Well, its been a while since I posted anything. I have not done too much to the site lately, but I did finally get the text jokes working properly with the help of Blade at CompSci.ca. Thanks a bunch Blade. I still have to do a bit of work on the formatting so it displays how I want it too, but more content is posted now as the basic system is working.

It was a very busy start to school this year, not so much class work, but everything else. I'm head of CUTC Queen's and there is tons to do with that. I just help my housemate format his computer after all other attemps to fix it failed. That was fun:)

I'm very happy to be going back to the pool regularly now. Also, intramurals have started up so I'm fairly active again which I love. My ankle is not totally better from the summer, but I'm working on it.

I'll try to post some more exciting details soon.

So, sometime near the start of the summer I brought my mom's old computer up to my place. After I got my new hard drive, I took out the one that was in my mom's old computer, and put in my spare 40gig. Even thought my mom's old drive had been formatted, she wanted to make sure that nothing could be recovered. Well, I've had it sitting around for a while now, and I was bored tonight...

I took a pair of pliers to it. What ensured was less boredom for about a 30 minute period while I destroyed whatever was not very firmly attached. I ripped off the IDE connection and power connection. I then went to work on the circuit board on the bottom. I could not get the screws out, so I simply started tearing pieces off of the board. When I got close to one of the screws, I simply ripped the the board out from around them. It was fun:)

I figure that the only way to even have a hope in hell of retrieving anything from the drive now, is to open it up, take the platters out, put them in a new casing, and then hope to be able to recover anything which was not written over when I temporarily installed another OS.

Another night, when I am once again bored, I will take the screws out and get at the platters and cut them up or something.

Well, I had one midterm last night. It did not end up going as well as I thought at the time, but it was not horrible. Live and learn. My philosophy class received an unexpected extention on our essay in class also. That was a welcome change to be sure. It will make today far less painfull.

This terms intramurals have been going well. The COMPSA volleyball team won last night. Ultimate has been a blast, we are waiting to hear on when our playoff games will start. In soccer we are tops of our division which is nice. The team has really come together this year for our final run. The only one which has not gone according to plan is innertube water polo (don't knock it until you try it!). Its simply due to the fact that we have not had a chance to play a game yet! There are a variety of reasons for this. It simply could not be helped. Hopefully we will get a couple of games in yet, and there is the winter league for us to dominate;)

COMPSA is slowly coming together. There is still a pile of work to do. As this is our first year of existance we are kind of trying to find our way and figure things out. I am planning on writing up a bit of a report on some of the things that I think we should look at. We need to revise our constitution very badly. I wish we had had more time to work on it last year but that is life. Its not bad, it just needs work. The thing that is bugging me the most with COMPSA right now is communication. People are a bit too eager and are flooding my inbox with e-mails which I don't need. People need to learn when to hit reply instead of reply-all. Don't get me wrong, we need strong communication, its just that we need to control it for it to be useful at all. What I would like to see happen is us create a forum, one for exec only, and one for everyone, so that we can discus things in a more organized way between meetings. It is one of the things I will include in my 'report'. However, the first order of business is getting the new website up. I gave the webmaster a subdomain so that he can test his new site as wherever we are currently being hosted can not support any scripting languages.

Ok, that is enough rambling for now. Happy Halloween everyone!