“You know I could run for governor but I’m basically a media creation. I’ve never done anything. I’ve worked for my dad. I worked in the oil business. But that’s not the kind of profile you have to have to get elected to public office.” – George W. Bush, 1989
archive for 2003
bling bling
click on the following link and vote for one of our cs classmates who will live rent free next year if they win this competition.
http://www.thebigredhouse.co.uk/
you want to vote for Kirsty Bichan from Edinburgh
thanks
Yet another extension! This one is not really needed though, and will probably just add to the insane deadline build-up that is happening at the end of term.
It was pretty damn good, the sound system at the bongo club is bad-ass with a capital B. The warm up guys were ok but everyone was really waiting for Amon, who came on at about 12:30 and busted some nice moves. He also had some superb visuals playing on a semi-transparent screen in front of the stage, they rocked. It had this nifty effect where you’ d get the image on the screen and then it would still shine though and hit the wall behing the decks, double image-tastic. Ian is now named ‘lame Ian’, after waiting through the warm-up guys for about 2 hours he leaves after ~15 mins of Amon’s set. Oh yeah, Bongo Club certainly isn’t the classiest venue in Edinburgh, the gents is basically three toilets in a cupboard. Good stuff though.
I came back at 3am to an empty flat, so immediately cranked up the stereo and played more Amon Tobin 🙂
Yes, yet another deadline extension. This one was mainly because of hardware falling over under load, but we heard echos of “this happened last year and they said they’d fix it“.
*sigh*
Rock on, Ian just hooked us up with some tickets for Amon Tobin at the Bongo Club tomorrow \o/
Never been to the Bongo Club but always heard good things.
Should be fun, I will report back!
The bbc news site has redsigned and tweaked a few things. I have to say, its an improvement, the page is now a decent width and you don’t have to scroll all the time.
Can’t wait to see what they come up with. news.bbc.co.uk is one of the most useable sites around in my opinion.
BBC NEWS | UK | News Online to get a new look
ok ok, its from last year, still good reading though.
Guardian Unlimited | Online | The duck of the draw
Lots of fun was had last night. First off we went to Teviot Union, played some pool, drank the cheap pintage. Then headed over to tef’s place for kerazy party action. Spent about 3 hours there, drinking the ‘punch’ and chatting. Lots of people I vaguely know. Then headed over to Joe’s, got bored, Greig bitched like a ho, went home.
Woke up ~ 1:30pm.
I’ve re-jigged the front page a wee bit and updated moveable type to version 2.6.
Hola!
Had a meal on Tuesday night at International Starters with the Waterstones escape committee. Flippin’ miles out it was, had to get a bus, a bus. I don’t normally do buses.
We also has our major project deadline exteneded by about 2 months, which is very bling bling. Mainly due to the incompetence of the lecturer, oh and “the fire”. Got more work back, got another reasonable mark, happy.
The war against mice continues, we now have three cunning steel death machines of doom (mouse traps). Although the buggers just seem to run across them, pinging the bait off and then eat the bait as it lands a safe distance away.
grrrrrr we need a cat
oh yeah, soulseek is working again
\o/
“The only reason that people can get away with insulting friends and foes was because they knew them so well”
🙂
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2744449.stm
Just reminding everyone how fantastically good this site is:
SomaFM: Listener Supported, Commercial Free Internet Radio
consider yourself reminded
So, we’ve heard scuttling and seen a few brown blurs in the kitchen and I’d had enough. I dragged out the washing machine and found a nice little mouse hole going up into the wall aha! Out comes the pollyfilla and 10 minutes later, no more hole. But then what do we find later? another of the scamps and even better, he falls in the sink! hee hee hee
http://www.cyber-junky.co.uk/divx.avi
see the above divx movie for cute comedy jumping mouse action.
Well, I’m not sure last nights efforts accomplished much, it still didn’t completley work. I mean, it compiled and ran, but would bork at the end of the first line. Oh yeah and to top it off, 1 1/2 hours after the deadline they extend the deadline…..just ….words escape me.
But I did get some coursework back and found I got an A for Operating Systems, so its not all bad.
just got in from labs…
I’m still in the labs, working on teh EVIL compiling techniques.
Oh dear, oh dear…
Had uber-meeting-of-doom at work last night. It was rather tense in places but somes things got sorted (and others didn’t). Then we all hit ‘teh pub’ where management bought us lots of rounds \o/
Oh yeah and my main HDD failed 🙁
I managed to salvage all the important data though and now have a minty-fresh install of XP.
…lots of snow.
unreal2 = bling
Watched it last night, mucho good. Afterwards realised if was by Wes Anderson who did Rushmore (which is also good). I just love the visual style of the film and the faded New York Grandeur. Soundtrack is win.
anyhoo, off to work!
Folowing up on my deus ex2 fanboy trip, the deus ex 2 website, cunningly titled: deusex2.com.
enjoy:
Play.com have started taking pre-orders for Deus Ex 2. Deus Ex has to be one of my fave games of all time, the sequel looks like it could be as good, if not better.
Then I see the release date: 23/05/2003. Right before all my exams…
Check it out: Lemon Jelly
Can’t sleep
Well, I am now very full of haggis neeps and tatties, cooked by our flatmate Pete. Go Pete!
mmmmmmmmm
Also consuming two glasses of red wine and assorted whisky.
Sleepy…
Although I now have a seperates tuner, which rules.
olly out
yay!
spent about an hour last night getting moveabletype set up again. Seems to be ok now…
/me is happy
We have ninja hosting.
Spent most of last night uploading everything to the new site. Will switch dns over once I know everything is running ok.
olly out
I just found out that Michael Marshall (of Straw Men fame) is Michael Marshall Smith (dark humour sci-fi man extraordinaire) writing under a different name.
wOw
Tickets are booked
yay!