Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Spam

I got an email today, caused me a bit of concern. It read:

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Why do you laugh, girls?!

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Male Periods

I knew that at some point being the only guy in a tutorial of 10-15 people would one day put me in some awkward situations. Today was that day. We had made our way to a discussion about a environmentalist witchcraft group that have some interesting ways to save the environment, one of them being the use of something called the "Mooncup," which you can learn all about here. This developed into a ten minute discussion about the menstrual cycle, jokes about the new "beaver" tampon ad on television, etc.

Anyway, it was clear that, to a certain extent, they were still somewhat embarrassed about the topic and not going to go into any real detail. But imagine if guys had periods. Imagine the difference in etiquette there would be when it came to talking about periods. It wouldn't be all hush hush, it'd be another male competition for who has the biggest. I can picture it: "Man that last period was HUGE, I can't believe how much I bleed!" or "Damn dude, gotta go home and have a massive period!" Think how normal those statements would be if it had been men having periods since the beginning of human kind.

Friday, April 4, 2008

Lolz

Quite a while ago I set up a site called Movember Diaries (http://www.movemberdiaries.com), a place for people partaking in the Movember fund raising program to post pics of their awesome mos. It was mainly an experiment for making a multi-user version of the Zenphoto gallery software. I haven't looked at it in a long long time, but was reminded of it by the comment on my previous post. Apparently people have been using it a bit, but not for Movember related pics. Hilarious.

Anyways, I seem to recall there being a bit of a bug in my multi-user version that I never bothered to fix. I'll fix that up some time soon and post it up somewhere for download. They do seem to have a newer version of Zenphoto available, so maybe I'll try applying it to that one.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Venting

I'd say this week would have to be one of the busiest I've ever had.

It started with finishing a design for a website. I am scrambling to finish a book that I have to write a review on, due Friday. I have a group presentation on Monday next week, for which we have a meeting tomorrow. For that I need to have watched a couple of episodes of a TV show and written some ideas for discussion, which while relatively easy just consumes a lot of time. Then I have a maths test looming on the horizon, which is never a good thing.

The book I'm reading is The God of the Witches by Margaret Murray. She is clearly a crack pot. While reading about the "Horned God" I have learnt a lot of random things, including how farming sheep is so much cheaper than farming cattle because they can eat much shorter grass than cattle can. I have also learnt that Robin Hood and his merry men were actually a witch coven, quite a surprise! Oh and I now know that fairies actually existed, too. Another nice surprise. It is probably one of the most poorly written books I have ever read, not to mention the content.

Along with all the assessments hovering around I have to balance time at work, time at uni and time with friends and girlfriend. It's hard! Maybe I should go back to two subjects a semester.