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sabu
23rd April 2006

8:30pm: Woah, woah, where did all this emo come from? Not on!

edit: meh, it's not so emo. Except for two specific individuals, it seems.

sabu
15th February 2006

3:25pm: I am slowly going through the site and fixing things, rearranging parts, and so on. Please bear with me.

Updates as they happen:
  • The front page now uses more css and is dynamically compressed by the server, reducing the download size by about 60%
  • Dynamic compression now applies to all journal pages. My main journal page, for instance, reduced from 15kb to 5kb.
  • Same to most main pages - recent, interests, memberlist, links
  • Optimised the database and promised myself to do it more often (ha)
  • Changed the 'sabu production' message. Really, that's just egotistic. I reversed the mood.
  • Each main page said 'total 15 entries' or something equally wrong. It now displays the correct number.
  • Rather than saying 'next 15' and 'previous 15', it's a bit more relevant with 'newer' and 'older'

sabu
17th July 2005

5:09pm: Special Note

Any post that appears on the 'recent' page that contains spoilers to the newest harry potter book will be shot on sight

sabu
6th July 2005

2:23pm: It was way too early in the morning (read: 11:30am) and some salesperson from some real estate agent knocked at my door. As I clambered over and began to open the door, dressed in.. well, clothes I would not usually go out and about in, I could not resist hunching over and intoning, as I pulled open the large wooden entrance,
"As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door"
I guess you had to be there. Or me.

sabu
11th May 2005

4:52pm: In light of the recent SA attack on Furtopia, I have decided to temporarily change my avatar. There are people I know who visit that site, and I would prefer they didn't recognise me by my avatar picture.

sabu
15th April 2005

7:32pm: psst.. happy birthday sabu

sabu
7th March 2005

10:51pm: For those who haven't quite picked this up, I have been far to busy to do anything with tthe site. It's probable evident in that the last main update was in November. So here's the details, quick and easy.

Employment: I'm now programming a top secret multimillion dollar project for some company involving electronic equipment. The multimillion part, however, remains hidden.

Education: I just started University and the homework is being applied by the bucket.

And.. well, that's all I need, really. When I chance apon some free time (read: in four years, when I've finished this uni course and I'm a full-on teacher, I might have a lunch break or two) I'll see what I can do about recoding parts of this site. The things I've learned since then, man, I could double the speed.

More as it happens.

sabu
19th February 2005

9:56am: I am aware of the recent upsurge in activity relating to the arrival of one self proclaimed 'anti fur' who has arisen under the nickname [Anastu]

Although their initial post may offend you, feel free to notce that the particular user has not made a single sign of activity since then, and might have been a temporary jolt of uncreativity.

If they do decide to return, rest assured that periodic backups are made of the FurJournal database and, er, 'administrative action' will be taken should they decide to cause trouble.

sabu
20th January 2005

2:38am: Over the course of my computing experience there have been three major catastrophes caused by me. namely:
  • Deleting the entire 'windows' section of the registry.
  • Installing a large norton product
  • Upgrading to FireFox 1
This is seriously a bad move. It fails to read my bookmarks, the menu becomes unusable once you click 'customise toolbar', all my extensions are obsolete, it seems to have lost all of its tabbed browsing support (or specifically, I can't make any link open in a new tab)

So what did I do? Shove all the old firefox files back in their place. Completely replaced the new ones. Now all I have to do is reinstall a few extensions, get that tabbed browser support, and get firefox to figure out which version it is.

What a night.

[Updated to yell: WHY WON'T ANYTHING OPEN IN A NEW TAB/WINDOW?]
[Updated to calm down: ok, so I uninstalled the whole shebang, reinstalled and to my surprise all the extensions remain. All is well.]

sabu
16th December 2004

10:42am: half a llama twice the llama not a llama farmer llama llama in a car alarm a llama


Say that out aloud to yourself, and you'll fell better for it

sabu
9th December 2004

4:23pm: It's been pouring rain today.

So, this is what I did: turned off all the lights, turned off the television, everything. I sat myself next to a window with my dog and played Hali's (Matthew Ebel's) "Rain".

The moment it ended, the rain stopped outside. As I type this, I can hear the last remaining thunder releasing as the clouds drift away towards the north west.

sabu
7th December 2004

4:29pm: Here's my newest way to deal with telemarketers:

Me: 'ello?
Them: Good afternoon, I'm [name] from [research company], is Mr [Sabu] there?
Me: Please hold.
Me: *hangs up*

sabu
24th November 2004

10:09am: This is testing some features

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sabu
19th November 2004

2:50pm: Today we got a lizard.

Two, actually. Two very healthy little blue-tongued lizards, as an early birthday present for the maternal parental unit.

They are, but not exactly, very similar to this dude in the image. Apparently they eat all manner of things, from crickets and snails to bananas and strawberries. Rigth now they're sitting in a large cardboard box, waiting for their gravel to dry out so we can set up their proper tank with the themostat and UV lights (they need this kind of heat, or they get sick)

We've (well, the parental unit, but us too) always wanted a lizard or two, and blue-tongues are the variety of choice. They grow up to be huge chunky things, but all the way through they're fun to hold and sit on the grass to run around in the sun.

One of them is now called Basil. The other is undecided.

We just have to be careful with the dog
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sabu
7th November 2004

10:29pm: MAthematics and I never really got along together.

My very last big maths exam is tomorrow, and here I am sitting over a probability exercise.

Now take some shrub cuttings, right, and plant them into the ground. Noticing that there is a 2x/(n(n+1)) probability of any cutting turning into a whole new shrub, which anyone can clearly see, given that 'n' is the number of cuttings planted.

Now the total cost involved in planting these cuttings is 30+0.6n^2, which is certainly obvious enough.

If 5 shrubs were to be planted, what's the expected profit if each succesful plant can be sold for $50?

Now the common street worker could easily tell you that there is an expected profit of about $138.33 if you were to plant 5 cuttings; given those probabilities and planting costs.

30+0.6(5)^2 = $45 to plant 5. $50 they sell for. Whatever we figure out to, it has to end up with a number divisible by 5.

$138.33 is the answer the examiners are looking for. A wrong answer. Mathematica
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