More than expected

    No words written yesterday, plus other bad things I do not wish to speak of. I did get Skype working in Ubuntu though! The trick is remembering that someone has encountered my problem before and finding their solution.
    Today I made a bit of progress on schooling related items. As well as some library related homework, I also started up a wiki for the electromagnetism unit I am taking at university. The idea is that if I attempt to organise and explain the information we are being taught so that (hypothetical) others can understand it, I will have a better chance of passing the course and graduating and lording it over the rest of you. Possibly with an iron fist.
    A while (weeks) ago whimsical_esper and I were talking and we both agreed a wiki would make a useful medium for collecting and organising story notes. I don't intend to use this one for that purpose because it is too public (but talking with whimsical_esper today has showed me it is still possible to use mediawiki so this can be considered practise) but I may expand it to include other material too*. We shall see.

P.S. Click here for Wiki-Make-Go. Try not to vandalise too much or I will have to lock you out, kay?

*other material may include further self-education efforts, notes of various kinds perhaps on things read and possibly acts of fiction I have committed**.

**This is the kind of information sensible people do not mention unless and until it actually happens, because they are sensible.

I just saw something very... let's call it amusing

    There was an ad on television advising people to check a website before travelling overseas. This ad featured various people doing touristy things in a country which looked to me like China and warning us that one of them was doing something illegal.
    It turned out to be the woman photographing her friend because the shot included a government building and photographing government buildings is illegal in many countries. That was the part which amused me because, according to my memory of the anti-terrorist ads we have been subjected to over the past few years, if I see a foreign-looking person suspiciously photographing government buildings (among other things), I ought to report them.
    Presumably they will then be hauled off for questioning, much as the presumed-Chinese police did in this ad.

    I would check this site before travelling anywhere, since it seems prudent to investigate the unknown, but I am still amused.