Archive for the 'Rant' Category

Ruby off the Rails

Friday, April 7th, 2006

Despite the uncategorical devotion of people like Mike and Croxy to this language framework called Ruby on Rails I am still a skeptic. Sure, its nice to be a lazy programmer and create a blog in 15 minutes, but do you know how it WORKS. if you get the darknexus classic error of “APPLICATION ERROR” does that really help you find out what you’ve done wrong or if its even a flaw in the overall framework. I have many critisisms of principles Rails but as i freely admit, i have not tried the language out itself as of yet. What with projects and web-dragon work not to mention a certain lady i havnt had the

The end is nigh Part ii

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

Ok, as Linzi had a go at me about my previous rant and i want to clarify my position about the issue of creationism in science class. Its NOT about creationism per say, its about the political correctness of forcing a belief issue into a class not suited to its teaching. I am against the idea of what is basically a story in the media pushing the idea that our schools need to reform their approachs to the teaching of these subjects. Yes teach creationism, i think its a damn find principle, as is evolution theory, but dont mould them together to make the polititians go “Look at us creationist types, we’re keeping your loud outspoken members appeased”
And in

The end is nigh

Saturday, March 11th, 2006
Flying Spaghetti Monster

“Creationist theories about how the world was made are to be debated in GCSE science lessons in mainstream secondary schools in England.
The subject has been included in a new syllabus for biology produced by the OCR exam board, due out in September. “

BBC News

Farewell sensible studies placed into their own sensible categories. Science is taught in Science classes, Religious/Belief matters are taught in RE classes. This Cross mix of ideals is going to make students get so damn confused about what is Hypothesis based on repeatable observations and evidence with Hypothesis based on opinion and conjecture. Science classes are based on evidences and experimentation which produce facts, two parts hydrogen, one part

Conflicting Messages

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006

So yeah, Christians, misunderstood? or simply the process of 2000 years of unchanging belief based on a book that was written by the “3rd person observer society”. Whatever they might be, they’re never going to have conflicting beliefs, oh no. So when i found that some rather horny christians had set up an online sex shop named “Wholly Love” i had to check something.
I do belive that religious types are against contraception, now i’m not one to really have a go at religion (hahaha, yeah right) but when i found that the Wholly Love site has just that for sale i was a bit confused. Do only SOME people do the NO CONTRACEPTION thing, or are