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28 Aug 2004I laughed.
I’ve delivered simple, clear and easy-to-use services for 20 years, for startups, scaleups and government. I write about the nerdy bits here.
— @joahua
I just cracked 6000 spam messages. I can’t wait until I start running my own mail server locally; I really really really want to see how much using all that sample material will stop dead!
Perhaps when iiNet bring their iiSLAM’s to Kensington, NSW… and if they keep the “testing” unlocked backchannel enabled! Haha, symmetric “A”DSL – Got to love it.
In other news, I’ve decided that I probably won’t be bothering with mod_rewrite on this iteration of the website, because I think it’s going to get dumped sometime in the near future anyway… that said, Google actually seems to be indexing down to my permalinks without any difficulties anyway!
I’m currently failing to see the benefit of using my own news/blog script over something more advanced, and would prefer to invest time in other projects (specifically, to enhance and extend the content management system to better support CSS, XHTML, semantics and improve authentication and user management, amongst many other things) rather than re-doing what’s been done before, and better, without seeing any real tangible benefit for it. And yes, I do know there are better, more advanced, more usable (open-source) CMS offerings out there. Integration of features offered by those products is something that is being explored, but until that is feasible, development of this one will continue…
Despite whatever nasty things people might have to say about WordPress, the more I see, the more I like, so nyah.
At the minute, design and standards are something I’m far more passionate about, anyway.
…finding comments like /* drunk, fix later */ and /* too high to make this work */
I just remembered that I haven’t yet posted my submitted subject selections for next year, so here it is:
Advanced English – 2 units
Extension 2 English – 2 units
Modern History – 2 units
Mathematics – 2 units
Business Studies – 2 units
Information Technology Framework – 2 units
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Information Technology Specialisation Studies – 2 units (Board-accredited, not relevant to UAI)
Total of 12+2 units.
I’m excited about the lack of physics on that list, and the addition of a unit of English. I’m also excited about being able to lose a subject sometime next year — although it will be hard to decide which to lose, as Maths is… discouraging, but more enjoyable than Business Studies, which is dead boring, frustrating, but doable. Meh! That’s still a bit down the track, I guess.
In other news, which actually happened a few days ago, but has only just come to my attention (whilst drinking Milo, no less — it really is a brain food/drink! — no, I’m not getting paid for product placement, I choose to!), I’ve decided that SACS really is scheduling drama events to co-incide with tests and assessments, specifically of the Mathematics variety.
Wednesday, HSC drama AND a maths test (which I missed, and was re-scheduled to Thursday anyway; not that it mattered, since I hadn’t looked at a maths book for about five days prior to that, and really did need to study). Earlier in the year? I think it was SACS Idol (which was in blog version 1.5, I think, which has since disappeared into the void – so no hyperlinking here), which we were halfway through bump-in for (Wednesday morning?) and I had a maths test. It may have even been the same day in the two-week cycle. Wouldn’t suprise me!
They’re out to get us. Don’t doubt it.
Man, I really want to wear a tinfoil hat into school some day. It’s on the list of crazy things to do.
Oh, damn, I’m not at a class.
Please, call me and ask my whereabouts.
Don’t bother checking absentee records; it’s not like they exist for a reason.
Why can’t people catch a cold via telephony?
I need to change my number.