Isocracy, Work Matters, Misc.

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Another edition of The Isocracy Newsletter has been put together by yours truly, noting changes of government and elections in Sri Lanka, Hungary, Northern Cyprus, Poland (by default) and the revolution in Krygystan Revolution. International news refers to violence in Pakistan, the 'Red Shirts' in Thailand, the Iranian Non-Proliferation Conference, the Naxalite-Maoist Ambush in India, and, for something positive, free health Care in Peru, and (finally) mandatory childhood education in India. To follow this up I have just posted an article on Online Activism and Political Involvement.

Last night was Russell S's last day at VPAC. Laszlo provided some fine palinka to aid in the farewell. Co-worker Markus also mentioned that he'll be leaving for greener pastures as well. Both these employees were seconded full-time to ARCS, which surely must raise an eyebrow there. More personally, I've been transferring material from our internal TWiki for an internal Drupal site. Because TWiki has a lot of inline style formatting (ugh), the opportunity has come to write a mini-tutorial on cleaning code for tables using sed and AWK. I really should expand on this at some stage to a more complete collection of examples and tutorial, because sed and AWK are truly awesome.

In other news, I conducted the service last week at the Unitarian Church with Professor Rob Watts talking on poverty. The Tears for Fears and Spandau Ballet concert was excellent; so much so that I've finally activated by Rocknerd account and posted a review. As promised I have put up two photos of Fufur the guinea pig that I rescued last week from certain doom. The little fellow has settled in very well into his new home and caseopaya has lavished him with the attention that she is particularly good at giving.

Comments

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

It's a bit of an emo hair-style isn't it?

[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

When some of them grew a bit older, their fur kept growing. They were like tribbles, or walking toupees. If I didn't trim the fur and give them a sort of Beatles look, you might have a tough time telling head from rear and they would probably not be able to see where they were going. But when young they had that messy fresh-out-of-bed look, yes.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

I really shouldn't have googled "long-haired guinea pig". It's too early in the morning for that... Trimming their hair is sensible advice. Looking like an emo-kid is fine, looking like a toupee is just silly....