Facebook: what are the rules?

Rule No.1: you must have a profile picture.

If you were in grade 12 in 2006, about 80% of your classmates are on facebook, but the rest are on Myspace. You probably ask random people in the street to take your photo.

If you were in grade 12 in 1997, about 75% of your classmates maybe on facebook. Although due to some tension and misunderstanding, you maynot want to add all of them. Photos will include overseas trips.

If you were in grade 12 in 1991, about 5% of your classmates maybe on facebook, but only in the last 2 weeks. They are married with kids but hadn't totaly forgotten you. Photos will be of babies.

If you only went to grade 10, and did so before 1997, you won't even be reading this and have left the internet for your kids to work out.

If you have alot of facebook friends, it means you are young, or at uni, and probably in a social network such as church or gay/lesbian group etc.

You are allowed to add only 2 people you don't really know, and only if you have friends in common. (and if they are hot).

The whole vampire/zombie thing is stupid. Ignore.

Do not um and ar about whether you really want to be friends with someone. You don't have to sleep with them, it's just on the computer. The more the better if they have friends in common.

Best games: Scrabulous and Traveler IQ Challenge.

And last but not least. If you go to a certain persons profile every single day just to check their status is still "single", you probably should re-evaluate how you spend your time.

Blog topics

I wonder which topic would get the most interest? I may have a article nearly ready to publish.

1. Jerome, why? (About his HPV project)
2. Facebook: who isn't on it, and what are the rules.
   
3. My HPV design and history of bicycles.
4. What radius from home can you travel while still wearing ug boots?
5. Leadership in the church and home.
   
6. When is it ok to wear trackie dacks to uni?
7. Stuff about girls and relationships.
   
8. Engineering stuff-ups from history and UTAS.
9. New rego rules for racecars (with rollcage) in Tasmania.
   
10. Biblical womanhood and the homemaker.

Vote now.

TADTAS - UTAS project

I gave the presentation to class, lecturers, and TADTAS representatives on wednesday. This is a simple bearing pivot that is bolted to the concrete floor. It holds a motorised bathroom chair used by a disabled man.

Beliefs - a work in progress

WARNING: some very corse language.

Feel free to comment

IMPORTANT ALSO: People make life choices as much on emotions as on beliefs. If peoples emotional needs are not met, the best logical arguments for a religion are not going to work. I am not writing this to judge anyone, but to give a good starting place for myself and others that have not read the Bible for some time.

1. There is a God. This is on our heart.

2. God created the universe. I currently think this took a few billion years through evolution. God designed all of it and remains in control. Men are spiritual beings made for relationship with God. Other animals are just part of creation and evolution.

3. Men and woman sinned against God and so broke the close relationship with God.

4. God choose to reveal himself to the Jews. The turbulent history of Israel and how God led them is recorded in the OT for the benifit of all people that can read.

5. Jesus the son of God was born into the world, died, and rose. Jesus and his disciples performed miracles.

6. There is climate change, we should recycle. (Seams insignificant in this context).

7. Jesus will return and God will make a final judgement on all people. Maybe in 1million years after men have concoured space and aliens, or maybe in half an hour. We will die anyhow.


If you are unsure about one of these points, let me know. After reading one of the gospels, Romans is a good place to start.


Romans:

1. All people have sinned. We see Gods wrath on earth now.
2. We have no excuse. We are not fit to judge each other.
3. What about good people?
4. Righteousness comes through faith in Jesus.
5. Where, then, is boasting?
6. We have peace with God.

God talks to us through the Bible. We can talk to God through prayer.

Pulp Mill Approved

Here is the chief scientists "glowing" report.

http://www.environment.gov.au/epbc/notices/assessments/2007/3385/pubs/report-chief-scientist.pdf

From the report:

"89. The Department is of the view that, based on the available evidence, the impacts of the
proposed action on the Commonwealth marine environment, listed threatened and
migratory marine species and listed threatened and migratory terrestrial species will be
acceptable, subject to a number of conditions."

And the conditions: http://www.environment.gov.au/epbc/notices/assessments/2007/3385/pubs/summary-approval-conditions.pdf

"• Noise-generating activities must stop if a whale, seal or dolphin approaches within
defined safety zones."

A protester put themself under a log truck on Macquarie St. today which held up traffic.

Alex Pos made a bet with me that dispite the approval, somehow the mill will never get built and completed. I am predicting that's an easy $50 to me.

Engineering Disasters

I have an assignment to write. Please give me ideas. I need to write about some engineering failures from history. And I have to write a detailed report about one of them, discussing what went wrong etc. Was it management or design? And I need to be able to look up most of the info off the net of course.

I also have to write about design and construction principles, and aspects of project management. It is easy for me to talk about small details in mechanical engineering, but since this is a Project Management subject I should probably be looking at the big picture.

But the trouble is a top down management structure does not always produce a quality product. Quality often comes from the factory workers that are given the ability to check and fix their own work.

Myer

The Myer fire sale on Murry St was cancelled. I have secret photos here of workers with disposable overalls loading the stock into a trailer. They were loading new suitcases at the time, some still in plastic wrap. The stock will either be dumped (supervised land fill) or secretly sold to a liquidator.

There is still no power in Myer. You can see two big generator units sit on the road that power lights in the whole building.