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The university lecturers’ strike has finally ended, after several months. Or rather ‘action short of a strike’: the boycott of marking, setting of exams etc. The whole sorry incident left me extremely pissed-off. I’ll leave aside the fact that the lecturers’ unions are cunts for boycotting marking rather than research and thus holding students to ransom. No, the ones I’m really pissed-off with are the Trotskyite cunts at the National Union of Students who supported the action, despite the overwhelming majority of students opposing it.
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The old ascorbic.net was starting to piss me off, primarily because Mambo (now Joomla) is one ugly lump of code. Also, the site was ugly. I’ve installed Wordpress a few times recently (for Huset and for work. I’ve needed to poke around with the code to a varying extent, and have been impressed by the quality. OK, it’s mostly procedural and has far too many global variables, but other than that it’s nicely organised.

So here it is. I’ve used a mix of templating, plugins and mod_rewrite trickery to embed the catbox archive within Wordpress. I’ve also given it a new, cleaner and less harsh design. I hope you like.