All resits/resubmits are completed and in.
That is it, no more to do

Just have to wait till the results come through, I think I have passed [read ~75% sure]

I just now have to sort out the Student Loan [You have requested: £0.00 :-: que? says I, and why the hell would I fill out a 20+page LOAN APPLICATION FORM to request no money?]
Job. Need. I. NOW. :-: Reassemble into a well known phrase I should be good here, I have a number of numbers to ring regarding jobs [removals people, IT helpdesk, Bar Work] This is the occupation for part of tomorrow.

Must also get eBay stuff pictured and online. Need monies for next month.

Apart from that [and seeming to be going bald must be stress] I'm good.

This a joke? [not sent to me, thank god]

http://lapwing.org/sam/misc/im_getting_sued.gif

I found it on digg.com [that ever useful news collaboration site] and mirrored it to save the blokes bandwidth

If someone had sent me that email, I would reply thus:

Dear Sir,

I would be happy to replace the images if you would reply with the web address for each image.

As a businessman, you will understand the need to cover operating costs; therefore I will charge to you the following;

£200 per annum and
£10 per image per month

For this I will replace the images specified. Other images may also be rented for the above prices.

Please reply to this email if you would like the images reposted,

Sincerely,

Sam Black

We had someone doing this with an image on yarmez' home page, "posted" on a forum. Me looking through the log files [for 404 errors] found it, so we replaced the image with a 800x600 one saying: "Get your own server and stop nicking our bandwidth. lapwing.org team"
Needless to say they removed the image within a few days

How do you know your Government is telling you lies?

When their claims fall apart due to science.

Everyone has seen footage of the World Trade Center towers falling down. The speed and neatness of the collapse with the ensuing dust cloud.

I'm pretty certain that everyone has seen a tower block being demolished. The explosions, speed and neatness of the collapse with the ensuing dust cloud.

Can you guess where I am going with this?

I'm not going anywhere with it; it's already been reached: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14531.htm

specifically:

"It is certainly a known and non-controversial fact among physicists and engineers that the only way buildings can collapse at free fall speed into their own footprints is by engineered demolition."

and with a nice film: http://www.911revisited.com

This doesn't surprise me in the slightest. The numbers don't add up [less was spent on an act of terror than investigating Clinton? You're kidding, right?] and things are too neat: the collapse, the 30ft length of girder, the speed of removal, the blown out lobby.

This reminds me why I must get a hold of V for Vendetta, but, alas, no money*

npower continue to be the bane of my existance. You woulda thought phoning the company and giving them a meter reading, they would adjust the meter readings they had and send you a bill? Not so. 3 bills. 3 phone calls. 2 revisions of the bill and an admission that the compound bill they sent was a lot of rubbish and needs clarifying. If they do it again, I'm moving company. Or threaten to at least.

Resits next week. Joy, although I have a better, more positive feeling about them this time around than last year. I actually want to pass and get to the next year. Wonders never cease.
On a similar note, I'm letting people play Tetris tomorrow for a write up [spatial awareness, mental rotation tasks. Done thousands of times before, yet I'm doing it again. Not practical at all, when other more able people have written up a topic. I wonder why I hate theory so much? Might be because theory falls apart when it comes into contact with the Real World (tm)]
Much hilarity will ensue if it all goes tits up. I have a backup plan for this [always have a backup plan, but never a backup-backup plan, that just makes things more difficult to remember ]

What was a quick note about 9/11 has turned into an actual blog post. Hmm.
*Anyone want to give me money, please reply and paypal me money. Or let me know of jobs going, they all seem to have migrated to Lichfield this year.

From The Register:

"For the employed, Big Brother is a bafflingly successful Channel 4 cash cow whereby a squawking gaggle of future ex-z-listers are put in a cage for what seems like a decade, and stared at by idiots.

We'd like to give a full run down of the compelling ins and outs inside the pigpen that have led to the current crisis, but we really can't be bothered. Public service broadcaster The BBC has kindly swallowed that mind-jellifying pill for us here.®"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/11/big_bro_investigation_is_go/

So there, all you people who watch Big Brother. Nah nah nahhh.

In a similar vein to my brothers last post [the "how not to be seen one" is hilarious], I've been surfing and reading blogs and stuff, coming across these videos:

Firefox Promotion:

Linux with Xgl [compared with OSX Aqua and Windows Aero]:
http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2915
[insert sam scrabbling for latest Xgl software, then cursing his lack of net access]

And for those of you who haven't seen it yet:
http://lapwing.org/sam/misc/bitch.mpg [no, its not naughty, its about macs. Trust me]
[Also, just check Youtube/Google Video for "macs suck". They are funny]

In more other news, like proper news, I'm running out of money. And rent is due at the end of the month. Arghs. Anyone know of work about?
UT2004 [ok only the demo] rocks. Love Raptors. bang bang bang BOOOM. If anyone asks, I'm profiling 3D environments on various hardware implementations: in english, playing UT2004 on my desktop and laptop.