Wanted to set up a blog for this project but LJ isn’t sending the necessary confirmation emails, either to my Napier account or to my personal email. Yes I have checked junk/spam filters!

To be honest, for this research blog I’d prefer a blog that allows me to allow other folk to post. Any recommendations?

Despite being a pacifist vegan with serious lentil, peanut-butter and figure-hugging cycle-tights habits, I love this!

Why are people so stupid? According to one measure, the most popular password is ‘password’. Aarrgghh. Has there been a Darwin Award related to password insecurity yet? I do hope so.

There’s a reasonable-looking password tester here. My personal passwords would take about a decade to crack, this site claims.

My uni passwords would take a little under 4 months. I keep nothing personal in my uni file-space, and back it all up to personal spaces so this ‘short’ time doesn’t bother me.

Paxman pronounces ex-England manager’s name as ‘Sven Urine Erikson’.

‘If we are to accept that people choose to live in different places for reasons linked to the places themselves…’
Nearly complete bullshit if you read this to mean we all have perfectly free choices. We don’t!

Rant

Most folk live

• in the holes in which they were spawned because they can’t afford to move away or feel family ties (i.e. not the place but people: subtle but important difference)
• the best they can afford to crawl to
• where the work they can do is – or within commuting distance thereof.

I live in a Victorian stone-built basement flat not because I like it but because it’s what my partner chose and I want to be with her (family) and because I can’t afford to be elsewhere. (Edit This doesn’t mean I don’t like the flat [I do, when it’s not playing up] or that I’d choose to be away from her, just that my options are very limited and if we broke up, I’d be back in the gutter.)

This is similar to people crapping on about culture, another bollocks term. People do what they do either because they don’t know any better or are comfortable with old habits, because that is what the physical or human geography demands they do to survive or because it’s what the powers that be permit/brainwash them into doing.

Grrr!

Despite a gut-feeling that social networking in general (i.e. Twitter and FaceBook in particular) are loathsome, I’ve resurrected my Twitter account to help with my summer project.

Doing background reading to write a research proposal, so I can keep busy over the summer. Just come across the term unconference.

Any of you been to one?

It seems that the hour-long installation of Xcode on Iggy didn’t install the command-line tools: make etc. Cue even more downloading… Bah³!

Why the hell does updating Xcode need to close iTunes?
Why the hell does a completed package need an IDE anyway?