Okay, I’ve replaced my old theme (Rounded Blue) by another by the same artist (link at the bottom). I know that this one doesn’t really flow with the design of my website (as my website colour scheme was based on my previous WordPress skin), but Rounded Blue had a fair few errors, and this was the quick way of fixing them.

Eventually I imagine I’ll get around to making my own WordPress template which fits in with my website completely. And then, knowing me, I’ll probably go and redesign my website or something. Oh well, that’s how it goes.

I have someone in mind that I want to get a cup that reads “SHUT THE FUCK UP”. Do you think they’ll like it?

This image and news article pretty much sum up why cats kick ass.

“Perhaps not since the Cowardly Lion has an animal’s appearance been so at odds with its attitude.

On June 4 a black bear wandered into a West Milford, New Jersey, back yard, was confronted by a 15-pound (7-kilogram) tabby cat … and fled up a neighbor’s tree. Hissing at the base of the tree, Jack the clawless cat kept the bear at bay for about 15 minutes, then ran him up another tree after an attempted escape.

Finally, Jack’s owner, Donna Dickey, called the cat inside, and the timorous trespasser disappeared back into the woods.

“He doesn’t want anybody in his yard,” Dickey said of Jack in an interview with the Newark Star Ledger.

Unlike cats, bears aren’t typically territorial, roaming instead over vast areas that would be impossible to patrol for intruders. With a habitat that includes much of North America, black bears are seen fairly often in this region of New Jersey.

Full-grown black bears weigh between 200 and 600 pounds (90 and 270 kilograms) and measure as much as 6 feet (1.8 meters) long. Their diets can include fruits, honey, insects, acorns and animals as big as moose calves—a fact apparently lost on Jack.”

I’ve been thinking recently about the entire logic behind chronology, and how the implications of what we do determine outcomes for everything in eternity. A popular technology in sci-fi programs is the time machine – a device that allows one to go back in time (although in TV there’s often this magical time machine that also acts as a teleporter, because moving through the time rift wouldn’t necessarily plonk you on a completely different continent). I’m sure you have wondered, at some point, whether science will ever develop to a stage where we can embrace such technology. So, here’s something to think about.

If, in the future, a time machine is made to allow anyone to go back in time (just like anyone can own a computer now), wouldn’t that mean that ourselves in the future could go back in time to us now, to leave us some technological hints as to how to create such a device, or whatever else may exist in the future. A cure for cancer, perhaps? But then, if they did that, wouldn’t it effect everything from that period of time onwards, which would then have to disappear somewhere because it no longer happened. Therefore, if it didn’t happen, would ourselves in the future be able to go back in time to give us the information so that we can develop the time machine before they developed it, even though they developed it first… in the future?

If you consider things like this then the future already exists as a time we are approaching, and nothing is spontaneously determined, because whilst you can spontaneously do something, that spontaneous action could have been carried out by your future self. And even if you go to make a spontaneous action and then make a completely different one, you can’t exactly ’surprise’ something that has already happened, because time doesn’t work like that.

Think of the various things we see during the day which could be related to time travel, though. Like when you see a “spitting image” of someone. Could that not just be that person in the future? Déjà Vu is another example. Could these occurances not just be pockets of time ellapsing in a random order?

All in all, trying to study the theories and logic behind time, and the way causality effects determination, decisions, events and happenings is fucking crazy.

Wow, what a terrible year it has been for things breaking, or not working properly:

• Internet not working properly for months.
• New USB Flash drive breaking – lost data.
• USB port on back of laptop breaking.
• Zen charger breaking.
• Website going down (broken serv0rz).
• Mobile phone breaking.

Anyway. I guess all of this will resolve:

• Tiscali emailed saying that they’ve changed their terms & conditions, and all customers are now provided with a MAC code when they’re switching ISP.
• Contacted seller of USB drive. They said to send it back and they’ll repair/replace it.
• Laptop is probably fixable. Still have 3 other ports.
• Ordered a Zen docking station (which I wanted anyway).
• Website is back up.
• Smart phone/PDA when I can afford it.

Well, glad to be back. Yay.