Archive for September, 2005



…but this one is just too cool (from notabouthim)
Human Virus Scanner

Viruses I suffer from:

Pokemon - Pikachu! Use your hyper-electric-get-a-life move now!
Linux - Install the latest version of Microsoft Windows. Learn to love it.
Junkfood - Eat some real food. Something which you can identify the source of every ingredient, not the point of manufacture.
Sci-fi - […]

Space is the place

A reasonably new company 4Frontiers announced on Sep. 5th their dead serious plans to colonise Mars within the next 20 years. First they plan to do alot more work on miniaturising manufacturing processes, and open a Mars settlement themepark to demonstrate ideas as well as gather revenue. Sounds exciting.
Next, I’m disappointed that my normal source […]

Politiking

This morning I was awoken by the hum of National Radio - they were discussing the coming elections as all the media in New Zealand can’t help doing and decided to go out and interview some citizens of Aotearoa.
I was then forced into a grumpy mood because of the reasoning behind people voting, or their […]

New Zealand “One day oil boycott”

So there was a oil boycott in New Zealand the other day. Which was for all the wrong reasons. My university department had an email forwarded around about it, and it was purely people being indignant about oil prices, nothing about the fact that our oil supply is running out.
This annoyed me greatly and a […]

I’ve recently written off my HP ZE5375US laptop and sold on various parts online. One thing I did keep however is the 40G 2.5″ hard drive in the hopes of using it with a cheap USB HDD enclosure. “Yay” I thought, “I’ll have portable storage for all my research notes and results, not to mention […]

Another silly test

Which File Extension are You?
And I really don’t know why, still… some of the answers are damn entertaining.
I will post something of more substance soon. I promise.

Racism alive and well in the media

Hurray for America.
Black people loot.
White people “find”.
It has been said disasters bring out the best and worst in humans. I wish the “best” was reported on some more, all I seem to see is the worst.