Ok, so I had no idea that people apart from myself could actually post comments. It should be fixed now. You’ll have to register first but it shouldn’t take very long. I don’t even know if many people were actually trying so maybe we won’t see any change in the comment tally. Anyway, shoot me an email at catchwa[at]gmail[dot]com if you’re still having problems.

You may or may not have noticed the ‘Random Quote’ part of the sidebar to your left. I’ve been procrastinating from doing real work and added about 100 quotes to the database. A new random quote should appear on every page (or if you refresh your current page).

More quotes will be added the next time I get really bored.

DNS has/will update in the next 48 hours
If it doesn’t work hold ctrl-shift and click refresh in your browser
Enjoy!

(Any problems, leave a comment)

My mate Tim wants to vent on here so he’s got an account now (!). Watch out for his insightful (?) articles - coming soon! (These arts students are soooooooooo busy - you can’t rush them, you know.)

I assume this is true but this is the internet… (via a chain email a mate sent me)

For anybody who is not familiar with a jet engine, a jet fan blade
should be perfectly smooth. You might want to think twice the next time
you fly on a Chinese Airline.

A pilot for a Chinese carrier requested permission and landed at FRA
(Frankfurt, Germany) for an unscheduled refueling stop. The reason
became soon apparent to the ground crew: The Number 3 engine had been
shutdown previously because of excessive vibration, and because it
didn’t look too good. It had apparently been no problem for the tough
guys back in China as they took some sturdy straps and wrapped them
around two of the fan blades and the structures behind, thus stopping
any unwanted windmilling (engine spinning by itself due to airflow
passing thru the blades during flight) and associated uncomfortable
vibration caused by the suboptimal fan.

Note that the straps are seatbelts….how resourceful! After making the
“repairs”, off they went into the wild blue yonder with another
revenue-making flight on only three engines! With the increased fuel
consumption, they got a bit low on fuel, and just set it down at the
closest airport (FRA) for a quick refill.
That’s when the problems started:
The Germans, who are kind of picky about this stuff, inspected the
malfunctioning engine and immediately grounded the aircraft. (Besides
the seatbelts, notice the appalling condition of the fan blades.) The
airline operator had to send a chunk of money to get the first engine
replaced ( it took about 10 days).

The repair contractor decided to do some impromptu inspection work on
the other engines, none of which looked all that great either. The
result: a total of 3 engines were eventually changed on this plane
before it was permitted to fly again.

And soon they will export their cars to America, be sure to buy one of
those quality machines so you can increase the trade deficit.

Clicky clicky for the piccies (one, two).

About 6 months ago I screwed up my system trying to get XGL+Compiz to work. Now, seeing as uni is over for the year so I don’t have to worry about stuffing it up again I thought I’d try again. I stumbled upon Beryl. Seeing as I use KDE I really didn’t want to emerge half of gnome to get gconf happening so it worked out ideally. The only downside is that I’ve been seeing the window flicker bug a bit but it’s relatively easy to fix and I don’t restart willy-nilly anyway. Not bad for bleeding edge software.