previously known as [cold][wet][durham], [dirty][grimy][london],[busy][shiny][toon],[frantic][crowded][south]
“Last Updated: January 27, 2001 - Next Update: Sometime Soon” - useful information can be found at The Compression Site - but with text link that on the site who would return ? Unlike your coldclimate.co.uk - regular updates (unlikely) - frequency (high) !
Friday night i was working the bar, and it was 5 deep all night. busy busy sbusy, but with a very high totty rating (yes boys - there are actually GIRLS at Cuths - even if they are just visiting), and on the way home I got to play Hero Of The Week - there wasd a girl face down on the pavement and out cold. Eventually I got her to tlak and got her home (? she was wittering about being dumped and gave me directions to her boyfriends house and so I took her there). There - I must deserve a free drink for that one.
Anyway i got up @ X an (X = unknown but unlikable quantity) and went ot work the market. I sold �210 of french bread, and left intime for a late lunch and a bought a couple of Chaineese Pears for good measure on the way home.
Right - its 9pm, Ive just turned down oging out for the night witha tri of lovely ladies (and a few housemates) so i really should get some work done and stop typing to the rest of the world. Ill find some comedy webshites to link to later in the week - and if I cant find any Ill post the filth that Nickie D emailed me this morning (anybody fancy an apple ? [cheeky grin])
I was wondering how long it would be before conspiracy theries about September 11th started not very long
Duncan just searched the durham webshite for “first order logic” to help with our imanant benchtest and the search produced - “Something about Woman and Monsters and a Bit of a Dance ” - a philosophical debate.
Right � it�s whinge and moan time. I think of this as a form of therapy for dealing with the stress that is computers. Not just working with them, but learning about them and generally beginning to loath them (subnote:winamp has just flicked to - The Lemon Jelly Remix of badly drawn boy�s Pissing In The Wind which I have decided is one of the most uplifting startings to a song I�ve ever heard.)
I�ve been stressing about work since Christmas. There just was heaps of it being piled on at Uni � and the next person who says �bloody students � never doin� nout and drinking 3 years away� I�m going to resist hitting and force them to come to all of my lectures and watch over me as I type away until X am to get things finished. Anyway the wqork was really piling up, my social life was up the spout and so I decided that a break was needed. I held out until out �holidays� only to find out that because I�d been working so much I�d neglected to actually learn the material. Hence the need to come back to Durham to lock myself in a room for 3 weeks and learn the damned lot. Only they�ve decided we have work to do in this period too.
I�ve spend all day trying to get a c++ compiler to work on my machine. I�ve been back and forth to the uni library to use the high speed net connection to download one thing after another, and to have all of the things I�ve tried (djgpp, lccwin and cygwin) all fail to compile the simple �hello world� program we started our lectures with. I was on the verge of giving up and re-installing Mandrake Linux on my other drive when I realised that I�d been typing gcc to compile programs � which IS THE WRONG DAMN COMMAND ! I should have been typing gpp! I�m going to kill something(or body - watch out untrained ninja on the loose here).
I�ve going to chill out tomorrow. I have no �real� work to-do, but I do start my new job working on the market selling olives and French bread � two things close to my heart. Maybe I should just give it all up and being a free trader? Try and make my million by working for it not thinking for it.
Oh congrats go to Dan my old flatmate � who has just won the National Young Engineer of the Year Award. He confessed to wanting to be a millionaire in his interview and that seemed to win them over.
Keeping me laughing from then till now - VIZ Comic Archive Anybody who says its just purile toilet humour is just not trying hard enough !
Uncle John wanted a mention on the blog. Right then - there you go - stope whining. And give me good marks in the presentation.
i link for everybody stuck on derik longs c++ stuff - Programmers Heaven - C / C programming zone, and TYC c++ - a great book published by Hodder & Stoughton.
Amusingly there is also a Detective Paul Callaghan in the Rochester PD.
Have now found perl notes - top tip site:www.coldlcimate.co.uk will limit google to whichever site you tell it ! Now that IS useful.
ok - this is very odd - but while looking for Perl notes on the web it turns out that either a)one fo my lecturers wrote a book caledabyrinthine Walk: A Guide for Politically Incorrect Tourists or
b) he has a namesake - who also lives in the Newcastle area. How odd.
“and the winner in the Only On The Internet Award 2002 goes to … My dog cured my fits“. B.u.l.l.s.h.i.t !
Wow - back in durham. Will write more this evening - time for a big blog sess
Strangly my search report forthis week contains lots of references to my driving lessons ? Maybe Chris is looking for the site which Ive done for him - if so then email me
Kazaa is frikin great ! I finally got round to signing up for cheap internet access (13 squid a month through freeshite). The connection is faster than my old pay as you go connection - impressive, and now i can download mp3s and divXs like theres no tomorrow ! Yeah baby yeah - the musics on me.
Im getting close ot 3k visitors - now thats cool, it cant all be me checking how high the counter has got. I still aspire to the 2k that yahoo get every minute, but who the hell Im i kidding - my life isnt that interesting and my links are a litttle too diverse.
Right - back to the revision, Strips planning has never been so boring (who am I kidding here - it;s always been that boring, I just didnt have to take notice of it.)
I heard a whole section on blogging on radio 4 yesterday while I was (attemping to) werk. Sadly it was form the “god damn eejits with nothing to say” point of view, which was a shame. I half heartedly was hoping for a link when they mentioned the number of students who were blogging - but alase no.
Whats the difference between the Queen Mother and the London Underground?
The Underground got an extension for the Jubilee!
Yet gain Im getting emial addressed to somebody who has given out his email address incorrectly - but this time it was much more amusing !
“Well stevie all I can say is that I reckon the bird you pulled &
> > shagged on me brothers stag week (sorry paid for, not pulled) would
> > definately come under social!!!!”
Brightening and already dull day - scandel !
Floating around on some of the newsgroups its the Alternative Reading list (better than any revision)
hat to Say When You Talk to Yourself - Shad Helmsetter. Grindle
Press,1982.
Flattened Fauna: A Field Guide to Common Animals of Roads, Streets and
Highways - R M Knutson. Ten Speed Press, 1987.
Enid Blytons Gay Storybook, Hodder and Straughton, 1946.
Handbook for the Limbless - G Howson, 1922.
The Zen of Bowel Movements: A Spiritual Approach to Constipation - Kathy
A Price. Rock House Pub., 1995.
Practical Infectious Diseases - Richard D Meyer. Wiley, 1983.
The Joy Of Chickens - Dennis Nolan. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall,
1981.
The Abuse of Elderly People: A Handbook for Professionals - Jacki
Pritchard. J Kingley, 1992
Teach Yourself Alcoholism - Meier Glatt. EUP, 1975.
The inheritance of Hairy Ear-Rims - RR Gates and PN Bhaduri,1961.
Locomotive Boiler Explosions - CH Hewison,1983.
Illinois Roadkill Cookbook - Bruce Carlson. Quiote Press Publications,
1990
The Midnight Cry; or Signs in the Church of the Bridegrooms Second
Coming - Reverend J Lowes, 1800.
Knife Throwing: A Practical Guide. - H K McEnvoy, Charles E Tuttle co,
1973.
Fish Who Answer the Telephone - Yuri Petrovich Frolov. Kegan Paul,
Trench, Trubner, 1937.
Eternal Wind -Sergei Zhemeitis. MIR, 1975.
Hand-grenade Throwing as a College Sport - Lewis Omer. A G Spalding,
1918.
The Original Guide to Insect Cookery - R L Taylor and B J Carter.
Woodbridge Press Pub. Co, 1976.
The Longevity of Starved Cockroaches - E R Willis and N Lewis. The
Journal of Economic Entomology, 1957.
Fifty New Creative Poodle Grooming Styles - Faye Meadows. New York
Publishing Co, 1981.
A Do-It-Yourself Submachine Gun - Gerard Metral. Boulder, Col.: Paladin
Press, 1995.
A Users Guide To Capitalism and Scizophrenia - Brian Massumi. MIT Press,
1992
Farquaars Hunting has been providing me with a few laughs this morning. Isnt that the name of the price in Shreak ?
Well - another day - antoher benchtest. This time its c++ , a language weve been exected to learn in 7 weeks. We get given a shitty piece of script, in some dubious form of c++ (it is no way standard !) and we are expected to make it work. So i did, and it does work, but then I noticed he had babbled on about some function at the top and I had not used it in my fix. But where was I to use it ? The program worked fine ! So Im now battering this script to try and knock off a NULL from the end of string, which is doing no harm there really, and could easily be caught somewhre else if we needed to.
And my arms ache form giving blood. And its raining. And the last piece of work I handed is going to get less marks because it was late, caused by the University servers being down. bastards.
Facts of the day (via Helen)
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Its possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
No word in the English language rhymes with “MONTH”
All polar bears are left handed
