Friday 30 May 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

Does this make sense to anybody else??

(And is it mandatory for XKCD forum posts to consist of “zomg! randal get out of my head!!!11“?)

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Wednesday 28 May 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

Ever since I signed up to the Haskell mailing list, I have noticed slight reliability issues. It’s possible to read the mailing list using Gmane, but to post you have to be signed up.

So I can read the list from Gmane or my inbox. But the two sources don’t always agree. Sometimes I post an email, and it appears on Gmane, but doesn’t appear in my inbox for a day or two. Sometimes messages from other people appear on Gmane and never arrive in my inbox. Sometimes I post a message, and it doesn’t appear anywhere for many hours. And so on.

In the last few days, I have discovered that every time I post a message to the mailing list, I get an automatic message that it is being held for moderation becuase this is a moderated list. I have no way of knowing whether all messages on the list are being moderated or just mine. The automatic message states that the message will either be posted or I will be notified of why it isn’t being posted, but I have now sent several emails which to this date have not been posted.

I’m beginning to wonder whether this is due to faulty technology or a deliberate campaign to get me to shut up…

(It’s probably worth noting that my ISP’s email system seems a little flakey at best, so that’s probably where the problem is. But I’m becomming paranoid now!)

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Wednesday 28 May 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

I just read today’s QC strip. My God, I love it!!

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Saturday 24 May 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

I’ve been chatting to my friend via Facebook most evenings this week. Monday night I was really depressed for some reason. He wasn’t really a lot of help — and he types really slowly! On other nights, I was less depressed, and we had a bit of a chat. Since my mum is somewhere in the God-forsaken wilderness of North Wales right now, we arranged that he’d come over to visit me. And today, that’s just what happened.

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Friday 23 May 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

So I just wrote a program that picks dictionary words at random and strings them together. This probably won’t amuse anybody else nearly as much as it amuses me, but my program just produced this gem:

“bookshelf straiten impassible cesarean wraparound”

That gave me a good laugh!

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Friday 23 May 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

Example Graph Jam Entry

Need I say any more?

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Friday 23 May 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

Apparently we’ve dispenced with the company that used to bring sandwiches to our office. We’re now using a new outfit called “Rumbles”. This is apparently due to the effect that eating their products has on you — damnit, I’m still really hungry!

Ah, but fear not! Because I’ve still got [muhuhuhuhu!!] an entire box of Marks & Spencer “Extremely Chocolaty Mini Bites”.

[I can just see the brainstorming session for the product name now…]

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Wednesday 21 May 2008 by Orphi the AweKid.

Well, I thought it would be something like this. But apparently not. It’s just been displaced by this. (Also check here.)

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