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Hrmm, Ron sure was in a ranting mood today...

So for the last few weeks I've been working on a project to bring a new mail server together here at work. Basicly the old one is old.

So, we have a computer, and we're setting it up...

First thing we discover is that setting up and configuring sendmail is akin to having to eat an old XT (without salt, no less). In other words, it's hard. So we dumped sendmail in favour of postfix, which we set up in a matter of minutes (compared to sendmail's days of configuration).

Stood in line for 2 hours today to get into some extra courses for University... you see, in the first year, they would normally only permit you to register for 5 full courses totalling 30 credit-hours. (A full course is normally weighted at 6 cr/h's.)

Couple things to note while I head to bed this eve.

Our ball team loses a lot. This may come as a surprise to many, but we're just not that good...

I have to work tomorrow afternoon. Yeah, I know.

Everquest can be so interesting, yet so boring simultaneously. The real problem lies with the fact that I don't play it much anymore, maybe 1 day in 5. In this fashion, it loses it's immersive joys, and becomes even more superficial.

Amateur Rockets...

X-prize entry...

Another entry...

I, for one, am quite glad that we get such fun rockets developed in Canada. Who's up for making a Winnipeg rocket? (We'd likely get free launch facilities at Churchill...)

Adding to this post instead of add YET another one today...

Ricki, et al.: related to Evercrack, I have made some realisations.

Evercrack in some senses is no better than TV, and in some senses it's worse, since it has no real applications to RL.

The energy leaves

As a strange leather heat-sink.

My brain cools itself.

Five O'Clock shadow

Creeps across the shiney top

Of my naked head.

I have now decided something. We as humanity must create a race of Vulcans among ourselves.

In ancient times, man was given the gift of fire. How many of us can even make a fire any longer, without the aid of an incindiary device.

The name Vulcan is apt for two reasons - one for our ability to tame things, such as fire. Another is the great analogue to the Vulcans of Star Trek. (Ever wonder why they are called Vulcans, perhaps?)

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

--George Bernard Shaw

Recently I have been studying some cults and cult-like organisations. Most of them have serious issues, and this is why they are cults.