Oh, I'd like to agree with the article you posted, Bravus, but as my Persuasive Writing tutor would point out, you're a White Male, and therefore one of The Most Evil People On The Planetâ„¢. So, yeah...go kill some baby seals or something (times like this, I love being part-minority.)

Now, the white part of me will quote thusly:

"(They believe) words have given meanings, and these meanings have certain biases or prejudices. If you use words, you have to accept the biases or prejudices - you're stuck with them. That you can use words ironically is not something they can take seriously.

And remember how true that is. There's this godawful faded hippie that floats around QUT as a permanent student (Bachelors, Honours, Masters, another Masters, a few more Masters, another Bachelor (and the requisite Masters for it), a Phd, then hopefully it's time to retire...though on what, I've no idea) who informed that then I called someone a cunt, I was subjugating the entire female gender. Practically raping 'em. Which was kinda a disappointment, then, because I don't recall reaching climax upon uttering the word, but apparently I'd been doing it and Dad'd been doing it for years, and we've yet to gain some sort of criminal record. (Maybe Dad does, but, then again, he's white.) I didn't realise that people aren't allowed to form their own meanings for words, even if it's slang, but instead definitions of words should come from those who consider themselves learned because they've spent a lot of time avoiding the wider world. Democracy plays no part in it, apparently. I offered to this person to go ask the one of the builders working on the carpark what they thought of the word, but she declined.

"Clearly that's not true. We use words to refer to things, but we can refer to them ironically, we can refer to them sarcastically, doubtingly, aggressively."

Ok, now that post is treason. Because it implies that Humanities students have something in common with Law students, in the words have fixed, unalterable meanings (Remember George C. Scott's "I'll kill you for that!" in 12 Angry Men?)

We all know that Law students are vile, scumsucking bottom dwellers who will only go on to get large corporations off of charges of massive environmental damage like Bhopal, and will spend the rest of their lives social-climbing and vacuous.

Except that one guy who got you out of the clink when you were arrested at that protest and were found to be carry a quarter-ounce of pot. He was cool.

I now have a ludicrously cool intro that involves the guitar solo from Bohemian Rhapsody, a Dutch primary teacher and the universe.

Wow, two things involving Brian May and a Dutchman.

Ok,

I spent a weekend cleaning the printing head of an Epson CX3500 printer.

Tip: keep empty ink cartridges. They'll be needed for cleaning purposes.

There's no need to disassemble the printer. Easy thing to do is to fill the empty cartridges with cleaning fluid and fill the head rest with the same fluid. Leave the head 12 hours immersed in the fluid then flush the fluid in the head rest, refill it and leave the head immersed for more 12 hours. After that print some pages still using the cartridge filled with cleaning fluid. Dry the head rest, put a new ink cartridge and the printer must be all right.

Sometimes it is necessary to dry the foams and the ink waste reservoirs and to reset the ink waste counter. To reset the ink waste counter the ssd utility will do the job.

Wow! last time my printer needed cleaning I went and bought a new one.

I know this is the wrong thread to be talking about my forthcoming job talk, but since we started here, and quoted the topic here...

I was a bit confuzzled by the word 'digitalised' as used in the question. I assume they mean the world has become digital. But I was delighted to find that the dictionary definition of 'digitalise' is: To administer digitalis in a dosage sufficient to achieve the maximum therapeutic effect without producing toxic symptoms

I will be using this, oh yes

Maybe they just mean it as a synonym for the verb "finger."

I think our world is a little beyond 'fingered'...

Bill's "The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet" will be getting a run too

I really enjoy some of your rants, lithos.

I meant to post this last night but got distracted with MAC STUFF!!!

Ok. Now sliding Mac kool-aid needle in, in preparation for a meat with the local Mac guru/wizard [+20 years with apple, has a briefcase like the guy in PR. Locked and loaded with the Mac stuff.] on Monday. w00t! Will kick some "keychain" bullshit into order or bypass, if possible to streamline, in theory. Can't wait!

My google-fu has failed me [hangs head in shame]

How the hell do you retrieve an openID authentication that you've, um, forgotten or misplaced or has been eaten by gnomes?

Its not the domain name of your own website?

No, and I can't remember how I set it up. Honestly, I never thought I'd need it. Stupid.

Can't you get it emailed to you?

Found out via my Mac guru that my efforts to gain dsl a year or two ago, lingers on my phone line...
My only option, ATT, could not set up my dsl `cause someone else is there, possibly earthlink from my wrasses with them, before.'

Working on it.
I want to rocket!

Hmmmm, can't seem to get XP working anymore. Typing this from Ubuntu. Toshiba Recovery Disc is the suxxorz

Basically started a few weeks ago, came home one day and the system had crashed. Could not boot into XP. Tried to use Recovery disc to wipe first partition and re-install XP. Failed.

Was able to wipe entire drive and install to out of box state =(

Couple days ago XP crashed again. Nothing is working. Seems like it gets to a certain point writing drivers and shit to the drive then a loud scratchy sound emits from the drive. Hard drive failure?

If so why did I have no problems installing Ubuntu?

Could be physical problems in the boot sector, and Ubuntu booting from elsewhere on the platter (maybe, this is just a somewhat educated guess)

I strongly suspect physical HDD problems, anyway, so I'd be grabbing yer data and replacing it.

I'm with Bravus, sounds like a failing HD. Have a buddy burn Drive Fitness Test or similar bootable diagnostic program to be sure.

Yeah, been trying to find a good disk utility for error checking the drive itself. Cannot use the one mentioned above as this is a laptop with no floppy support....