10.31.06
Writing iso’s under winodws
I’ve just installed ISO Recorder v 2 and it’s booming magic. right-click > burn > job done. Magic
Life without internet
So, i’m on a course, and there is no internet through the day, and I’m now stealing a little bit of other peoples (come on kids - learn - WEP is good). Sadly I’ve no exciting email, my flist is fairly empty, and I’m stuck for things to read online. Damn it.
10.29.06
Geeky TV prompts geek throught
I love this little entry about how something on TV prompted a geek through.
6 word stories
Thought I’d give this a try!
All new haircut! Face remains the same.
She’s pregnant again, mine I hope.
Cold night air, dawn far away.
I aimed but hit the child.
Room for rent: cash or favours.
WLTM gentlemen like my ex husband.
Cds organised by year? Why bother!
Headscarf terminology
I’ve been meaning to look this up all week - because saying “muslim headscarf” makes you sound like a twit. There’s a little pop up link with pictures (good old BBC). Muslim headscarve terminology explained.
*editted to replace link for a better one*
Time for a rant
Yes, once again, I’m quietly boiling over. This country is going fucking ape shit mental, and if we don’t all slow down a little, something is going to break.
I recieved the following as an email this week, which I read, and couldn’t help hitting reply to all and sending the bit below.
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Three Cheers For Australia
Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday
to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to
head off potential terror attacks. A day after a group of mainstream
Muslim leaders pledged loyalty to Australia at a special meeting with
Prime Minister John Howard, he and his ministers made it clear that
extremists would face a crack down. Treasurer Peter Costello, seen as
heir apparent to Howard, hinted that some radical clerics could be asked
to leave the country if they did not accept that Australia was a secular
state and its laws were made by parliament. “If those are not your
values, if you want a country which has Sharia law or a theocratic
state, then Australia is not for you,” he said on national television.
“I’d be saying to clerics who are teaching that there are two laws
governing people in Australia, one the Australian law and another the
Islamic law, that is false. If you can’t agree with parliamentary law,
independent courts, democracy, and would prefer Sharia law and have the
opportunity to go to another country, which practices it, perhaps, then,
that’s a better option,” Costello said.
Asked whether he meant radical clerics would be forced to leave, he said
those with dual citizenship could possibly be asked to move to the other
country. Education Minister Brendan Nelson later told reporters that
Muslims who did not want to accept local values should “clear off”.
“Basically, people who don’t want to be Australians, and they don’t want
to live by Australian values and understand them, well then they can
basically clear off,”he said. Separately, Howard angered some Australian
Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spy agency’s monitoring the
nation’s mosques. AMERICA, Britain and Canada…ARE YOU LISTENING?
Quote: IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It. I
am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some
individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali, we
have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.
However, the dust from the attacks had barely settled when the
“politically correct” crowd began complaining about the possibility that
our patriotism was offending others. I am not against immigration, nor
do I hold a grudge against anyone who is seeking a better life by coming
to Australia. However, there are a few things that those who have
recently come to our country, and apparently some born here, need to
understand.
This idea of Australia being a multi cultural community has served only
to dilute our sovereignty and our national identity. As Australians, we
have our own culture, our own society, our own language and our own
lifestyle. This culture has been developed over two centuries of
struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have
sought freedom. We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic,
Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you
wish to become part of our society, Learn the language! Most Australians
believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push
but a fact because Christian men and women, on Christian principles,
founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly
appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends
you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new
home, Because God is part of our culture. We will accept your beliefs
and will not question why, all we ask is that you accept ours and live
in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us. If the Southern Cross offends
you, or you don’t like ” A Fair Go”, then you should seriously consider
a move to another part of this planet. We are happy with our culture and
have no desire to change, and we really don’t care how you did things
where you came from. By all means keep your culture but do not force it
on others. This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will
allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done
complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our
Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take
advantage of one other great Australian freedom, “THE RIGHT TO LEAVE”.
If you aren’t happy here then LEAVE. We didn’t force you to come here.
You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted. Pretty easy
really, when you think about it. I figure if we all keep passing this to
our friends (and enemies) it will also, sooner or later get back to the
complainers, lets all try, please. PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE,
PERHAPS WE CAN CREATE A GROUND SWELL AND SEND OUR POLITICIANS THE
MESSAGE THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF US BELIEVE AS THE AUSSIES DO………
***
I hit reply to all, and sent the following:
***
Apologies to those who don’t know me, but can we not all calm down, take
a deep breath, and live and let live for a little bit before theres a
world war without need?
Media hype will get us all in trouble if we’re not careful, and I grew
up in an area with 0 (yes - technically it was 0.3% but they rounded the
figure down) ethnic diversity in the last census.
***
Which is pretty inflamimitary. Yes, if you choose to live in a country, you choose to live by its rules, and yes, our country is actually pretty liberal (try opening a Christian school in Iran), but if the people don’t slow down a little, and if the media does not stop whipping up reactionary front pages, something is going to break.
If we invade Iran (which for the moment seems to be being over shadowed by North Korea at least), then we will be close to a cival war in this country. We keep invading countries that are primarily Muslim, for various reasons (thats quite another debate) which when combined with a good dose of Inselaffe syndrome, and a really good dose of media frenzy, will result in a large section of our community thinking that people they associate are being victimised for who they are, not the situations in their countries. If we reach this point then we will be in danger of fighting a war on foreign soil, and watching our backs for people in this country who are outraged about whats happening knifing passing policemen and petrolbombing tube carridges. And who would be able to blame them, with stories and leadership soundbytes such as those we have seen in the last few months.
Calm down everybody, just hang tight for a few months. Reactionary laws, media hype, and outspoken Englishmen and Clercs will get us all introuble, and I’m jnust not interested in it. y’hear that y’all???
10.26.06
Finally somebody got it right
I’m sure everybody will be doing this soon, but combining your sales information with a googlemaps plugin is pure genius. Well done Sarah mains, I shall now be activly looking for a house using your new tool!
Extreamly short stories
I love the idea of Very Short Stories. Mr Hemmingway invented the idea - a whole story in 6 words, with his brilliant “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” which is enough to nearly make me cry.
There are shortshorts from Alan Moore, Joss Wheldon, William Shatner and Frank Millermargret Atwood, an many more.
10.24.06
How depressing
That the UK’s press is less free that Latvia, slovaquia, and Nambia.
Brilliant. Former Tin Pot Dictatorships have freer press than we do. The US is way way down there mind. No surprise.
Open Sourcen ISO creator
Hey kiddiewinks - is there a method/combination of tools, to allow me to whip a cd to an iso easily under Windows or Linux? Currently I’m running Undisker on Windows, and it’s fine, but it runs out of freeness very soon.
Thought? Words? Deeds?
10.18.06
Moving around the country is a bitch
Monday: Newcastle (funeral)
Monday Night: York (lasses)
Tuesday:Newcastle (werk)
Wednesday: getting up at 4am to go to the airport, finding a man with a gun has managed to close all the bridges across the Tyne and I can’t get anywhere, then being stuck in a taxi with a man who reminded me of loud Howard and tlaked at me about his Philipeno wifes favorite soap (”its brilliant like, the young lassie who’s in it won their thing whats like X-files!”), then being stuck ni traffic and finally making my plane with 2 minutes to spare (literally).
Again - no security checks or ID checks, making our current severe secuirt threat level a total joke.
We then circled Heathrow for ages, before landing and eventually getting on a bus to Reading, witnessing the driver of the bus in front throw some poor non-english speakers bags off the bus because she tried to pay him instead of getting a ticket before boarding (he had a beard too - always a bad sign except in fathers - and nobody would have ever had sex with this man, so lets asusume he is childless and thus evil).
Finally made the office for 12, having done an 8 hour day already. Damn it.
10.17.06
Oh dear…
Anybody else get the feeling that the whole headscarf/butka/faith/education/Britishness thing is quietly spirling out of control? New such as this - Islamic school forces girls to wear head scarves is just baiting the Dailey Nazi readers.
I think faith schools are just a bad idea. The reason the government seems so keen on them is two fold. a) it makes them look like they are libral multi-religion loving torrerence mechants b) On paper faith school tend to have much better results.
I suspect that b) is due to the fact they are selective (what they are selecting on is faith, but I would imagine that there are good opertunities to weed out truely stupid people in there too), as well as the concept that selective school seem to have a better “working attitude” (in my limited experience)
Will everybody just take a deep breath and calm down please, before I get in a huff.
10.14.06
A rubbish example
Take 2 of my favorite websites, mix and recreate:
Stuff on my cat.com +Pimpmynack.com =
Stuff on my snack.com, or the infinatly better…
pimp my cat.com, now we are talking.
Morressy dirty double
Yes, its true. After a couple of beers, I bought two more tickets to Morressy, this time in Glasgow! Dirty double weekend ahoy!
10.13.06
Who can’t love this kitty?
Tonight I am mostl;y love love loving this photo, flash and tattoo! I’d have been proud of the photo, if I could draw I’d be proud of the drawing, and whilst I wouldn’t want it on me, I love the style of the tattoo. Gone are dodgy 2 tone ink works, there are some amazing things being done these days.
Morrissey!
I opened a random email from Seetickets - saw the new Morrissey tour opened in 3 minnutes - and bagged 4 tickets for Newcastle! Minty!
The rest of the day can only go downhill really, but it’s a good start!
10.12.06
Steaming eyes!
Ok, ok, I am hungover, and I know it, and somking sheesha last night was a really bad idea (though it was some wonderfully smooth sheesha). As I stood in line this morning buying a bacon sandwich and a coffee, in an attempt to feel better, my glasses kept streaming up. They kept doing it, and I kept being annoyed by it. I was convinced my eyeballs were steaming, and this was the problem. Naturally I was quite worried about it!
It’s only since I got to work and I’m feeling slightly less rubbish that I’ve noticed my hair is still wet, and this might be the problem.
