Warning: Fairly technical UA/Java post ahead. 🙂 I’ve started writing a client for UA, written in Java and unimaginatively entitled jUA. Although qUAck works fine most of the time, I know some people prefer to have a graphical interface, but uaHTTP is really slow sometimes and you generally have to wait for it to refresh […]
23 Questions
Via Kate: 1. Elaborate on your default icon. The flame is something I created ages ago, I can’t remember how – I seem to remember taking an image that I found on the Internet and applying a few effects in Paint Shop Pro until I got something that I liked (you can see it on […]
Graduation photos
Since a few people have asked me about this, I’ve uploaded my graduation photos to my Flickr account. Although there’s a lot of pictures from my graduation, I’ve only uploaded the ones I think are ok. I hate having my photo taken and I look awful in the vast majority of them, so there’s only […]
Work update
For the duration of my ‘placement’ (I can’t really think of a better word to describe it) I’m working with the Qurator team in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. Qurator is basically some software that helps bioinformatics people to run quality views on protein datasets under different critera – at […]
Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man’s Chest
I went to see the the second Pirates of the Carribean film with Kirk this afternoon, mainly because I hadn’t been to the cinema in ages (excluding X-Men 3, which we don’t talk about) and it was about the only thing on that I thought was worth going to see. Unfortunately I haven’t seen the […]
Results breakdown
The complete breakdown of all my results arrived today, here’s what I got for the second semester of the third year: Distributed Operating Systems: 58% Not too bad, and I can’t help thinking that I could have got a few more marks if the exam had been an extra half hour or so in length […]