One Geek

Tonight was a very special night for me. The last new episode of Buffy ever.

I brought a new 51′ TV just for the occasion. To get myself in the mood I watched the Season 2 and Season 5 finallies first. Then it was on to the main event.
It was one of the coolest Buffies ever it was really funny and it redeifined stuff. My favorite bit of Buffy has always been the relationships and they were true to them in this final episode.

Now I am entering SPOILER TERITORY.

Buffy tells Angel that she is look cookie dough and that she’s not ready to be with someone until she’s a cookie. That was a really cool way of putting a sound idea. That you need to be complete in yourself before your ready for someone to “eat you.” Sbe also chooses Spike over Angel to be her champion. When Buffy tells Spike she wants him to be her champion he is beside himself.

Willow gets her redemtion in making all the potential Slayers actual Slayers through this spell thing. Very empowering. In the mean time Buffy leads a charge into the Hell Mouth to kill all these uber vamps with her band of potentials.
Spike dies saving the world destroying the hell mouth. Buffy tells him that she love’s him Spike says no you don’t, but it means a lot that you said that. This was very touching. In the mean time Spike is exploding into some kind of light/energy thingy. Buffy eventually moves on leaving Spike to save the world. So Spike after failing to save Buffy in Season 5 finally gets his redemption. Which is nice.
The whole of Sunnydale collapses into a hole and the hell mouth is finally closed. Everyone is left free to decide what to do with their lives now.

Much more happens in the episode so I think you should watch it yourself and see. I think that it was a great way to end the show. I can’t wait for Spike to turn up in the next season of Angel though. Thank you Joss for bringing me Buffy.

What defines an individual is not how he treats his friends but how he treates his enemies. Most people treat there friends relativly well it is treating enemies with dignity, love and respect that iis hard. It follows then that how a nation deals with it’s enemy defines it. So when a country treats it’s criminals poorly or cruelly it reflects poorly on them.

I think that people saying Amrozi should suffer more then being executed by a firing squad is apauling. Whilst it is an understandable to want justice, capital punishment is not a suitible option. Making someone suffer doesn’t bring back the dead. Or make their deaths more meaningful.

Freedom is the ability to say 2 + 2 = 4 even when the authorities say 2+2 =5. Good old 1984.

Disney and Dreamworks are both using Linux for their animation these days. Why because Linux is better and cheaper. What do you do if Adobe won’t port Photoshop to Linux, modify WINE to let you run it natively. That is why Free/Open Source software is called Libere software. It frees you. No longer can vendors controll you. If you want to change something you can.

To many people think that WINE is an emulator. They are wrong! What does WINE stand for Wine Is Not Emulator. It is an interface layer for the WIN32 API and hence does not need a copy of windows. It also runs natively.

Is a fantastic film. If you haven’t seen it go out an hire it. It is one of the bestest foriegn films ever. It’s fun to watch you don’t get bored and you for get about the subtitles. Anyway I went to write about it in my learning journal and I got all flustered and wrote really crapilly. I want to see whether once they see my writting they think I should create an E-Journal.

In fact I probably am. I do believe that I we should all celebrate the “I might be wrong day,” I may of been totally wrong.

I think I am tired of geek based relationships at Uni. There are only so many supperficial geek based convesations one person can have. The other main topic at uni is general bitching about Uni type things. ie lectures. I think I am going to start trying to talk about more interesting things at Uni. I also want to develop more relationships with people who aren’t so geeky. I am tired of being lonely when there are hundreds of people around me.

I have an aim. By the end of the year I want to have done something outside of Uni with someone from Uni. Excluding Credo engineers.

I don’t know if I will be involved in Credo (on campus evangelical group) much this semester. I have avoided there Got Issues mission that they have been running this week and last week. I think sometimes that Credo is really naive and uninspiring. I am afraid that whilst they may be trying to do good it’s not really achieving much.

Actually I am wrong there if someone manages to enter into a real relationship with God then I guess it is achieving a lot. I just don’t think the method is adequate for the creation of a deep faith. I believe in deep questioning of stuff. All the same who am I to despise small things, I think I must be happy for people with a simple faith. I sometimes wish I could just accept the status quo of beliefs in mainstream Christianity but I can’t.

There is something very challenging when the vast majoryity of suffering in your life has been caused by Christians getting it wrong. Or at least by people claiming to believe in God. I am afraid that years of experience have left me questioning. And some of the most influencial people in my life also question and believe different things.

I think in my experience Christ is the most important thing in my belief about God. I think that Christ like love is awesome. I don’t know how to read the Bible. I don’t know how to deal with genocide ordained from on high. I don’t know whether the Bible is historically accurate. I don’t know how much of it is myth. I don’t know about other religions. I don’t know about the Holy Spirit.

So what do I believe for sure.
I do believe that there is a God who loves me though and that is enough. I know that he calls me to a life of love. Caring for my fellow man and asspiring to be a better person. Not in the “world’s” eyes but from a point of view of love. I don’t know about the afterlife I believe that there is probably some kind of life after this one. And that for those who love God on this earth he will reward latter.

I had an audience with Andrew tonight. His back from London. It was better then I thought it would be. Jo was there which was nice. It is always a nice suprise when I happen to see her.

I believe is a load of crap. At least the way it is taught in my course anyway. As far as I can tell a lot of it is pure crap. It’s just that enough people agree in the concepts that it becomes accepted. Money is a social construct but it is also something worthy of worship. I think people try to justify greed too much. It neglects the social impacts of economics and it suggests that the practice of getting things manufactured where there is cheap/slave labour is good for the “economy”.

Plus my tutor was like majorly boring just kind of going through the text book saying some stuff from there. He got a fair few things wrong too. Plus he wore a suit. I don’t like people who wear suits when teaching at uni . It’s just an unnessary thing it’s almost show offish. Why would you wear a full suit with a tie when everyone else (at least at your level) are dressed far more casually. I just don’t understand it.

Operating Systems lecture was good. It talked about POSIX and coldfire embeeded linux stuff.

As if my day wasn’t geeky enough I ended up building a fusion editing computer. I ended up spending about 4 hours on the silly machine. I don’t like windows XP. It is crap. But anyway Robert kept me entertained and even got us some hot chips gravy and coke. He is a good block thay boy.

Anyway I managed to get the computer all finished and it’s all looking good. I have now build three and a half video editing systems.

When you post to your blog from solaris.

Mozilla Plugins are great.

With this new plugin I can now ban websites from using there own colours javascript images cokies and flash on a whim. I can also pretend to be running ie 5.0 on a mac if I like. How cool is that?
Note I also have the google bar install for mozilla as well.

Has been moved to http://webmail.ahill.com . And I think that the MT has been upgraded to have extra icons on it for bold and stuff. Goto go to class now. Bye.