January 5, 2008 @ 20:11
We’re on the 5th day of 2008. It’ll probably take me till the 300th day before I remember to write “2008″ instead of “2007″…
Like most people I’ve made a few New Year’s resolutions this year whilst trying to take on a few bits of advice on how to make them and keep them.
Anyway, here goes:
- Hack more on KDE. I think the combination of starting a new job and not running KDE4 as my desktop (until recently) has made me slack from working on KDE. Once I actually am using it daily then I reckon I’ll be able to do more work and help with KDEPIM for 4.1.
- Practise my bass more. Playing every two weeks with a bunch of music teachers and session musicians is making me feel a little insecure about my playing! I need to practise more, especially working on my soloing and probably buy a Fake book.
- Study rather than just reading my Bible. I’m normally alright about reading my Bible regularly but I’ve just been reading it like a novel rather than actually using commentries and then like to properly study the passages. I’ve done this a few times lately and it is far more beneficial, I need to get up earlier and try and do it more often
- Play less computer games. I do enjoy gaming but it is one of these activities that really benefits no-one except myself so I want to try and divert more time into things like hacking/music where I can benefit others whilst enjoying myself.
- Be a better friend/boyfriend. Just generally take more of my time to try and focus on others and help them with their problems.
- Become a better software engineer. Improve my knowledge of my main languages, maybe try and pick up some more and improving my algorithmic math skills.
- Take more of an interest in politics. Now that Nick Clegg has been elected the leader of the Liberal Democrats I’ve felt myself want to try and get a little more involved and interested in British politics in the gradual run-up to the next UK elections.
I’m sure there are more but that’s all I can think of for now!
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April 26, 2007 @ 00:17
Had my first two exams, Human-Computer Interaction and Distributed Systems.
Human-Computer Interaction was yesterday and went pretty well. Was nice to see that the lecturer keeps up to date, with questions about robot tour guides, the iPhone (which I predicted would come up as a case study several days before the exam) and David Cameron’s blog.
Distributed Systems was today. I had some disastrous past-paper run-throughs yesterday with Duncan and Alan which left me in a suitably foul mood, convinced of my beckoning failure today. Thankfully the exam today actually went alright. Could have gone better but could have done worse. Some pretty stupid ambiguous questions and insisting on covering every topic in any subquestion meaning you couldn’t get away with not learning any topics. Thanks Bjorn!
If doing stupid finals wasn’t enough pain, my nVidia GeForce 6800GT decided to break on me. I’d been planning on upgrading my system this summer so, as I kinda need my PC working properly for doing my Google Summer of Code project, it looks like my upgrade is gonna happen a lot sooner i.e. when my exams finish.
At the moment I’m thinking:
- A nice new aluminium case
- A nVidia GeForce 8800 GS or GTX
- The cheapest Intel Core Duo with 4MB cache
- A nice motherboard, preferably with memtest86 and some easy overclocking capabilities
- A Western Digital Raptor hard disk
- 2GB RAM
- A 500GB or bog-standard HDD
Hopefully this will sate my desire to play the latest games and actually have a working system!
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December 21, 2006 @ 03:20
Apparently this thing called “tagging” is sweeping through blogs at the moment. The word Neil used was “blogosphere”, pretty much the sole word that makes me want to stab people frantically whilst blowing up the Internet.
Anyway, apparently you’re meant to tell your blog readers 5 things they might not already know about you. Sounds a lot like a CHAIN MAIL to me, things which I loathe with a passion.
So here we go:
1) I’m currently the fattest I’ve ever been, at about 10 3/4 stones. I want to try and get the fat off and regain it in muscle, as it’s clearly due to me having only one source of regular exercise this term.
2) I first kissed a girl aged 16, which I feel is a bit of a poor show, due to being a late starter, and due to the fact all women now love me. Note, I have never kissed a boy or animal before you hilarious people make hilarious replies.
3) I became a Christian aged 17, and I’m not from a church-going family. I’ll probably stick my testimony on here at some stage, but that’s a long story for another day.
4) I once got brought in front of the year head for bulling my now flatmate, Patrick, about 8 or 9 years ago. I didn’t though, honest.
5) My favourite computer game of all time is Deus Ex. It’s available for like a fiver now, and has the best story of any game ever, and will run on any even remotely newish system. Buy it and play it now. If I know you in person, you complete it, and don’t like it, I’ll actually give you the price of the game back.
Apparently you are meant to tag some others, so I tag:
Gareth, Andrew and Dave Dickson (blog now offline).
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