[ from the and-I-thought-they-were-ok dept. ]
I called the operator on my Orange phone just now to ask whether 0500 numbers were free to call on my service plan. I did not get chance to ask this however because of a loud and unpleasant noise followed by mumbling and then a woman who answered my “hello, is anyone there?” with offensive language and threats that I would be barred. I was going to move my Vodaphone line over as a line2 but now I think not.
Jon.
[ from the time-to-escape-perhaps dept. ]
NotLUG was interesting last night, and there are some pictures. Pizza, followed by drinkies and flying cucumbers. Met some interesting people and got a Sparcstation CDROM drive off Sladen so I can actually close the lid on mine after removing the 24x drive that’s in there now to an external enclosure. Might be able to get some external 9GB drives soon too 
I actually feel quite miserable today here in Nottingham. That’s not too surprising – but I think I might have to go to London before tomorrow night to cheer myself up. I don’t mean in terms of visiting parts of SoHo, but just being somewhere where there’s more life and activity going on around me
I have been reading again and am learning more on a daily basis – I’m reading about Format I, II and III SPARC instructions (machine code formats) while the freshers are learning to use Excel (yes, really). I don’t belong here, but I’ll quit moaning and go have some coffee so I can get hyper and feel slightly better.
Tomorrow night, we’re having fireworks at home with Joe and Hannah, and that’ll be fun. Until tomorrow then, dear readers, I bid you good day.
Jon.
[ from the stop-telling-me-already dept. ]
Yes, I do know. Thanks. Yes, yup, thank you. People can stop telling me about the wonderful new models which come in at between less-than to a-little-bit-more-than I paid for my 667. That’s ok though, I will live but am somewhat annoyed they had to get upgraded this soon. The difference is only in speed and a DVD burner if you want one (I would have) but meh, that’s life. It doesn’t help that the paintwork is starting to go already on mine
Jon.
[ from the today-like-any-other-day dept. ]
I felt strange last night from about 02:00 onwards. I think it was something about not sleeping properly and a bit of caffeine, and after some sleep I do feel better but not quite how I want to be. Heard some bad news, went to a graduate recruitment talk from UBS Warburg and generally tried to do some more reading. I feel very indifferent to the world again today. I will hopefully be at NotLUG tonight and on Friday I am heading for London in the evening, drop me a line if you know me and are going to be around then
Jon.
[ from the must-get-more-original-titles dept. ]
Tuesday, November 5th. Fireworks time for some, procrastination for others. I’m on the way to campus again, perhaps I’ll get some useful work done today, who knows I’m not going to be allowed to use the mains supply so I’ll have to get some light portable power sorted soon (the UPS is very heavy).
I need to finish off some writing I’m doing, and some coursework, and some reading, and some…etc. As someone once said, “I shall carry on in the face of apathy”.
Jon.
[ from the didn't-we-just-have-one? dept. ]
It’s Monday already. This is annoying. I went shopping and did fairly boring things yesterday, though we did do some wireless investigations for signal strength and I have determined that USB Wireless products will be used in our homebrew interhouse link. We can probably even take them apart, and either solder on new antennas or simply stick the entire unit in a large pringles can. In any case, the signal reaches quite a long way without any assistance so I hope we can make this VPN a reality quite soon. Had a visit from a friend, sent email, now going to do some reading and then go to campus. Thousands of hits recorded last week – slashdot is fun. Finally, the IPC does actually work but the NVRAM battery has gone so I will need to solder on a new CR2032 battery clip holder, etc. It’s cool though.
Music: N-Trance – Forver (Radio Edit).
Jon.
[ from the the-rain-goes-on dept. ]
Well, it’s Sunday now. Yesterday, I went to Birmingham to see relatives. Pizza Hut lunch, walking around town. It was raining but in a light kind of way and actually enjoyable. Met a former CSiT person on the train who recognised me – which was interesting to say the least. I spent a bit of time reading through some Altivec information as I’m wondering how hard it would be to add some optimisations for john. Sent in G2002 deposit.
Jon.