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Certification, Sickness, Thesis, Age of Empires, Borderlands and ... Rats?
I can't honestly say that this has been a particularly interesting past several days. I have lucked out by finding some extremely cheap current certification manuals to become a Cisco Certified Network Professional (the next step up from CCNA) and an Oracle Certified Professional. The manuals were $13 AUD each as opposed to between $90 and $190 each, and have provided me some excellent reading material. I am learning new and interesting things in the CCNP manuals, but the OCP is pretty much more of what I already know.
The fact that I have struck down with a cold this week has significantly reduced my output. I've taken it pretty easily and in addition to the above noted books, I've been working my way through (for the second time in the past month), Betrand Russell's "History of Western Philosophy", which is simultaneously both succinct and with moments of Russell's dry wit. This text has also been useful for tacking on a few extra remarks onto my thesis, which I'm mostly through spell and reference checking. I'm currently updating the document on a daily basis.
I also confess that I've been spending a great deal of time playing Age of Empires, which as a simulation, is extremely flawed, but has fair game play. The pithy histories are a nice touch, albeit extremely simplistic.
Yesterday I spent most of the day recovering files for the Borderlands website, which a were accidently deleted by a certain Perth-based ISP. Microsoft earns my wrath yet again for not having case-sensitive filenames which wrecks havoc with my code (which is case-sensitive). I am facing the usual problem with Borderlands that I am with most organizations I've done websites for - dragging content out the people who run the place. It's so depressingly common - someone says "we want a website" and then they don't provide the information to go on it.
In recent weeks caseopaya and I have been taking the rats out to St. Kilda, so they can a feel of the "natural world". A suprisingly large number of people (but never children interestingly) seem to suffer some severe failures in basic animal recognition. They have called 'big mice' (close I suppose), hamsters, gerbils, ferrets and even in one case possums (I mean, Harlequin is a fat rat, but not that big!). Are urbanites that divorced from the natural world?
Increasingly I consider a combination political democracy, personal liberty and a combination of both socialist principles with capitalist modes of ownership as the appropriate social model. And then I discover I am not alone and with friends in strange places: Geoblibertarianism. Some even find that there is political dialectic in play: Green Libertarianism.
That's not very nice. Israel lays claim to Palestine's water.
Because the Internet is international, you must have an international authority governing it. ICANN doesn't understand this, and the Europeans have told it so in the most blunt terms possible.
Greylock wins the brain-breaker award of the week, one good, one bad. He reminds us what popular culture would look like if goths really ran the cultural world with:
Cybergoth Quarterly
... and he reminds us how close we all came. "During the Cold War, a numeric code was required to prepare Minuteman nuclear missles for launch. That code was "00000000"
The fact that I have struck down with a cold this week has significantly reduced my output. I've taken it pretty easily and in addition to the above noted books, I've been working my way through (for the second time in the past month), Betrand Russell's "History of Western Philosophy", which is simultaneously both succinct and with moments of Russell's dry wit. This text has also been useful for tacking on a few extra remarks onto my thesis, which I'm mostly through spell and reference checking. I'm currently updating the document on a daily basis.
I also confess that I've been spending a great deal of time playing Age of Empires, which as a simulation, is extremely flawed, but has fair game play. The pithy histories are a nice touch, albeit extremely simplistic.
Yesterday I spent most of the day recovering files for the Borderlands website, which a were accidently deleted by a certain Perth-based ISP. Microsoft earns my wrath yet again for not having case-sensitive filenames which wrecks havoc with my code (which is case-sensitive). I am facing the usual problem with Borderlands that I am with most organizations I've done websites for - dragging content out the people who run the place. It's so depressingly common - someone says "we want a website" and then they don't provide the information to go on it.
In recent weeks caseopaya and I have been taking the rats out to St. Kilda, so they can a feel of the "natural world". A suprisingly large number of people (but never children interestingly) seem to suffer some severe failures in basic animal recognition. They have called 'big mice' (close I suppose), hamsters, gerbils, ferrets and even in one case possums (I mean, Harlequin is a fat rat, but not that big!). Are urbanites that divorced from the natural world?
Increasingly I consider a combination political democracy, personal liberty and a combination of both socialist principles with capitalist modes of ownership as the appropriate social model. And then I discover I am not alone and with friends in strange places: Geoblibertarianism. Some even find that there is political dialectic in play: Green Libertarianism.
That's not very nice. Israel lays claim to Palestine's water.
Because the Internet is international, you must have an international authority governing it. ICANN doesn't understand this, and the Europeans have told it so in the most blunt terms possible.
Greylock wins the brain-breaker award of the week, one good, one bad. He reminds us what popular culture would look like if goths really ran the cultural world with:
Cybergoth Quarterly
... and he reminds us how close we all came. "During the Cold War, a numeric code was required to prepare Minuteman nuclear missles for launch. That code was "00000000"
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even in one case possums (I mean, Harlequin is a fat rat, but not that big!)
No, Harley is definitely NO possum, I mean you can't feel him jumping on to your head in the middle of the night - you can a possum!!!!!!!
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It was scary. I mean there she was, less than a meter away.. "How cute, a rat and a baby possum". WTF?!?
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Spaceballs!
Now if we could only get the world leaders to clean up after the mess they've made...
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(O_o) are you serious?? scarey.
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Hey, it was called the 'minuteman'. They may have been in a hurry ;-)
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:D
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Iraq was in the unfortunate position of having oil, water and a government that noone in their right mind was prepared to defend.
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What the fuck is up with John Howard? I wish I was in Australia so I could smack him on his short little head a couple of times. When Australian political news makes it here, you know it's bad ;)
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From my review of economic history, socialism is good for infrastructure development and essentials. capitalism is good for commodities and consumables.
Canada has interested me for some time now.. I mean it's managed to get federalism, multiculturalism and indigenous rights in working order. Australia has been flummoxed on all three.
As for Howard? A nasty bit of work who would hock his mother if would gain him a few votes. I know what our reputation overseas is like... We'll be the 'white trash' of Asia in no time.
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Sitting on shoulders or in pockets. They enjoy a run in the park or on the beach. Trees fascinate them.