"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something." - Robert Heinlein

Word of the day: "retromingent"


Random Playlist Song: Trevor Pinnock - The English Concert and Choir: Handel - Messiah - Thus Saith The Lord Of Hosts (bass, accompagnato)

Thus saith the Lord of Hosts. Yet once a little while and I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.

And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: The Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to His temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, He shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts.

My previous Messiah extracts have been inaccurate. Lousy web sites.


Random Trivia bit: It's often an amusing fact that those people with the MOST titles seem to think the least of them. Queen Elizabeth I said that "I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace"?

It should be noted that in a document from 1559, this same modest lady was referred to as "The most high and mighty Princess, our dread sovereign Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queen of England, France, and Ireland, defender of the true, ancient, and Catholic faith, most worthy Empress from the Orkney Isles to the Mountains Pyrenée."

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These must be the most relaxed exams I've ever had. Just hope they won't be the most disastrous.

3 down, 1 to go!


After studying and sitting for my South Asia paper, I wonder how, 3 years ago, I managed to remember so much shit for History and Economics. Maybe I should have done Japanese Studies instead. Ah well.

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Office Democracy

You know something's gone terribly awry when NSFs convene outside the office, outside office hours, specifically to discuss the office situation and what action to take. And yet it is heartening, for it shows that we are men yet. We will not surrender our freedoms lightly. And please don't point out that freedoms are illegal in NS.

Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium -- Better freedom with danger than peace with slavery. That is our warcry now, our warcry against - ironically - a profession which engages in warfare. (Where Worlds Collide)


Good to see that the slaves have spunk still. Then again it might have something to do with their cushy positions.

I just hope Spartacus (whoever he is) won't be punished with scaphism.

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The most obvious consequence of structural constraints on employment opportunities for women is:

a. that women are channeled disproportionately into lower-paying, dead-end jobs
b. that women's salaries grow at a faster rate
c. that women wish to become men
d. that women complain more


Gah.

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Question: Do you know why computer scientists often confuse Halloween and Christmas?
Answer: Oct 31 = Dec 25


Kindly send your flames to Xephyris.

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Dear Mr Gabriel,

I refer to your entry dated June 2003 (i think) in which you proposed several safety slogans for SAF including "Be safe, don't train".

I hope to place this slogan up on the camp's notice board as the safety slogan of the month and would like to request that your permission be given. I would also like to ask if you would like due attribution to be given?

As part of a knowledge management team in SAF, I am now involved in the unit's creativity drive. I would aslo like to thank you as your website has inspired my poster for the drive featuring the slogan 'Practise creativity! Non-compliance will be severely dealt with'.

Thank you for your time.

Regards,
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Indentured Slave


Hmm.

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"i'm all for 'learn HTML the manual way first', but when you're trying to arrange tables and image maps so they all line up and look nice, you'd go bald coding it all by hand. (no offense to bald web developers out there)"


A: Just so users don't get confused how about renaming the Mozilla Application Suite to Old Bloated Nellie, and Firefox becomes New Slim Fox. That should help with clarifying things for users. ;-)


B: Because because not everyone agrees with your slanted view that SeaMonkey a.k.a. the application suite is all that bloated. Please keep your biased comments to yourself!

A: Sorry, I didn't know people still used it. The Mozilla Suite kind of reminds me of my grandfather's old Lincoln Continental. The car took a long time to accelerate, turned corners like a cement truck and was very roomy inside, but God I loved it for nastalgic reasons. You are right that I have no right to criticize your Lincoln Continental Browser Suite. ;-)

B: Well, I think your comparison is just wrong. Inside, Suite and Firefox are more similar than you'd like to believe. Actually, the current Suite has the faster rendering engine because Firefox 1.0 uses basically the one from Mozilla 1.7. The User interface has been slimmed down, that's true, this and removing Mailnews, Chatzilla etc. has also supposedly reduced startup time. But when you are using Thunderbird next to Firefox, they are already more bloated than the suite when it comes to memory usage.

So if you usually leave your mail application and your browser open all the time, the Suite is the slim solution because it is integrated. The Suite is like a big BMW, using Firefox+Thunderbird simultaneously is like trying to drive two VW Beetle's at once.

C: Two thumbs up for the most interesting comparison in a while.


Heh.

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Police responding to a crash in Amherst, N.Y., reported finding both occupants of the vehicle unconscious in the back seat. According to their investigation, the married couple was driving home from a restaurant when the husband, Tiber L. Csapo Jr., 39, pulled over and punched his wife in the face. He resumed driving but continued beating her. She jumped into the back seat, but he followed her, whereupon the driverless vehicle ran off the road into heavy brush.

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