Italia and Others
June 9, 2006 at 03:49 by Mike McQuaid
I got back from Italy yesterday, where I had a great holiday with my beautiful girlfriend, Lindsay. We visited Florence for a day, Certaldo for 6 days, Sienna for a day and Pisa for a day.
Sadly, the weather wasn’t fantastic, and I’m my usual white-skinned self, with more of a reddish hue than usual. A small town, San Gimignano, makes (supposedly) the best ice cream in Tuscany, or Italy, and we had a nice hilly cycle to get there, and eat what is probably the largest and nicest ice cream I’ve ever had the fortune to taste. If anyone is ever in the area, I recommend the ice cream. Tasty.
Due to the lack of nice weather and appreciation of art, the highlights of the holiday, other than the fantastic company, was the food. It was all really, really good, and I ate a lot of the cheap but posh Italian cuisine, and learnt how to cook some ourselves, from a professional cook. The pictures for the holiday should be up soon, when I can be bothered to actually get round to working on a nice PHP script to do my albums.
It’s been almost half a month since my last blog post. I’ve been strangely preoccupied, prior to the holiday, with actually being sociable, starting with the previously mentioned LAN party.
We played Counterstrike 1.6, Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament 2004. I did alright at CS 1.6, averaged around second at Quake 3, and kept the top of the leaderboard in UT2004. We had, at peak, 12 people playing, and the set up of everyone’s desktops was relatively pain-free.
Other than necessary geekage, its been nice to generally catch up with friends. This year I’ve been ludicrously unsociable, due to a really high workload at uni, and its always nice to make up the lost time, and remember why you hang out with certain people.
The Google Summer of Code came and went. I was ranked 9th of 14 accepted applications, but declined, due to actually getting the job at Wolfson Microelectronics. I start on Monday, and I hope to start blogging more regularly about what I’m learning and up to inside the company, and a few of the Linux projects I’ve got going in my spare time.
Anyway, good night all, and I hope this excessively long post didn’t bore you.
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