Ah, immense relief July 22, 2007
Posted by krisN in Entertainment, Fun, Happenings, Life.add a comment
Well, I finished the final instalment of Harry Potter only about 20mins ago. It is such a great relief to have finished it and I don’t think I could be more satisfied with the ending. I agree with what Rowling said – it really does finish the whole story very nicely. The only other time a story has finished so much my way was Life on Mars, which felt so extremely satisfying that I could hardly believe it even existed but this feel like so much more than that. Having been given so long to read and re-read the books getting to know and love these characters the ending just felt so right. I’m just so pleased
Similarly now I feel I can go back to doing things I normally do which I had put on hold to make sure that I didn’t collide with any spoilers. I don’t think I can do anything but be pleased at the moment.
How lovely.
Fuck – internet a danger earlier than I expected July 17, 2007
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Just got home and spotted that Harry Potter 7 has been leaked onto bit torrent. That really makes my fucking day.
I had already planned it out, I wouldn’t dare look at the internet once the book was out, or even leave the house, or anything for fear of getting hit with a spoiler. Now I have to live in fear until I can finally get my hands on it, or I torrent the book and start reading. But I really don’t want to do that.
It was only just a couple of days ago that I read that it was surprising it hadn’t been leaked yet and now it has. I’m not sure that there is anything I can do without finding spoilers. There are fucking bastards on the internet and given that this is the last book there are going to be some uber ripe and juicy spoilers just ready to spread onto the net. I really don’t know what I’m gonna do.
Not to mention people are going to start shouting random fake spoilers, at least if you know that no one other than Rowling knows the spoilers you don’t have to worry about random people making comments as you know its all bullshit. Now anything could be true but its not even going to be as fair as that. Enough people will say the real spoilers that it will be obvious.
AGGGHHHH.
I really don’t know what to do here, I don’t want the book spoiled but at the same time I don’t want an internet lockdown for the rest of the week. I’m not sure anything is safe, I can’t stumble or look at digg or anything. It’s all at risk now.
Damn it.
If only nobody cared I wouldn’t be at risk.
And yes, I am writing as though it is some kind of contagious disease – because it is. You only have to look once and that’s it everything gets ruined, its like how you can’t un-see anything (and hence why you should never click any links), you can’t un-read anything either, or un-hear for that matter.
I feel like I can’t do ANYTHING. There’s a reasonable chance that people at school will have found the spoilers, probably just to go around shouting them just to fucking piss people off.
I can’t even do things that would normally take my mind off impending doom such as play Wow, or…yeah…browse the internet.
I guess I either have to accept that its going to be ruined for me, hide till it comes out or torrent it and do nothing but read until I finish it. UGGHH!
That is really not the kind of decision I want to be making.
I really don’t give a fuck about Madeline June 12, 2007
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I was talking about this earlier today because the village where I live has posters up about her disappearance, however long ago it was. This kinda pisses me off on a few different levels.
- I seem to remember at the beginning of this whole media frenzy it was mentioned that she had been left alone whilst the parents were having a meal. Woah, wait a minute right there! The parents just went off and had a meal whilst they left their four year old alone in the hotel room? Right from that minute I felt it would be very difficult to feel sympathy for these parents. I still feel that way now.
- Shit happens all the fucking time, there really is no reason whatsoever why this particular case deserves so much attention, along with all the other stuff the parents have gotten out of it (I can’t really give examples other than a visit to the Pope but since they got that I think they probably got more).
- Since they going and visiting the Pope, who can do fuck all about finding their daughter, I can’t really come to any other conclusion other than they are enjoying the attention from the media and the apparent privileges that come from that. I personally find that sickening.
- I’m generally quite apathetic to the suffering of individuals unless I know them. You might think this as harsh but I more see it this way: I can’t be sympathetic to all the bad shit going on for the millions of people I don’t know, at least if I care about none of them I’m not discriminating. Worrying about individuals in such a manner doesn’t do anything, I can’t help them but maybe I can make a difference in general such as helping to end poverty and improving education. The people around me maybe I can help so they are the only people worth devoting my energy to, not because they are “better people” but because they are people I personally know and care about and more primarily I can actually maybe do something to help.
Ultimately this pretty young white girl thing just pisses me off. The media will keep it up until more people change their attitude and see how much bullshit it is.
New Turisas album – hooray May 30, 2007
Posted by krisN in Happenings, Music.2 comments
My copy of the new Turisas album The Varangian Way arrived yesterday, only the day after it was released so I’m pleased about that for starters. I bought their first album on a whim but it pretty much blew my mind, what they dub as “battle metal” is a sort aggressive folk metal with orchestration. I wouldn’t really expect many people to like it if they didn’t give it a shot but personally I think its awesome.
This new album is much more varied than the previous one, there are areas with much more use of the acordian and violin as well as quieter and louder areas with more aggressive stuff that resembles more of the bulk of the metal genre I suppose. For me that’s great as I really love the folky stuff but it also has variation that I really appreciate and given that I enjoy other areas of metal it all fits together nicely. My first listen gave me a good feeling about it, I’m listening again at the moment and enjoying it even more. I would advise people to buy it (and the first one, totally mind blowing) but
- No one reads my crappy blog
- No one cares what I have to say about this album
Didn’t stop me writing this post though eh?
School based fun further developments May 22, 2007
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The site I mentioned I was working on in a previous post is still being worked on albeit more slowly. The actual news is that I decided to buy hosting and a domain for pretty dirt cheap from tengun.net and go daddy respectively. Go daddy are having a sale on .info domains so I grabbed tehdurka.info for about £0.64 in total for a year. I don’t really think you can get a better deal than that. Hosting equates to about £1.04 per month with PHP and MySQL although register_globals is off so I have to change quite a lot of code to make it work properly but at the same time it makes my code better and more secure so its all good really. I reckon that it costs a lot more than £1.04 a month just to leave my computer on during the day (electricity costs) so it seems like a very good deal for me and it means the site will always be online and working at a good speed so its good for the users as well.
I might see if I can get some Google adsense going to pay these little costs, I dunno whether they would accept me though. I also would like to revamp the site both visually and code wise but I’m going to put most of that off till after my exams since I’ve been told teachers go very easy on us for the remainder of the term. I also ought to do some more university research as well and try and pick out some more places to apply to, I’d like to feel ready by the time it comes to writing personal statements etc. I also need to go on some open days but they tend to be during the holidays so I can’t do that yet.
Ok that really is it for today, I seem to have gone a bit overdrive for some reason.
