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 […]
Graduation meal
Now that everyone seems to have their results, would anyone be interested in going out for a meal somewhere late next week or the week after to celebrate the end of our degrees? I wasn’t thinking of anything special (unless people have a particular desire to get dressed up, but I’m usually in the minority […]
Degree result
Second class, Division I (2:1). Better than I expected (I thought I was going to get a 2:2, and I was having this horrible feeling on Sunday that I was heading towards a Third for some reason), and probably good enough to get me onto any postgraduate course I want. Now the only question remains, […]
Bricking it
Results are out tomorrow, $subject says it all really… Update: Just got an email saying that results come out at 10am tomorrow. Panic, panic, panic! If anyone wants me to text them their results, drop me an email with your library card/mobile numbers.
Back in print
Ten years after my last piece of work made it into print (a poem that was part of a compilation called All Aboard for Lancashire), I’ve got my book review published in the latest UKUUG newsletter, which came in the post today. I can’t really explain this to anyone who hasn’t had their work published, […]
Tory Wars
This is something the Megs came up with in the pub during my first year, basically it’s a list of who we think should play each character in Star Wars (the proper ones, not the dire travesties that have hit our cinema screens over the last few years) if the cast could only be composed […]