I don't want to set the world on fire

I've got this song stuck in my head from Fallout 3... doing the usual thing... listening to Galaxy News Radio while killing radscorpions, ghouls and supermutants. Ah, the joys of post-nuclear apocalypse. I don't even seem to need much Med-X (the censored name for morphine after Australian Classifications chucked a hissy fit). Though it's still pretty scary exploring the subway system... since there's no comforting radio music due to lack of reception.

"Remember: don't feed the Yao Guai!"

I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire - The Ink Spots

I don’t want to set the world on fire

I just want to start a flame in your heart

In my heart I have but one desire

And that one is you no other will do

I’ve lost all ambition for wordly acclaim

I just want to be the one you’d love

And with your admission that you’d feel the same

I’ll have reach the goal I’m dreaming of believe me

I don’t want to set the world on fire

I just want to start a flame in your heart

(I’ve lost all ambition for wordly acclaim)

I just want to be the one you’d love

(And with your admission could you’d feel the same)

I’ll have reach the goal I’m dreaming of believe me

I don’t want to set the world on fire

I just want to start a flame in your heart

The limit of progress

Ingredients:

• 1.3 years of labour (with liberal doses of procrastination)
• half a bottle of superglue
• clear acrylic
  
• various saws
• $2 assorted grits sandpaper
• ink from Sharpie Minis
• foam from motherboard boxes
• magnets from DX
  

Parts:

• Via C3 1GHz on Gigabyte GA-PCV2-DSI mini-ITX board ($35 posted from ebay)
  
• Coolink chipset cooler for the C3 (99cents from Nintek before they collapsed)
• Zalman ZM-OP1 thin 80mm fan (clearance from Stonebridge)
• 1GB DDR-400 at 266 speeds
• 1TB hard drive (WD10EACS-00D6B0)
• Ritmo IDE to SATA converter
• SHAW 600W PSU (measured 35W under normal use)

Application:
Headless fileserver and torrent box.
It's way too slow for anything else - painfully slow at Flash-enabled webpages eg Neopets games.
Apparently it's somewhere in between a Pentium 2 and Pentium 3.
Power random things like turbo battery chargers and accompanying fans.

http://picasaweb.google.com.au/jasonphong/TheLimitOfProgress#

As heard on the radio...

your Emergency Services Network [bushfire information] that is...
*they have a really cool sounding introduction-much better than Newsradio

The Bodeans - Good Things
http://www.imeem.com/people/MOMjc6L/music/PPAmhAar/the_bodeans_good_things/

Maybe there weren't enough fires to talk about at that time so then they put up a random song.
Some people did call in to say how well organised everything was, including the radio information. But really, if they couldn't be organised for a fire... imagine going up against sentient opponents, maybe like the invasion in John Marsden's Tomorrow when the war began books (which I seem to remember were popular around the turn of the millennium). I mean, the fire isn't actively jamming communications or even trying to drop propaganda. Though it would be creepy if it did. hmm