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History for Iron Maiden fans 101
In case you've been listening to Iron Maiden's new album Dance of Death, you might be interested in learning some history.
Montségur was a Cathar fortress. Cathars were a Gnostic heretics, who were persecuted by the Inquisition. In 1245, Inquisition conquered Montségur and burned 200 Cathars. Too bad. Boardgamers might be interested to know that there were lots of Cathars living in the city of Carcassonne. If you're interested, Wikipedia knows lots of things about Cathars.
Passchendaele, in the other hand, was a major battle in the World War I. It is better known, perhaps, as the Third Battle of Ypres. As was typical in the WWI, it was a long, bloody fight (about 250,000 casualties) over nothing: almost everything the allied forces gained was lost in the Fourth Battle of Ypres. Wikipedia can tell you more, as usual.
26.09.2003 klo 15:53
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Cool quiz
While I often do these quizzes, I rarely bother to post them to my blog because it's such a cliché, but this one was just too cool to be avoided:
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26.09.2003 klo 14:22
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Actually, more computer trouble
Sure, I got my computer back. However, it didn't work. They claim it worked all right when they tested it, but I don't care. It doesn't work when I try to use it, that's just about all I care. Well, I returned the computer and hopefully they'll fix it properly this time.
I still have a pretty good opinion of Triosoft, but that's going to change if they can't fix the computer they sold me.
24.09.2003 klo 12:36
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No more computer trouble?
Last Tuesday I took my new computer for repair - Win98 simply stopped working. Continuous fatal exceptions, problems starting up and shutting down, that kind of mysterious action. Installing Win98 again didn't do any good, so I decided to take the computer to the shop where I bought it.
Today I got a call from them - the computer is fixed and ready for pickup. Apparently the problem was overheating of the processor, caused by too inefficient cooling fan. The AMD Barton 3000+ needs lots of cooling, it seems. Now it should work, I sure hope it does... Computer trouble is very, very annoying. Fortunately I had a back-up computer.
18.09.2003 klo 16:29
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NetHack fun
NetHack: Behind the Scenes. Brilliantly funny, if you're into NetHack. It's a bit of a spoiler, though.
16.09.2003 klo 12:37
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Operating the circulation
Today was my first day at the Tampere university library circulation desk. It was an easy day, as I had only two hours of real customer service action. The library system didn't work in the beginning, which is always exciting - modern libraries are crippled when the computers don't work.
I'm looking forward to going back to work tomorrow. Working only 20 hours a week makes it a bit easier to handle. Full-time job would be worse. But, I can always repeat my mantra: "library work experience, Voyager library system experience, money" to help me carry on...
1.09.2003 klo 15:24
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