What’s Next?

The reason they don’t have Windows releases yet is because they decided
to use Python as their implementation language. This prevents them from
loading on most Windows systems, since users typically don’t install
Python (or Perl or Cygwin or Net 2.0). They expect
that py2exe should help, but that’s like expecting a broken down jalopy
to make the drive up to Anchorage in a week. Sure, you’ll make it if
you’re already near Fairbanks, but if you’re starting from Quito,
you’re pretty much SOL.

Normally a comparision should make it easier to understand.

I’ve been absent for some time, exams and so forth weighing down on me.

Now I’m back! With new….Words! Enjoy.

Some may have noticed the new Amnesty sign on the sidebar, it’s part of their new Campaign against Internet Censorship. I totally agree with this and believe it’s an initiative well worth supporting. But there IS a problem with this sign thing -  the idea given that this helps get around censorship by loading censored content onto lots of websites. Of course, in reality the quotes come from the central database which is blocked by the censors, rendering the quotes useless to those inside the firewall. Added to that, the quotes are too short to possibly be of any use to anyone. It is however a call for support from the uncensored internet and I have it for that reason. I just wish it wouldn’t be advertised as being helpful to people behind the firewalls when in actual fact it’s not for anything more than drumming up support.

I was doing a physics experiment to replicate the decay of radioactive atoms the other day. We’d flip a load of coins and remove all those that handed heads in order to simulate the random decay. I picked one up and dropped it again and I thought ‘Darn, I changed the result by measuring it!’

It had me giggling for ages.

Massive blaze rages at fuel depot

I heard it! It sounded like a tile falling off the roof and it’s about 40 miles away….