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Jam drops, Snowflakes, Stupidity is watching, Random acts of kindness, Morality which side are you on ?

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Hey everyone, The last few days have been relaxed and busy almost in simultaneity. A nyhow onwards to the odds and ends…. Statistics exam is done and hopefully I did well in it. 🙂 (I only forgot the proof of equal variances bit which was only worth 3 marks.) On my way home, I was a approached by a Japanese Girl looking for directions to a sharehouse at a certain address, as I had nothing better to do I was happy to help her find the place she was looking and I walked her to it. After this I got a rhyme stuck in my head and I kind of […]

Regression to the scrawl, Strange Games only way to win is not play, Reunions and Hope

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Hi everyone, Whilst I have been audio blogging, I felt that I should return to written form because I need to write / type some stuff in order to properly self express myself, as written language seems to give more freedom than verbal and less prejudices than verbal. Although I can’t really be sure. First up Computer Science / IT / Linux Nursery Rhymes This little piggy programmed in Lisp This little piggy programmed in C This little piggy programmed in Perl and this litlle piggy programmed in CPL & basic assembly Little miss muffet saved to her emacs buffer her files and data displayed Along came a vi-er, who […]

Kill-9, Petri nets , Vi vs Emacs, The stupidity epidemic is at all time high, hope you got immunised as I only have a few shots left.

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Kill -9 by Monzy: See http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4 or monzy.com enough said. Petri Nets I am doing my 008 Software enigeering methodology report on Petri nets, which is awesome because Petri nets pwn all other methodologies because They are a formal method and formal methods pawn. ( according to Week 2 Readings for 008 by Richard Thomas) The have interesting, cool, fun, quirky and even coloured diagrams and animations. (Go see the ones on Wikipedia, they are so much better than Waterfall model or Spiral Model diagrams and best of all they are comptiable with UML or see below) Now the best part (especially for me, being IT & Maths) Petri nets […]

A lot of servers underground, want to use them you got to go straight down with the sickness, recovery happens

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Hey everyone, Long time no post, because the web server hosting my site (courtesy of Nick Stallman) has had IBCD (Infected bash commands disease, long story short messed up glibc linking in all bash commands :)). I also suffered an cold, sore throat, mucus, fever etc superbug which I have recovered from due to time, sleep and lots of garlic water (Yes it has another purpose besides warding off vamprical beings). I have lost my invitation to Ruben’s (Really, really nice guy / hacker (Combine him and Nick Stallman and Me with computers, sugar and caffiene (which I don’t have) and you have 3 elite hackers (the good kind (has […]

I kept my head above the midsemester floods and although I exchanged sleep with wet hair, I am alive

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Hey everyone, Uni Just finished really busy midsemster exam / assessment period. I didn’t do as well as I wanted in MAB220 (Numerical Analysis) exam, due to lack of study / practice and lack of time. I will make up for it in the final exam though. The ITB005 (Systems Arch. ) exam was easier and more fun. The other assessment in assignment form has also kept me busy. I enjoy OO (OpenOffice) Math, aside from me bothering to learn Latex, it is the best solution for the insertion of mathematic syntax and symbols. I don’t enjoy Visual Studio, (Stupid irritating MS IDE), ITB003 (OOP Programming) lecturer said I would […]

Madness down the rabbit hole, come with me, how far does it go ?

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Hey everyone, I am have been very busy lately with numerous time consuming things. I have been spending way too much @ Websinthe Forums. My midsemester exams are coming up soon, and will have to study hard for them. Subject Update: ITB005: Going good, lectures aren’t boring despite the fact, I have prior exposure to most of the subject material. Linux labs are easy and fun. The only thing that is irritating were the people sitting next to us (Mirza, Chris S and I) in ITB005 lecture, between not STFU and losing pen lids, it was a PITA. I will have go through tutorial questions again though. ITB002: Going great. […]

Hell’s library is run by an expatriate, sleepless nights, logic and faith, amongst other madness

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Hey everyone, It seems my last post was too soon. 🙂 I am now in the process of recompiling every useful application so that it will find libexpat 2, which has had a recent ABI change. It is things like this, that prove that the perserverance and patience I have actually has a use. Lucky for me, I am using a dirty symlink hack (ln -s newlib oldlib) to allow my computer to function, well enough until revdep-rebuild finishes. On the upside my sound works on startup as I found out in my C HASH (This is my campaign to get it reknown as C HASH) lecture, when the KDE […]

Cartography, broken glass, dead butterfiles, solitary mathematics, eternal yearning.., Do you want to die tommorow?

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Hey everyone, My IT exams are finished, now with only mathematics exams to go. Meanwhile Cheater / Nick Stallman (a very good colleague / friend of mine, just wish the jokes weren’t all on me) is busy porting the IT Block from Reality to Counterstrike. (3d modelling / map making, etc) Which brings us to Cartography and Broken glass : Cartography is the study of maps and map making. (for those who don’t know) . Maps are geographical models of Reality. Why Cheater is making CS map of the Green Room is an interesting question. When I asked him, he said it was because he wanted to shoot me in […]

I don’t know where your going, but I might just come along for the ride..

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Journey or Destination ?? Hey everyone, In such busy times (busy for me anyways), I begin to wonder, do we notice ourselves getting caught up in the destination rather than the journey or the journey rather than the destination. I finished my Scheme (Awesome programming language, LISP derivative and annoyer of my colleagues) exam on Saturday and then proceeded to make my way to an appointment on Roma and Ann St (The street names don’t really matter). After about 30 to 45 minutes of walking I finally got where I was going to, only then to realise that the journey made with some colleagues / friends (if they are not […]

Spasmodically arranged in time and space with bits and pieces all over the place, that is what Life is

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Questions, Life and difference I am fond of asking questions, as most of those who know me or know of me know. I always will be. (No,no,no …. that isn’t a first sentence, it is a hidden pun ;P) (NB: ;P the winking tongue out is one of my favourite custom emotions). Everyone is searching for something, I search for knowledge amongst other things…. That is the simple reason why I ask so many questions. People are always talking about Life, how wonderful it is, how messed up it is, how things reek of irony and deja vu. I have been known and classified as many things. However one of […]