles ranking in Google and such, get to the first page, and use the similicity and understandability of my stuff to get traffic.
I’m interested to see how profitable the education market is, also, because it doesn’t seem that largely exploited, and yet there will be a never-ending demand for the stuff. I’ll see how it goes :)
I’d appreciate any constructive suggestions, and if you’d like to help out, let me know, and i’ll hook you up with an account.
I love the way they are styling the new backend for Wordpress 2.7, found here, it’s a seriously cool make. I can’t wait until they implement it into the trunk :)
In January 2005, Nicholal Negroponte revealed a new project. A cheap ($100) laptop that could be distributed in it’s millions to the developing parts of the world, bringing them connectivity, freedom and information. It was designed to change the world.
The great, powerful and rich nodded in approval.
But then some of them decided it had to die. Namely, Microsoft and Intel. Both had their own reasons and methods, but neither would admit it.
Three years later, the philanthropic scheme is still alive, but not operating at the scale that it may have been originally invisaged. It’s founder had had totally underestimated the competition put up by big companies, against a not-for-profit scheme aimed at improving the world.
“I had wildly underestimated,” says Negroponte, “the degree to which commercial entities will go to disrupt a humanitarian project.”
I think there are two big reasons what Intel and Microsoft didn’t like the XO laptop. The first is that it uses an AMD processor. This was unacceptable to Intel, who hold 75% (roughly) of the market, with AMD in second. The idea of hundreds of thousands of AMD powered latops out there was intolerable to Intel - they might even lose their market leadership. So they decided it had to go.
The second was that it uses it’s own operating software, called Sugar. Not Windows, which is considered the industry standard. While Apples’ is (in my opinion) better, Microsoft has made windows seem like a necessity, and the idea of hundreds of thousands of computers running something different would have seriously worried Gates.
So, each did their own thing to kill the XO, with Intel trying to do it with a competing laptop, and Bill Gates using his considerable influence. I’m writing this because of something I read a few months back when I signed up to do this post, and disgusted me then, and still does now. It’s unfortunate that the XO hasn’t really done as well as predicted, because it would have done a lot to help with poverty, giving 3rd world people access to at least some of what we have now. I understand that OLPC are planning to release a new version sometime soon, according to their website.
Hope you enjoyed this, even though it was shorter than I planned for it to be.
This is my Blog Action Day 2008 post, which I signed up to do a few months ago.