Saturday, November 07, 2009
Back to the Future
This blog may be long dormant but I've fixed the archives if anyone, including it's author, should stumble upon it...
Saturday, August 02, 2003
Rise of the Machines
Saw Terminator 3 yesterday - was it the life-changing event I had expected it to be? Er, no. But I wasn't disappointed with it, and I think under the circumstances it was actually quite good. Not perfect, plenty to improve on sure, but not as horrendously awful as it could have been.
The Punisher's verdict: 7/10
Saw Terminator 3 yesterday - was it the life-changing event I had expected it to be? Er, no. But I wasn't disappointed with it, and I think under the circumstances it was actually quite good. Not perfect, plenty to improve on sure, but not as horrendously awful as it could have been.
The Punisher's verdict: 7/10
Friday, August 01, 2003
Tuesday, July 01, 2003
Monday, June 23, 2003
Saturday, June 14, 2003
Your Brain Usage Profile
Auditory : 42%
Visual : 57%
Left : 77%
Right : 22%
Alex, you are strongly left-hemisphere dominant and show somewhat of a preference for visual learning, a positive combination of styles.
Your left-hemisphere dominance implies that you are strongly organized, logical and detail-oriented. Visual preference indicates that you learn in an active, simultaneous multidimensional fashion.
With this pattern you would likely be good in fields such as engineering, architecture, drafting, computer graphics and the like. It is likely that you will find situations which demand auditory processing somewhat frustrating unless you can impose your own structures and categories while processing it.
Another possible barrier to using your talents to the fullest may be the excess attention that you can tend to give details in your day-to- day operations and learning. You can acknowledge the existence of "the bigger picture" but concentrate on the details and expect that the picture will emerge from the details themselves.
You strive towards goals and this, coupled with the active nature of your learning preference, creates a sense of you being "driven." Your tolerance of ambiguity is, at times, in conflict with your preference for the straight path and directness in everything. You tend to be as impatient with yourself as you are with others.
You have enough auditory learning capability to somewhat balance your more natural chaotic learning style. It is likely that you "slide into" the more sequential auditory learning mode when you get frustrated with the amount of input to be processed.
You are somewhat likely to be driven and distracted, but you have some capability for articulating and visualizing goals, which helps to reduce frustration. You can listen to others, but not without occasional agitation. There are times when your left hemisphere cannot categorize your learnings and place them in context, because that is the domain of the right hemisphere.
Auditory : 42%
Visual : 57%
Left : 77%
Right : 22%
Alex, you are strongly left-hemisphere dominant and show somewhat of a preference for visual learning, a positive combination of styles.
Your left-hemisphere dominance implies that you are strongly organized, logical and detail-oriented. Visual preference indicates that you learn in an active, simultaneous multidimensional fashion.
With this pattern you would likely be good in fields such as engineering, architecture, drafting, computer graphics and the like. It is likely that you will find situations which demand auditory processing somewhat frustrating unless you can impose your own structures and categories while processing it.
Another possible barrier to using your talents to the fullest may be the excess attention that you can tend to give details in your day-to- day operations and learning. You can acknowledge the existence of "the bigger picture" but concentrate on the details and expect that the picture will emerge from the details themselves.
You strive towards goals and this, coupled with the active nature of your learning preference, creates a sense of you being "driven." Your tolerance of ambiguity is, at times, in conflict with your preference for the straight path and directness in everything. You tend to be as impatient with yourself as you are with others.
You have enough auditory learning capability to somewhat balance your more natural chaotic learning style. It is likely that you "slide into" the more sequential auditory learning mode when you get frustrated with the amount of input to be processed.
You are somewhat likely to be driven and distracted, but you have some capability for articulating and visualizing goals, which helps to reduce frustration. You can listen to others, but not without occasional agitation. There are times when your left hemisphere cannot categorize your learnings and place them in context, because that is the domain of the right hemisphere.
Friday, June 06, 2003
Monday, May 26, 2003
Matrix Reloaded? Good, but not great. 6.5/10
You are the Original Matrix Fan!
What Kind Of Matrix Fan Are You?
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You are the Original Matrix Fan!
What Kind Of Matrix Fan Are You?
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Friday, May 09, 2003
Sunday, May 04, 2003
Tuesday, April 15, 2003
Thursday, April 03, 2003
Link-me-do
Ever played GTA? You'll love watching this video then (10mb) - www.tuvok3of11.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/gta4real.mpg
Ever played GTA? You'll love watching this video then (10mb) - www.tuvok3of11.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/gta4real.mpg
Tuesday, April 01, 2003
Can You Dig That Sucka?
I’m sorry I haven’t done any substantial posting recently, (and let’s face it, by “recently” I could mean the last 12-18 months!) but it just seems I never have time even though all I do is sit about doing nothing. Anyway, I've been home for well over a week and it really is good to be back and get a break from York. I mean, I love York and being at Uni, but it is nice to see all of my family and friends.
I’m sorry I haven’t done any substantial posting recently, (and let’s face it, by “recently” I could mean the last 12-18 months!) but it just seems I never have time even though all I do is sit about doing nothing. Anyway, I've been home for well over a week and it really is good to be back and get a break from York. I mean, I love York and being at Uni, but it is nice to see all of my family and friends.
Book End
The library phoned me up last Wednesday and said they wanted me back, which is great news, but they need to sort some things out at their end before I can go back and as yet I haven't started yet. It's now been almost a week and I go back to York 3 weeks on Thursday so they better sort themselves out if they want me back in time. I am pretty desperate for the money now, I'm about £900 overdrawn. I really don't know where it all goes, as I don't spend that much money it seems to me. I go out pretty regularly, but it's not like I'm out drinking every single night of the week, and I don't buy clothes or DVDs or stuff that much. It just seems that the money disappears anyway. Life of a student I guess.
Exam Stress
At least I've been busy at home - revising and writing an essay. Luckily I've done about half my essay so I'm not too worried about that now but my exams are only in about 3 weeks and I'm quite worried about them. So far, I haven't done anything towards my degree (well, nothing assessed anyway) and after my essays are in and I've done my exams, that's a third of my degree. So as you can see they're quite important. I have been doing revision, but I just don't feel massively confident about them. I've never really had a problem with exams before, but because I haven't done any for 12 months, and they didn't count for anything, I just feel overly nervous about. I'd feel much more confident if all my assessment was done on essays as I think my technique is finally reaching a plateau and I reckon I could write a decent essay on just about anything. Well, perhaps not anything, but you know what I mean.
Spare Parts
Apart from that, I haven't done anything. Mother's Day was fun and it was my Nan's birthday yesterday so I spent the day with her. It's my niece's 3rd birthday in a week or 2 and I'm looking forward to Easter (I am a self-confessed choc-a-holic!). Oh, and I watched Wrestlemania on Sunday night, a proper post about that will follow when I get the chance.
Link-me-do
You’ve seen the Pornlizer, now see the Mr. T’inator!!! - http://firefly.sparse.org/~mrt/
The library phoned me up last Wednesday and said they wanted me back, which is great news, but they need to sort some things out at their end before I can go back and as yet I haven't started yet. It's now been almost a week and I go back to York 3 weeks on Thursday so they better sort themselves out if they want me back in time. I am pretty desperate for the money now, I'm about £900 overdrawn. I really don't know where it all goes, as I don't spend that much money it seems to me. I go out pretty regularly, but it's not like I'm out drinking every single night of the week, and I don't buy clothes or DVDs or stuff that much. It just seems that the money disappears anyway. Life of a student I guess.
Exam Stress
At least I've been busy at home - revising and writing an essay. Luckily I've done about half my essay so I'm not too worried about that now but my exams are only in about 3 weeks and I'm quite worried about them. So far, I haven't done anything towards my degree (well, nothing assessed anyway) and after my essays are in and I've done my exams, that's a third of my degree. So as you can see they're quite important. I have been doing revision, but I just don't feel massively confident about them. I've never really had a problem with exams before, but because I haven't done any for 12 months, and they didn't count for anything, I just feel overly nervous about. I'd feel much more confident if all my assessment was done on essays as I think my technique is finally reaching a plateau and I reckon I could write a decent essay on just about anything. Well, perhaps not anything, but you know what I mean.
Spare Parts
Apart from that, I haven't done anything. Mother's Day was fun and it was my Nan's birthday yesterday so I spent the day with her. It's my niece's 3rd birthday in a week or 2 and I'm looking forward to Easter (I am a self-confessed choc-a-holic!). Oh, and I watched Wrestlemania on Sunday night, a proper post about that will follow when I get the chance.
Link-me-do
You’ve seen the Pornlizer, now see the Mr. T’inator!!! - http://firefly.sparse.org/~mrt/
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
Boo Hurrah!
George Bush revealed - http://www.gradis.net/xray.htm
War Blogs - http://www.warblogging.com
Rate people's poo out of 10 - http://www.ratemypoo.com
George Bush revealed - http://www.gradis.net/xray.htm
War Blogs - http://www.warblogging.com
Rate people's poo out of 10 - http://www.ratemypoo.com
Thursday, March 20, 2003
Quote of the Day
"This is simply a warning shot across the bows of the Iraqi leadership" - Foreign Secretary Geoff Hoon describes today's attacks on Iraq
War War War, Jaw Jaw Jaw
War in Iraq is upon us today. Could today be a momentous day in history? The overthrowing of the evil dictator Saddam Hussein? Or merely the beginning of World War III? Sadly, only time will tell. I am against the war without a second UN resolution, however, I realise that Mr. Tony Blair believes he is doing what is best for the UK. Bush on the other hand, well, I'm not so sure what his reasons are, but jingoism aside, he hasn't properly explained himself. But who am I to disagree?
This war is wrong. It did not need to happen; it is unnecessary and was avoidable. There was still time; there were other ways and reasonable alternatives. But they were not honestly explored. In the mad, maddening rush to arms, the point of last resort was not reached. The case was not made; indeed, the wider international and domestic argument was lost. As US and British forces moved to forward battle positions last night and Iraq's civilian population sought shelter before the approaching storm, it was clear that those political leaders who set this conflict in train now carry an enormous responsibility. The responsibility is all the greater since it is by no means clear that it is fortified by international law, morality, logic or common sense.
"This is simply a warning shot across the bows of the Iraqi leadership" - Foreign Secretary Geoff Hoon describes today's attacks on Iraq
War War War, Jaw Jaw Jaw
War in Iraq is upon us today. Could today be a momentous day in history? The overthrowing of the evil dictator Saddam Hussein? Or merely the beginning of World War III? Sadly, only time will tell. I am against the war without a second UN resolution, however, I realise that Mr. Tony Blair believes he is doing what is best for the UK. Bush on the other hand, well, I'm not so sure what his reasons are, but jingoism aside, he hasn't properly explained himself. But who am I to disagree?
This war is wrong. It did not need to happen; it is unnecessary and was avoidable. There was still time; there were other ways and reasonable alternatives. But they were not honestly explored. In the mad, maddening rush to arms, the point of last resort was not reached. The case was not made; indeed, the wider international and domestic argument was lost. As US and British forces moved to forward battle positions last night and Iraq's civilian population sought shelter before the approaching storm, it was clear that those political leaders who set this conflict in train now carry an enormous responsibility. The responsibility is all the greater since it is by no means clear that it is fortified by international law, morality, logic or common sense.
There is the hope that Saddam, despite most predictions, may still flee or be overthrown and that his armies will heed US calls to surrender. The prospect that Iraq's dictator will at last be deposed is perhaps the only clear-cut benefit of this entire adventure. There is the hope that, despite months of US scare-mongering, Saddam will not use chemical or biological weapons. There is the hope that Iraq will not quickly splinter into myriad warring factions, creeds and clans and that Turkey's likely intervention in the north does not lead to ethnic conflict there. There is also the hope that the US military strategy, reliant on relatively few, fast-moving ground troops and tanks, supported from the air, will be able to engage and seize their objectives as quickly as planned. Last but not least, there is the profoundly-felt hope that Britain's own forces will escape serious mauling - and that any casualties, unlike after the last Gulf war, will be properly cared for when they come home. Sadly, Britain's fingers-crossed foreign policy means having to hope also that the government's failure to secure clear UN and legal authority does not compromise our soldiers.
The aims of this war have been unclear all along. That confusion must now end. The objective is not a US-run Iraq or some grandiose, US-designed regional reformation. It is an independent, integrated state led by indigenous Iraqis empowered by free elections and working in partnership with the UN. Tony Blair's assurance yesterday that Britain will seek agreement to establish a leading role for the UN is welcome. Getting in is much easier than getting out; but get out quickly the US must. Whatever Dick Cheney and his far-right friends may think, they have no business there.
Stop the War website can be found at: http://www.stopwar.org.uk/
The aims of this war have been unclear all along. That confusion must now end. The objective is not a US-run Iraq or some grandiose, US-designed regional reformation. It is an independent, integrated state led by indigenous Iraqis empowered by free elections and working in partnership with the UN. Tony Blair's assurance yesterday that Britain will seek agreement to establish a leading role for the UN is welcome. Getting in is much easier than getting out; but get out quickly the US must. Whatever Dick Cheney and his far-right friends may think, they have no business there.
Stop the War website can be found at: http://www.stopwar.org.uk/
This is a political war, a war of power largely orchestrated by the ideologues and zealots who surround that most implausible of presidents, George Bush. This recourse to war is a substitute for thought and understanding, divisive in conception and enormously damaging to the international order. More broadly, this is a war between powerful men on all sides, men accustomed to getting their own way. It is not a popularly-endorsed war, however hard they try to portray it so - not by the peoples of Iraq or the Muslim sphere or the peoples of the west. They did not want it. But it is ordinary people everywhere who will be affected by the imminent instability and terror. By this untimely, pre-emptive act are all debates, all protests and petitions, and - to most eyes - all UN processes set at nought. All that remains is the sad, fretful hope that it will soon be over.
Hope is - and should be - the policy now. In truth, hope is the only policy for a Britain committed to the US come what may, almost wholly deprived of its independence of action, both military and diplomatic, and at the mercy of events directed in Washington. There is the hope that civilian casualties are kept to a minimum (whatever that means) and the American bombs and missiles are indeed "smarter" than in 1991. There is the hope that pledges to avoid essential civilian infrastructure such as hospitals and power plants will be honoured. This war will be prosecuted, says US Admiral Timothy Keating, with "breath-taking speed, agility, precision and persistence". Well, we shall see. Aid agencies warn of possible humanitarian and refugee crises. Hopefully, these human tragedies will not materialise.
Hope is - and should be - the policy now. In truth, hope is the only policy for a Britain committed to the US come what may, almost wholly deprived of its independence of action, both military and diplomatic, and at the mercy of events directed in Washington. There is the hope that civilian casualties are kept to a minimum (whatever that means) and the American bombs and missiles are indeed "smarter" than in 1991. There is the hope that pledges to avoid essential civilian infrastructure such as hospitals and power plants will be honoured. This war will be prosecuted, says US Admiral Timothy Keating, with "breath-taking speed, agility, precision and persistence". Well, we shall see. Aid agencies warn of possible humanitarian and refugee crises. Hopefully, these human tragedies will not materialise.
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