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According to the Herald Sun, that fine bastion of journalism, "Allahu akhbar" [Allah is great], is an "anti-American chant". Fuckwits.

More fun. In Melbourne, our Premier got quite pissed off a few years back when the public transport union called a strike on Grand Prix day, embarassing him severely, so he rationally vowed to take said union apart "piece by piece". He privatised public transport (oh, the irony), and split the train and tram networks into 5: 3 pieces of train network and 2 of tram, and then tendered them separately. National Express, which owned 2 of the 3 train companies (one suburban plus the rural network), and one of the tram companies, folded, and gave the networks back to the government. Luckily, this isn't the same government with the same egomaniacal Premier. They're uniting the train and the tram networks into one piece each, and then retendering. Of course, it'd be better if it was still in public hands, but that's another story.

VCE results came out on Monday; I got straight A's for Indonesian, translating to a study score of 35/50 (but scaled up to 43), and A+/A/A+ for English, translating to 40/50 (but scaled down to 39, bastards). Not altogether bad, but if I actually studied in the first half of the year, I could've got 42 or 43 for Indo, and at least 45 for English. Oh well, that's life. Still, I'm expecting to pick up most of my marks in the maths and sciences (I'm spreading my VCE out over 3 years - doing Maths Methods, Specialist Maths, Physics and International Studies next year), so that's OK. Three people from our school got the top mark, 99.95 (it's a percentile ranking), and another two got 99.85, which is pretty good (it's a selective state school). Everyone but one from my school I talked to got above 90; I'm personally aiming for/expecting over 96 or so.

Still working on XFree86 CVS .debs; I can see the metaphorical light at the metaphorical end of the metaphorical tunnel! Just need to update MANIFEST and ensure that all the files are accounted for. Whoop!

Christmas is now only a week away, and I *still* need to do a shitload of shopping ... *sigh*.

12 Dec 2002 (updated 13 Dec 2002 at 00:13 UTC) »

MooreWatch, for those who need to validate their lives by stalking others and hoping they slip up, because they have no valid counter-arguments.

mglazer: Read.

sometimes you put your whole heart into something, take a deep breath, swallow your pride and hope like hell, only to get bounced back. another of life's lessons. if only they wouldn't be delivered in such rapid succession.

Facially deformed rapper freaks his baby all night long
Been making proper .debs of XFree86 HEAD for i845g support ... fun fun fun. Set up sbuild to continuously build KDE HEAD to test the .debs, which work brilliantly. I haven't taken a snapshot in months, but it's EXCELLENT now; very user-friendly. I can't wait for the 3.1 release! :)

Petrolhead rices up shitbox, turns it into loud shitbox
I love train company logic. There was a signal failure at Burnley (roughly 5km out of the city, if that), so they decided to stop all trains between Burnley and Glen Waverley (28km from the city, probably more the way the train line weaves), even though the signals between Burnley and Glen Waverley weren't affected. Sat at Mount Waverley (25-odd km from the city) for half an hour while we fixed it (as our train finally left, there was an announcement saying that all the trains were cancelled indefinitely and buses were being organized), instead of going up to Burnley. Result: Was around 30-40min late, instead of the 10-odd minutes late I would've been if they had have proceeded to Burnley. WHERE'S THE LOGIC? I'm so over trains screwing up.

Ugh, tired
Slept for 17 hours yesterday. I was at work for a bit but was falling asleep at my desk, so decided to leave. Worked out I'd had less than 10 hours sleep in between Wednesday morning and yesterday afternoon; maybe that explains it. Less going out now, thankfully; just the post-exam rush of postponed parties.
HELL. FUCKING. YES.
Taking me a long, long time to write this entry. Waiting for my ride to a 20th to pick me up after a post-exam party. I'm dead tired and have had way too much, but I don't care. It's all over, it's all bloody over. YES!

Hacking
What?
omnic: Remember, these people have no clue ... really, they're very stupid. I don't care, at least I can SSH to the proxy. Started reading my mail with mutt instead, wonder how long it'll take them to notice. Last time I asked them to look at something, I had to show them where the mail logs were. *sigh*. BTW, OS X is very sweet on a fast machine. Like the new TiBooks, mmm.

Exams
UGH!

Work
Wrote KSeft, must finish MoulDAVia soon. This small bit of semantic is starting to shit me up the wall. Threatening to send me insane.

Life
Considering everyone who had their birthdays before or during exams has held them over, life's not going to get any less busy post-exams. There was even a party I was at tonight, but I almost fell over due to lack of sleep, sigh.
mwh: Well, that would mean going through another window to get from a window at the bottom to the menu, making the system almost unusable ... so, I doubt it. I lusted for the same thing when I started using OS X, but was just used to it by the time I was using it virtually full-time.

Exams
Can't they finish already?

School
Discovered every student has an SSH account on the proxy. Ouch. So, I'm SSHed to the proxy, and then SSHed out from there. Put it this way: mutt doesn't lag, but the proxy either refuses to load Squirrelmail (gives error '-23723409'), or takes roughly 2 minutes to load the index. Mmm, this is much better - means I can IRC, too. However, I probably should be studying instead.
mglazer: So, this (verse 13) is one of the most vital cornerstones of your belief, right?
sej: That's odd; I thought it was left unfixed, sorry. Probably should've done my homework first. The only reason I can think of is that the fixed package didn't propagate to woody? If woody was frozen, then an explicit upload to w-proposed-updates would've been needed. Then again, I'm not AJ, so I can't give you an answer, only guess in an educated manner about what might have happened.

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