The earthworks to the right go down to the water table, the quicksands and possibly the pre-cambrian.
Showing posts with label journal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label journal. Show all posts
Monday, 22 August 2011
Sunday, 21 August 2011
A quiet Sunday afternoon.
I hear the sounds of a secret club, the sea, and endearingly cute lessons in solving word puzzles.
Surely sally is not a sudden violent excursion.
I played the Mickey Mouse game.
We had a nice walk down the beach - gentle wind and plenty sun.
Surely sally is not a sudden violent excursion.
I played the Mickey Mouse game.
We had a nice walk down the beach - gentle wind and plenty sun.
Friday, 19 August 2011
Fast Bowls
Went crown green bowling today with Rebekah, Tim and some guys from church.
Rebekah won her game 10-4.
Toward the end we did fast-bowls. All the players stand in a line and bowl on a ready-steady-go. Do that twice and all the bowls are bowled.
It makes for a quick and exciting game (as if it wasn't quick or exciting enough already).
Rebekah won her game 10-4.
Toward the end we did fast-bowls. All the players stand in a line and bowl on a ready-steady-go. Do that twice and all the bowls are bowled.
It makes for a quick and exciting game (as if it wasn't quick or exciting enough already).
Thursday, 4 August 2011
Fast and Quiet - new heatsink
My computer is faster with a new heatsink.
3 of the fixing brackets on the old one had snapped and the computer would shutdown from overheating before it booted. It must have also been thermal-trottling before because now it is 2-3 times faster and SILENT instead of a noisy wind tunnel.
Anne bought this Zalman heat sink from CCL online after an online vendor failed to ship the official HP part after a week.
3 of the fixing brackets on the old one had snapped and the computer would shutdown from overheating before it booted. It must have also been thermal-trottling before because now it is 2-3 times faster and SILENT instead of a noisy wind tunnel.
Anne bought this Zalman heat sink from CCL online after an online vendor failed to ship the official HP part after a week.
Saturday, 19 November 2005
Whats with s/he all the time?
In the bad old days “she” referred to the wifie, or womankind and “he” referred to the mankind. This much we all think we know.
But mankind referred to man and woman.
What I’m trying to get at is that women are at it again. They have (had) a perfectly good term that described just them, and then they all go and pretend it describes just men and get all huffy about it and insist that anyone who doesn’t write s/he or say “chair-person” is being sexist! Pardon!?
I’ll use terms like mankind and chair-man and if you think it doesn’t mean women, then think again.
I tend to get out of it by saying their instead of his or hers but I draw the line at chairperson.
See the dictionary; if people (*cough* some women) want to take offence at their own ignorance, I’ll let them - to do otherwise would be patronising, and patronising women is an even greater crime!
When asked “didn’t I mean chairperson?” I say “no I didn’t; and rather than pander to the ignorant we should educate them. Chairman does not refer to gender but to authority; and the deference of men has restrained any complaint on their part, unlike their false accusers who claim offence when there is none either in fact or intent.”
The consequence of which, women now have to stand up on the buses or trains, unless they look pregnant. If any female readers have got this far and recollect a case where no man offered a seat to a pregnant passenger, realise that they were probably chewed out once too often by someone who merely looked pregnant.
See the usage note and ponder your own position.
This has recently come up on Groklaw. The main idea is “stop whining, did you really think I meant male when I said he?
Nagging does not work on an individual or mass scale, so stop nagging.
But mankind referred to man and woman.
What I’m trying to get at is that women are at it again. They have (had) a perfectly good term that described just them, and then they all go and pretend it describes just men and get all huffy about it and insist that anyone who doesn’t write s/he or say “chair-person” is being sexist! Pardon!?
I’ll use terms like mankind and chair-man and if you think it doesn’t mean women, then think again.
I tend to get out of it by saying their instead of his or hers but I draw the line at chairperson.
See the dictionary; if people (*cough* some women) want to take offence at their own ignorance, I’ll let them - to do otherwise would be patronising, and patronising women is an even greater crime!
When asked “didn’t I mean chairperson?” I say “no I didn’t; and rather than pander to the ignorant we should educate them. Chairman does not refer to gender but to authority; and the deference of men has restrained any complaint on their part, unlike their false accusers who claim offence when there is none either in fact or intent.”
The consequence of which, women now have to stand up on the buses or trains, unless they look pregnant. If any female readers have got this far and recollect a case where no man offered a seat to a pregnant passenger, realise that they were probably chewed out once too often by someone who merely looked pregnant.
See the usage note and ponder your own position.
This has recently come up on Groklaw. The main idea is “stop whining, did you really think I meant male when I said he?
Nagging does not work on an individual or mass scale, so stop nagging.
It’s time
It’s time I had somewhere to post my wisdom; not for the masses, but for myself. But let the masses overhear me who want to.
It’s also time for bed, so that sleep can knit up my ravelled sleeve of care and all that.
Why am I up betimes this Saturday Morning? I have been setting up Campsite CMS whose main features are those that a professional publisher would want; namely
It’s also time for bed, so that sleep can knit up my ravelled sleeve of care and all that.
Why am I up betimes this Saturday Morning? I have been setting up Campsite CMS whose main features are those that a professional publisher would want; namely
- full control over what his minions can do, restricting such things as
- putting links in stories
- changing text size
- Full characterset support and story-translations!
- Good workflow to stop minions publishing rot
- A not-half-bad templating system, of course I prefer mine but it doesn’t yet work with Campsite.
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