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I’m getting to hate Saturdays. The real estate dude is about to come over, and I’m going to be kicked out of the house so that random people can take a gander. For some reason, they didn’t like the idea of selling the house for Planet Banana – I have no idea why not!
The real estate guy cited problems with a commission on the sale of a planet, or something. I don’t know, other people seem to be able to do it just fine…
A technique for saving batteries.
Or, how exams saved batteries. Yes, that’d be it.
I just realised how long it’s been since I charged my phone. I like to think it has a decent battery life, although not as good as some, but still — it’s generally pretty good. My usual charge cycle is about 3 or 4 days, with me placing it on the charger only as it starts beeping and going into spasms saying “FEED ME!!!”. Well, not quite… you get the picture.
So when I realised that I’d last charged it on Sunday night, I was a tad suprised. The battery display meter has three segments, and it’s currently sitting on two. Phwoar. That’s Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday — We’re on Saturday. I think I’m about to make my first week without a recharge!
As I scanned the phone, my battery meter fell to one bar… still impressive. That said, given usage patterns imposed by exams this week, perhaps I should change my phones screen display message…
It’s a really good book. Short, too. I picked it up this afternoon and finished it in procrastination time and whilst on public transport, etc. If you’ve never heard of it, that’s probably because it’s usually expressed in Fahrenheit.
Making slightly more sense, now? Maybe?
I’m sure there many others have already expressed opinions on the book, and a quick search with your weapon of choice will probably yield multitudes of synposiseseseses (synopsi?), reviews and the like.
It seemed (at least to me) to be different in the whole “bleak futurist” genre in that the book ends on a positive note. Okay, I should clarify that. It seems, at least to me, to end on a positive note, in that the valued elements established in the text survive, even though a few million people die, and… yeah. That was a spoiler, by the way. Forget the previous line now. ;-)
Something was going to be announced where this paragraph is, but I’ve decided not to, because I’m not sure enough to make that worthwhile. If I were to say I’m looking for ideas for Extension 2 next year, that’d probably allow clever cookies to surmise what I would have been considering suggesting as a theme here. But I won’t. Because I’m still liable to changing my mind several times a day for about two months still ;-)
Okay, so that was a lie… it’s not actually called “Rapidfire”. I think that’s a cool name, though, so they should. *nods* Really!
Basically, they’ve got a huge amount of unused net transfers remaining with their webhost, and are trying to make full use of it before the end of the month. Yeah, that was a lie, too. Damn, you’re good.
The bottom line is, Firefox 1.0 PR (not the pre-PR release which Asa was shouting about on the mozilla-announce mailing list a few days back) has been released, and the world is being encouraged to clamber and grab it. So much so that I’ve heard this same thing from three independent sources as I turned on my computer this morning — hey, that’s a good thing, I suppose.
Go get it, visit Spread Firefox now!
As previously pimped on the WSG mailing list, Dale’s Blog, and Photo Matt.
Oh dear. I just got a phone call from school which made me burst out laughing.
Apparently, I’m meant to be in a physics exam right about now. Teeheehee. I said, gleefully, that I had dropped physics some time ago, yet the change may not have come through yet, as this was officially listed on a Year 12 subject change form.
My plans to walk into that exam and have a lot of fun writing stupid yet entertaining things on the paper could have proceeded without difficulty! Muwahahahaha!
I love physics ;)