War Profiteering 101

War Profiteering 101:
Step 1: Find shady Middle Eastern dude
Step 2: Give shady Middle Eastern dude weapons
Step 3: Use shady Middle Eastern dude as scapegoat
Step 4: Bomb Middle East
Step 5: Profit!
Step 6: Declare victory
Step 7: Kill shady Middle Eastern dude. He is no longer needed.
Step 8: Repeat step 1

The end of the new theme

This will be my last post for cmpt 376 and I want to reflect on the last 25 posts in this blog. Initially I had hoped to write some intelligent and worthwhile posts, but my laziness got the better of me. I'm not saying that I didn't put any thought into it, but the well thought out posts were not as frequent as I had hoped. even so, I'm still happy that this blog actually had a legitimate purpose for once (5%). I guess it's now time to go back to our irregularly scheduled programming of profanity, Bible verses and anti-Americanism.

11 days left and Ubuntu stuff

Next week is the last week of class, and there is one assignment due for each class. At this point, I'm honestly just looking to get it over with.

On a completely unrelated not, Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1 was released today. Once I stop being lazy, I will read up about it and maybe post my opinion here. I am looking forward to this version of Ubuntu because it will be running on the 2.6.38 kernel and from what I've read, it will result in a noticeable leap in performance. I'm still not a fan of Unity, and after running the Macbuntu theme since Christmas, I don't want to go back to standard Gnome. I'm hoping the Macbuntu developers release an 11.04 version soon after the OS gets released.

Shaw bandwidth caps

With this whole UBB debate still raging on (not in the news), you may be curious to find out how much bandwidth you are using. If you are a Shaw customer, head over to secure.shaw.ca and sign up for an account. From there, you can see your monthly bill as well as a nice bar graph of your monthly usage. I am currently at 59.xxGB for March, with 12 days until April 1st. Let's hope I don't get any angry emails.

30 days left

There are 30 days left in the spring 2011 semester and I seriously need to stop slacking. This week I have three assignments due. I really should start doing them, but the force of procrastination is strong. I also need to look into doing more job applications for summer co-op, but I feel quite lazy. I think I might have burned myself out last semester. It will e a shame if my GPA drops after this semester.

On the up side, I'm almost done with this blogging business...

R.I.P Mike Starr

The original bassist of Alice In Chains was found dead on March 8. He was 44. I'm guessing people who aren't fans of the band don't know who he was. Starr played bass on AIC's first two studio records. He contributed to the most "well known" Alice In Chains songs. His work can be heard on the song "Would?", "Man In The Box" and all the other songs from Facelift and Dirt. It's a shame that he could not overcome his addictions.

TIL: I am allergic to alder, birch and oak

Today I had an allergy test done. As I suspected, I am allergic to grass. I guess I'm just the typical hay fever sufferer, and that's fine by me, but it turn out I am also allergic to alder, birch and oak. That was totally new to me. There goes a career in trail building and forestry...