…Or how I stopped worrying and learned how to love the partical accelerator.
According to this blog post from the Sydney Morning Heald researchers will be using a 27 kilometer long partical accelerator to learn more about how the universe has been created. There is just one little problem:
…Cox also admitted there was a tiny, tiny risk the device could create conditions that would obliterate the planet and all human life.
So prepare the bunkers and alfoil hats friends, the apocalypse isn’t going to come from Osama but from some researchers in Geneva.
I brought a new lens for my camera this afternoon. Canon 75-300mm which I have dubbed vouyer vision 2.0. It is fairly heavy (relative to the stock 18-55mm) so much so that my wrist gets tired handling the camera. Keep in mind I’m a lefty so naturally my right isn’t as strong.
Auto focus is fairly slow because it doesn’t have the ultrasonic motors its little sibling has. But nevertheless at $299 it was a bargain.
The reason for purchasing the lens will be revealed next monday.
I’ve been testing out some alternative browsers to my standard Safari and Firefox lineup on my Mac and Internet Explorer on PC.
So far I’ve nailed it down to Opera and Shiira. Shiira is a fantastically well designed brower based on Apple’s webkit. UI design is top notch and it is very fast. Two problems: 1. Not cross platform and 2. Japan based developers mean that some functions and instructions don’t make sense.
Opera is the winner by far. It has some features that run rings around Internet Explorer and Safari. One of my faves would have to be the Full Screen/Kiosk Mode where you only see the web site and no other menus or settings. It opens up a range of possibilities for web developers to create interactive applications.
I downloaded the release candidate of Windows Vista today and other than the noticable performace improvments there is nothing much to really write home about. My biggest complaint is still with the UI: too much color, too many clicks, way too slow.
Price wise, I don’t think I would be compelled to buy Vista straight away. I think alot of people are going to take a wait and see approach to converting. Microsoft had a strategic advantage to get alot of people back on side but the last five years of R&D have just produced a far more bloated operating system with many features that mom and pops won’t waste their time using.
Sorry about the lack of updates I’m sure you are all dying to know about what has been going on in my life, another story for another day.
One thing about being a uni student is that sometimes relationships with others can exist on a tempoary basis; you may work with someone for one semester then never see them again.
I thought I would put one of my friendships to the test: I’ve know the guy for the last two years now, great person unlike your friend and humble narrator. He recently came back from an overseas trip with his luggage missing. I lent him some gadgets and accessories (ipod cables, chargers etc) just until they got replaced or his bags arrived.
The test was quite simple, see how long it would take to have my stuff returned, I would not say a single word, nothing about it. I predicted that the time I lent him the stuff would be the last time I would see it.
Surpisingly, he returned everything in the same condition the day after his bags were delivered from the airline.
Goes to show you can trust people after all.
Saw Clerks 2 last night.
Must say in a year full of lacklustre quality films (espcially comedy) Clerks 2 really differentiates itself from the film generica that currently fills the screens.
This film has a similar plot and setting to the original, except we now see them 10 years on.
I enjoyed watching it and while I felt the big budget factor made it loose some of the honesty and simplicity that the first one had, I don’t think that clerks 2 will tarnish the prized cult factor that Kevin Smith and the original film created.
4 / 5
Yeah that’s right shitkickers.
Down Puckle St there has been a significant increase in the number of welfare cheats, deadbeats, homeless and miscellaneous that you can’t walk down the street without being stopped and asked for change.
There is one particular one that always gives me a good laugh. What she does is hang around the ATM’s out side the banks (and Puckle St has like, 10 or 11 banks) and when ever a person walks up to take out money. She casually saunters (heh I’ve always wanted to use that word) up to them and asks them for change.
Generally the reaction is more shock than anything else. I wonder what her success rate is.
The other one hangs outside dodgy phones asking people for spare change. Except if you ignore him he does the “fine ignore me, fuck you”. The other day he did that I turned around and told him to get a fucking job. Shut him up good.