Chris Worfolk's Blog

The Wendy House is the monthly goth event at the union. I was reading their website and I came accross this…

NOTES: We operate Strobes, flashing lights and there’s also smoke. For your safety, the venue currently is running a policy of random searches. Right of Admission is Reserved. The University will not allow Nazi insignia on the premesis.

“The University will not allow Nazi insignia on the premesis.” So are these guys saying that if it was up to them, they would?

My inbox count is creeping back up again. It went as high as 25 today although I’ve managed to get it back down to 19 now.

Isn’t a bit bullshit when major Hollywood stars like Jennifer Aniston are starring in films at the flagship festival for “independent movie making,” it just doesn’t really seem to be in the spirit of things.

I took the friendship quiz in the February issue of Teen People and scored 11 / 21 (I’m not going to explain why I have a copy of Teen People but those of you familiar with xmeltrut.com should be able to work out why).

That puts me in the bottom 7-11 points category “where is the love” (it’s worth noting that 7 is the minimum points you can score). This is what is says about me…

The way you are threating your friends, it’s hard to believe you have any left. Try considering other people’s feelings and showing graditude.

I think that sums me up nicely :p. Ok, I’m going to be honest, I’m not that guy. I wish I was, if I could change my personality I would probably me more ruthless and more strong-willed. But considering the quiz asks questions about cheerleading and friends talking about getting dumped I think it’s only accurate for girls or camp guys anyway.

A friend of mine has apparently got his free PSP on the way to him from FreePay (it used to be called Gratis network). I somehow got myself signed up to the Free Ipods site and I’ve completed an offer although I found one that was free, I’m not going to invest money in it as then to make it worth it I will have to invest more to make sure I get it.

Bottom line is, I know it’s legit as all the news sources like CNN and Wired have been talking about it but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a scam. it’s still a pyramid scheme where most people don’t end up with anything. But we’ll see how it goes.

One thing I just remembered while I was in the shower. One of the questions for my introduction to systems development exam was…

What is YHMAN? Who founded it? When? How big is it?

Looking back on it putting

There’s no such thing according to Wikipedia

Was probably not the best answer I could have given :p. I put that in my practice questions and I’m sure there was a reason that made it sound like a good idea when I put it in the actual exam too.

I don’t think I emphasised this point enough last night. My exams are over! I have no more, at least until the end of next semester which is ages away anyway. I have lectures starting again on Monday but this gives me three days in which I don’t have to feel guilty about doing no work because I simply have absolutely nothing to do.

Finished my exams today so I was in a partying mood. It was Claudia’s birthday so we were all heading down to Bar Risa. Although when I got there half of them had gone to Oceana. Still there was enough of us there to make a night of it.

Tonight was pretty mental. Started off around 9:30 in the Bod Bar, got a few drinks in with Jed, Kev, Sean and two of the Daves then got the bus down to Bar Risa which is now staging Indie Rox (rumour has it that Halo has been closed down which sucks if it has though it would explain the change of venue).

We left about 1:40 or something, Precious was absolutely wasted and he and Chris ended up falling on the floor in a pile-up. Next thing we know there are 7 police around us wearing armoured jackets and the lot. Anyway we got on the bus and they were chanting until 3 more police got on the bus ;). We managed to get them quiter then although not silent.

Arriving home there was only one thing to do – watch Back to the Future :p.

One plus about Bar Risa is that the bar staff are really hot but the downside is they are really blonde ;). It was like 1:20 or something and as I’d finished drinking (I was warmed up by then so I wind down after that to keep my head clear) I ordered a coke and so she gives me a glass filed with ice and then starts serving someone else! Ah well, at least it was incredibly amusing :D.

I think it’s 3, I loose count. Also I didn’t count the problems with the photos I took at my school and there is something else I didn’t count but yeah anyway, so, it happened again. I think it’s worth noting that this kind of talk gets thrown around a lot of the net though and most of it is BS. But that’s not saying you don’t have to be careful.

I got an email from the editor of the Dev Shed network concerning CassieNet News which if your not familar with is kind of like the Internet Archive for RSS feeds. However Dev Shed weren’t happy about their content being included. They didn’t mention this on their site or RSS feed though, neither of which have terms of use attached. But it’s not a major problem as they emailed me and I took it down for them, I was happy to do so.

Never the less the original email did contain the phrase:

before we have to resort to legal measures

Also when I responded I got an email from Spam Arrest saying I needed to go to their site to confirm this wasn’t spam before the e-mail would be passed along. Ironically the e-mail telling me to do this got caught my my spam filter. Luckily I checked it for false-positives and saw it as I may just have deleted it and he would never have got my response. It’s a joke that Spam Arrest can’t keep their own emails out of the spam traps though.

The other thing I don’t like about Spam Arrest is that you have to agree to a bunch of terms and conditions that involves paying huge fines if you do sent commerical e-mails. Not that I would ever do that or plan to do that, but what if I didn’t want to agree to the terms? It’s like the government spying on you and saying “well if you’re not doing anything illegal what do you have to worry about?” It still doesn’t make it ok.

Yes, it’s true, Worfolk Shopping now has some actual content. I’ve had the domain since 2004 and never actually done anything with it, at least now it has something on, even if it is only an Amazon powered site. It’s a start at least.