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Got my first tattoo yesterday and I'm very happy with the results. Here's it about an hour after it was done with the initial dressing:
And here it is this morning after I'd changed the dressing (yes, I know that's electrical tape on my arm, most English corner shops don't stock surgical tape):
I realised something of great beauty today, as I looked up and saw the night sky for what it was I had a fateful epiphany. This universe is even more beautiful than I'd ever thought possible. I saw the fires of a million stars and their echoes of eternity, every pinpoint light years old, every glint an echo of a past I'll never know.
It was beautiful and soul destroying at the same time. I realised in and of myself how insignificant I was and in that moment of perfect clarity I understood that it doesn't matter what I do, think, feel or achieve. I will always be an insignificant dot on an insignificant dot. A speck of unlikely luck in a random corner of a seemingly infinite space and it occurred to me that none of this was important. Because life isn't about being important, it's about being happy.
And yes, I'm happy.
Right, this is getting ridiculous. Oracle now doesn't consider Google and the ASF 'major players' in the java world. Or at least, their press department doesn't. It's getting to the point where I'm beginning to wonder if Larry Ellison isn't just sitting in his office thinking up new and inventive ways to troll the OSS community.
Larry Ellison thinking about how much the OSS community hates him right now
So let's recap on Oracles treatment of the community and why I think Ellison is a consumate corporate troll, it all begins with the acquisition of Sun.
And so here we are, with a Java fork looking increasingly likely and the OSS community in general getting more and more fed up. It seems that trend now is for Oracle to acquire OSS projects and for the community to immediately fork them in order to keep them open.
With all this in mind I say: Fuck Oracle and Fuck Larry Ellison.
Here they are at the current time of writing:
The Wikileaks.org domain is no longer available as their DNS provider has cancelled their service, presumably due to pressure from the American MafiaGovernment. So here's the IP address that can take you directly to the site. Please post and re-post this everywhere you can, information needs to be free.
Apparently some preacher in the US has set a date for the rapture, it's May 21st 2011. Presumably this means that there won't be any Christians left on earth on May 22nd and the rest of us can get on with our lives without having to listen to them whinge about how persecuted they feel. That or, in all likelihood, absolutely sweet fuck all will happen and the wingnuts that believe this moron will have to doublethink their way around yet another failed prophecy. Good luck with that one guys.
I have just discovered a new BBC Radio 4 show called the Infinite Monkey Cage, it's a great mix of science and humour with Robin Ince and Brian Cox, my favourite physicist :D You can download all the recent episodes and get the podcast URL here
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