So - Destruction of the environemtn is bad, m'kay...

So I thought I should join some people on a march against Climate change. It's a noble goal, friends are going to be there and it's nice to get out for a bit.

I really need to be less cynical about this sort of thing. But still - Aspects really really bug me. Socialist worker have no justification to be there. Climate change and socialism have nothing to do with each other. Socialism isd not the answer to all the world's ills. The war in Iraq - while not exactly being an ecology measure - is not the point of the march. Grr. Stop hijacking these events.

and lots of people wanted me to sign a petition against nuclear power. Now - I'm a little conflicted about this issue. On the plus side - nuclear power causes no atmospheric pollution, while it can produce hot water pollution, this is something that can be avoided easily enough, so the only significant issue is the radioactive waste.

People don't quite understand the nature of radioactive waste. Most of it is not spent fuel. Most of it is things like pipes, radiation suits, and will only remain radioactive for a relatively short time. There are various ways of dealing with this, but what I want to know is what are the plans?

On the plus side, some people were handing out flyers that had nice ideas. One of them was to reduce energy usage, the other was a wind farm cooperative. I like that idea. I'd like to be able to claim ownership of a few hundred watts of wind power.

Numismatism

I was at the supermarket, and someone on a nearby till attempted to pay using a 50p. A samuel Johnson 50p. The people at the supermarket weren't sure whether it was genuine British currency or not.

To settle their minds, I offered them 50p for it.

Rather Pretty isn't it.

Geekin' it up

Edgar - my old PC needs a bit of TLC. I think it has bad memory, althoguh it hasn't caused a problem in the past.

Linux keeps locking up. Changing the memory configuration seems to affect how and when it locks up, and using the non-dodgy memory I bought from a reputable supplier some time ago doesn't cause any problems but that means poor edgar is crippled with just 256 megs of RAM. I think i need to do some exploratory work with some test utilities... This will involve putting a floppy disk drive back in as temporary measure.

I still wonder why I have that zip drive in there. It's not like I have any disks for it.

Angelus (my main fast PC) is also having minor issues. It's very reluctant to identify my CD-ROM drive. Itwill turn up if I search for new hardware but disappears whe I reboot. Msot odd.

On the positive side, I did spend a bit of time getting somethign worthwhile happening with my protracted game. I added a bouce mechanism to it. And did some improvements to the collision detection (like getting it to work properly). A company wants to see a demo. I felt having an object fall and then stop is rather dull, but having it bounce around the screen is actually quite cute. I might expand that into a game. I'll need to think how to add a scoring and skill increase mechanism.