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I had my first exam yesterday, these are my final degree exams so they’re pretty scary. It was probably my easiest module though and went pretty well, atleast 60% I would say. The exam is one of the ‘choose 2 of the following 3’ types and I bricked it when I saw the first question, I didn’t have a clue. Thankfully questions two and three were much nicer and I hardly stopped writing for the hour and a half 
I kid you not, working in Appleton Tower this afternoon. Someone discovered a dead mouse on the top of the laser printer, in the paper output tray. I suspect it went through the rollers.
Tadaaa!! You can now view my blog on your mobile in a handy reduced size format. Just bookmark this link or see the ‘mobile feed’ link over on the right.
kthnx
EDIT: This is for GPRS phones, not WAP
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I have a suit!
Yes, a real jacket and trousers and everything. Never owned a suit before, never really needed one I guess. But, what with graduation and job interviews (hahahhahahha) ever aproaching I thought it would be a good idea. Its nothing fancy, just a topman off the peg one but I like it. I did have my heart set on a dark blue one with a light pin-stripe but then Kerry pointed out (in her infinite wisdom) that it wasn’t very practical. I agreed in and went for the nice and stylish plain black. I can also now play reservoir dogs whenever I want to. |
I bought a cheapo red transparent case for my t610 a few weeks ago from the US. It was something silly like $8 which at todays exchange rate is pretty cheap. Anyhoo, it arrived yesterday and I set about dissecting my phone with some help from howardsforums. Took be about thirty minutes just to get one particularly cunning part off but I got ithe new fascia installed in the end and its very bling bling:
Ok, I admit, it looks a little tacky. But its mainly to stop me scratching the original nice shiny metal cover with my keys etc.
Fascinating site based on a an american guys father’s pictures of nazi Germany as it was invaded by the Allies. He does lots of ‘then and now’ comparisons. Some of the proposed plans for nazi monuments are amazing in their scope and size.
This made me laugh a lot:
Avalanche Company: The 213 Things Skippy is No Longer Allowed to Do in the U.S. Army
Kerry and I are going to T in the park in July \o/
Term 2 was over last Friday. Thankfully we don’t have lectures in term 3, but exams in April and my dissertation to finish 🙁 I’ve now got four weeks off for ‘easter’. Edinburgh’s definition of easter always makes me laugh, bearing absolutely no relation to the actual holiday.
I was planning my exam timetable today and worked out I have at least five days per module, which is fine (I hope). As long as I get started next Monday and don’t stop. After exams its gonna be a squeeze to get my project finished, I’ll do noubt end up doing bits and bobs inbetween revison.
G.C.O.O.F.N.
Gorilla Comes Out Of F*cking Nowhere
Kev, my haXor buddy, fellow slacker and bacon lover has finally got of his ass and made a kinda-website-thing, check it out: http://kerouac.projectcolo.org.uk/~kev/
Had my last lecture (possibly) ever this morning. Double HCI, which was not that fun. The end of my education draws nearer….
updates coming soon
Interesting (and probably very dangerous) tour around the chernobyl area, now a complete ghost town:
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/page2.html
Slept like an absolute log last night, I was shattered. Back at my place now, which was a good plan as we had a HMO inspection that everyone seemed to have forgotten about…..
Look like we need new firedoors or something, and a skylight opening stick. woo
I’ve just realised that there is only a fortnight left of term, and I have three handins due and a 10 page project (dissertation) report due. Time to stop slacking methinks…
Went ceilidh-ing last night with Kerry, Flinty and the gang from work. Was good, danced a few new ones and thoroughly messed them up. I still can’t believe how rubbish the staff are at pouring pints at the freakin Caledonian Brewery venue, oh the irony.
We piled off to Opium (one of Edinburgh’s few decent alternative clubs) after the ceilidh which was a nice contrasting venue. Me and Kerry rocked our stuff on the dancefloor and left just before they closed at 3am. Went to bed knackered, got up this morning and staggered off to work. It was actually a very pleasant day at work, I hadn’t drank that much last night and I was doing the new window displays. Which is nicer then being glued to the tillpoint with an “ask me dumb questions” sign gaffer-taped to my forehead. Which is what it sometimes feels like…
Went to see 2 many djs (aka soulwax) on Friday night with alex. Then venue was City Nightclub, some new fancy-pants place under North Bridge. It was a very nice venue if a little over-sold. The dance floor was getting rather cramped and rock-concert like at times. The support guy (Erol Alkan) was actually just as good as soulwax, they did a good set but it was more like an ordinary dance music set than a kerazy-mad-soulwax set. That was a little dissapointing but they had some brilliant moments such as managing to fit in Stone Roses and Nirvana, which the crowd loved. The only downside was at then end when the cloakroom staff managed to misplace alex’s jumper which meant we had to wait for 30 odd minutes, even though we can see it! This drove us nuts, as we were totally knackered. Good night in all though, and I saw loads of people from computer science, bizzarely.
Huzzah! With some faffing around with the courier I finally got my new phone. Unfortuantely they ran out of red ones, so I got the ordinary shiny one. Still verrrry nice. Packaging is very cute aswell, I like sony/ercisson’s latest stuff, they’ve got style:
Anyhoo, the phone works fine and I’ve got the bluetooth all hooked up to my pc through some very nifty software called Float’s Mobile Agent. When someone calls me or txts me I get a little pop-up in windows, with their name and picture! So cool!
The brad-ernator has had a redesign. Quite a severe redesign, hes going back to his tDr roots :). I like it, its a bit of a change from his rather stately Georgia font, green and brown of late though.
Attempted to order a new t610 off the o2 website last week sometime and I didn’t hear anything after the order confirmation email. I emailed their support about and after about 2 days I finally got a straight answer, they had sent some credit check email to my o2 (web only) email account……
MORANS
So, I resubmitted my order and got this mystical email and so sent off pictures of a gas bill etc…and then got back that they have to to dispatch to the billing address of my credit card. They don’t have a ‘delivery address’ on their website….
MORANS
So, I thought: screw that for a barrel of laughs. Went on the carphonewarehouse website this morning and got a t610 in RED on vodafone 100 for free and its been dispatched already…..credit check all done on the web….no email delays….delivered to my Edinburgh address and billed to my home address. Vodafone win.
Well, me and Kerry had a very nice valentines weekend. We did the whole dinner thing last Tuesday as that was our six month aniversary. It really doesn’t seem like six months, I think thats a good thing .
We went to The Tower restaurant in the Royal Museum and had a pretty fantastic meal. I had leek and cheese tart on leaves to start and courgette linguine with pinenuts for main course. It wasn’t veggie intentionaly, just happened to end up that way. We relaxed in the nice atmosphere there for a couple of hours and then went to the Auld Hoose to do the pub quiz, which we won! yeee-haaaaa! A gallon of beer was the prize, which, in the real world mean 8 drinks from the bar. There was six in our team so we have one each and gave the bar staff the others. They love us now.
Anyway, getting back to this weekend. It was my mate Ian’s birthday dinner at some Tapas place in the Omni Centre, so we went along and stuffed ourselves with the very yummy morsels. I has some cheese thinf, a chicken thing and a sausage thing. I still hate olives, I want so much to like them.
We basically slummed around on Saturday morning and then Kerry cooked a superb and huge breakfast. Full works, she even made me coffee (she hates it). I joined this new 24 hour dvd rental place in the evening and we rented League Of Extraordianry Gentlemen, I’d seen it in Kansas in the summer but Kerry hadn’t. I have to say, its not as bad as I remember, quite good fun infact.
Sometime on Saturday I started feeling absolutely terrible, just totally full of cold. Had a very interrupted nights sleep on Saturday and then muddled through a day at work on Sunday. I slept better last night but I kept Kerry awake with all my wriggling around. I’ve decided to miss uni today on the grounds of still not feeling 100%. Got a handin for Wednesday aswell, wish me luck…
Bizzare, but intriguing:
http://www.bobbyneeladams.com/age.html
Lots and lots of light fluffy snow, spiralling down from the clouds.
The kerazy changeable weather of late has meant that we often leave the heating on all the time in the flat, mainly due to sheer laziness. Therefore when we’re having a warm spell it can get quite warm in my room. I’d noticed my PC was bluescreening quite a lot lately, but only last night equated it with the temperature. My CPU was pushing 60, which is far, far too hot.
I dismantled my case and found a small world that would be heaven for any dust eating mite. My exhaust fan expelled a small rugs worth of dust when I tappped it out of the window. The CPU heatsink is full of dust aswell but getting rid of that would mean turning my PC off. Anyway, with the fans cleaned and the side of the case off it runs much more smoothly and idles around 45. Still far too hot I know, but hey, I’m gonna upgrade soon.
I had a project presentation yesterday at uni. We have to give these from time to time to show “progress” on our dissertation project. It went pretty well, I was using my supervisor’s mac laptop to demo my stuff and the wi-fi kept cutting out. This was quite handy though as I could just explain what should have happened rather than actually showing them (bugs included). I got the comments back from my supervisor and I’m supposedly ahead of schedule! wow!
Lots and lots of snow, and its very, very cold.
My good buddy Joe has has a jolly nice revamp of his very well written blog. The Woolamaloo Gazette, check it out.
Last night we did the usual Drooth Neebors pub quiz. As usual we didn’t wein but this week we beat alex’s team by three points! huzzah! Last week they won, so this week was a nice come-upance.
hrm, this is a small update. Oh well, back to the project work.
This is the prototype Marvin costume for the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy feature film, sculpted by the Jim Henson Creature Shop in September 2003 to fit actor Warwick Davis. I like it a lot, nice visual style. This film could be good.
I seem to be getting very slack with the old blogging lately. Trust me, it will get better.
We have moved hosts after an ok-ish year with dataflame. We’ve decided on clook.net and everything seems to have moved ok, which is nice. Oh and they threw in a free domain: http://ninjahosting.com.
The control panel software is very different to plesk but seems to be more flexible and powerful, even if it looks like ass. We’ll see how we go on this host…
Well, that was a lot of fun.
I’ve finally come down from the new year kerazy party madness. You may have heard that new year was bit of a wash-out in Edinburgh, not in our flat! I had decided to throw a party and then just go watch the fireworks at 12, then carry on the fun. TBH we didn’t miss the fireworks that much, and everyone was pretty sloshed by then anyway. About 25 or so people turned up, which was pretty fun and my room got very cosy at times. Big up thanks to John for lugging up his decks and mixer, top tunes mate and fun to mess with.
I went to bed at about 4:30 after the mass exodus of people at 4am. Turned up in the morning to clean up and found a monumental haul of booze, thanks to everyone. Kerry was then providing new years day dinner for loads of people (well, six) which was very enjoyable. Huge steak pie and veggies all round. Nicely stomach settling after the night befores excesses.
We then proceeded to play the Top Of The Pops board game which Kerry got for xmas. Oh boy, “ages 10+” it said in the box and it wasn’t joking. Some questions were ridiculously easy while others were about obscure, one hit wonder girl groups from the 90s. Very random at times. Of course, the highlight of the evening was Alex and Graeme’s rendition of “I’ve got you” by Sonny and Sher in the performance round. I loll-ed, mainly because me and Kerry missed the performance square for the entire game. Oh and they went on to win the game aswell, gah!