Scientology Secrets

Recently some confidential documents from within the Church of Scientology were posted up on Wikileaks. From what I have read it consists mostly of internal notes from Mr Hubbard himself. He actually has a few interesting things to say. I won't comment on accuracy, but they're interesting. Definitely worth a bit of a read, and it's always fun to read something you know people never wanted you to read. I also want to read some of his science fiction, just have to get through all the other stuff on my "to read" list.

If only it had come out last year, it would have tied in perfectly with my New Religious Movements course at uni. Oh well. For this semester I get to write about religion and television, and in particular I'm looking at insecure security cameras that can be found with simple Google queries. It's stretching the definition of "television," but apparently it's ok.

In other news, my opinion of Vista has increased slightly after today. As I am mainly fixing Windows computers at work, rather than using them, most of my contact with them is when something is wrong. XP made it a pain in the ass to fix some problems, like screwed up boot.ini files and whatnot. Getting into the recovery console took a million years, often required (very long and painful) restarts, etc. Vista has automated fixing up the MBR and boot.ini, so the recovery console isn't even required. But if you do need to get a command prompt you can get one, and you can close it and open it as many times as you like! Miraculous!

Enough boring stuff for now, I'll be back later with more interesting things to say.