Remember open book exams? You were allowed to take books into the exam and refer to them…. I wonder if taking a Pocket PC wirelessly connected to the internet so you can Google or consult Wikipedia is allowed… probably not… but hey, that wouldn’t surprise me…
Archive for 2004
Open book exams and the internet
Thursday, June 17th, 2004Hanging with Mr Cooper Bison
Wednesday, June 16th, 2004
My brother, Stuart aka The Bison, moved to Wellington a few weeks ago. It’s really cool to hang out with him. Like last night we were playing Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 on MAME… and we were having a ball.
Back when we were living together and he was still at intermediate/high school, he had a mega drive, and we used to play Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, and we’d beat each other up. My favorite character was Liu Kang, so I’d be all like “Bicycle Kick Bicycle Kick Fireball Fireball Upper-Cut” and he’d be Kabal and he’d be all like “Mincey Mincey Mincey Mincey” and he’d kick my ass 
So re-living that last night was real cool.
We also played some Star Control 2 Ur-Quan Masters : Super Melee and he kicked my ass, again… So I burnt it to CD for him… I know he’ll enjoy it
Gangsta Name
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004The in/out board at work has slowly been changing over the last few weeks, as people are found Gangsta or Thug names. Names include Biggie-Shirls, J-Dogg, J-Duck, J-Quack, I-ron To’oPac, Busta Rose, P-Dorky, V-Dub, Yads, and BeatMasterD. My name has been assigned: The Notorious B.H.T. bad ass huh?
Encrypto The Amazing
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2004The ICT department at work (ie, Daniel and I) are using GnuPG to encrypt our emails that contain passwords to one-another. By a fluke of events, there was then a key-signing last week which we both attended. That was an interesting but important experience. My key is worth less to those who don’t know me personally because they don’t know if it is actually mine or one created by someone pretending to be me, hence why you get other people to sign it. You may trust one of those people who trust my key. So building your key’s web of trust is important.
Want to sign my key? Contact me and we’ll sort something out