April 25, 2006 @ 00:21
Operating Systems and Enterprise Computing exams tomorrow, at 9:30am and 2:30pm respectively. I’m feeling strangely confident about Operating Systems, due to doing the background reading and actually finding it interesting. Ironically, Enterprise Computing, the field I’m considering taking employment in, mostly bores me to tears. I mean writing the code is fun, just not learning why Servlets are better than PHP and JSP is this and that and blah blah blah.
I’ve never been able to just learn a list of facts unless they interest me, and this exam season seems to be no exception. Hopefully, I’ll be ok, and if you are of the God-talking persusian, again, a word to the Big Guy on my behalf would be much appreciated.
There’s some beautiful flat awkwardness at the moment, which is just what we all need right now, combined with trying to apply for jobs and write a proposal for the Google Summer of Code.
Just got Bela Fleck and the Flecktones first album, on a brighter note, which is awesome, and got some funky but not overly difficult lines from our man Victor Wooten (arguably the best bass player in the world) that I will get on learning.
Anyway, night Internet, and wish me luck!
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April 23, 2006 @ 01:43
Man, it’s been an interesting week.
It’s a bizarre combination of a youth group, worship session, outreach session and funked up church service. This month we saw around 400 kids pack into St Thomas’ church. It was a pretty inspiring sight. I was along before I became a Christian 6 years ago or so, and the turnout was never as good, and the worship never seemed to get people going as much. It was amazing seeing 400 kids really giving their all to worshipping God, and a privilege to aid them in doing so.
It’s also a humble exercise as a bass player, as, as fun as playing Victor Wooten style double-thumping and sweeping picking is, it really doesn’t have its place in this situation, and sometimes just hitting crotchet root notes are what is required to drive the rhythm.
The band are an awesome bunch, and are described more fully on the music page. Hopefully, post exams, I’ll be able to upload some MP3s, but currently you can satisfy yourself with Gareth and Neil’s blogs from my menu bar.
Procrastination continues unaided, but hopefully 2 days of intense revision tomorrow and Monday will be able to get me through. It seems most people who are actually talented programmers and computer scientists really, really hate revising and find it really hard to put information to memory. My own humble opinion is that it would be better to make the courses more coursework based, and offer more continuous assessment, but really, I think its a bit of a pipe-dream.
Just back from seeing my girlfriend tonight, Lindsay. Sadly, I’m not going to be able to see her for 3 weeks, as she’s off on her placement to Oban, to learn more about being a physiotherapist. I’m gonna miss her a lot, but its probably necessary for me to actually get satisfactory grades in these exams.
I feel bed calls, as I’m playing at church in the morning, and need to work tomorrow, and have an unpleasant conversation to have in the evening. Those of you who are in contact with the Dude Upstairs, I could do with a shout out about my exams and this conversation, and moreso, just thank him for how lucky we are in this country, for being able to speak freely and belong to whatever religion we choose, which those in North Korea and China sadly lack.
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