Just when I thought I wasn’t going to have any news this week… I’ve just come across a fantastic website. It’s about the Bible, or theology… anyway, there’s a page which deals with issues raised in the Sermon on the Mount. It’s fantastic!
I think I can safely say, this is one site that’s going on my bookmark list…
I am absolutely fed up with Windows. Currently I’m using Windows XP Professional… but I don’t know whether I’ll be using it for very much longer.
The reason? It sucks. Let me qualify that a bit. It’s actually not a bad operating system in itself… what does suck, however, is that being the predominant operating system on the planet for home users, most bits of malware (e.g. spyware and viruses) are designed for it. Internet Explorer on my computer became infected with spyware a few months ago (admittedly it was my fault; I accidentally clicked ‘yes’ when I should have clicked no — that’s what you get for not reading things properly).
Anyway, I think my computer is just getting clogged up … it’s not good! What I’m going to do is sometime in the near future, become a linux user. Obviously not a total Linux user, because there are unfortunately still things which need Windows to run (e.g. quite a lot of games, music production software…) But I’m just fed up with Windows and how I’m constantly the target of spyware and stuff!
Incidentally, Open Office is a good open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, and many of the programs I use to develop software (such as the excellent jEdit) are written in Java and are as such cross-platform, or they’ve been compiled for Linux.
Anyway. I know Linux isn’t ideal, no operating system is (in the case of Linux I think the main thing is it’s not very user-friendly, which is improving, and the programs which require Windows to run) but anything is better than Windows!
Well, I’ve just Googled ‘William Pince’, and that came up with far more results! It would seem like I was right with the whole ‘scam’ thing.
I retract the statement I was going to make but forgot to actually make about defaming William Pince… they’re obviously scam artists!
Ok, so both me and my Dad get a letter this morning from “William Pince Publishers”. It says that this guy (William Pince) has done lots of research into the Sacre family tree, and that we can have a printed and bound version of it if we would care to place an advance order (about £35 of advance order).
There are several things about it that just smack of ‘scam’. I’ll just post a few of them:
I would imagine the publication is probably just a collection of birth certificates, that kind of thing — not an actual family tree.
I also Googled ‘William Pince Publishers’ and found this, to save you reading it I’ve quoted:
August 2004 We advise members of the Barcham Family who receive a letter from ‘William Pince Publishers’ offering The Barcham Family Chronicle and a Barcham coat of arms that these products are nothing to do with our Barcham family and should not be confused with our publications. We recommend that any communcations from William Pince should be binned.
Yep, I recommend you should bin any communication from William Pince too. You never know, that may save some people losing out on money…
It was good! I got the train to Colchester on Friday afternoon, and got there at about 4:00. I met Philippa after she finished work at 5, we went for dinner and then went back home. On Friday evening, PhilB and Jenny came round so we had a good random evening!
On Saturday, we went to PhilB’s in the morning for a bit, and then onto campus for the CU day (well, more like a couple of hours in the afternoon). It was a good time, although I’m not actually part of the CU anymore so it did feel a bit weird (although I’m starting to get used to the idea of not being a student anymore, it’s still not totally finished being weird yet…)
Anyway. After the CU afternoon, quite a few of us went to the bar for dinner and ended up having a long and involved theological discussion. I went home (well, to Philippa’s where I was staying), and we watched ‘Happy Gilmore’ and ‘Bill Bailey Live’. Both are fantastic 🙂
On Sunday, we went to the chaplaincy service, then went to lunch at Tesco with Esther and Anne-Marie, then onto bag carrying in the afternoon, then out to Wivenhoe! And we watched ‘Shrek 2’. And I’ve just arrived back home (well, about half an hour ago).
So that was the edited highlights of my weekend! I’ll update again … uh… when anything happens (that could be some time…) I’ve got a family party to go to this weekend, Philippa is coming to, which should be good. Although I don’t know many people in my family well (having moved out of London where many of my family are or were based when I was eight), it should be quite an enjoyable evening! It will be a busy day though, as I’ve got Fresher’s Fair before then. Ah well.
Over and out for now.
Just a quick post to let you know that I will be swanning off to Colchester for the weekend! Unfortunately, I won’t be able to update from a computer lab at the uni as I have done previously when I’ve stayed there: my account has been deleted! This is a cause of great distress to me. Still.
I’ll get to see Philippa and some of my other friends who are still studying there, so it’s not all bad!
Anyway… no news on the job front. I’ve been looking around a lot, but there just don’t seem to be any jobs around here! Still I keep trying, I don’t know why, but I keep trying… adios!
— just one of the many questions you could ask AQA, a text-message question answering service.
As in, you text a question to a certain number, and then the answer is sent back to you via text! Other examples of questions that have been asked are “Where’s the nearest Nando’s to Soho?” and “Whats better for me – a banana or a bowl of broccoli?”
So there you go — any questions you might have, text it to AQA!
(incidentally, the answer to the question in the title is: ‘Intermediate vector bosons are the quantum exchange particles of the weak nuclear interaction, one of 4 fundamental forces of nature. Two types, W , charge (+/-), mass=80.4 Giga electron Volts, and Z , Charge (0), Mass=91.2GeV’. So now you know.)
… Or whatever the heck they’re called. Specifically, why oh WHY would someone want to feed their blog? I mean, are you presumptuous enough to think that someone somewhere is so enraptured by what you have to say that they’re going to want to make sure every time it’s updated they know about it, or it gets displayed on their website or something?
Anyone whose blog I like, I’ll visit their websites to check out whether they’ve updated every so often… but feeds, to my mind, are pointless unless (and this is where many bloggers seem to fall down) you actually have something to say! And I freely include myself in that — however I don’t publish a feed for this blog (although if I wanted one I could probably get one from Blogger…)
Anyway. I’m probably being a bit harsh, I tend to just abuse technology which I have no idea about the benefits of. Feeds? Live and let live…
I haven’t updated in a few days… tut tut tut, naughty me. Well I don’t really have anything interesting to say! I’ve watched ‘Shaun of the Dead’ with two out of the four commentaries… just goes to show how bored I’ve been!
Ah well, that’s the way it goes. Anyway, nothing to say now, so …
… of PHP and MySQL, and cabbages and kings… and, um, yeah.
I’ve been learning a bit about PHP, and it’s a nice little language! I have to say, I’m probably going to start using it as opposed to Microsoft’s ASP — it’s a much more powerful language. You can even do some low-level socket stuff in it! That I’m pretty sure you can’t do with ASP (well, if you can I’ve never come across it…)
So, um, yeah. It’s good. I’ve now got a hit counter up and running on this site I’m working on. It took a little bit of effort, but I’ve finally conquered it. Nothing can stop me now! Ahahahahahahahahaha!!!…
*whistles nonchalantly*…