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July 8th, 2005
10:29 am - New blog
My new blog can be found at http://nowebsite.co.uk/blog. Go there to see my results for the semester.
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June 13th, 2005
10:35 am - CNPS
Yes, that stupid addictive game. (I'm out of the game) It took me a week to see a 13, which I finally got yesterday. Now I'm looking for a 14, and today I have seen two 13s and a 15. The god of Chaos hates me.
CNPS score: 13
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June 10th, 2005
05:53 pm - Thursday
On Thursday, I went to London and came back with a job. It's 37.5 hours a week, £6 an hour, work from home research (phone calls, internet). It starts Monday and finishes on the 9th of September, three days before I start my job with the comp-sci dept. Hurrah!
CNPS score: 12
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June 6th, 2005
02:39 pm - Poem
Here's a little poem I just thought up:
I push her red lips against mine,
Her sweet tang envelops me.
Nothing can surpass,
Eating a strawberry.
Hope you like it. I've been eating strawberries. I have a horrible headache which nothing will shift, but strawberries seem to be working! Maybe it's the sugar. Eating strawberries is a lot like kissing, and the bit you are eating is most definitely female. It's funny when you think about the original function of what you're eating.
CNPS: 12
Current Mood: happy, but headachy
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June 1st, 2005
11:32 am - Stupidity
So I'm sat in front of my computer, and I finally decide to plug my speakers back in since we moved them to watch star wars. I plug the transformer into the mains, and into the base unit. I plug the left speaker into the left hole, the right speaker into the right hole, and the "remote" (wired) into the remote hole. I turn it on, it makes that deadened sound that speakers do when you give them power. I try to play some music, to no avail. Why is it not working? The light is on, the volume is up... What have I forgotten? Take a guess. I have forgotten to connect my speakers to my computer.
CNPS score: 9
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/square/b/happy.gif) cheerful
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May 29th, 2005
08:34 pm - It starts...
Some of you may have heard of CNPS, or Consecutive Number Plate Spotting. If not, look here for the rules. I knew I would be doomed as soon as I saw a "1", and today it has happened. Now I will spend my life with my eyes at numberplate level, hoping for the next one I need. Here's a picture of me with my first:
And my second:
I have since seen 3 and 4 but the vehicles were in motion so I decided not to try to get a picture with them!
Current score:4 -- I'll be keeping a tally every time I post from now on, so that I have a record of where I have got to. I am also registered on this website, which will have the most up to date record of my score. If you see a car parked in a residential area with a number I'll soon be needing, let me know!
Current Mood: determined
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May 19th, 2005
04:26 pm
For all those Christian fundamentalists who claim the bible is the actual word of God: Which bible? (link no longer works)
That is all.
Current Mood: too hot
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May 6th, 2005
02:28 am - It's not often that anyone can say this, but...
MY VOTE FUCKING COUNTED! LIB DEMS WIN!
That is all.
Current Mood: fucking elated
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April 26th, 2005
02:07 pm - Who's stupid? I'm stupid!
So, I bring my essay to campus in PDF format. I print it and hand it in. It turns out the lecturer wants it emailed also, and at this point he says he wants it in .zip format. I move a .zip of the file to my M:\ drive, and go and have lunch.
When I come back, I have a new email, saying he now wants the PDF as it is after all. First, I look on my M:\ drive. Only a .zip there. I logout and in again this time with my USB drive attached. Somehow the original PDF has gone missing. I panic and go to the computer from which I printed it on the offchance it's still there.
Then I think of extracting it from the .zip that I had all along, which would have been pretty useless if that were not possible. DUH!
I think I'm not with it today. In other news Lynda Rollason may have a summer placement for me! She is going to the company (whoever they are) and wanted my CV (which I still couldn't seem to send as a .doc, kept bouncing and complaining about malformed MIME types or something.) I sent her a .zip. It's being a zippy/unzippy day, really.
Current Mood: amused
Current Music: "Peter won't you hear my mournful strum" in my head
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April 20th, 2005
10:54 am - That'll do...
Dear "MELTON, Claire Elizabeth",
This is an automated email to give you your first assignment result for CS23710.
Please PRINT this message for your records as you will get no other notification of
your grade.
Your grade was: A+
Best regards,
Dave Price.
What can I say, I followed the instructions. Pity it's only 5% of my module.
Dear Melton, Claire,
This is an automated email to give you your second assignment result for CS23710.
Please PRINT this message for your records as you will get no other notification of
your grade.
Your grade was: A
Comments (if any) that you may find useful:
"Excellent work. To improve the code you could have had functions to calculate
st, lbs, oz rather than having lots of repeating code in the ask() and
makeoutput() functions. "
This assignment was marked by Jo Walker to a marking scheme specified by Dave Price.
Best regards,
Dave Price.
Oh well, I did think about that but never got round to it. The same piece of code is in a function all of its own in assignment 3, so that's at least one mark I'll get!
So the two together total 20%, I've handed in a further 30%, just the 50% project to go. Something about a line-editor. It is a little unfair that we had 5 1/2 weeks to do the 30% part, but have 3 weeks to do the 50% part. Oh well.
Hmm, gonna do a bit of useful stuff today, since I have the day off. Send forms, pay debtors, that sort of thing. Phone rang this morning when I was in bed, but I didn't get there in time and they didn't leave a message. If it was you, call again!
See you all around...
Current Mood: awake
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April 4th, 2005
11:54 am - English genius
English Genius
You scored 92% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 86% Expert! | You did so extremely well, even I
can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon
intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You
have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly!
Way to go!
Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!
For the complete Answer Key, visit my blog: http://shortredhead78.blogspot.com/.
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: | You scored higher than 32% on Beginner | | You scored higher than 72% on Intermediate | | You scored higher than 89% on Advanced | | You scored higher than 96% on Expert |
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Current Mood: accomplished
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April 1st, 2005
10:25 am - April fools
April fools I've found so far:
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March 21st, 2005
07:31 pm - haha
In reference to This news story.
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05:39 pm - Guitar tuning
ARGH. I need help tuning my guitar. It's a Floyd Rose tremolo, and the fine tuning pegs at the bottom don't have the range to put it in tune anymore(Half a tone too low on the top e fully screwed in). I therefore need to either re-string it or retune using the pegs at the top, but I really don't know how to do either. I don't want to mess it up and then have to take it back to the shop, for I will feel silly. So, is there anyone out there who knows what to do and will help me? Links to websites aren't enough, I'd rather have someone actually here to do it. I've read some of the guides and they look scary, I think I need to see for myself how it's done, just once.
There's no rush, as I can keep it in tune with itself, it's just half a step down from everything else.
Thanks in advance,
Claire
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March 5th, 2005
06:20 pm
Copying Jonny and Alec and Andy(even going so far as to copy/paste from Andy's journal)
Type into google each item on this list and post the image
1.Place you grew up
2.place you live now
3.favourite cartoon
4.favourite food
5.favourite drink
6.favourite song
7.favourite smell
8.favourite shoes
Ok, i picked some of the images rather than taking the first one, cos sometimes they were crappy and one of them was just plain rude!
Your turn!
Current Mood: awake
Current Music: Mariokart theme
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March 3rd, 2005
12:21 pm - Exam Resultsness
Go on then, let's have a look at what I got...
Computer Hardware: 57 (Not bad since I only went to half the lectures)
Artificial Intelligence: 63 (Slightly disappointed with this one, but the exam was hard)
Operating Systems and Concurrency: 76 (Happy with this, about what I expected)
Mathematics for Software Engineering: 90 (Woohoo!)
Giving me an average so far of 71.5%, which is a first. Hurrah!
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/square/b/content.gif) relieved
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February 26th, 2005
04:03 pm - Hmmm.
Well, this just goes to show... something.
Gay Bear
Which Dysfunctional Care Bear Are You?
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February 19th, 2005
February 3rd, 2005
01:46 pm - Stupid Grobbit!
The phrase I have heard most today is "Stupid Grobbit!" Our particular Grobbit has achieved some interesting things that it isn't meant to do.
Overview of game:
A grobbit has to survive by eating wiffle flowers, hiding in trees or holes, and not getting eaten by predators.
Our grobbit:
- Refuses to die
- Eats trees instead of hiding in them
- When it hides in a tree, then moves away, it takes the tree with it (quite cunning I thought)
- Instead of sleeping, it runs further than it should be able to in a random direction off the screen
- Refuses to be eaten when a predator tries to eat it
- Makes itself invisible randomly
- Eats wiffle flowers, then miraculously leaves them where they are as it leaves (efficient digestion?)
- Leaves a copy of itself where it used to be every time it moves
Most of these "quirks" have been rectified, but it still doesn't really die and refuses to behave itself.
Ah well, hand-in is tomorrow, we have time!
Edit: It dies, but goes invisible instead of showing a gravestone (you can still move around too)
It hides in trees, and leaves them behind when it moves away
It still can't sleep
It can be eaten, but still moves around as a gravestone if you try
It remains opaque, except on death
It eats wiffle flowers and gets health from them
It only leaves one copy of itself where it used to be, which now disappears on the next move.
All an improvement, I think it will be all right tomorrow.
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January 28th, 2005
09:42 am - Oxford
I'm going to Oxford to meet a friend from Norfolk who I haven't seen in years, this weekend. I'm leaving this afternoon, so if you wonder where I am, there you go. So don't pester Dan about my whereabouts. I'll be back either late Sunday or sometime Monday. Have a good Troma Night and Geek Night, I'll see you all soon. Gotta go do washing, go to a silly meeting about group project, and then get on a train that doesn't exist according to TheTrainLine. Byeeee!
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/square/b/nerdy.gif) busy
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