Hi everyone, Just got back from a weekend conference on the Golden side of things. The speakers were very motivational and awesome. Despite my current lack of laptop, I feel awesome and empowered. This post was intended to be short but the best laid plans of mice and men and all that 😛 , it would be an audio blog, but Audacity is still playing hide and go seek with the USB mic and my ac adaptor melted some of the metal of it and the new one doesn’t come to tommorow. So I have gone the entire weekend without net and laptop which has been more challenging than anticipated. […]
Hi everyone, I normally apologise for delays, but I am not actually sorry. Any how lets get down to updates which I really wanted to record, hence giving you a video or audio blog instead of what has been referred to by my readers as addictive useful random junk and mountains of monotonous ramblings that cause sleep. University is back. I am doing 5 Subjects. 2 Maths and 3 IT. So far they are all equally awesome. I am doing TCP & IP , Unix Network Admin, Scientific Programming (aka C & C++), Data Visualisation & Analysis and Advanced Calculus. (dealing with multi variable and differential beasties) As I have […]
Hey everyone, Just briefly blogging about the mini meetup we had at 2pm today, I got to catchup with fox2mike, Redhatter and ivanm from #gentoo-au, it has great fun. Redhatter has interesting non photogenic photos of me in his gallery. (I was picking up the napkins he dropped and the wind blew away.) We also received numerous unusual looks, as most city going folk haven’t seen four Gentoo geeks in a circle talking about computers, electronics, compiles and puns galore. Neither had the tourists seen 3 laptops in a row at the riverbank before, so they took a photo of us. LCA time seems to make all Australian Linux Users […]
Hi everyone, How are we all ? Silent and uninterested as usual. This update like the last one should have been written and posted earlier, my apologies to anyone who suffered as a result of the delay in writing this. Java Blues (You can get blue coffee ?) I begin to realise know that most of the problems with my code not working aren’t due to typographical errors or silly mistakes but rather due to my unfamiliarity with the Eclipse Plugin Architecture and the Eclipse View Architecture and to a lesser extent Java itself. I also realise that if I had been in contact with someone familiar with either of […]
Hey Everyone, Long time no update, but it is that time of year. I should have another audio post for the new year and I would actually like to have some feedback on stuff so feel free to comment or email or contact me. First things first. Elaboration on the Title Topics. I have to mention the wonderful wedding of Elise & Darren’s that I attended in my purple suit. It was a very memorable experience, complete with sunshine, bagpipes, kilts, a buttonless black dress shirt (Only Buddy (A friend of Elise’s) can wear a shirt done up with only gold safety pins as the buttons mystically disappeared and Converse […]
Hi everyone, This post is long overdue I know but given all that I am upto, those who actually bother will understand if not tolerate. Invites are sent out. Currently I am sitting in an empty house, with no way to get down the range to the train station to get to the city. But I figure I know when the last train leaves & I have the phone number of the local taxi service, so I will properly get packed up & down there in time. My mood is frustrated but pensive with bouts of indecision, intensive loneliness & isolation and the occasional sprinkle of hope. I am listening […]
Hi everyone, Just got my results. I didn’t fail anything, and my gpa is now at 4.947 so close 5. I made it halfway through my degree. *dances joyfully* Best wishes to everyone, Benjamin Southall aka Appleman1234 🙂 BTW A larger more normal post that most won’t be stuffed reading is on its way, as are at least 3 skits and several lyrics for self composed & an audioblog too 🙂
Hey everyone, My break is just starting to get busy. I started my research scholarship yesterday. Its two days a week and it is great fun. I am working with Chris Savini, with Michael Lawley (lawley.id.au/blog/) as my supervisor. I will be most likely working on porting diff to MDA & Tefkat (no we didn’t try to fry a cat, it is a model transformation language (tefkat.sf.net)), or working on writing a visualisation or graphical editing tool using GMF, EMF, GEF or some other Java based visualisation library. Before that I was trying to recover my soul and psyche from the stress of exams and the year gone by. I […]
Hey everyone, Second year of university at an end. Just leaving me to hope and pray that I did ok on all the exams I studied and worked so hard for. I am now recovering my mind, soul and what is left of me :P, by attempting to relax, recooperate and then focus on all the other non-Uni related stuff. I have Gentoo updates to run, bugs to wait on, Eclipse to install, and a dev quiz to finish. I have so much other stuff as well but here goes. I had cupcakes and raspberry lemonade on the last day (not the best lunch, and I had butterscotch pudding for […]
Hi everyone / anyone, I am currently updating world (Gentoo package collection), and managed to get rarian to compile after filing a bug in which someone suggested I disable ccache for that compile, so I did and it worked, so thanks. (Now I am CC for a ccache bug that was reported earlier…) I was working on a Project evaluation for the ITB712 project earlier, but will resume it tomorrow with a renew vigor courtesy of sleep, focus and some other rhapsody of persuasive gusto. I had a meeting discussing the details of my vacation research scholarship today. (To keep me from get boring and taking over the world :P) […]