http://www.chrislaing.net Beware the Mathematician Tue, 06 May 2008 11:58:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok people, this next post involves Serious Nerdiness. If you clikc the "Continue Reading" link, you will be subjected to some seriously nerdy stuff. This post is about World of Warcraft. This is your last chance to back out. Ok, so you've accepted your inner Nerd and are willing to check this post ... http://www.chrislaing.net/entertainment/gaming/crank-dat-druid-boy/ Hi everyone! The SST is now on Facebook and Myspace. For Facebook, click here for the group, or here for the cause. For MySpace, click here for the cause. Thank you for your support! http://www.chrislaing.net/system-announcements/sst-on-facebook-and-myspace/ Increasingly, over the last few years, it has seemed to me that New Zealand has a very great deal of the former and a definite lack of the latter. We've all seen it in the news - criminals breaking the law with impunity, while the Crown slaps them on the ... http://www.chrislaing.net/politics/crime-and-punishment/ Since my dedicated fanbase have been bombarding me with criticism for not blogging in several weeks, I thought I'd better correct that with a quick post about what the Beasts have been up to lately. For those not privileged enough to belong to this mighty institution, the Beasts are an Ice ... http://www.chrislaing.net/personal-life/ice-hockey/beastiality/ Hello, fellow happy campers! Today, you're in for a treat. Two (not one, but two) movie reviews! Woohoo! First up, we have Zwartboek, or Black Book in English. Plot Summary: Set in 1944, the movie follows the exploits of Ellis de Vries. A young jewish woman named Rachel Stein is hiding out during the ... http://www.chrislaing.net/entertainment/the-good-the-bad-and-the-amazingly-boring/ I don't get much time to mess around with code these days, but one of the things that has really caught my eye recently is the ability of AJAX technology to add an interactive dimension to websites. So, in an effort to make my humble webbie a bit more Web 2.0, ... http://www.chrislaing.net/web-design/wordpressing-news/ Here's an article I read in the New Zealand Herald today, about how women should stop being such tacky sluts. More or less. The irony is that this announcement comes from the New Zealand Council of Women, harbingers of the doom that is "girl power". "New Zealand women are being ... http://www.chrislaing.net/society/nz-national-council-of-women-finally-start-singing-my-tune-sort-of/ This post is the first of a series which I will release periodically. The aims of this series are manifold, among them: To provide a repository of interesting and accurate information on Global Warming, primarily for my own benefit. To add one more independent voice to the millions of educated and sensible people ... http://www.chrislaing.net/science/global-warming/global-warming-the-truth-part-i/ So, today I went to see Juno. Entertainment weekly describes Juno as "...a blithe charmer balanced somewhere between a life-should-be-so-neat fairy tale and a life's-a-real-bitch tragicomedy...". According to slashfilm.com, "Juno is not only the best film of the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, but it’s also the best movie of the year..." Wrong. Juno ... http://www.chrislaing.net/entertainment/juno/ Well, it's official, my best friend Winnie is now in the Mother Country, enjoying scones, earl grey tea, cucumber sandwiches with the Queen and pints of lager. Actually, apparently she's not having too flash a time at the moment, probably because of the shitty hostel she was in, the beggars, crazies ... http://www.chrislaing.net/personal-life/the-pooh-has-left-the-country/