Kalimat al-Mutafalsif

This past week saw the release of Geert Wilders’ “Fitna”. I’d like to quickly say this post is not endorsing that film, the author of it, or any specific religion. I hope, instead, to point out what the film has actually accomplished, and look at the issues surrounding it. I’d also like to point out I fully support all basic human rights, including those of freedom of speech and religion. I won’t be giving a link to the video as I don’t support it. In addition, those viewing it might be disturbed by a few scenes (beheadings, hangings, close range gun shots) and I don’t want my site affiliated with any of that. Read below the cut to see my analysis.

Well, in case you can’t guess from the title, it’s been exactly a year since I started this blog. To be more specific, it was November 20th of last year that I registered the domain. This post also (totally not planned, I swear) happens to be my 100th. Again, to be more specific it’s my 100th page… pages include things such as my warhammer picture pages and the others you find under “Pages” on the right. So, this’ll be a fun past, five days in the making, about all kinds of things dealing with the past year. ((Published a second time, I apologize))

Well, here’s a bunch of random ideas strung together in an update on my life so far this year.

Now for an official “I’m back” post:

I just returned from 32 days in the lovely country of Tunisia. It was a great trip in a lot of respects, but especially because I was able to talk with old and new friends about some issues in many subjects that we were interested in. They involved politics (remember, I don’t touch politics in terms of people/events, only systems and hypotheticals) and governments mainly, as I was the only computer lover in the group, but there was also a few conversations about computer security. On top of those, I had some other ideas that I wanted to post here, so hopefully I’ll have a large number of posts coming out in the coming days. To that end, here’s a table of contents about what I want to post on.

Or: Why I Hate English.

Some of you may know I have…. problems when I it comes to English. My spelling is atrocious, and grammar is worse. I can’t learn the vocabulary because it amounts to route memorization, and most rules have more exceptions then there are rules! What a poor system! But wait… I have a soltuion.

Well then, now that I’m awake and (somewhat) functioning, lemme break down this semester. In this post, I gave a break down of the courses I’m taking this semester. That changed on Monday. But I digress…

Well then, time for a whole new semester of learning. many of you know I extremely dislike learning in a class room, and would much rather prefer to learn hands on, “grepping the code”. Oh well, either way, here’s a look at what I think will be the best semester so far!

talked with my teacher that I’ve got individual readings with, she’s gonna place me in A350. That means that after this year, my Arabic is over.