TMX’s Blog

Been a week or 2 since I last updated, due to parallel failure of all computer equipment (my laptop and desktop decided to break both at the same time). Laptop got sent back to apple 4 days before I came up to hull, and the desktop machine must have had something shaken loose on the way up.

However, I now type this post on my laptop, and my desktop is currently playing Star Trek Deep Space 9.

Lectures began Monday, and they seem to be a little more challenging than last year. Text books also seem to be more expensive, I’ve spent about £200 and I still have one or two books to buy.

Worst part is the internet connection here, a mere 1 megabit. How ever will I cope?

The more astute readers may hve noticed that over the last couple of weeks I have been making some minor updates to the site, most noticeably the theme.

I got bored of the old one, so decided to freshen the place up.

If you are looking for the links to the quotes pages, then look up. You will also see 2 new pagelinks, one containing the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition (a good read) and another containing the top 239 things I would do if I were an evil overlord (essential reading). As much as I would like to, I cannot claim credit for these works, and their respective sources are mentioned at the end of each page.

If you cast your eyes to the left, just below the search box, you will see a number of brightly coloured buttons. The first, is my webhost. If you are looking for webspace, and click that button before ordering from the same company as I am hosted with (I have had 99% uptime over the past 6 months, so I can recommend them wholeheartedly), then Dreamhost will pay $97 towards my student loan payments
There are also google ads in 2 or 3 places, click them if they intrest you, if not, block them (using AdBlock or your mind).

Just below the webhost button, there are several more. These are several not-for-profit organisations that I support, most notably the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Defective by design campaign.
Take a few moments to read over what these organisations deal with; while for most of you , you have never heard of DRM (Digital Rights Management), you are exposed to it every day; its the content that restricts what you can do with digital music bought from online stores, prevents you from copying some audio CD’s to your computers, and prevents you from making backup copies of your DVDs.

Finally, tonight, I leave you with a couple of Chippie-isms:
Adam: They {subway} didn’t ask me if I wanted it toasted or not!
Stephen: Did you want it toasted?
Adam: No, but that’s beside the point!
Stephen: Well, maybe they employ psychopaths *pause* TELEPATHS!

There were another 2… if I remember them I’ll edit this post.

PS1: The holiday photos have now been distributed by CD. However, I am now back at uni, so I can upload the photos to here if anyone wants to download them because they didn’t get a copy.
Email me at one of my addresses and let me know if you do.
In fact, Email me regardless. I like getting email.

Coding Project of the Moment: “plasma” effect scrensaver.