Jarrah's Uplink

So, talking time again. What to say, what to say...

Well, I'll start off with a link to Polymer City Chronicles, a webcomic I was reading today. A fun comic concerning computer games, strange plots, and Big Women. I like it.

Ok, I'll now whinge about some stuff. I had a bad reboot yesterday, and mozilla lost all my bookmarks. I got a bit pissed about that, but I used it as an excuse to download a newer version of Mozilla Firefox. I was pleasently suprised by the new features, such as being able to re-access tabs you've just closed. Of course, everybody else has probably been used to that for ages...

Also, I have a hang nail, I had to evacuate my room for a while earlier because my dog possesses Weapons of Mass Disgustion, and all my friends have taken to saying "Oh snap!" when somebody says something funny. I'm becoming tempted to Oh Snap somebody's collar bone...

That will be all. You may now return to your Normally Scheduled Doldrums untill next week's update

John's Uplink

It's a funny business, picking a university. In some ways the decision will affect you for the rest of your life, and in other ways it really doesn't matter... does the quality of the research school matter? The IT staff? The student union building? The only way to know is to go, and by then it's already too bloody late, and you might as well just get through with it. In the end, you're left to pick the university based on mindless criteria, like whether they gave out enough balloons at the open day, or the particular shade of blue on their academic stationary.

I guess, in the end, the only real reason to go to uni is to get the bit of paper saying you're probably not a total idiot and have a bit of perseverance. You can learn everything you need to know on the job... if you don't believe me, go and read up on the story of the fifteen-year-old Indian kid who performed a successful heart transplant after watching his parents do it. Well, it was something like that. I may be a bit hazy on the details.