Author: Maëlys McArdle

I am in the process of switching hosting services. I am backing up the blog database now, and will not add in any additional entries until the move is complete.

Wish me luck!

I submitted 30 resumes yesterday, 10 the day before. Add that to the 30+ I’ve already submitted to the government. No replies. Exam in 6 days. EYNTO coming along; completed 2 chapters.

The first was on Malware which covered traditional viruses, worms, etc. and then went into today’s plague: spyware/adware. Unlike previous chapters, this one did not go into much detail of how these bits of code come to be, but rather stayed focused on the remedies.

The second chapter was film footage from the Ottawa 2600 meeting, in which I interviewed a few attendees and asked them to give tips on Internet Security.

According to the new bill passed in the senate:

The bill also calls for three years in cases where a person is caught recording a movie in a theater with a camcorder – and six years for a second offence. It also indemnifies theater operators against all criminal and civil liabilities arising from detaining suspects “in a reasonable manner.”

Sooo if I murder someone (manslaughter), my penalties would probably be less than the penalties for *gasp* filming in a movie theatre. I don’t approve of filming in movie theatres, but I certainly don’t think it worse than murder. Nor do I even think it worse than shoplifting. Nothing is actually stolen (oh no! a shaky copy on a camcorder!), and no one is hurt much less killed.

It’s ignorance really, the cam-rips in the piracy world do not come from consumers of the North American cinema market. Simply fact. So why instate such draconian laws? Ahh right forgot. The MPAA/RIAA owns the Senate.

With exams nearly done, I’ve re-started my work on the EYNTO Show. My main objective however at this time is finding a summer job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job. Job.

Math exam on the 29th.

I have bad luck with headphones. I have had maybe 10 in my life time, all of which have been terminated in some form or another. Two pairs of earbuds got dragged on highways for an extended duration. Two other pairs of actual headphones have broken under the pressure of my huge head. Then the other pairs of earbuds were excrutiatingly painful to use, due to the overly large plastic digging into my ear.

In essence: bad luck.

Enter the Philips HN050. They’re different. Why? Because 1. they’re not painful to use and 2. I bought the warranty: if they break in two years, I’ll get them replaced!

They’re also noise cancelling headphones (and inexpensive ones at that). Its amazing how much ambient sound these buggers cut down. They do not eliminate most sounds, but the ones you do hear will be much softer.

However, it does cause pressure in the ear. Sound is essentially pressure variations. So that silencing destructive wavelength the headphones send out to your ear to cancel ambient noise still creates an additional layer of pressure to your ear. It cannot be heard, but is definitively felt.