Get The Kettle On

BBC News report that Bacon, the staple of my diet, is actually quite bad for your lungs. This is not good. Read the whole thing here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6560121.stm

My poor bacon, I will miss it.

Worth considering:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/swindled/#comment-27434

Questioning the accuracy of the BBC’s news reporting is not something I do all that often… No wait, what I mean to say is, I do it all the time, especially when I read articles like this one. Though there may well be “More ‘big cats and boars in wild’“, I very much doubt there are 3 Pandas out there (what the hell would it be able to eat other than “discarded kebabs” , and im sceptical about that penguin. Unless that penguin is the one from Wallace and Gromit?

The following may only be relevant to those who work within the world of education, though its implications extend to every area of the growing online world. Via BBC News, I because aware of yet another rediculous American patent lawsuit, in this instance relating to a Learning Management System (LMS) called Desire2Learn. I myself have never used this LMS. I have however had dealings with Banner, Blackboard and WebCT. None of these systems present any ideas or technologies that in my opinion extend beyond common sense. In fact, their implimentations of most of their functionality are laugable at best, with rediculous requirements, rubbish backend coding and a total lack of future-proofing and flexibility.

Open source alternatives do exist, and I have tried a few, namely those mentioned in the BBC News article (Moodle) which started the rant. They are not perfect, but at least they try. They welcome with open arms any submissions which help them to get that little bit closer to the unachievable goal of “perfection”.

Litigation helps no one in these cases. You may aswell have a patent on fucking breathing in and out. It’s absurd. And it pisses me off.

A women, has thrown a wotsit out of her car, and been rightly fined for it by her council. Wotsits are not to be discarded. They are for ones mouth, to eat.

Catch the full work up here.

Something funny, IRC way comes:

< jesty> i dont use google desktop
<@DarkHalf> pete does
<@DarkHalf> sussed.
< jesty> you’re confusing me with some twat who can’t remember where they put stuff on their own fucking computer
< jesty> and wants a load of information thrown in their face 100% of the time
<@DarkHalf> like tanner
<@DarkHalf> yeah
<@DarkHalf> i hate google desktop
<@EgoWarrior> lol
< jesty> HAVE SOME NEWS ITS SUNNY OUTSIDE HERE’S A PHOTO OF A DOG YOU HAVE 2MB RAM FREE
< jesty> HOW ARE YOU ENJOYING HAVING 20% LESS DESKTOP SPACE
<@DarkHalf> rofl
< jesty> LET ME RAPE YOUR COMPUTER FOR 48 HOURS, WE’LL CALL IT INDEXING
<@DarkHalf> thats exactly it

Nice.

But, I spose its time I actually bothered to set something up. I will NOT however be “blogging” like every other wanker and his dog out there. This will be an entirely useless collection of things what I see on the net each day, and possible the odd rant about how badly some programs are writen, and or designed. This will be a section that I like to refer to as Ill Show You How Its Fucking Done. The first of which will be SQSG, when it’s good enough to release to the picky public.