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Customers outside UK welcome, and I\'ll sort out the price)\r\n <li>Extra Transfer (ie, on back)\r\n <li>Transparent Transfer (see below)\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<p>All transfers have a white border by default. Transparent transfers are available, but have to be specially made and are therefore more expensive.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>All prices are preliminary until I get definite confirmation from my supplier, at which point I shall honour all prices made at this point unless, naturally, the new price is lower.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>For more information and orders, contact <a href=\"mailto:TShirts@Aquarionics.com\">TShirts@Aquarionics.com</a>. (Orders need a Transfer size, T-Shirt Size, Extra Things you need, that sort of thing)</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Things To Note:</h2>\r\n<p>I won\'t touch Kidby/Kirby images, or anything with questionable copyrights, with a forty foot barge pole (let alone a T-Shirt maker) without at least an e-mail from the artist.</p>\r\n<p>I /will/ however, put quotes into appropriate fonts and put them on T-Shirts for those people desirous of such things.</p>\r\n<p>All profits from T-Shirts with either of the <a href=\"http://afpmovie.orcon.net.nz\">AFPMovie</a> logos on them will go to the AFPMovie Fund</p>',5,'html','','N51:10:41 E0:23:30'),(3,'Codes','2002-03-11 00:00:00','2006-03-01 19:08:37',1,'<p> You must have seen them, Anytime a community decides it has enough members it creates a code that is un-identifiable as anything unless you feed it into a certain web page.<p>\r\n<p> My collection is below </p>\r\n\r\n<CENTER>\r\n<p>\"Forget Quotes, Lets have some unidentifyable codes!\"- anon, RIP</p>\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n----- Begin Geekcode block -----------<BR>\r\n\r\n<a Href=\"http://www.geekcode.com\" Target=\"main\">\r\n1998: GCS/LS/PA d+(-) s+:+ a--- C++++ U? 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They littered my journal for ages, so I put them all here...</p>\r\n\r\n<p>(Note: Many of the links to the tests - particually towards the end - are now 404ing because the test no longer exists, this is part of the ebbing and flowing of the net, sorry)</p>\r\n\r\n<table border=\'0\' cellpadding=\'5\' cellspacing=\'0\' width=\'600\'><tr><td><img src=\'http://images.quizfarm.com/1130268505NEO.jpg\'></td><td> You scored as <b>Neo, the "One"</b>. Neo is the computer hacker-turned-Messiah of the Matrix. He leads a small group of human rebels against the technology that controls them. Neo doubts his ability to lead but doesn\'t want to disappoint his friends. 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Some of the links below will be broken (Due to other people *not* hosting the images locally and the site being shut down)</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"http://quizilla.com/users/Margolotta/quizzes/Discworld%3A%20Which%20Ankh-Morpork%20City%20Watch%20Character%20are%20YOU%3F/\"><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/vetinari.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Vetinari!!\"><br> <font size=\"-1\">Discworld: Which Ankh-Morpork City Watch Character are YOU?</font></a><BR> <font size=\"-3\">brought to you by <a href=\"http://quizilla.com\">Quizilla</a></font></p>\r\n\r\n<center><font face=\"arial\">i am an indie snob!<br>\r\n<img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/snob.jpg\"><br>\r\n<a href=\"http://home.iprimus.com.au/sparvin/indie.htm\">\r\nHow indie are you?</a> test by <a href=\"http://www.livejournal.com/users/ridethefader\">ridethefader</a>\r\n<br>You\'re just too cool for school, aren\'t you? You\'re pretty narrow minded \r\nand opinionated with regards to music (and probably most other things \r\nas well). But you\'re allowed to be, because you really <i>are</i> better \r\nthan everyone else. You take pride in obscurity. \r\nYou probably prefer vinyl too, you elitist bitch.\r\n</font></center>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2>Buffy Tests</h2>\r\n\r\n<p><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/esintheway.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><br>Standing In The Way....\r\n<br><br><a href=\"http://quizilla.com/users/Shoshanna/quizzes/Which%20Buffy%20Musical%20Song%20Are%20You%3F/\"> <font size=\"-1\">Which Buffy Musical Song Are You?</font></a><BR> <font size=\"-3\">brought to you by <a href=\"http://quizilla.com\">Quizilla</a></font>\r\n</p><p>\r\n<img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/zzesamazed.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><br>We Are Amazed!\r\n<br><br><a href=\"http://quizilla.com/users/Shoshanna/quizzes/How%20Big%20of%20a%20Buffy%20Fan%20Are%20You%3F/\"> <font size=\"-1\">How Big of a Buffy Fan Are You?</font></a><BR> <font size=\"-3\">brought to you by <a href=\"http://quizilla.com\">Quizilla</a></font>\r\n</p><p>\r\n<img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/zzesnormal.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><br>Normal Fan\r\n<br><br><a href=\"http://quizilla.com/users/Shoshanna/quizzes/How%20Obsessive%20Are%20You%20Over%20Buffy%3F/\"> <font size=\"-1\">How Obsessive Are You Over Buffy?</font></a><BR> <font size=\"-3\">brought to you by <a href=\"http://quizilla.com\">Quizilla</a></font>\r\n</p><p>\r\n<img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/esrestless.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><br>You are Restless!\r\n<br><br><a href=\"http://quizilla.com/users/Shoshanna/quizzes/Which%20Buffy%20Episode%20Are%20You%3F/\"> <font size=\"-1\">Which Buffy Episode Are You?</font></a><BR> <font size=\"-3\">brought to you by <a href=\"http://quizilla.com\">Quizilla</a></font>\r\n</p>\r\n<h2>Size?</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.robohouse.com/mysize\"><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/5.GIF\" border=0 alt=\"Click here to find out what size you really are\"></a>\r\n\r\n<h2>How Jedi?</h2>\r\n <a href=\"http://www.gaijindesign.com/lawriemalen/jedi\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/yoda.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"123\" border=\"0\"><br>:: how jedi are you? ::</a>\r\n\r\n<h2>Discworld Novelty</h2>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.abnormalcy.com/~quizzes/discnovelty/discnovelty.html\" target=\"new\"><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/cabbage.jpg\" border=0></a><br>Find out <a href=\"http://www.abnormalcy.com/~quizzes/discnovelty/discnovelty.html\" target=\"new\">which Discworld novelty you are</a>.\r\n\r\n<h2>Pixies Song</h2>\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" bordercolor=\"#009900\" width=\"300\"><tr><td bgcolor=\"#66CC66\"><font color=\"#ffffff\"><b><center>Monkey Gone To Heaven</center></b></font></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=\"#99FF99\"><div align=\"justify\"><font color=\"#000000\">You\'re always the one who stands out in a crowd. People look forward to seeing you. You\'re well dressed, well-mannered, but spontaneous enough that it\'s very easy for you to make friends. Your interests include the paranormal and government conspiracies, but you also enjoy sitting back and eating a good meal. You probably have a lot of pets that you take care of obsessively.</font></div></td></tr></table><a href=\"http://www.eyeofdog.com/QuizPixies.html\">Which Pixies song are you?</a></center>\r\n\r\n<h2>Magic User</h2>\r\n<center><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/mage.jpg\"><br>\r\nYour magical style is Magus. <br><font size=1>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.rampantgecko.com/paradox/quiz2.html\">What type of Magic do you work?</a>. Take the Magical Style Quiz by Paradox</center>\r\n \r\n\r\n<h2>Social Disorder Test</h2>\r\n<table width=\"300\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\"><tr><td width=\"180\"><font face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\"><b>Disorder</b></font></td><td width=\"120\"><font face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\"><b>Rating</b></font></td></tr><tr><td><font face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\"><a href=\"http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#paranoid\">Paranoid</a>:</font></td><td><font color=\"#000099\" face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\">Low</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\"><a href=\"http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#schizoid\">Schizoid</a>:</font></td><td><font color=\"#000099\" face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\">Low</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\"><a href=\"http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#schizotypal\">Schizotypal</a>:</font></td><td><font color=\"#990099\" face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\">Moderate</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\"><a href=\"http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#antisocial\">Antisocial</a>:</font></td><td><font color=\"#000099\" face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\">Low</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\"><a href=\"http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#borderline\">Borderline</a>:</font></td><td><font color=\"#000099\" face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\">Low</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\"><a href=\"http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#histrionic\">Histrionic</a>:</font></td><td><font color=\"#990099\" face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\">Moderate</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\"><a href=\"http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#narcissistic\">Narcissistic</a>:</font></td><td><font color=\"#000099\" face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\">Low</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\"><a href=\"http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#avoidant\">Avoidant</a>:</font></td><td><font color=\"#990099\" face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\">Moderate</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\"><a href=\"http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#dependent\">Dependent</a>:</font></td><td><font color=\"#000099\" face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\">Low</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\"><a href=\"http://www.4degreez.com/misc/disorder_information2.html#obsessive\">Obsessive-Compulsive</a>:</font></td><td><font color=\"#000099\" face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\">Low</font></td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"2\" align=\"center\"><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"arial\" size=\"-1\"><br>-- <a href=\"http://www.4degreez.com/misc/personality_disorder_test.mv\">Click Here To Take The Test</a> --</font></td></tr></table><br>\r\n\r\n<h2>Soul Test</h2>\r\n<h3 align=\"justify\"><font face=\"Verdana\">Hasn\'t anyone ever told you that you\'re </font> <font color=\"#09c\">artistic?</font></h3>\r\n\r\n<p></p><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/artist.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Artistic!\"></p>\r\n\r\n<font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">\r\n<p align=\"justify\">Fair enough. Perhaps they haven\'t. But now that you know, you must become one with your inner self.</p>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"justify\"><b>Virtues: </b>You look for immense creativity and individuality in people, including yourself. You\'re not happy with anything less than brilliant, and you focus on being expressive. You value energy, liveliness, and upbeat personalities, but you\'re not supportive of moodiness when you yourself can be unreliably moody. Seeking activity, you like the bustle of business but need the secluded atmosphere of a studio or private corner.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\"><b>Aspirations: </b>You feel the need to express your talents, whether it be through writing, drawing, singing, dancing, composing, performing, or photographing. While you strive to ever improve your work, you want to display it as soon as possible when your impatience kicks in. You want to be a prodigy but you might not have the means right at your fingertips. Trust me, do NOT move to New York to do it. Yeesh!</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\"><b>Quirks:</b> Conformists bother you because of their lack of individuality. You\'re often late or unreliable. You\'re showy and refuse to share the spotlight. You only tell little white lies. You worm your way into the hearts of others, but be careful; some people despise the show-offs.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\"><b>Factors: </b>Surround yourself with activity and you\'ll always have material to work with. Involve friends and family in your projects so they don\'t feel like envious outsiders.</p>\r\n<p align=\"justify\"><b>Future: </b>Show business or not, you\'ll settle down happily if you\'re among those who appreciate your natural talents and desire to perform. Don\'t stay in one place too long, and don\'t be too hasty in defining your relationships. Who are you to judge what only time will tell?</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<center><p style=\" font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 40pt;\">17</p><p style=\" font-family: Times New Roman,Verdana,Arial; font-size: 12;\">I act like I\'m 17.<br>This test was brought to you by <a href=\"http://www.livejournal.com/~dead_battery\">Melissa</a> - No, really.... Take it <a href=\"http://www.music-review.org/test.asp\">here</a>.</p></center>\r\n\r\n<h2>Jellybean</h2>\r\n<p>\r\n<p align=center>\r\nWhat Jelly Belly flavor are you? I\'m -\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center>\r\n<img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/jelly_gre.jpg\" width=\"300\" length=\"150\">\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=JellyBeanFlavor\">Find your flavor here</a>\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n <th>Person</th>\r\n <th>Similer</th>\r\n <th>Complimentary</th>\r\n <td>Anejo</td>\r\n <td>94%</td>\r\n <td>97%</td>\r\n\r\n <td>James</td>\r\n <td>90%</td>\r\n <td>91%</td>\r\n\r\n <td>Samantha Straus</td>\r\n <td>98%</td>\r\n <td>99% </td>\r\n \r\n <td>rachel</td>\r\n <td>97%</td>\r\n <td>98% </td>\r\n\r\n</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<h2>Complimentary</h2>\r\n<i>Along the top is who took the test, so in the Aquarion(x)/Anejo(y), it was me, and in James(x)/Rachel(y), it was James, kay? </i>\r\n<table border=1>\r\n<tr><th>X</th> <th>Aquarion</th> <th>Anejo</th> <th>James</th> <th>Samantha</th> <th>rachel</th></tr>\r\n<tr><td>Aq</th> <th>X</th> <th> </th> <th> </th> <th> </th> <th> </th></tr>\r\n<tr><td>Anejo</th> <th>97%</th> <th>X</th> <th> </th> <th> </th> <th> </th></tr>\r\n<tr><td>James</th> <th>91%</th> <th>88%</th> <th>X</th> <th> </th> <th> </th></tr>\r\n<tr><td>Sam</th> <th>99%</th> <th> </th> <th> </th> <th>X</th> <th> </th></tr>\r\n<tr><td>Rachel</th> <th>98%</th> <th>88%</th> <th>89%</th> <th>98%</th> <th>X</th></tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://sminds.com/cgi-bin/match.pl?compare=aquarion%40aquarionics.com\">Compare</a>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<center><a href=\"http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=startrekTNG\"><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/youredata.jpg\"><br>What Star Trek: The Next Generation character are you?</a><br>a freaking cool quiz by <a href=\"http://www.livejournal.com/users/escadevotion\">Devotion</a></center>\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><table width=\"350\" border=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#8292FF\"><tr bgcolor=\"#FF6B40\"><td width=\"125\" bgcolor=\"#C6CDFF\"><div align=\"center\"><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/swedishchef.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"108\"></div></td><td width=\"177\" bgcolor=\"#C6CDFF\"><p align=\"center\"><font size=\"3\" color=\"#950000\"><b><font color=\"#FF0099\">Yuoo ere-a zee Svedeesh Cheff!</font></b></font><font color=\"#FF0099\"><br><font size=\"2\">Yuoo ere-a a guud cuuk, thuoogh yuoo cun\'t speek Ingleesh fery vell. Bork Bork Bork!</font></font></p></td></tr><tr bgcolor=\"#8292FF\"><td colspan=\"2\"><div align=\"center\"><font size=\"1\"><b><a href=\"http://www.geraldfield.com/cgi-bin/unofficial/quizzes/sfesurvey.cgi?whatmuppetareyou\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#FF99FF\">Take the <i>What Muppet Are You?</i> Quiz!</font></a></b></font></div></td></tr></table></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.zenhex.com/tests/nature/index.html\">\r\n<img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/stream.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br>Which \"Natural Wonder\" are you?</a><br>\r\n\r\n<center><font face=\"arial\"><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/leopard.gif\"><br><a href=\"http://members.aol.com/groovydougie/quizzes/pattern.htm\">What Pattern Are You?</a></font></center>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"center\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"/assets/attach/tests/h.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><b><a href=\"http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=joyous_alphabet\"> So which letter of the alphabet matches YOUR personality, huh? </a></b>\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<center><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/rack.jpg\"><br> Victims are tied into you and stretched inch by agonizing inch, until they are either rent limb from limb or they confess. Or hey, maybe both. Not as bad as some people, someone tells you what you want to hear you\'ll feel better.<br><br><font size=1><a href=\"http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=torture_devices\">What torture would you be?</a></center>\r\n\r\n<center><font face=\"verdana\"><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/unique.gif\"><br><a href=\"http://www.boomspeed.com/hippieana2\">What is YOUR Highschool label?</a></font></center>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.extinguished.org/sarah/font/\">\r\n<img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/redensek.gif\" border=\"0\">\r\n</a>\r\nWowie! You are Redensek! You are techy yet cute, and pretty much all around cool. Everyone loves you! You\'re fun, popular, and can mold yourself to fit right in to any situation. \r\n\r\n<center>\r\n<img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/shoothead.jpg\"><br>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.geocities.com/helter_skelter8/KILL_quiz.html\">HOW SHOULD YOU KILL YOUR FIRST/NEXT VICTIM? find out at: slitmyfuckingthroat.cjb.net</a><br>\r\n(<i>The person who did this test worries me. Seriously</i>)\r\n</center><br>\r\n\r\n<h2>Which Eddie Izzard are you?</h2>\r\n\r\n<A HREF=\"http://www3.sympatico.ca/jen.coe/quiz.html\"><CENTER>Which Izzard Are You?<BR><IMG SRC=\"/assets/attach/tests/surrealend.jpg\"><BR>Surreal Izzard: You talk bollocks all the time, and don\'t care who knows it. You are King Pig from Hell, and talk to strange people on buses. Your underwear is consipring against you, and if James Mason was here, he\'d have something to say about it. And that something would be WEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOO.</center></a>\r\n\r\n<h2>Maths Paper</h2>\r\n\r\n<table><tr><td><img \r\nsrc=\"/assets/attach/tests/maclane.jpg\" width=90 height=140 alt=\"\"></td><td>\r\n\r\n<p>If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Saunders Mac Lane\'s <b><i>Categories for the Working Mathematician</i></b>.\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nI provide an array of general ideas useful in a wide variety of fields. Starting from foundations, I illuminate the concepts of category, functor, natural transformation, and duality. I then turn to adjoint functors, which provide a description of universal constructions, an analysis of the representation of functors by sets of morphisms, and a means of manipulating direct and inverse limits. \r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Which Springer GTM would <i>you</i> be? \r\n<a href=\"http://www.math.mcgill.ca/~dsavitt/GTM.html\">The Springer GTM \r\nTest</a></p>\r\n\r\n</td></tr></table>\r\n\r\n<h2>Mythological Creature</h2>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"center\"><a\r\nhref=\"http://mysite.freeserve.com/Intereo_Liberi/test3.htm\"\r\ntarget=\"_blank\"><img\r\nsrc=\"/assets/attach/tests/centaur.jpg\"\r\nborder=\"0\" width=\"330\" height=\"175\"></a><br>\r\nI took the <a\r\nhref=\"http://mysite.freeserve.com/Intereo_Liberi/test3.htm\"\r\ntarget=\"_blank\">What Mythological Creature Are you?</a> test by\r\n<lj user=peacefulchaos> !</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2>Anime Artist</h2>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http://star-dragon.net/uke/Test/test.htm\"\r\ntarget=\"_blank\"><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/anime.jpg\"\r\nborder=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Wee! I took the <a\r\nhref=\"http://star-dragon.net/uke/Test/test.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Shounen\r\nor Shoujo test</a>, created by peacefulchaos\r\n\r\n<h2>How Evil?</h2>\r\n<center><FONT Face=\"verdana,sans-serif\" Size=\"1\"><B>I am 24% evil.</b></font><br>\r\n<a HREF=\"http://www.hilowitz.com/john/test/evil.html\" Target=\"_\"><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/evil.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"100\" border=0 alt=\"\"></a><br>\r\n<FONT Face=\"verdana,sans-serif\" Size=\"1\"></center>\r\nI try to stay away from evil deeds but succumb to temptation every once in a while. I\'m not quite on my way to hell but I certainly have some explaining to do.</font><BR><BR>\r\n<FONT Face=\"verdana,sans-serif\" Size=\"1\"><a HREF=\"http://www.hilowitz.com/john/test/evil.html\" Target=\"_\">Are you evil?</a> find out at <a HREF=\"http://www.hilowitz.com\" Target=\"_\">Hilowitz.com</a><BR></font>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2>Which Labyrinth character?</h2>\r\n\r\n<center><br><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/sarah.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"115\" alt=\"I\'m Sarah!\" border=\"0\"><p>I\'m Sarah. I\'m imaginative and creative, though a bit of a brat sometimes. If I use my wits, I\'ll get what I want. Nobody has power over me!<p>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hollowmind.net/labyrinth\" target=\"_blank\">Take the \"Which Labyrinth character are you most like?\"</a> quiz by <a href=\"http://www.livejournal.com/users/smarmy\" target=\"_blank\">smarmy</a></center>\r\n\r\n<h2>What Tarot Card?</h2>\r\n\r\n<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n <td><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/fool.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"301\" border=0 alt=\"\"></td>\r\n <td><p><a href=\"http://www.zenhex.com/tests/tarot/\">Which tarot card are you?</a></p>\r\n <p>A <a href=\"http://www.tarotbyvolmarr.com/bos/tarotcardsmeanings.html\">defintion</a> of the card Fool:<br>\r\n <cite>The Fool - External Meaning: Space before a decision or choice is made. A new cycle is about to begin that the seeker will enter inexperienced. New and endless possibilities. Esoteric Meaning: The spirit of Aether. The limitless energy of spirit. Folly. Idea. Energys: Air</cite>\r\n </p> \r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n<h2>What D&D Class are you?</h2>\r\nFrom <a href=\"http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~ellingwd/dndwho/index.html\">http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~ellingwd/dndwho/index.html</a>\r\n<h3>Lawful Neutral Elf Mage Bard</h3>\r\n\r\n<h4>Alignment:</h4>\r\n\r\n<b>Lawful Neutral</b> characters believe in the triumph of law and order above all else. It does not matter whether the leader is for good or evil; the leader will be followed, because the order they provide is the most important thing.\r\n\r\n<h4>Race:</h4>\r\n<b>Elves</b> are the eldest of all races, although they are generally a bit smaller than humans. They are generally well-cultured, artistic, easy-going, and because of their long lives, unconcerned with day-to-day activities that other races frequently concern themselves with. Elves are, effectively, immortal, although they can be killed. After a thousand years or so, they simply pass on to the next plane of existance.\r\n\r\n<h4>Primary Class:</h4>\r\n<b>Mages</b> harness the magical energies for their own use. Spells, spell books, and long hours in the library are their loves. While often not physically strong, their mental talents can make up for this.\r\n\r\n<h4>Secondary Class:</h4>\r\n<b>Bards</b> are the entertainers. They sing, dance, and play instruments to make other people happy, and, frequently, make money. They also tend to dabble in magic a bit.\r\n\r\n<b>Detailed Results:</b>\r\n<h4>Alignment:</h4>\r\n<pre>Lawful Good ----- X (1)\r\nNeutral Good ---- X (1)\r\nChaotic Good ---- (0)\r\nLawful Neutral -- XXXX (4)\r\nTrue Neutral ---- XXX (3)\r\nChaotic Neutral - (0)\r\nLawful Evil ----- X (1)\r\nNeutral Evil ---- (-2)\r\nChaotic Evil ---- (-2)</pre>\r\n\r\n<h4>Race:</h4>\r\n<pre>Human ---- (-1)\r\nHalf-Elf - (-2)\r\nElf ------ XXXX (4)\r\nHalfling - (-2)\r\nDwarf ---- XX (2)\r\n</pre>\r\n\r\n<h4>Class:</h4>\r\n<pre>Fighter - (-8)\r\nRanger -- (-3)\r\nPaladin - (-5)\r\nCleric -- (0)\r\nMage ---- XXXXXXX (7)\r\nDruid --- (-3)\r\nThief --- (-1)\r\nBard ---- XXXXXX (6)\r\n</pre>\r\n<h2>Deathboy Test</h2>\r\n<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n <td style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http://www.deathboy.co.uk/test\"> <img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/deathboy.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"186\" border=0 alt=\"\" style=\"float: left\"></a> 0% - 10% (Britney)<br><br> Oh dear, oh dear.<br> Far from being a world destroying DeathKiddy, you appear to enjoy kittens, bunnies and boybands.<br> Not a cloud enters your sky and all is sweetness and light for you.<br> Fucker. <p><a href=\"http://www.deathboy.co.uk/test\">Take the DeathKiddy Test!</a></p></td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n<h2>Obscure Website Test</h2>\r\n<table><tr><td style=\"color: #000000\"><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/eiu.jpg\" style=\"float: left\">\r\n<p>I am most like <a href=\"http://www.eiu.org\">http://www.eiu.org</a>.</p><p>I am a very tongue-in-cheek person. It\'s often hard to tell if I\'m being serious,\r\nand I have almost a kinda spooky vibe.<br>I\'m also very inquisitive, and like to question what most take for granted.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.amplific.net/industrial/test/\">The Obscure Website Test</a></td></tr></table>\r\n<p>I am most like <a href=\"http://www.eiu.org\">http://www.eiu.org</a>.</p><p>I am a very tongue-in-cheek person. It\'s often hard to tell if I\'m being serious,\r\nand I have almost a kinda spooky vibe.<br>I\'m also very inquisitive, and like to question what most take for granted.<br><br><a href=\"http://www.amplific.net/industrial/test/\">The Obscure Website Test</a></td></tr></table>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2>Art Test</h2>\r\n<table><tr><td style=\"color: #000000\">\r\n<img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/monalisa.jpg\" width=107 height=151 alt=\"\" style=\"float: left\">\r\n\r\n<p>If I were a work of art, I would be Leonardo da Vinci\'s <b><i>Mona Lisa</i></b>.</p><p>I am extremely popular and widely known. Although unassuming and unpretentious, my enigmatic smile has charmed millions. I am a mystery, able to be appreciated from afar, but ultimately unknowable and thus intriguing.</p><p>Which work of art would <i>you</i> be? <a href=\"http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~mar/tests/art/\">The Art Test</a></p></td></tr></table>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2>The Cat Test</h2>\r\n<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n <td style=\"color: #000000\">\r\n<a href=\"http://www.webkin.co.uk/poll-cat-index.html\" target=\"_top\">\r\n<img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/poll-cat-image3.gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"150\" border=0 alt=\"\"></a><br><br>Take the <a href=\"http://www.webkin.co.uk/poll-cat-index.html\" target=\"_top\"><b>What Cat Are You?</b></a> test by <b><a href=\"http://www.livejournal.com/users/webkin/\">webkin</a>!</b>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n<h2>Which LOTR Charactor would I be?</h2>\r\n<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n <td style=\"color: #000000\">\r\n<img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/ca_imcke.jpg\" alt=\"Gandalf\" style=\"float:left\">\r\n<p><b>Gandalf the Grey</b></p><p>If I were a character in <A HREF=\"http://lordoftherings.net/\" TARGET=\"_\"><I>The Lord of the Rings</i></a>, I would be Gandalf, Wizard, a guardian against the Dark Lord.</p><p>In the movie, I am played by <A HREF=\"http://www.lordoftherings.net/film/cast/ca_imcke.html\" TARGET=\"_\">Ian McKellen</a>.</p><p>Who would <I>you</i> be?<br><A HREF=\"http://www.zovakware.com/tests/lordoftherings.htm\"><small>Zovakware Lord of the Rings Test</small></a> <small><small>with <A href=\"http://www.perseus.com/softwareprod/download.html\">Perseus Web Survey Software</a></small></small>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</table><h2>...Autobots...</h2>\r\n<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n <td style=\"color: #000000\">\r\n If I was an Autobot, I\'d be:<br>\r\n<a href=\"http://android5.com/misc/tests\"><img border=0 \r\nsrc=\"/assets/attach/tests/bluestreak.gif\"\r\nalt=\"Click to see what Autobot you could be!\"></a><br>\r\nTake the <a href=\"http://android5.com/misc/tests\">Transformers personality test</a> at android5.com!<br><br>\r\n </td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n<h2>..reservoir dogs villian...</h2>\r\n<p><a href=\"http://www.bmgrafix.net/tests/resdogs/\"><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/brown.gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"150\" border=0 alt=\"\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n<h2>...evil criminals...</h2>\r\n<p><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/charlesmanson.jpg\" title=\"I am Charles Manson\"><a href=\"http://squirming.net/meme/tests/criminal/\">Which Evil Criminal are <i>You</i>?</a></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2>...James Bond villian...</h2>\r\n<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n <td style=\"color: #000000\">\r\n<img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/goldfinger.jpg\" width=151 height=109 alt=\"\" style=\"float:left\">If I was a James Bond villain, I would be <b><i>Auric Goldfinger</i></b>.</p><p>I enjoy golf, gold, and bisecting people with industrial lasers.</p><p>I am played by <a href=\"http://us.imdb.com/Name?Fr%F6be,+Gert\">Gert Fr?be</a> in <i><a href=\"http://us.imdb.com/Title?0058150\">Goldfinger</a></i>.</p><p>Who would <i>you</i> be? <a href=\"http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~mar/villain.html\">James Bond Villain Personality Test</a></p>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n<h2>...even afflictions...</h2>\r\n<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n <td style=\"color: #000000\">\r\n<img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/rabies.gif\" title=\"I am Rabies. Grrrrrrrr!\"><br><a href=\"http://shite.squirming.net/afflictiontest/\">Take the Affliction Test Today!</a> \r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n<h2>...and even bloody Quake villians.</h2>\r\n<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n <td style=\"color: #000000\">\r\n <a href=\"http://www.botepidemic.com/frikbot/q1mons/\"><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/knight.jpg\" border=0 alt=\"I\'m A Knight! Take the \'What Quake monster am I?\' test!\"></a><br>\r\n </td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n<h2>...to robots. Does anyone else think this is enough now?</h2>\r\n<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n <td style=\"color: #000000\">\r\n <a href=\"http://www.robohouse.com/myrobot\"><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/irongiant.gif\" border=0 alt=\"Click here to find out what robot you really are\"></a>\r\n </td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n<h2>Not quite. Post Modernism!</h2>\r\n<h2>Which Online Test are you?</h2>\r\n<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n <td style=\"color: #000000\">\r\n<a href=\"http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paulspeller/onlinetest/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"/assets/attach/tests/lord.gif\" alt=\"[If I were an online test, I would be The Lord of the Rings Character Test]\" title=\"Click to find out which test you are\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\"></a><p><b>I\'m <a href=\"http://www.zovakware.com/tests/lordoftherings.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to take the test that I am\">The Lord of the Rings Character Test</a>!</b><p>I like to think that everyone is really a character in my strange fictional world - I don\'t care if no-one outside it has a clue what I\'m on about.<p><a href=\"http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paulspeller/onlinetest/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to find out which test <b>you</b> are!</a>\r\n</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Updated 2002-02-21, Izzard, Maths, Mythological Creature, Anime, Evil, D&D, Tarot and Labyrinth tests uploaded</p>\r\n\r\n<p>And updated again 2002-03-20 with Muppet, Wonder, Pattern, Letter, Torture, Label, Font, and First Victim tests. All these are Cat\'s fault.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>And again, same day, with the Trek test</p>\r\n\r\n<p>And yet again (2002-06-03) with the Simple Minds things\r\n\r\n<p>And again, (2002-06-11) with the Age and Soul tests</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Today (2002-06-15) we update with the Disorder Test, Magical Test, Discworld Novelty Test, and Pixies Song tests</p>\r\n\r\n<p>And once again today (2003-02-13) with the Buffy and OS tests, and with the new pictures.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2003-03-10 with the Indie test</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2003-10-20, Discworld test</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2005-11-04, Hero Test</p>',5,'html','','N51:48:56 W0:48:30'),(6,'Credits & Creation','2002-03-11 00:00:00','2003-06-18 15:27:12',0,'<P>From the top down then. The content on this site, unless otherwise stated, is © Nicholas Avenell 1998-2002.\r\n<p>Content was created with Editplus, Paint Shop Pro 5 and vi. This site is hand-coded.\r\n<p>The site is powered by the Epistula Engine, written in PHP with a mySQL backend database, again coded in Editplus by Nicholas Avenell.\r\n<p>The site was originally created on Delirium (Duron 700 runing Windows 98se) and Sacrifice (Celeron 333 running Debian Linux \"Woody\" release), Then developed on Maelstrom (Athlon 1800+XP Win2k) and reef (Sacrifice with a new name, more users, and an ADSL modem :oD)</p>\r\n<P>Thanks go to Lonecat, Nattie, Amy, Rachel, Sam and the other people who put up with me wibbling about getting this working, Ccooke for giving me the ideas that created the Epistula Nodes system, Pol for hosting it, And \'Riss, <a href=\"http://www.kryogenix.org\">Aquarius</a>, <a href=\"http://www.dellah.com\">Sariabian</a>, and anyone else who gave me feedback on the old site. \r\n<h2>External Credits</h2>\r\n<p>The category photos for \"Aquarion\" and \"Togetherness\" (The one of me and the one of me and LoneCat) were both taken by <a href=\"http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~sssogadr/\">Adrian Ogden</a> and heavily photoshoped.\r\n<p>The Tux graphic used in the Geek section was designed by <a href=\"http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/\">lewing@isc.tamu.edu</a> for the Linux Kernel Project, and the Mac logo also there is property of <a href=\"http://www.apple.com\">Apple</a> ',5,'html','','N51:10:41 E0:23:30'),(7,'Publickey','2002-03-11 00:00:00','2004-12-08 12:06:05',1,'<p>With this code, you can insure that messages that say they are from me actually are.\r\n\r\n<p>Isn\'t that cool?</p>\r\n\r\n<p>An easier way to get my key is to get it from a keyserver, where you will find it under Nicholas Avenell (nicholas@aquarionics.com)</p>\r\n\r\n<p>2004-7-20 - New Key.</p>\r\n<p>2004-12-10 - Note: This is not my work key. That is something else.</p>\r\n\r\n<pre>Public key for 0xD1FC6F8A868D86DA\r\n-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----\r\nVersion: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)\r\n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\r\nRMzvm3U=\r\n=Ddtg\r\n-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----</pre>',5,'html','','N51:58:01 W0:12:21'),(8,'Policy Page','2002-03-11 00:00:00','2003-06-18 15:27:12',0,'<i>Do, Do not. There is no try</i>\r\n\r\n<h2>E-Mail</h2>\r\n<BLOCKQUOTE>Email works on a three strike system. If I get three (Legit) complaints about your use of the account, it closes. If you have a personal account at Aquarionics, it is for personal mail. Any attempt to use it for commecial purposes, including, but not limited to, spam, will result in immediate termination of account.<p>Having said that, If I have given you an account here, it means I trust you not to (muck) around with it. Please don\'t.</BLOCKQUOTE>\r\n\r\n<h2>Privacy</h2>\r\n<BLOCKQUOTE>Any email addresses gained from this site by us will be used for correspondance only. We will not give your address to anyone else unless you ask us to.</BLOCKQUOTE>\r\n\r\n<h2>Other Stuff</h2>\r\n<BLOCKQUOTE>Any comments on this website belong to the author. Bare in mind that the Guestbook is housed on another site, and I cannot be responsibe for what they do. Oh yes, The <I>spirit</I> of this document is beyond the <I>content</I>. Just because we havn\'t said we won\'t do something, doesn\'t mean we will. We havn\'t said we will track you down and kill all your relitives, but we arn\'t likly to do that either.</BLOCKQUOTE>',5,'html','','N51:10:41 E0:23:30'),(9,'Netscape 4 Sucks','2002-03-11 00:00:00','2003-06-18 15:27:12',0,'<p>Netscape four sucks.</p>\r\n<p>I\'m sorry, but it really does. The inability to support things I can forgive, but Netscape 4\'s support of CSS is nothing short of a joke. A little history for you:</p>\r\n<p>When Netscape 4 was about to be released, there were two possible standards for Stylesheets, JSS (Javascript Stylesheets) and CSS (Cascading Stylesheets), and, at the last minute, they realised that CSS was going to prevail. So the only solution was to code a CSS<-->JSS converter, and run all CSS through that. This is why, if you turn of Javascript in Netscape 4, you turn off CSS too.</p>\r\n<p>This means that Netscape\'s CSS is only half there, which means if you try to code to the CSS standard, your page *will* *not* *render* in Netscape V4. So in order to be able to use the full range that the medium makes avalable, Aquarionics has been deliberatly coded so that Netscape 4 will render the pages the name as Netscape v3 and all the browsers that don\'t support CSS2 at all.</p>\r\n<p>You arn\'t missing any content, the only thing that goes are graphical nicities (And Aquarionics isn\'t a very graphics-heavy site anyway). For more on this theme, and for more reasons why, go to this page on <a href=\"http://www.webstandards.org/upgrade/\">web standards</a></p>\r\n<p>In conclusion, go get Netscape 6, Mozilla, Konquerer, or even IE5/6 if you want to see sites as they are supposed to be.</p>',5,'html','','N51:10:41 E0:23:30'),(10,'Mailing Lists','2002-03-11 00:00:00','2003-06-18 15:27:12',0,'<i>Many to Many pointlessness</i></center>\r\nIn all of these, replace \\\"LISTNAME\\\" with your list identifier.\r\n\r\n<p><h2>Public Lists on Aquarionics</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n <li>afpmovie - the list for the discussion and announcement of the AFP Movie Project\r\n <li>bostridge - A list for the discussion and non-discussion of someone who is apparently the worlds most wonderfully wonderful singer. \r\n <li>tec - The AFE Eosian Council Mailinglist\r\n <li>afpnomic - Alt Fan Pratchett\\\'s Nomic game. Subscriptions are moderated.\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2>Simple Stuff</h2>\r\n<p>To subscribe to a list, send a message to: LISTNAME-subscribe@aquarionics.com. You will be subscribed from the address you sent it.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>To remove your address from the list, just send a message to the address in the ``List-Unsubscribe\\\'\\\' header of any list\r\nmessage. If you haven\\\'t changed addresses since subscribing, you can also send a message to: LISTNAME-unsubscribe@aquarionics.com</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Less Simple Stuff:</h2>\r\n\r\n<h3>Information</h3>\r\nSend mail to the following for info and FAQ for this list:\r\n <blockquote><LISTNAME-info@aquarionics.com>\r\n <LISTNAME-faq@aquarionics.com></blockquote>\r\n\r\n<h3>Archive Retrival</h3>\r\nTo get messages 123 through 145 (a maximum of 100 per request), mail:\r\n <blockquote><LISTNAME-get.123_145@aquarionics.com></blockquote>\r\n\r\nTo get an index with subject and author for messages 123-456, mail:\r\n <blockquote><LISTNAME-index.123_456@aquarionics.com></blockquote>\r\n\r\nTo receive all messages with the same subject as message 12345,\r\nsend an empty message to:\r\n <blockquote><LISTNAME-thread.12345@aquarionics.com></blockquote>\r\n\r\nThe messages do not really need to be empty, but I will ignore\r\ntheir content. Only the ADDRESS you send to is important.\r\n\r\n<h3>Subscription to alternitive addresses</h3>\r\nYou can start a subscription for an alternate address,\r\nfor example \\\"john@host.domain\\\", just add a hyphen and your\r\naddress (with \\\'=\\\' instead of \\\'@\\\') after the command word:\r\n <blockquote><LISTNAME-subscribe-john=host.domain@aquarionics.com></blockquote>\r\n\r\nTo stop subscription for this address, mail:\r\n <blockquote><LISTNAME-unsubscribe-john=host.domain@aquarionics.com></blockquote>\r\n',0,'html','','N51:10:41 E0:23:30'),(11,'Klide','2002-03-11 00:00:00','2003-06-18 15:27:12',0,'<font size=\"+3\">K</font>lide\r\n<font size=\"+3\">l</font>inks\r\n<font size=\"+3\">i</font>n\r\n<font size=\"+3\">d</font>iary\r\n<font size=\"+3\">e</font>ntries.\r\n\r\n<p>Klide is the Diary subsystem of the <a href=\"klind.php?q=klind\">Klind</a> engine. It will also link in related nodes, but doesn\'t yet. It\'s a replacement for the <a href=\"http://www.blogger.com\">Blogger</a> system I used to use in Aquarionics 2, without some of the nicer features, like not having to read from the SQL Database every time. It now has working archives, Yay me :-)</p>\r\n\r\n<pre>\r\nKlide Changelog\r\n11/09/01\r\n+ Added \"Showentry\" function, for display (and linking to) of single entries.\r\n* Rewrote archive system from scratch to display entries by month, and also display list of archives.\r\n+ Designed \"Lozange\" feature at the bottom of each post, for ease of linking and editing. \r\n</pre>',5,'html','','N51:10:41 E0:23:30'),(12,'Kewl','2002-03-11 00:00:00','2003-06-18 15:27:12',0,'<p><font size=\"+3\">K</font>lind\'s <font size=\"+3\">E</font>xcessivly <font size=\"+3\">W</font>onderful <font size=\"+3\">L</font>inks.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Developed from the orginal <a href=\"klind.php?q=klind\">Klind</a>\'s Portal system (My first ever PHP project was an attempt to put my old boxed portal system into a NeatoCool(tm) Database structure. Most of the code for that still survives in the current system, mainly in the table building system for the portal and the Cool Archives. </p>\r\n<p>When I was designing the new Aquarionics Back end, it seemed sensible to put the two systems together to make a large links database, so if I put something in the Cool system that I visit regually from then on, I can press a button in the Admin control panel (Which says, in fact, \"Portalize\") and it is now on my home page <a href=\"/kewl/index.php?type=portal\">portal</a>. *Then* I needed something similer for the Webcomics that I read, and so I extended the system to cater for them, which meant making a page that generates a frame-set, with the comics list displayed to the left, and the current comic displayed in the main window.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>To Do</h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n <li>Seperate the Comics, so they don\'t appear in the \"All links\" section\r\n <li>Release source.\r\n <li>Comment code nicely.\r\n <li>Clean up validity checking code.\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<pre>\r\nKewl Changelog\r\n13/09/01\r\n* Reformatted \"Cool Things\" box\r\n15/09/01\r\n+ Added ability to add links that arn\'t \"Cool\" by default\r\n19/09/01\r\n+ Added \"Suggest Link\" functionality\r\n* Modified the Portalboxen function not to display a row of empty boxes at the end sometimes.\r\n+ Add notification of new suggestions, links to Klide\'s message system.\r\n* Made the Framed section be able to not display certian categories\r\n* Made list.php sort entries.\r\n1/3/02\r\n* Er, I\'d better put the redesign here, really. Redesigned system to use Stylesheets.\r\n</pre>',5,'html','','N51:10:41 E0:23:30'),(13,'Factfile','2002-03-11 00:00:00','2003-06-18 15:27:12',0,'<dl>\r\n<dt>Name:</dt>\r\n <dd>Nicholas \'Aquarion\' Avenell. Call me Aquarion, most people do.</dd>\r\n\r\n<dt>Home:</dt>\r\n <dd>The <a href=\"/\">Internet</a>. Elsewhere doesn\'t really matter, but the front page of my site should give some indication.</dd>\r\n\r\n<dt>Professions:</dt>\r\n <dd>Actor, Web Geek, <a href=\"/writings\">Writer</a>.</dd>\r\n\r\n<dt>Marital Status:</dt>\r\n <dd><a href=\"http://www.lonecat.org\">Attached</a></dd>\r\n\r\n<dt>Films:</dt>\r\n <dd><a href=\"http://www.imdb.com/Title?0203009\">Moulin Rouge</a>, <a href=\"http://www.pixar.com/featurefilms/inc/\">Monsters Inc</a>, <a href=\"http://www.imdb.com/M/title-exact?High%20Fidelity%20(2000)\">High Fidelity</a>.</dd>\r\n\r\n<dt>Music:</dt>\r\n <dd><a href=\"http://www.thedivinecomedy.com\">Divine Comedy</a>, <a href=\"http://www.mixedco.com\">Accapella</a>, Classical, <a href=\"http://www.efohio.com/\">Eddie From Ohio</a>, <a href=\"http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pringle/bluesbros/faq.html\">Blues Brothers</a>, <a href=\"http://www.zero7.co.uk/\">Modern Soul</a></dd>\r\n\r\n<dt>Games:</dt>\r\n <dd><a href=\"http://www.aquarionics.com/nodes/view.php?reviews=3\">Dungeon</a>, <a href=\"http://www.aquarionics.com/nodes/view.php?reviews=5\">Adventure</a>, RTS, <a href=\"http://simcity.ea.com\">Construction Sim</a>.</dd>\r\n\r\n<dt>Books:</dt>\r\n <dd><a href=\"/fun/discworld.php\">Fantasy</a>, SpecFic, Myths.</dd>\r\n\r\n<dt>Dreams:</dt>\r\n <dd>To play the Comparé (from <a href=\"http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/albm11.htm\">Cabaret</a>), To be the webmaster of a well-known website, To have a <a href=\"/writings/\">book</a> published.</dd>\r\n\r\n<dt>Fears:</dt>\r\n <dd>I\'ll never do any of those things.</dd>\r\n\r\n<dt>Phobias:</dt>\r\n <dd>Failure (on behalf of mine and other people)</dd>\r\n\r\n<dt>Colours:</dt>\r\n <dd>Blue/White</dd>\r\n\r\n<dt>Hair:</dt>\r\n <dd>Deep blond.</dd>\r\n\r\n<dt>Eyes:</dt>\r\n <dd>Various, Protected by glasses.</dd>\r\n</dl>',5,'html','','N51:10:41 E0:23:30'),(33,'Green Man Meet (2002-06-01)','2002-06-02 00:00:00','2003-06-18 15:27:12',0,'<p>It was a bright and sunny night.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>No, hang on.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>It was a dark and stormy summers... nope.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Hmm.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>It was a day. Not a cold, miserable day. Nor a humid, drenched shirts\r\nday. No, this was an English bank holiday, sunny but with light\r\nbreezes, and that means comfort.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Bright was the morning, and high the hope in my heart as I left the\r\nfictional town that I shall one day soon leave for good, in the hopes\r\nof getting to the smoke in time to meet LoneCat\'s train. In a move\r\nthat shocked and stunned me, the British transport system got me to\r\nLondon early, I met LoneCat, and we toddled off to Regents Park\r\nstation, where we met Simon Callan, and then up to Regents Park\r\nproper, where we met Meg, Karen, Rocky, and misc other people whose\r\nnames shall be detailed later. (This is not a cop-out of an Aquarion\r\nbeing afraid of missing people out. Oh No. At all. Bah), and the Quest\r\nfor the Meeting Spot began.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>The quest began in a place of much mystical mysticism, the bottom of\r\nthe circular road. It was suggested we went around the outside, but\r\ngoing though the middle was clearly quicker, and so the Map\r\nCommittee[1] followed the path, and wandered through the scenic\r\nflowerbeds and slowly bronzing bodies littering the lawns of Regents\r\nPark. Then we turned around and went around the outside, because that\r\nwas the only route to the meeting place. </p>\r\n\r\n<p>[1] I am not taking *all* the stick for this one</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Slowly, other people began to join us under the trees beside the\r\nbridge. There was Geekary of chainmail, there was Tennis, There were\r\nstrawberries. There was a Frisbee, which was red. And there was a\r\nfield with a locked gate.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>If you can guess where the *first* throw of the Frisbee ended up, you\r\nget a bonus point. With the assistance of Bearded Swedes we retrieved\r\nit, and played for a while. As the game progressed a rubber turntable\r\njoined the thrown objects, as did a tiny blue Frisbee. And A Good Time\r\nWas Had By All.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>There was also juggling.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>When the hour of six approached, we were led like the careless sheep\r\nwe all undoubtedly are to the basement of the Green Man, where there\r\nwere drinks, bikkits (Thanks Kyle), Small Light sabres (thanks to\r\nBarry V), much talking, geeking, and stuff. There is a comprehensive\r\nlist of people somewhere around, and I\'m sure someone will post it. </p>\r\n\r\n<p>This was not a meet report, it is just a framework for everyone else\r\nto comment on, so do so, here:</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Thanks and kudos to all organisers as ever, and when\'s the next one?</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Yours in total sincerity, </p>\r\n\r\n<p> Aquarion De\'blue</p>\r\n\r\n',5,'html','','N51:10:41 E0:23:30'),(14,'Contact','2002-03-11 00:00:00','2005-08-24 10:38:26',1,'This being the age of Aquarius an\' all, there are an entire multitude of way\r\ns you can contact me. And here they are:\r\n\r\nh2. E-Mail\r\n\r\nYou can contact me by E-Mail at <a href=\"mailto:Aquarion@Aquarionics.com\">Aquarion@Aquarionics.com</a> \r\n\r\nh2. ICQ\r\n\r\nnumber 20670955\r\n\r\nh2. MSM\r\n\r\nuser aquarion-at-aquarionics.com\r\n\r\nh2. AIM/iChat\r\n\r\nuser -foozlebuzzsaw- +now using \"rionaqua\"\r\n\r\nh2. Jabber\r\n\r\nNot very often, but my Account is Aquarion@Jabber.org\r\n\r\nh2. Google Talk\r\n\r\nI\'m usually online as aquarion-at-gmail.com ',5,'textile','','N51:31:57 W0:06:52'),(70,'Prince of Persia: Sands of Time','2004-02-23 16:41:11','2004-03-03 12:33:50',1,'I like this game.\r\n\r\nThe original Prince of Persia was one of the best animated games of it\'s time. Famously \"Jordan Mechner\":http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,295/ videoed his brother running, jumping and waving a sword and then traced over those images to get the animation right, and he did. The original Prince was one of the most acrobatic and realistic video game characters ever when he dashed onto the screen in 1989.\r\n\r\nA couple of years ago, Prince of Persia 3 was released. It sank to the bargain basement bins almost immediately, because it took all of the good stuff about PoP and then turned it into trial and error. Traps that would kill you instantly without you being able to detect them, turn-a-corner-and-die moments, pixel perfect requirements without pixel perfect control. It sank, died, and that was probably the end of the Prince of Persia.\r\n\r\nBut not.\r\n\r\nSands of Time was released late last year. I\'ve just completed it in about a week (Admittedly, this week was after playing it constantly for a while before getting stuck sometime in December at a fight. Then I lost my save-game and when I ran though it from the beginning I breezed though the fight fairly easily. So it goes) of fairly regular playing. It\'s about 12 hours of game time, punctuated by long periods of leaving it for a while and then coming back and seeing exactly what you need to do next.\r\n\r\nThe actual gameplay is split into three major elements, that of acrobatics, puzzles and fights.\r\n\r\nAcrobatics is most of the game. You - as the Prince - have to get to the other side of the room/area without getting killed. To do this you have the usual run/jump/slide/hang from ledges stuff, but a few ninja-moves that set it apart. Most normally there is the swing-from-bar move, where you traverse areas swinging from bar to bar, but you also have the ability to walk along vertical surfaces for a short length, leap between walls (This needs to be seen to be understood) and generally act like a gold-medal olympic athlete without all that tedious training. The smoothness of the controls - and the animation - make most of this a breeze providing your timing is right. You want to walk along that wall, take a flying leap onto that handy flag-pole, swing from rope to rope like a Persian Tarzan and land on a tight-rope from where you can drop to safety? Sure. Easy. And should you accidentally miss the flagpole and fall to your doom, you can always rewind, but more of that later.\r\n\r\nThe fighting is just as athletic. Whilst some of the time, your handy sidekick Farah is around to fire arrows at your immortal foes, mostly it\'s you and your swords. The fighting interface is deceptivly simple - left click to swing, right click to block, you\'ll swing at the enemy in front of you or the one you point at with the arrow keys - it manages to produce some really pretty swordfights. Most of the time, you will be fighting multiple enemies at once, so the ability to leap over enemies, launch yourself at them from walls etc. is handy. The fighting is mostly instictive, and helped a lot by the various powers you have...\r\n\r\nThere are five powers. The first is the one you have least control over, and that\'s the save game system. The first is a \'Sand Vortex\', in which you enter, are given a fifteen second glimpse of flashes of the future (Handy, since these solve the \'What the hell am I supposed to be doing?\' problems) and an opertunity to save you game.\r\n\r\nThe second is the one you will use most, Rewind. Hold down the rewind key (\'R\' on PC) and the game will rewind up to thirty seconds in the past, allowing you to fix such things as leaping the wrong way off a rope, failing to dodge a falling axe, neglecting to jump from a collapsing platform or even getting yourself killed. This power is not unlimited, you can only use it once for every tank of sand you have (Which you aquire from picking them up or killing things).\r\n\r\nThe third power is that of Restraint (Freeze), where you stab an enemy and they freeze for a while, allowing you to despatch them at your leisure. Providing your leisure acts reasonably quickly.\r\n\r\nThe Power of Delay slows time for a while, allowing you to see who\'s about to hit you.\r\n\r\nMega-Freeze (Power of, er, Mega-Freeze) basically puts all the enemies into Freeze mode for a while so you can delete a whole wave of enemies at once, which is somewhat handy.\r\n\r\nThen there are the puzzles. Press button, put block on button, stand on block \'A\' to reach button \'B\'. Nothing overly taxing.\r\n\r\nThe graphics are nice. I reviewed it with my 1.8 Ghz Radeon 9600 box, turned all the graphics onto full and got perfect performance, and it looked gorgeous. XBox version is supposed to be good to, and I\'m told PS2 users suffer poor framerates. Sucks to be them, really.\r\n\r\nOn the down-side, I did buy my Radeon 9600 _because_ PoP wouldn\'t run on my year-old GeForce 4, so buyer beware. I\'d recommend trying the \"demo\":http://www.fileshack.com/file.x?fid=4446 first to see how it performs.\r\n\r\nThe plot and acting I found mostly excellent. The Prince and Farah\'s dialogue (and the Prince\'s odd soliloquy while he\'s working at carrying out your orders) made me laugh out loud at some points, and the relationship is a real dynamic. Other people I\'ve spoken to have found it a bit slow, but I think that\'s mostly in comparison to other games of the same type, where the female lead must fall for the hero within three scenes or it\'s dead in the water. The plot itself has a potential it doesn\'t live up to, but a great deal of subtlty that is eye-catching in a field of \"Hit\'em over the head with it\" complications. There is a lot of exposition that isn\'t there that doesn\'t need to be, but a great deal is left neither explained nor hinted it. They\'ve announced a sequel, though, and that could lead to one of the open-loopholes in the world being hooked into. Generally the story is well written, the world self-consistant within it\'s own rules, and the plot dished out at a reasonable pace.\r\n\r\nFor a game set within a single palace it also has a remarkable array of differant types of areas, although a couple could have been developed a little more. The restrictions on your movements are more logical than arbitary, and whilst it is a linear game it doesn\'t feel like it.\r\n\r\nIt\'s not perfect. I found the ending a little easy and the camera occasionally obscures your actions - mostly in fights - but generally I\'d recommend this game very highly if your system runs it.\r\n\r\n\"Prince of Persia\":http://www.princeofpersiagame.com developed & published by \"ubisoft\":http://www.ubi.com (\"MobyGames rap sheet\":http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/gameId,11185/)',0,'textile','','N51:10:41 E0:23:30'),(31,'My Computers','2002-05-03 00:00:00','2004-01-13 12:07:41',1,'<h1>Old Computers</h1>\r\n\r\n<p>These no longer exist, or have been upgraded out of existance</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Delirium/Delight</h2>\r\n<pre>Religon: Duel Booting Win98SE/Slackware 8\r\nProcessor: Duron 750\r\nMemory: 256mb\r\nDrives: 1x4gb: [ / | /var ]\r\n 20gb: [ Boink, 2gb (C:) | Oiff, 18gb (D:) ]\r\n 40gb [ Squeak (E:) ]\r\n sacrifice:/home/na (via Samba) [ (h:) ]\r\nOther: Scanner, SBLive, Geforce2, Rio600, \r\n Zip100 USB, 17\" Monitor, SMC nic, DVD drive</pre>\r\n\r\n<p>My main work box, mostly lives in Windows (Where it\'s known as Delirium), but occasionally booted to Slackware (With a hostname of Delight). Usually runs Debian Unstable, but I\'m trying out new OS\'s. Mostly used for games, code, and IRC.\r\n</p>\r\n<h2>Sacrifice</h2>\r\n<pre>Religon: Debian Woody\r\nProcessor: Celeron 333\r\nMemory: 97mb\r\nDrives: 1x6gb [ / (4gb) | /var (2gb) ]\r\n 1x19gb [ /home (19gb) ]\r\nOther: nic, 14\" Monitor</pre>\r\n\r\n<p>The server, runs irc proxy; mail, news, samba, and web server, and more. It also works as the central file store for my network. Also used to be a firewall and web proxy until I got..</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Pyratic</h2>\r\n<pre>Religon: IP Cop\r\nProcessor: Pentium 133\r\nMemory: 97mb\r\nDrives: 1x6gb [ / (4gb) | /var (2gb) ]\r\n 1x19gb [ /home (19gb) ]\r\nOther: nic, 14\" Monitor</pre>\r\n\r\n<p>It\'s a firewall running <a href=\"http://www.ipcop.org\">IP Cop</a> and doing DHCP duties. Nothing terribly special.</p> ',5,'html','','N51:10:41 E0:23:30'),(21,'Tea','2002-03-14 00:00:00','2003-06-18 15:27:12',0,'<h1>The Aquarion Tea Theory of Personal Organisation</h1>\r\n\r\n<p>The amount of tea I drink is enough to scare all right thinking people. Or left thinking people, come to that. My approach to life appears to be \"Hmm. Problem. Hmm. Tea. Hmm. Solution\" so I drink many cups of tea a day, mostly by the pint mug. But the amount of tea I drink is only rivaled by the amount of Tea I fail to drink. It sort of goes like this...</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Think \"Tea. Tea Good\".</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Work on computer for a little while. Note lack of tea. Get up. Fill Kettle. Plug in Kettle. Turn on Kettle. Sit back down. Code.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Hear kettle click off. Continue coding.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Realise water is too cold for tea. rise. Turn on kettle. Return to desk. Code.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Get engrossed in making <tt>lose_html()</tt> be able to allow code that I want, safely. (The problem stems from Javascript, you see. Because allowing *any* HTML and it\'s attributes would allow someone to put into a comment \"<tt><i onMouseOver="window.alert(\'Boo! Heh heh heh\')">touch me, I dare you</i></tt>\" and get something like \"<i onMouseOver=\"window.alert(\'Boo! Heh heh heh\')\">touch me, I dare you</i>\", or an OnLoad function that redirects you to the authors site, or <a onClick=\"window.alert(\'You don\\\'t want to go there. Trust me.\')\" href=\"#\">goat.cx</a>. The latest versions of PHP\'s strip_tags function will strip some JS, but not enough for it to be safe and...</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Get up and boil kettle again. Realise this is futile, and stand there watching Kettle boil. This seems to take ages, and on the way you realise that the way around this problem is to use <a href=\"http://www.ubbdev.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=ubb_code_page\">UBB style codes</a>. Kettle boils. Find mug, find tea-bag, put one in the other. Realise the mug looks silly inside the tea bag and reverse the positions. Boil kettle again, add water, leave to steep.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Write the regular expressions that will turn <tt>[url]http://www.aquarionics.com[/url]</tt> into <a href=\"http://www.aquarionics.com/\">http://www.aquarionics.com</a>, embed them into /home/na/cvs/klind/addcomment.php and Test. Correct the spelling mistake, and resubmit. Yay! a fully working system so people can link to you. Neat. </>\r\n\r\n<p>Remember tea</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Bounce spoons off tea to prove theory, pour brown sludge onto sink and reboil kettle.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Add code to turn [em] into <em>emphasis</em>, [b] into <b>bold</b> and get up to reboil kettle.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Realise reason why kettle is now silent is not because it\'s boiled, but because you didn\'t plug it back in. Fill Kettle. Boil Kettle. Apply water to tea.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Fire up Visual Basic and create a version of <a href=\"http://docs.kde.org/2.2.2/kdetoys/kteatime/\">kteatime</a> for Windows to remind you of when your tea will be ready.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Release winTeaTime onto the information superhighway</p>\r\n\r\n<p>sigh</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Unplug kettle. Withdraw milk from fridge. Withdraw tea bags and sugar jars from counter. Take mug from sink. Transfer all of above to desk. Plug kettle in and switch on</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Hope you remembered to save the document you were working on, and attempt to find a new fuse for quad-plug</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Plug kettle back into kitchen, and turn on again. Wait for it to boil. Collect mug etc. from desk</p>\r\n\r\n<p>While at desk, apologise to IRC channel for sudden disappearance, and promise to explain it in an article later.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Start writing article about the Tea Theory of Personal Organisation</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Begin to boil kettle again. Remain beside kettle. Pour water onto tea bag. Wait one minute. Add milk and two sugars. stir.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Take tea to desk, and sip triumphantly as you write an article on the process of making tea.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Finish article.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Realise tea has gone cold.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Swear.</p>',5,'html','','N51:10:41 E0:23:30'),(15,'Linux V Windows','2002-03-11 00:00:00','2003-06-18 15:27:12',0,'<H2>About the author.</H2>\r\n\r\nNicholas Avenell was, this time last year (And now it draws ever closer to the start of 2001) a <A HREF=\"http://www.linuxnewbie.org\">Linux Newbie</A>. He had installed <A HREF=\"http://www.redhat.com\">Redhat</A> 5.2 once for a week, failed to understand it, and reformatted the drive to <A HREF=\"http://www.microsoft.com/windows/\">Windows.</A> He has worked, and is working, as a Microsoft Troubleshooter for a range of small companies and individuals stretched across the UK. When he expressed an interest in Linux, a friend gave him <A HREF=\"http://www.calderasystems.com\">Caldera</A> OpenLinux 2.3 and <A HREF=\"http://www.slackware.org\">Slackware</A> 4 (of which he has only installed Caldera), but a reputation for \"Newbie Friendlyness\" drove him to the shores of <A HREF=\"http://www.linux-mandrake.com\">Mandrake</A> a few months later. He recently made the switch to the mighty swirl (<A HREF=\"http://www.debian.org\">Debian</A>), after a bad experience with the Mandrake 7.1 updater, which wouldn\'t let him upgrade without formatting his Windows C drive. He is happily apt-getting as of now, and can be reached at <A HREF=\"mailto:Nicholas@Aquarionics.com\">Nicholas@Aquarionics.com</A>\r\n\r\n<p>Why is the above before the main document? Because in order to understand this paper, you must know from where I speak. I am one of those \"difficult\" linux users that support desks hate so much. The whole point of running Linux was, for me, more understanding than actually getting it working, so when I asked a question, I found the answer, and then kept asking the source \"Why?\" until I understood. This is one of the reasons that I abandoned Mandrake, because it gives you this almost Mac-like \"you don\'t need to see this part, so i won\'t show you, and if you try to find out, I\'ll cry\" simplicity. Debian then though me in at the deep end.\r\n\r\n<H2>Why?</H2>\r\n<H3>Why Use Linux?</H3>\r\nBecause It\'s Cool. Because it will work with an old box, because it\'s a great feeling when you get it working, because it\'s free, because it sucks less than windows, because I say so. Or, in my case, because it is a useful thing to know for the Big Wide World. \r\n\r\n<H3>Why Not Use Linux?</H3>\r\nBecause you don\'t understand it, because you don\'t want to have to understand it (and you need to understand Linux), Because it\'s there, because it\'s easy, because you can pay for tech support, because you know people who can help you, because it looks nice, because it runs Monkey Island 4.\r\n\r\n<H3>Why Run Both?</H3>\r\nBecause you answered \"yes\" to one or more question in each section.\r\n\r\n<H2>Why? - Linux</H2>\r\n<H3>Because It\'s Cool</H3>\r\nLinux is not Geek Cred. Running your own Linux box does not mean you are a super megageek, capable of leaping tall TCP/IP stacks in a single bound, Find a Linux Advocacy group, or pick a random <A HREF=\"http://www.slashdot.org\">Slashdot</A> story and read the comments on that. There are arseholes in the Linux community, as there are arseholes everywhere. Linux no longer requires copious amounts of Clue to install.\r\n<p>But Linux is A Good Thing. It is easy to use, free, and part of the Open Source revolution. The programmers may have been revolting, but now they are politically so as well. It\'s diplomatic (In the sense of \"Anyone can help\" rather than the back-stabbing Risk-like game), and It\'s open. It\'s insecurities are known, and therefore work aroundable, and it\'s a spit in the eye to the Microserfs :-)\r\n\r\n<H3>Because it will work with an old box</H3>\r\nLinux will work with any box with a chip newer than a 386 and a small amount of memory. If you want to use Graphical interfaces, you will need higher specs, and if you have Weird Hardware you may need a moderate amount of playing to get it into the Real World.\r\n\r\n<H3>Because It\'s A Great Feeling When You Get It Working</H3>\r\nIf you have a problem, or you embark upon a Quest to get something working, the feeling that you get when you solve it is great, in this as with everything. Challenge is the spice of life.\r\n\r\n<H3>Because It\'s Free</H3>\r\n<B>As in \"Speech\"</B>. You can do what you like to it, you can recompile the code changing all instances of \"Hello\" to \"Hi There\", you can look at the source code, see how it works, poke under the bonnet. You can re badge it and sell it at a profit, providing you don\'t limit anyone elses right to do the same.\r\n\r\n<p><B>As in \"Beer\"</B>. ISOs (CD Images) are available for most, if not all, linux distributions (Some fit onto disks) are available by FTP, or you can, quite legitimately, get a copy from a friend (Though they might (and probably will) charge for the CD) \r\n\r\n<h3>Because It Sucks Less Than Windows</h3>\r\n\r\nWindows Crashes more than Linux does.\r\n\r\n<H3>Because It Is A Useful Thing To Know For The Big Wide World</H3>\r\nMost of the worlds Internet servers run on a UNIX-based OS, Many office networks do, and most Academic systems do to. It\'s Useful.\r\n\r\n<H2>Why? - Windows</H2>\r\n<H3>Because You Don\'t Understand It</H3>\r\n<p>\r\nYou don\'t need to <i>understand</i> windows to use it. The basic interface for windows is (for 99% of all applications) The same. There is the Start button, Launch your program, There is the file menu, the edit menu, the Help menu. Use one GUI and you can grasp the basics of them all. When you start noticing how much this matters is when you move to a program designed on/for a Mac, where there is less of a standard, or to *nix, where there is *no* standard. Also, in order to run windows you click the buttons. You don\'t need to know the commands, the syntax, the format. (And yes, I <I>know</I> there is the command prompt under windows, but you don\'t <i>need</i> it to run a program. It\'s an option, like X is under Linux) \r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<H3>Because it does what you want it to</H3>\r\nLinux plays DVDs badly. It plays games reluctantly (You try installing Quake III under a modern distro, see how far you get), and runs Office and Photoshop not at all. The purists will say \"Yeah, but you can use <A HREF=\"http://www.opendvd.org\">$FOO</A>, <A HREF=\"http://www.lokigames.com/products/quake3/\">$BAR</A>, <A HREF=\"http://www.koffice.org/\">$BAZ</A> and <A HREF=\"http://www.gimp.org\">$QUX</A> instead, but that\'s not the point. The *point* is that you know how to do the task under Windows, learning how to do it under Linux is *far* slower than just launching up the app in windows, and in many cases not as good.</p>\r\n\r\n<H3>Because it\'s a necessity for the Big Wide World</H3>\r\n<p>For every office whose workstations run on Linux, you will find many more that run under Windows. Microsoft Office is the standard office product at the moment, and if your office cannot accept MS Office files, you will lose business. By shear force of market-share, you must be able to accept word attachments somehow.</p>\r\n<p>That doesn\'t apply to everyone. That applies to me especially, because my primary admin system is of a company whose job it is to deal with Documents (Word document in, Mail merge with Excel Spreadsheet, place in envelope, post), but also every company that has to deal with many other companies. This description covers most of the world of commerce.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>This document is not finished, As people find me arguments about what I said here, I will continue to attempt to shoot them down in flames, and to update this document. So <A HREF=\"mailto:nicholas@aquarionics.com\">Email me at nicholas@aquarionics.com</A>, and lets see how far this goes...</p>\r\n',5,'html','','N51:10:41 E0:23:30'),(16,'Student Games 2000','2002-03-11 00:00:00','2003-06-18 15:27:12',0,'<i>This hasn\'t been formated in the <A HREF=\"http://www.aquarionics.com\">Aquarionics</A> template, mainly because I\'m 300 miles from it :-)<br>\r\nDespite the lack of logos and everything, This page <B>is</B> part of <A HREF=\"http://www.aquarionics.com\">Aquarionics</A>, and therefore conforms to the rules of the rest of the site, ie, it\'s writtan by and ©opyright <A HREF=\"http://www.aquarionics.com/contact.shtml\">Nicholas Avenell</A> 2000 and forevermore. This event was done with the <a href=\"http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/scifi\">Sunderland Uni Sci-Fi Society</a> and people within are part of that. This was a public service announcement, Thankyou.</i> \r\n<div align=\"right\">- {<A HREF=\"http://www.aquarionics.com/contact.shtml\">Nick</A>. 14/05/00}</div>\r\n<H1>13 May 2000. The Student Games</H1>\r\n<P>Bright was the sunlight as it streamed though my bedroom window at 7am, Silent was the alarm clock it fell on, and vexed was it\'s owner upon waking two hours later in discovery of this fact. Upon dressing and adding caffeine to his system, many four letter words poured forth at the discovery that he had 45 minutes to walk across Sunderland to the Manor Quay to meet the rest of the SciFi Soc. team.</P>\r\n<P>Forty five minutes later he got to the marina, having been redirected from Manor Quay and saying many nasty words to the memory of the flatmate that took the directions, he met the rest of the team.</P>\r\n<P>Introductions, reintroductions, excuses and icecream were used as appropriate (depending on exactly <i>what</i> you want to do with the ice-cream, natch.) as we met the team we were to be against at every step of the way, the Fencing Club team who, it has to be mentioned, had matching team T-Shirts and everything.</P>\r\n<P>The first step to our doom had been taken.</P>\r\n<P>As we wandered across the field, a large green monstrosity blotted the horizon declaiming its name, and the location of our first event:</P>\r\n<H1>One: The Bungee Run</H1>\r\n<P>The Bungee Run was a large green inflatable thing with two runways, at the end of each was fastened a length of bungee rope and the other end was attached to, at the beginning, your humble corespondent. The aim was to run as far down the runway as you could and place a velcro beanbag to the non-functional velcro sidebar (non functional as in, it didn\'t stick. Not at all) Setting the standard for the rest of the team, your humble corespondent threw his weight at the open end...</P>\r\n<P>...then fell over, and was pulled back to the start again.</P>\r\n<P>We lose.</P>\r\n<P>President Jonny was the next to attempt the challenge, and was also the only person to win.</P>\r\n<P>Ari, Jenn and Sheep also threw themselves down the course with reckless abandon, and it is a shame that the Fencing Club managed to throw themselves very slightly further.</P>\r\n<P>All that practice with Lungeing, I expect.</P>\r\n<H1>Two: Jousting</H1>\r\n<P>You would expect that an event called Jousting would involve lances, horses, ladies bestowing their favor in the form of silk hankichiefs and men requiring a tin-opener to remove themselves from the steel wardrobe they are enclosed within.</P>\r\n<P>Not, for example, sitting on a beam having a pillow fight. Or anything.</P>\r\n<P>Match One was an internal for the other side. Being of a club whose typical membership is infamous for their rejection of modern values such as Sunlight, and instead worshippers of the ancient god Sloth, we had but five members of the six required. Despite pleading and cajoling the members whose contribution to the team was to sit at the sidelines, we were forced to hire a member of the other team for this event.</P>\r\n<P>We still lost.</P>\r\n<P>Match Two could become infamous for the catfight of the decade. Our own, our very own, Ari took the fight with an unnamed member of the fencing squad and threw the pillows with the full force of either enthusiasm or honed training.</P>\r\n<P>And stayed there.</P>\r\n<P>For Four minutes, each second felt by each member of the team, the ladies sat upon their pole, swinging the sacks of down at various parts of the others anatomy. Neither doing enough damage to knock the other from her perch. The draw was eventually announced.</P>\r\n<P>The match between Nick and the fencer known as Rhino was epic. debespecaled, Your corespondant threw his weapon at the blurred form of his counterpart, realising at the last instant that his balance was not quite there. Fortunately he regained it before his opponent did, and the Rhino went crashing to the mat.</P>\r\n<P>Similar duels were fought, but being against the fencing club, we lost.</P>\r\n<P>See a pattern here?</P>\r\n<H1>Three: Tug Of War</H1>\r\n<P>One Rope, Three Cones, One Ribbon. If the Ribbon passes either of the outside cones you lose. The rules of Tug of War are traditional, but we couldn\'t lose. After all, we had something the other team didn\'t.</P>\r\n<I><U><P>Tactics</P>\r\n</I></U><P>Bee\'s masterful positioning of the team for maximum effect probably caused us to lose slower than we would have done otherwise.</P>\r\n<P>But lose we still did.</P>\r\n<H1>Four: Velcro Olympics</H1>\r\n<P>Nothing could prepare us for this. This is the most evil, sadistic toruture device ever created since The Phantom Menace. It was an inflatable obstacle course lined with the felt-side of Velcro. We had to wander through it in suits made of the rough side of Velcro. It is a killer.</P>\r\n<P>The course is a follows: It starts with a six foot wall which you have to heave yourself over with assistance from the management, which you jump off into a forest of foot-diameter inflatable poles, through a hoop and under a cargo-net. Over and under some horizontal poles and though three feet of Velcro-lined tunnel, then run round to the start of the course.</P>\r\n<P>The first hurdle was the suits. There were six, small, medium and slightly above medium, so some people had difficulty getting the suits on. Then there is the Wall. </P>\r\n<P>Words cannot describe the evil of that course. I did it twice, and both times I got stuck at the tunnel at the end. As I type (at eight in the evening, some 32 hours since it was over) my shoulders still ache. After we lost that (Nine-Two) we staggered into the beer tent.</P>\r\n<P>Usually people stagger <i>out</i> of the tent, but anyway...</P>\r\n<H1>Five: Boat Race I</H1>\r\n<P>Five was the Boat Race, Alcohol version, again against the Fencing Team.</P>\r\n<P>This was a special event for two reasons, one it was the first alcohol and the other...</P>\r\n<P>It started with Ari at the front, Half a pint of LCL (Reputedly \"Lose Control Lager\") was downed quicker than a fox down a burrow with half the royal family after it, Bee\'s performance equally stunning and my own no less quick. Sheep followed on and the illustrious president Jonny downed his with time to spare, mainly because the other team was still on their third person.</P>\r\n<P>WE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</P>\r\n<P>Yey! Wahoo! Three Cheers! We find something we are better at. Drinking!</P>\r\n<P>This turnaround in our fortunes was quickly used to it\'s fullest effect, Beating all other teams at the Basketball Shootout except two as we headed into the final event... </P>\r\n<H1>Seven: The Boat Race II</H1>\r\n<P>Row, Row, Row your boat<BR>\r\nGently down the Wear<BR>\r\nDrunkenly, Drunkenly, Drunkenly, Drunkenly.<BR>\r\nNothing left to fear</P>\r\n<P>The team went on with an agreement not to push anyone in the water (\'coz doing so would result in a) disqualification and b) the worst case of pebbledashing your loo has ever seen) into the Boat Race mark 2, the Rowing Bit. With our Helmsman Jon (Left and Right painted on the wrong hands) shouting \"Row ya bastards\" ever so often, and alternate cries of \"Left\" \"Right\" and \"Large Yellow Pole!\" How could we lose?</P>\r\n<H1>Eight: The Wooden Spoon</H1>\r\n<P>And so we decamped to the Bonded, where we collected our Wooden Spoon trophy with thanks. I remember alcohol, Karioke, More Alcohol, More Karioke, and then standing about half an hour in the Manor Quay (nightclub) before almost falling asleep at a table. Then I found a taxi and went home. One of my flatmates described my entrance as \"You just fell into your room\". I awoke this morning with a hangover.</P>\r\n<P>Dunno Why.</P>',5,'html','','N51:10:41 E0:23:30'),(17,'Napster-Abandonware-Freedom','2002-03-11 00:00:00','2003-06-18 15:27:12',0,'<P>Napster Good.</P>\r\n\r\n<P>Where were you when you heard about Napster? Personally, I\'m not totally sure. It was a fair while before I tried to use the system, and when I did it wasn\'t very much, But I still belive Napster is A Good Thing <i>and</i> A Bad Thing because I belive in the concept of Abandonware.</P>\r\n\r\n<P>Abandonware is software that is now unsupported by the people who originally made it. The term was coined for the Gaming industry for games that - due to the shifting sands of publishers and developers - are no longer either owned or acknolaged by the people who originally created them. There are spots in the darkness, Stuff like Elite - which is still being argued over today, and there are also black holes: Stuff like the anchient Atari games (Pong, Space Invaders, Centipiede, etc.) which were bought by Hasbro and turned into Spinny-Rotaty-Neatocool 3D versions. Which were crap. But I digress. There are games that have fallen out of the back catalogue. Like Lemmings 2, orginally created by DMA Design for Psygnosis was lost when Psygnosis were bought by Sony. You cannot and will not find this game supported anywhere, because DMA are on to GTA3 and their new bits and are no longer affilated with Psygnosis (Who own Lemmings, AFAIK), and Psygnosis no longer acnolage it because it is no longer part of their structure. Vanished.</P>\r\n\r\n<P>So people who have the game put it online. There is no way Psygnosis would make money from it anyway, because they don\'t support it anymore, and there are no new productions. People who want these games actually want <i>these games</i>. But Copyright law means that you can\'t distribute it unless you are given permisson to by the creator/owner. This is why I support (From a distance - I\'ve never actually used it) things like Freeloader, which allows you to download (fairly recent) games in return for eyeballing a few adverts, and I also occasionally trawl the Abandonware sites when - in a fit of nostagia - I want to play some old game I lost the disks for ages ago, Or owned the Amiga version of, or always wanted to play. I point out for the record that I am no longer a Software Pirate. Back in my Amiga days, I had the occasionally copied game - who didn\'t? - but when I decided it would be in my interests to pay for the games I played (if only so there would continue to be games in the future) I formatted all the pirate disks I had. I\'m digressing again. </P>\r\n\r\n<P>To sum up the above paragraph, Abandonware Good. So why Napster Good?</P>\r\n\r\n<P>Napster is (was) a fantastic source of the musical equivalent of Abandonware, stuff you would never <i>ever</i> buy, or possibly even find, but could now listen too. Unfortuanatly with the technology was the ability to put <i>everyhing</i> online, including all the stuff the record companies are selling in stores up and down the country, across the world. and <i>including</i> the stuff that is actually making artists money. This is coming into the Information Wants To Be Free argument, which is another rant in the brewing, which states that the imporant thing is the creation of the information or the art, The payment is secondary. Unfortunatly it\'s a necessary secondary, In order to continue the Art you must feed, clothe and house yourself and those dependant on you for food, clothing and shelter, and in the society we live in you cannot do this. Artists and Information Gatherers alike require sponsership of activities. And if you are giving away for free what they need to sell for money, then you maybe are depriving the future, because they may be forced to give up and do something that actually pays.</P>\r\n\r\n<P>Like web design.</P>\r\n\r\n<P>(Hint, Do I want to sell my soul? No. In an ideal world, I\'d write for a living, or invent websites, Or combine the two and get paid for Aquarionics. This is not an ideal world, so I am jobhunting)</P>\r\n\r\n<P>This started with Napster, so it goes back. The tracks I have downloaded Napster have been:\r\n<UL>\r\n<LI>They Might Be Giants tracks\r\n<LI>Tom Leher tracks.\r\n<LI>Random Whim Tracks\r\n</UL>\r\nOf the above, I have bought the two TMBG albums that contain the tracks I downloaded and the entire TL back catalogue. Some of the Random Whims I would like to buy the albums for but can\'t because they don\'t sell/ship them here, some were just random things I wanted to hear again. None of the tracks I havn\'t bought are things I would actually pay for, usually because they are single tracks from entire albums/box-sets, and not even I will spend £15 on a CD for one track. Unless it\'s a <i>very</i> good track.</P>\r\n\r\n<P>And that\'s what Napster is good for, the abandonware tracks you can\'t get in the shops or at all. But the technology lead to the other stuff coming as well, and so it had to go.</P>\r\n\r\n<P>For the record, if Napster were to start charging $10/month or something for the service, I\'d be happy to pay. I\'d have to give up paying for Ultima Online, but it\'d be worth it.</P>\r\n\r\n<P>The record companies hit Napster with the large blunt instrament of Law, when the laser-guided presision of negotiation would have been preferable. Napster will die, and 100s of other similer systems will spring up, and have done. But that isn\'t the point. Lawyers take great delight in playing Whack-a-mole with copycats to the outlawed systems. There needs to be an \"official\" Napster. And it\'d be great if the people who ran the old one could do the Offical one, since it worked so well. But they won\'t. The Record companies are annoucing their own Online Music Emporiums, another thing that misses the point entirely, since the whole point of Napster (or even the entire Music Retail industry) is that you can go to <i>one</i> shop and buy from <i>many</i> record labels. You don\'t need to know that the Divine Comedy are now published by Parlaphone and go to there record shop, you just head down to HMV and look under \"D\". Untited, the system could stand. Divided it will never get up, let alone fall.</P>\r\n\r\n<P>The Music industry needs something like Project Gutenberg, where old music can go to die where everyone can remember it.</P>\r\n\r\n<DIV ALIGN=\"RIGHT\">Nicholas Avenell, Thursday 11th April 2001. Paddock Wood.</DIV>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-style: italic\">This article was previously published on <a href=\"http://www.kuro5hin.org\">Kuro5hin.org</a>, where it gathered a few comments. You can view that version of that article, and the comments it gathered, at <a href=\"http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/7/18/151644/458\">http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/7/18/151644/458</a>.</P>',5,'html','','N51:10:41 E0:23:30'),(18,'FAQ','2002-03-12 00:00:00','2003-06-18 15:27:12',0,'<h2>I thought you said this was going to be in perl?</h2>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>It was. It isn\'t. I needed something to do, and learning Perl wasn\'t appropriate, so I did it in PHP. It works, and therefore I\'m happy with it. If you want a content management system in perl, write it yourself.</blockquote>\r\n\r\n<h2>Why doesn\'t it have a search function?</h2>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>I can\'t be bothered. Next question?</blockquote>\r\n\r\n<h2>There arn\'t any.</h2>\r\n<blockquote>Good, Y\'all have fun now :-)</blockquote>\r\n\r\n',5,'html','','N51:10:41 E0:23:30'),(19,'Aquarion & Lonecat','2002-03-13 00:00:00','2005-02-27 17:11:18',1,'<p>How did it begin?\r\n</p><p>\r\nHow does anything? We first met at the <a href=\"http://www.clarecraft.co.uk\">Clarecraft</a> Discworld Event <a href=\"http://www.lonecat.org/pics/afp_pics/CCDE5.jpg\">2000</a>, and I first saw Lonecat posing for a <a href=\"http://www.lonecat.org/pics/susan.jpg\">photo</a>. I then spent the rest of the weekend calling her <a href=\"http://www.jester.nu/cgi-bin/ircdoss.cgi?channel=afp&nick=Rosemary\">Rosemary</a>.\r\n</p><p>\r\nLater that year Lonecat held a meet at Durham ([<a href=\"http://www.lonecat.org/pics/afp_pics/durham1.jpg\">photo</a>|<a href=\"http://www.co.uk.lspace.org/fandom/afp/meets/ukie/2000-11-18/durham/report.html\">report</a>]) which I arrived - late - at (Friday was a <a href=\"http://ars.userfriendly.org/news/?id=975608201\" title=\"Aquarion & Lonecat on the news page of User Friendly\">UFie meet</a>, Saturday the AFP one) so we actually met and spoke, At the New Years party we were both at we kissed at midnight, and I caught the cold she was having problems with...\r\n</p><p>\r\nAnd so 2001 began, and with it, really, our friendship. Through channel and query we got to know each other better, and soon became friends, discovering we are, in fact, the same person in disguise. And so when <a href=\"http://www.NeilGaiman.com\">Neil Gaiman</a> came to London on a signing tour, it was only natural that we would be there. And since the <a href=\"http://www.maskerade.org.uk\">AFPMovie</a> auditions were going to be the next day, it was logical for us both to crash with <a href=\"http://milamber.gwydion.net\">Chris</a> overnight. And since Chris was going to a Karaoke bar on Monday night it was even sensible for us to remain in London so we could go too. And LoneCat found a very effective way of stopping me doing Karaoke. She kissed me. And so I kissed her back. And I started to entertain the possibility that this might be able to go slightly further than Good Friends. But it couldn\'t, because she had a boyfriend.\r\n</p><p>\r\nWe shared a tent at CCDE, and remained oblivious to the scores of people trying to match make us together. And we kissed again, and I stopped again, because she still had a boyfriend. But when Carl and Lonecat split up, we had a discussion. Then a week to think about it. And then, on the 26th August 2001, At <a href=\"http://www.co.uk.lspace.org/fandom/afp/meets/ukie/2001-08-25/report.html\">Aquarion\'s Own Kentmeet</a>, Aquarion and Lonecat gave in to the AFP Dating agency.\r\n</p><p>\r\nAnd the rest, as they say, is history. Or at least, another article\r\n</p><p>\r\nSo now Lonecat is my girlfriend, and I love her lots.\r\n</p><p>\r\nYay.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><ins><b>Updated 2005-Feb-27:</b><br>\r\nLoneCat is no longer my girlfriend. I still love her lots, but she doesn\'t love me anymore.</ins></p>\r\n',5,'html','','N51:48:56 W0:48:30'),(20,'Things...','2002-03-13 00:00:00','2004-01-26 17:21:29',1,'<h2>Things Me And My Girlfriend Argue About</h2>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Marmite</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Webdesign</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Text Editors</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">Oh, and tuna</p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size: x-small\">With apologies to <a href=\"http://www.mil-millington.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/things.html\">Mil Millington</a></p>',6,'html','','N51:31:57 W0:06:52'),(22,'Bath Time','2002-03-20 00:00:00','2004-02-03 23:10:09',1,'<p>A report, and diary entry, by Nicholas \'Aquarion\' Avenell.\r\nMoron, of the order of St. Astrid.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Well, That sucked.<br>\r\nWent to Bath.<br>\r\nThis sums up, in three words, four hours of travel, decided completely\r\non a whim at 11 O\'clock in the morning. I decided that since it wasn\'t\r\nevery day that RR was in the country, I should be there.<br>\r\nLife began to suck as soon as I got to the station just in time to see\r\nmy train leave. Caught the next one - 15 minutes later - to London,\r\nCharing Cross -> Waterloo -> Bath Spa.<br>\r\nWhere I arrived exactly 15 minutes late.<br>\r\nSo the people I was looking for had left. Yay. Rah. And other\r\nexpressions of sarcastic joy. Together with someone else in the same\r\nsituation, we wandered around Bath until, quite by accident, we ran\r\ninto someone who had just walked out of the pub where the Meet was\r\nhappening.<br>\r\nI should have known this wouldn\'t last.<br>\r\nIt was suggested that finding a cheap (£10) hotel would be an\r\nimprovement on going home at 20:45 (My last train), so we went to the\r\nlocal Backpackers place, which was totally full.<br>\r\nBad.<br>\r\nThey, however, were very helpful and booked me into a similar place,\r\ngiving me a leaflet with the name and address of the hotel on it, and\r\ngave me the check in time, which was \"before midnight\".<br>\r\nSo, Back to the meet, by way of most of Bath. We asked two people how\r\nto get to the pub. When the pointed in opposite directions, we\r\nrealised this was going to be fun.<br>\r\nAnyway. Meet, Drinking, Geeking, Vommary galore. *fun* stuff.<br>\r\nAt 10, LC had to wander off with parents.<br>\r\nAt 11:15, I decided to go find my hotel.<br>\r\nActually, At 11:15, I discovered that the leaflet with the address and\r\nname of this hotel had gone. Completely.<br>\r\nSo, I spent 45 minutes wandering around where I thought the map had\r\nsaid, with no success, before realizing I was screwed. Next train home\r\nwas 08:00. It was now midnight.</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2>The Long Wait:</h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Spent about an hour at the station until they locked it up.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>At this point I got as far as \"How...\" of \"How could this possibly get\r\nany worse\" before it did.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>And it started to rain.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Spent another hour sitting beside the river, explaining my life story\r\nto it (More vocal exercises than anything else). Attempted to sort my\r\nlife into some kind of order. Wandered up the riverside path, sat\r\naround for a while.<br>\r\nWandered back again.<br>\r\nFound a bench with a street-light above it, finished my book.<br>\r\nWandered back to the weir I\'d been talking to earlier.<br>\r\nWandered to the bus-station in search of a chocolate vending machine\r\nI\'d seen earlier, and by this time it was about 4am.<br>\r\nStarted writing in my (Physical) diary, which, as it will *always* do,\r\neven at 4am in a deserted bus station, prompted someone to come up and\r\ntry to talk to me.<br>\r\nShot the breeze with him (name unknown) on the State Of The Transport\r\nNetwork, and how terrible it was that he had to wait a whole 45\r\nminutes for a bus home.<br>\r\nYou can hear the sympathy oozing from me, can\'t you?<br>\r\nAt 4:45 his bus left, and so did I.<br>\r\nWandered back to the wier (It was nice there, shady from the rain, the\r\nnoise of the water keeping me from sleeping and either being robbed or\r\narrested for being a vagrant or something) and watched the sun rise.\r\nWandered around Bath for another couple of hours, caught the train to\r\nReading, Grabbed coffee, Train to Redhill, Train to The Fictional Town\r\nof Paddock Wood, Walk Home.</p>\r\n<p>Get home ~12:00</p>\r\n<p>*sleep*</p>\r\nYours in total sincerity,<br>\r\n<br>\r\nAquarion D\'Blue<br>',5,'html','','N51:22:33 W2:21:36'),(23,'Matter','2002-03-20 00:00:00','2003-06-18 15:27:12',0,'<p>A Chat Log. From #AFDA<br>\r\n<br>\r\n(15th Dec 1999)<br>\r\n(about 10 to 9)<br>\r\n(PM)<br>\r\n[Non-relivant bits cut)<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\nMatter<br>\r\n<br>\r\nAquarion: Hello<br>\r\nZZ9: what\'s up, Aquarion<br>\r\nAquarion: Sky, Clouds<br>\r\nAquarion: Does it matter? And even if it matters, does it matter if it<br>\r\nmatters?<br>\r\nAquarion: Does Matter matter? And even if Matter matters, does it<br>\r\nmatter if Matter matters, or if Matter matters not?<br>\r\nBbz: It doesn\'t. That\'s the easiest way of thinking about it. Or<br>\r\nrather of not thinking about it.<br>\r\nAquarion: Everything matters<br>\r\nAquarion: to someone<br>\r\nBbz: Nothing Else Matters.<br>\r\nAquarion: Apart From What?<br>\r\nNoser: Matter or matter not, matter is no matter. A matter a matter<br>\r\nkeeps the matter away.<br>\r\nNoser: A matter in the matter is worth matter in the matter.<br>\r\n * Bbz is baffled.<br>\r\n * Noser likes this game.<br>\r\nAquarion: And even if Matter matters, Who does Matter matter to? are<br>\r\ndo the increase from the point where there was one item that mattered,<br>\r\nto two too many mattering items of Matter?<br>\r\nNoser: My matter\'s breath smells like cat food.<br>\r\nAquarion: Does matter Matter to Matter itself? Is there some kind of<br>\r\nMeta-Matter that matters to Matter?<br>\r\nNoser: Meta-matter is like a box of matter.<br>\r\nNoser: Matter doesn\'t actually matt, does it though.<br>\r\nAquarion: Does Matter care? Does Matter feel pain? Does it matter if<br>\r\nMeta-Matter matters only to matt?<br>\r\nAquarion: And is Matt Matter? Does it matter if Matt is Matter? Is<br>\r\nMatt Meta-Matter?<br>\r\nNoser: Who\'s Matt? No matter, it doesn\'t matter.<br>\r\nNoser: Take it away Bbz!<br>\r\nBbz: Come on! You know I can\'t be this silly.<br>\r\nNoser: What matter?<br>\r\nAquarion: Is matt mad? and is Matt madder than meta-Matter. Does it<br>\r\nmatter if Matt is madder than Matter? Is Meta-Matter madness?<br>\r\nBbz: It doesn\'t matter anyway, I\'m not going to try. Not that it<br>\r\nmatters anyways.<br>\r\nAquarion: But does it matter?<br>\r\nMarvin: Even if it does matter, does it matter that it matters?<br>\r\nAquarion: blast. I was going to say that. But does it matter who said<br>\r\nit?<br>\r\nBbz: What\'s this Meta-Matter madness? Does it matter that it\'s<br>\r\nmadness? Or Meta-madness?<br>\r\nNoser: My aunt Matt collects anti-matter?<br>\r\nAquarion: Is there a Meta-Madness that manafests itself in Matter?<br>\r\nDoes it matter? Has Matt fallen prey to this Meta-Madness?<br>\r\nBbz: But do you have an anti-aunt anti-Matt who collects matter?<br>\r\nNoser: No, she collects ants.<br>\r\nAquarion: Or is it an Anti-aunt who collects Mad Meta-Matter?<br>\r\nNoser: It\'s a matterhouse! A MATTERHOUSE!!!<br>\r\nAquarion: But does it matter that this is a matterhouse?<br>\r\nAquarion: and even if it matters, does it matter that it matters?<br>\r\nBbz: Meta-aunt-Matt-Maddness-matter.<br>\r\n*** Joins: Rasher (jfh@t3o106p110.telia.com )<br>\r\n*** ChanServ sets mode: +o Rasher<br>\r\nBbz: High!<br>\r\nAquarion: Anti-aunt-Matt-Maddness-matter.<br>\r\nNoser: Hey Rasher, join in the matter-rich matter madness!<br>\r\nRasher: Which is?<br>\r\nNoser: Doesn\'t matter.</p>',6,'html','','N51:10:41 E0:23:30'),(24,'Names','2002-03-20 00:00:00','2003-06-18 15:27:12',0,'(AFP, 2001-09-27)\r\n\r\n<p>I\'ve been wandering along the lines of \"Who Is Aquarion\" for a few\r\ndays, and this is how it works:\r\n</p><p>\r\nTo AFP: My Name Is Aquarion.\r\n</p><p>\r\nThis accounts for both \"If You Meet Me In Real Life\" as well as, and\r\nespecially \"When I\'m Online\". The only *ONLY* reason my real name is\r\non these posts at all is because in order to comply with the terms and\r\nconditions of news.cis.dfn.de (My major news feed) I have to put my\r\nreal name on posts, at the very least in the sender field.\r\n</p><p>\r\nThere is a reason for this, and it goes as follows:<br>\r\n When I joined the AFP for the most recent time, there was a\r\nvery specific reason why I wanted to be anonymous. It was a legacy\r\nfrom a previous place, and meant that I never *ever* wanted anyone\r\nonline to know who I was ever again.<br>\r\n So I became Aquarion, which was the name of my website at the\r\ntime and was a name I quite liked the sound of. And I posted both here\r\nand on other groups as Aquarion for a moderately long time.\r\n Then I started doing meets, and my Real Name was announced.\r\nThis meant that people started calling me by my Real Name online,\r\nwhich I was too shy and retiring to object to.<br>\r\n (Yes, Ha ha, Aquarion being retiring, I know. I\'ve changed a\r\nlot since then)<br>\r\n I respond to Aquarion, however, far easier than I do to my\r\nreal name. Mainly because there are very few Aquarions in the world,\r\nand I\'m unlikely to be mistaken when someone shouts it across the\r\nroom.\r\n</p><p>\r\nSo, Personally, I prefer to be called Aquarion. Even if you know what\r\nmy real name is. Because it\'s what I prefer to be known as.\r\n</p><p>\r\nThere are other reasons. The main one being that, although they are\r\ncloser now than before, Aquarion is different to $REALME, and I\'ve had\r\nenough problems of the \"Who Do I Want To Be Today...?\" variety to keep\r\nme going for a while.\r\n</p><p>\r\nTo Summarize the above: I\'m only not anonymous because I comply with\r\nthe T&C of my account[1], but really I prefer to be called after the\r\nname I post under.\r\n</p><p>\r\nIf anybody tries to restrict my rights to be known as whatever the\r\nhell I like, I will continue to argue with you.\r\n</p><p>\r\n(Not that anybody here has, yet)\r\n</p><p>\r\nTo Summarize the summery:<br>\r\n Aquarion is a fairly mucked up person,<br>\r\n light blue touch paper, and stand well back.\r\n</p><p>\r\n\r\n\r\nYours in total sincerity,\r\n</p><p>\r\n Aquarion D\'Blue</p><p>\r\n<pre>-- \r\n \"Ve belong dead\"-- O | Aquarion. Ph33r |V|y 1337 P@|\\|70 5K1||Z\r\n \\\\\\\\\\ +-|-+ | From is valid, Replyto is better.\r\n \\\\\\\\\\\\\\__o | |\r\n___\\\\\\\\\\\\\\x/___ _/ \\_ | Resurrecting dead hedgehogs since 1996.\r\n</pre>\r\n<p>[1] Yes, I *know* they have never been known to enforce this, but it\r\nis still the rules.</p>',5,'html','','N51:10:41 E0:23:30'),(25,'Delurk post','2002-03-20 00:00:00','2003-06-18 15:27:12',0,'(<i>I had a post which I tended to use to Delurk on big newsgroups. It gets noticed fairly quickly. This is the latest revision, done for RHOD, posted 2000/04/22</i>)\r\n\r\n<p>The minds eye is an infinitely versatile object, capable of rendering objects that\r\nthe most dedicated artist would find impossible to make look real. In dreams we see\r\nanother reality, and it is in dreams where this post begins.\r\n</p><p>\r\nImagine, if you will, the multiverse. A huge sphere of multicoloured points linked\r\nin ways our minds, conceived in one of these points, cannot possibly see. And yet\r\nthere is something around it. A sprinkling of blue sparkles surrounds the entire\r\narea, around every point they eddy and swirl, gradually focusing on one point,\r\npointing, leading, like iron fillings to a magnet, and onto one point they focus and\r\nthe mind shifts perspective.\r\n</p><p>\r\nWe are inside one of the points of the multiverse, one of the nodes, one of the\r\nuniverses. There are many more, governed by magic, words, or just the same\r\nmore-or-less logical rules that bind our own universe together, for that is where we\r\nare. And the blue sparkles are here also, spinning and flowing towards another,\r\nsmaller point, a swirl in the galaxy, and we zoom in further.\r\n</p><p>\r\nAnd further, though the clouds of stars, focusing on a string that is orbiting the\r\ngalaxy in mindnumbing slowness, and yet travelling faster than many thought\r\npossible.\r\n</p><p>\r\nOnto a single star, orbited by 9 rocks of varying size, and as we circle the sun -\r\nas all the rocks do - we can see the sparkles head toward a single planet, a\r\nblue-green planet.\r\n</p><p>\r\nWe spin past the lands, though the daytime, the evening and into the night, and in\r\nthe darkness we focus on a small triangular country which for the sake of argument\r\nwe shall call \"England\" and from there into the south-eastern corner, midway between\r\nthe bright lights of the big city and the calmness of the sea to the south.\r\n</p><p>\r\nAnd closer do we zoom, to a single room, and a single computer, as the blue sparkles\r\ncollate and solidify into a young male, typing at his keyboard. The figure of\r\nAquarion, making his de-lurk post to RHOD.\r\n</p><p>\r\nHi, I\'m Aquarion, and I am to be your newest member for a while.\r\n</p><p>\r\nI love to say I have lurked lots, but in reality I followed people from AFDA a\r\ncouple of days ago.\r\n</p><p>\r\nYours in total sincerity,\r\nAquarion\r\n</p><p>\r\n--<br>\r\nWeb: http://www.Aquarionics.com<br>\r\nE-Mail: Aquarion-At-Aquarionics-Dot-Com<br>\r\n\"Whenever Pavlov rang a bell, all the dogs attacked the nearest merangue\"</p>\r\n\r\n',5,'html','','N51:10:41 E0:23:30'),(26,'Marmite','2002-03-20 00:00:00','2003-06-18 15:27:12',0,'<p><i>AFP, 2002-03-15</i></p>\r\n<p>The simple thing is that, light of my life, Marmite is ikky. Marmite is a blot on the spec of a culinary horizon of spreads that rises over the mountains of \"It\'s All Mine\" Real Chocolate spread, though the wastelands of peanut butter, around the small puddles of sandwich spread[1] and flooding the valleys with a sheen of golden syrup glinting lightly in the sunset. Somewhere out in this metaphorical landscape is a pit of thick brown liquid that occasionally goes \"gloop\" horribly, it\'s only claim to fame being a brief appearance in a movie staring David Bowie. Marmite is the anti-spread, a single gram of it dropped into half a kilo of butter will render the entire pat useless for consumption by all those with more than one single properly functioning taste bud. Marmite is the very definition of evil, it\'s very colour a signal to nature to stay the hell away from it, nothing edible can be that colour. It\'s smell can drive grown men out of a house, it\'s taste causes ducks to swim *away* from bread. Even it\'s makers admit that you can make circus-freaks of the people who eat the stuff. It is Wrong, purely and simply. And the fact that you, darling, eat the stuff just confirms how good your taste in things is.\r\n</p><p>\r\nNow, if you excuse me, I think I\'d better start running.\r\n</p><p>\r\nYours in total sincerity,\r\n</p><p>\r\n Aquarion\r\n</p><p>\r\n(Lonecat\'s worst, or at least other, half)\r\n</p><p>\r\n[1] Sandwich spread was used in a great many TV dramas for when a character needed to throw something up. This is all you need to know about it.</p>',5,'html','','N51:10:41 E0:23:30'),(27,'Driving Test I','2002-03-21 00:00:00','2003-06-18 15:27:12',0,'<p>And so I finally got around to booking a driving test.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>For my 17th birthday, as is now traditional in our family, I was given driving lessons. And for a few months I failed to do anything about this, and then started them, and went off on a course of 10. I continued to have lessons for the next few months, pausing for A-Levels and resuming for summer. Then I went to University for two years.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>I came back, procrastinated for a few months, and then went back to the lessons. Eventually, around christmas last year, getting to the point where there was no point in me having the lessons until I had booked the test.</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Three months after that point, I booked the test. And three weeks after that I told the instructor, Chris, about the test. I now had two weeks until the test, and I hadn\'t driven in a few months.</p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Two weeks</h2>\r\n<p>Revision driving test. Wandered around in fine and sunny weather. Got bac