Oliver Jackson is a blogger, web developer & designer living and working in Edinburgh.
It is done, my dissertation is handed in. Three shiny copies all bound up with Edinburgh uni covers. We all went and played rounders in the meadow on Wednesday afternoon which was a lot of fun. Glorious weather for it aswell. We went out that night and got rather lubricated aswell, I think the gang ended up in the Cavendish but I wussed out before then.
The final version is now with my supervisor! Hes giving it the once over tonight and then its handin-orama tomorrow. I think I’ll lie in for about a week after that. Final word count: 13,319.
It’s almost done, I’m pushing 9k words at the moment. It needs to be around 10k with a few more tweaks to the code, shouldn’t be impossible….
Sorry for the lack of updates, the current programme will return to normal when I got this silly dissertation out of the way (1st of June).
I actually wore my shorts today, the first time this year. I wore them whilst sat in the computer lab for five hours, woooo. I though it was kind of like bringing the sunshine indoors. Or something…
…is the overly elaborate title of my final year project and hence what my dissertation is about. Not many updates recently as it is due in on the 26th. Yikes!
This project has saved my final year project from a lot of complications. This Richard Bergmair chap has taken wordnet from its normal storage method and converted it all into mysql/postgres compatible stuff. Now, I simply create a new tables, download the data and wham. Instant lexical/semantic database. I’ve a feeling I’m killing the university database server though, queries are getting very slow. But, I guess they will be on tables with ~140,000 rows 
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The very, very nice people at blueyonder have given all their customers a free cable upgrade! We’ve not got 1.5Mbps (~190kb/s) down, which is a nice boost, especially for free. If only they’d increase our upstream (a measly 32kb/s), thats the one that gets clogged at the moment and kills any online gaming you want to do.
Last night was Beltane night, a celebration of the start of the summer. About 15,000 people all pile up onto Calton Hill in Edinburgh. Its a pretty amazing experice, this was the 3rd time I’d seen it and theres always something new each year. It was ticketed for the first time this year and it seemed to go very smoothly, no over-zealous security or anything. Anway, I took lots of photos. You can view them here.
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