Monday, February 23, 2004

   Time off uni, an update!
I've got this week off university so I've found some time to update my blog, probably a long post :)

A lot of things have happened in the last month, at the start of February it actually SNOWED in my town.
A miracle by any account, since I haven't seen any in nearly 10 years. It was only about an inch of snow but it was still cool.
I went outside and played in it for an hour, after that my hands and face had frozen stiff :)
I tried to make a snowman, but there wasn't enough snow for it :(
That was at night, but I took some pictures in the morning.
I have uploaded them to some web space that was kindly provided by a friend of mine at uni, drop by his companies website, just a little plug there :)
His company makes websites for people in the UK.

Anyway here the links for the pictures.
A Picture taken from my room (at dawn), looking out on the path
That pic is a 56k killer (about 500k).

These next 2 pictures were taken from my front garden at dawn (under 100k).
Looking left
Looking at the dawn sun (bit bright but cool)

The snow had all melted by the time I got back from university :(

I also upgraded to 600kbit internet, so my 120 GB hard drive is quickly filling up with anime :)
Blue Gender, Lain, FLCL, Hellsing, Heat Guy J, Escaflowne, Gun Smith Cats, Gasaraki, Read or Die and a few movies as well :)
All Legacy encodes, mainly distro only ones :)

Stop by the Jailbreak website and check on the tournament.
The team I’m on (Team Parole) is in the semi's, just waiting for a date now :)

I've also been playing the Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo a lot as well, mainly Onslaught, one of the coolest game types I’ve played in ages, mainly because of the new addition of vehicles to it :)))

I recommend everyone play it at least once, the demo is a 200MB download I think.
FIND IT HERE

I went to the Orthopedist at the local hospital on Friday, which was fun :P
It took 30 minutes to get there because of road works next to the hospital.
Then I had to wait an hour in the X-Ray waiting room till I was called in :(
Only had to wait 5 minutes to see the orthopedist after that though.

The story is that I have a very big problem with my shoulder muscles, they are very lax, and this means I can pop out my shoulders, whether it be voluntary or involuntary.
If I don't get it treated my shoulder joints could become arthritic :(

Anyway, the doctor played around with shoulders, he was able to pop out the joints on both my shoulders in all directions (down, forwards and backwards).
He looked very surprised when my left joint popped back in quite violently, it doesn't hurt to pop them in and out, so it didn't bother me.

The diagnosis is that I have a rare shoulder muscle thing (can't remember the medical term).
I have been given a 6-month course of physiotherapy for them, if after a year, my shoulders show no sign of improvement, they might operate :S

The operation isn't very successful, and very very very painful to recover from :(

SOoooo, I’m going to work my arse off at physiotherapy.

University is quite hard at the moment, I have 6 assignments to do at the moment, the deadlines for them are a week after each other, which is fun :P

I did do something interesting in my C Programming lab last week, I wrote some code that generates lottery tickets and put's them in a nicely formatted notepad TXT file. Each ticket is sorted into ascending order of the numbers, it also removes duplicate numbers :)
It can generate as many tickets as you want :)

HERE IS THE SOURCE CODE

University assignment bit page thing

I’m doing the System Architecture one at the moment, mainly because the deadline is Monday :(
Don't think I’ll bother coding it, too hard.
The design is worth 60% of the mark anyway :)
So I’ll just do loads of that instead.

Lastly, I took a picture of myself on Friday (was bored), thought I should post a better one than that one I took at Christmas. (About 500k).
ME!!!!!!

That's about all I’ve done in the last month :)
Bye.