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I recently started listening to the Raidchan Radio for when Loldon FM is not being maintained and I think it’s actually pretty good. I bought some new headphones yesterday, Philips SHP550, they’re pretty good. I’ve never used on-ear headphones before, but these are really nice for listening to music in the house or watching TV/ playing PS3.

I also got a new Western Digital HD which I used to move all my music from my laptop to my PS3, finally using that 40GB of storage (or at least some of it). I started learning PHP and after a lot of fail, I managed to get it set up in Ubuntu. I’m going to be using vpjayant.com as my testing ground for my PHP stuff.

Farhan told me to write a 4chan bot. I think he may have been joking, but I took his advice and started on it. Sadly the only language that I am good at is Visual Basic, so I’m writing it in that. Still reading The Art of Computer Programming, which is awesome.

Currently the program does the following:

• Loads page 1 of /b/ and then gets the number of every thread.
• Gets the first post of every thread and lets you view them by clicking one of the thread numbers in a listbox (there’s probably a better way to do this but I haven’t found it/ am too lazy to do it).
• Lets you search all of the loaded posts.
• Option to download all images in the first post of each thread.
• Refreshes its post database every 60 seconds.
• Displays number of replies to thread.
• Lets you post in whichever thread you choose.
• Has a button which enables the “bot” which basicaly just searches the first posts of the threads for any of a set of copypastas which I have saved within the program. It then responds to these threads with “wat”.

I know searching for something and then posting “wat” isn’t exactly a bot, but this is the basics. I’m going to try to make it as intelligent as I can in Visual Basic. Hopefully when I go to university I’ll learn how to do proper things, and then just write the ultimate fail program

So, I got Farhan to post in 4chan today. He posted a thread about Lain’s 10th anniversary. It all seemed okay, until suddenly out of nowhere:

“who is forhuh menan?”

Coincidence? Yes. Scary? Yes. The thread then went on to talk about Farhan. Farhan was scared. I posted a bit, but predictably, nobody believed that it was me.

It turns out that they had all known about him from over a year ago, when he had his old blog, canyouhearme.  Scary. They seem to think of him as something of an expert on Lain, or at least as someone who understands lain. Some quotes that I’d like to save:

“he some england hacke who actuly undersans lain an he is plan to take over shibuya crossin screen an put lain on like in anime he got fren in jap cos they liv ner his hus he clos his blog tho”

First scary thing.

“He’s talking about DisInformaticians or whatever. It was on here before, remember? We used it in TigRai?”

Showed that it had been here before.

“he is the one who is computer sciencest, not hake he doesn’t know how to do that! but he could probably work it out. he is just a person ignore it we must make planes to meet up and have sex lain”

“You fucking liar. His CanYouHearMe WordPress has been down for about a year.“

This means it’s been known for a long, long time… scary.

“your the dumb one its disinformatics.com/blog/tag/serial-experiments-lain/

what kind of fucking lain watcher are you you dont even know that

fuck you”

Is he some sort of expert? I don’t really understand what’s going on.

“Because he’s FM, the Great Explainer…”

“Ahhhm let me see there, oh yeah, #lain I.R.C. room, and mailing lists, and google, and friends in amine clubs… … …….. your not very good at this”

Farhan didn’t believe me when I said it was the #lain IRC. Told you so.

“i heard F was going to an hero becaus his grammy was a bitch but then he realised that was dumb so he became really good at math and computer ICT IT studies..”

“no i heard his mom took all his computers awayand he had to have a brain surgery because he was born in a mental instertution”

“thats a lie he always uses capital letters hav u even LOOKED AT HIS BLOG U LAIR”

“You guys aren’t so smart in your brains now are you. The only thing as good as LAIN is DISINFORMATICS and DISINFORMATICS.COM/LAIN.HTML (if that dosent work try LAIN.HTM and LAIN.XHTML becus i know that F likes XHTML becus its better becus he likes it)

F is gon to CAMBRIDGE or EMPERIAL COLLEGE and he is getting a DOUBLE STARRED FIRST in COMPUTER SCIENCES and MATH. He is NOT A NERD”

“don’t EVER comper mike sandy to F. tehy say anonymos is not your personel army.. … … becos it belongs to F.”

“No, did you see his post? He thought protestfags were part of Anon.”

The post being referred to was deleted shortly after being made. This means that someone has his blog on their RSS. Famous Farhan is Famous.

All I can say is: wow.

Today was good. Went to Hyde Park Speaker’s Corner at 11, Anon arrived late, predictably. We walked down Oxford Street for a while until we reached a Dianetics stand, where we protested and handed out fliers until we almost ran out. We then moved on to Picadilly Circus, the whole time handing out fliers and lulzing. Had communal KFC, it was good, but there was a whole bucket of leftover chicken which was wasted. We went on to TCR, protested a bit more, then went to Game where we tried to find Battletoads, but they were sadly sold out or didn’t stock it. So we went back to the park and lulz ensued. All in all, a great day, and finally meeting the people on IRC was very interesting.

This is one of the most awesomest articles ever.

On my way home from school, on the number 9 bus, I found a copy of Felix, the Imperial College student newspaper. As I had just started writing my first draft for my personal statement, and had just done a bunch of research on computer science at Imperial, I started reading it, and what do I see on the first page? An article about a protest by the Citizen Commission on Human Rights (CCHR, a group formed by Co$ against psychiatry in 1969) outside the Royal College of Psychiatrists annual conference on July 1st. Of course, I was expecting the article to just be about Imperial and Scientology, but halfway through the article, it mentions Anonymous. Anonymous is everywhere now. So, I went on to the enturbulation forums and got info on the counter-protest, and I now intend to go to it on the 1st. Probably nobody else will be going, but it’ll give me a chance to look at Imperial, if nothing else.

Need to get contact lenses to enable the wearing of a V mask without my glasses getting in the way.

I talked to Freaky a bit today (not the hamster!), asked him for suggestions on things to read over the summer, and he suggested The Art Of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth, which I’ll have to get hold of and read over the summer. I believe it’s quite long, spanning over a number of volumes, so it should be some good summer reading. The conversation lead to discussion of Imperial’s computer science facilities. Apparently Imperial is starting up a compulsory IQ tests; I should be fine for that. Imperial is ranked as one of the top CompSci Universities in the UK, and has a more practical CS program, whereas Oxbridge has a more theoretical approach.

The last thing is that today was the day of Melissa’s visit to Imperial for the Physics taster course. That was three completely unrelated things happening today which were all somehow linked to Imperial. Coincidence? Probably. But it’s still cool. I managed to forget to ask Dr. Mayfield for permission to go to the CS taster at Imperial on Tuesday, I hope Monday won’t be too late to ask.

After numerous attempts at making a blog (with the first one being almost exactly one year ago), I’ve decided to retry it. My ability to handle CSS is pitiful, though I have made some progress, and I spent far too much time making the interrobang favicon. Screw you, Internet Explorer users, I don’t care that your browser can’t handle non .ico favicons!