I swear poetry for the leaving cert is just one big mindfuck. I’m still baffled at what Yates was trying to say. What the hell was he smoking when he wrote The Second Coming? What’s only worse is that miserable cow Sylvia Plath trying to spread her depression through out the entire world. Why do I have to learn poetry from someone who put her head in an oven and turned on the gas? Or why do I have to learn poetry at all? What purpose can it serve in the modern world?
Monthly Archive for November, 2006
And for those who don’t know its not a teacher in school.
I’ve just seen Microsoft’s new Ms. Dewey search engine and boy does she making searching more fun. For purely “scientific research” I tried various different terms to see what her response would be.
All about flash - “Bring on the HTML baby, because nothing gets a girl hotter then talking about code. Lights, camera, actionscript” - Oh how I wish that was true.
Why are you still wearing clothes - “Take off all your clothes, yes the socks too and fold them neatly and toss them out the window *alarm sound* there, now you’re screwed” - At least the people programming it have a sense of humour.
And bend over gets a few different replies:
“Hey if you can get inside your computer, you can do whatever you like to me”
“I’m sorry did you think this was girl who does whatever you want dot com because that is simply not the case ”
I don’t think I’ll be using Ms Dewey often though but it ranks highly for the responses to various search terms. Whats the best you can do?
Well today out of the possible nine classes in a day. I had three. I got fed up and went home after lunch because I certainly wasn’t going to sit around for another 2 hours doing nothing when I could be at home studying etc.
I try to keep up with most things techy since I’m a geek at heart. And recently Blueface launched their SIP proxy register option which means you can now automatically provide them with the login details to each of your SIP services and they’ll register those accounts and forward them on to a IP destination of choice (Mine go to my Blueface account) but then not content with having my Smart076 and Blueface account calling my VoIP phone, I decided to seek out more.
First stop was Outlook where I did a quick search and it turns out, I have a SIPGate account, so registering that as well has now given me a 0845 UK number but still I was not happy and signed up for a Stanaphone account which has now given me a US number as well (For the NY area)
So I now have the following:
- 2x 076 Numbers
- 1x Extension based line
- 1x UK 0845 number
- 1x US New York number
Not too bad for a few hours work eh? So I’ve moved my primary VoIP option to Blueface for the time being while Smart076 has been a rock solid service for me, its been sluggish on the development side. A shame really, it could built up from its solid base. And if they do get going again they’ll have some catching up to do first.
Ooh er, i’ve been in a blogging mood over the last two or three days.
Today I went to see Casino Royal today at Cineworld but of course the universal law of dickheads took effect, and I was stuck beside them. They had their own little running commentry throughout the entire film which pissed me off to no end. And then to top it off, some arrogant prick decided to bring their baby to the film. Which decided to start crying in the middle of the film. But seriously what kind of fucker brings a baby to a movie? I’m going to either have to go to launch night when there are people there who want to watch the movie or start my own private cinema so I can watch films in peace.
Other then that I approve of Daniel Craig as James Bond. I was shocked when I first heard the news but after seeing the movie, I was impressed. Very damn impressed and there was a good few one liners in the movie to make me laugh.
After the cinema, I headed out with Tom to various shops to pick up a copy of Gears of War. I got one for 57.99 in Gamestop which isn’t too bad a deal at all. I’ve only played it briefly but it seems ok. From all the reviews I was expecting a little more. I don’t know, maybe an hour or two of it will turn me to like it. Then Tom decided to get a haircut in that place in Arnotts, in retrospect I should of also got one but oh well. Then we waited for at least 25-30 minutes for a bus to show up. I don’t know why but the specific bus I take to get is the most unreliable in the Dublin Bus service. We counted 4 going to Dun Laoigre in the time it took for one of ours to show up.
Whatever wanker’s idea it was to make 2 hour block classes for the last three days should die. I feel like parts of my brain have just given up and died.
I go to school with a bunch of wankers as well. So 2 hours in certain classes with certain people just aren’t a good idea at all. You’d think at 6th year level, they would either grow up or drop out. But alas neither has happened here.
For example I have a very good teacher (I pass (and continue to) the subject now!) who has a class with possibly every wanker in my year in it. So instead of teaching she ends up wasting time giving out and dealing with said wankers (Of one who has been suspended about 11 times at this stage and yet he still comes to school) and the powers that be knowing damn well about the wankers in my class and the hassle the teacher gets continue to do nothing about it. Thats example one.
During said block classes one of my teachers didn’t show up for the first fourty minutes (We got bored and started playing with electricity) because the powers that be made him do something for them when he should of been teaching us. He was fuming when he finally got to us.
One of my teachers has suddenly decided to hate me for some unknown reason. An example of this would be one morning we were sitting in the demo room in a pattern like “Tom, Dick, Me and Harry” and we’re correcting some work and he asks Tom then Harry then Dick and moves on to other people in the class. Petty or what?
And today I’ve seen a 42″ flatscreen be installed over the trophy cabinet for some unknown reason. And as “Student IT Officer” (crap title I know) I’ve discovered the location of the server which keeps track of grades/attendence etc and its in the corner of the comms room (also where the cleaners keep their stuff) which is far too warm for a standard desktop pc to be running in without any visable means of backing up. They originally held the servers in there but then moved them out since the heat caused the HDD in the staff server to fail and I told them that would happen about 2 weeks before it did. I wish they’d respect my professional opinion on matters like these.
And initally when we joined the school it was a multidenominational school but it turns out its actually a catholic school after all. So some teachers did some digging and after getting in contact with the Archbishop it turned out we were a catholic school after all. And despite the Board of Managment knowing this, they still haven’t changed any reference to this. For anyone who goes to the same school as I do, look in your journal on the first few pages and you’ll see multidenominational mentioned.
And despite only being open 7 years, we’re building an extension on to the school as it turns out the school is too small. Lack of foresight and planning seem to be a common factor in the running of this place. That is all for now.
So I guess its time for an update.
Went to the Muse Concert in the Point a week or two ago. Brilliant.
Today did 6 hours of school and 3 subjects. You do the math. My brain killed itself during Irish (TWO FUCKING HOURS OF IT)
And that pretty sums up my life that I’m willing to blog about since my last update. I sure do lead an exciting life!
I’m well chuffed about this though:
conor@atlantis [~]# uptime
17:05:58 up 43 days, 14:52, 1 user, load average: 0.57, 0.35, 0.29
Usually when I get to the 30 day mark, some fucker ruins my day and crashes the box.
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