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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
12:46 am	If anyone is looking for a flat in Dunedin, a friend of mine in Dalmore is looking for a new third flatmate. And if you're a kaosian, the place would probably be ideal for parties. (Comment on this)
Monday, May 4th, 2009
12:04 am	Well, that was largely a wasted evening. Current Mood: irritable (Comment on this)
Monday, April 27th, 2009
2:15 am	Really do hate having a cold. Fortunately I seem to be over the worst of it, bar having clear sinuses and a happy throat. Had our first game of Vampire the Requiem tonight. My "Mekhet" (actually a Morbus, but nobody - including him - knows it) didn't have to run away from anything, but he'll get his chance soon enough I'm sure. The game is set in Rome, and we seem to be being set up against the Lancea et Sanctum (ie the Christian vampires). I'm probably going to be very glad of having Obfuscate 3 (what used to be Obfuscate 2 in Masquerade). On the other hand, I really really need to increase my stealth up above one dot... The difficulty 8 rolls can be quite nasty. Current Music: Garbage - Shut Your Mouth (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 19th, 2009
6:35 pm	Worked as a technical assistant at a conference on Thursday afternoon, then from half past nine on Friday morning until half past eleven at night (fortunately with a two hour break in the evening). Getting up for the nine o'clock start on Saturday morning was difficult, but fortunately the two alarm clocks and cell phone alarm did the trick. Got home and crashed in the afternoon, so I didn't get to Daniel's 21st until about ten. Had a good night last night, didn't drink as much as I could've, don't think I annoyed anyone excessively. I count this as win. :-) Current Mood: tired but good Current Music: Jamiroquai - Alright (Comment on this)
Monday, April 13th, 2009
1:14 am	Javascript and wsgi Recently I've been looking at the jQuery javascript framework. It looks fairly nice, although I suspect I'd get more usefulness from it if I knew more javascript. On the other hand, the documentation for jQuery is nowhere near as useful or usable as the python documentation. And my desire to read the javascript book I have within arms reach tends to wane considerably within a minute of opening it for some reason. Perhaps I'm spoiled by my exposure to python. Also, I've been looking at the pylons WSGI framework. My initial impression of it is not very favourable; this is partly due to the ubuntu packages not being entirely up-to-date (the pastescript package wasn't compatible with python2.6, which ubuntu has moved to), partly due to all the deprecation warnings, and partly due to the default example being wrong in a manner that was extremely annoying to debug. That being said, I think I'll see if I can create something usable in it and find out if it's any less painful once I'm past the teething problems. Current Music: FrontLine Assembly - New Years Day (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
4:14 am	It looks like the recent (ie last year or so) Linux latency issues may be significantly reduced in the next kernel. Hopefully this won't impact throughput too much. (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
3:54 am	My Wednesday Mmmmmmmm, pancakes... That is all. (Comment on this)
Monday, August 4th, 2008
11:32 pm	Finally over a bug that hit me last week. Now I just need to catch up on missed lectures and labs... (Comment on this)
Friday, August 1st, 2008
8:04 pm	Squid! http://museumvictoria.com.au/giantsquid (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
3:27 pm	Two weeks, two parties. ( A big wad of updatiness. ) (Comment on this)
Friday, July 4th, 2008
9:22 am	Looks like it'll be Sunday night before I'll find out what my timetable is for next week. On the bright side, however, my bus leaves for Chch in about three and a half hours. Maybe I should actually start packing... (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
10:03 pm	Somehow I managed to pass both electronics papers this semester, with a better mark in one of them than I'd even thought possible given how badly I'd seemed to do in the exam. It's been quite a while since I've posted, obviously, so I'm not even going to try to summarize what's been happening. Especially since nothing really substantive has changed much. I'm planning to be in Chch next weekend for Buckets of Dice and the KAOS 48 hour party. The combination should be interesting, given how zombie-like I tend to be at BoD even without the partying. I still need to work out which booze to take with me. (Probably not the pastis, the drambuie, or the sambuca; probably not the hornitos; maybe the gin and vermouth; possibly the baccardi; perhaps the vodka; maybe the strawberry liqueur; possibly the caraçao blanc; probably the whisky; maybe the apple schnapps.) Meh. Now I just need to get bus tickets and sort out accommodation. *sigh* (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
11:56 pm	Hmm. Just noticed that it's been over a month since my last post. In that time university has started up in earnest (and don't ask me how it ended up in the fellow - I don't know), and I've obtained a new laptop. I also spent about a weeks income on a new pair of shoes. Gotta love living beyond one's means... With work and university I just don't seem to have time to do much of anything. I've had a couple of old computers sitting around taking up space waiting for me to do anything with them for a couple of weeks. I've got a lot of media to watch, and I've got some friends I should be visiting some time soon. And I just don't have time. (Comment on this)
11:52 pm	Meatloaf was right Life is a lemon. (Comment on this)
Saturday, February 9th, 2008
2:49 am	Wednesday: Bruce's birthday thing. Pot luck dinner; I spent the day making a beef curry. It turned out rather well, and I ended up overeating as I am wont to do. Thursday I spend the day working on getting a computer lab organised with midi keyboards, computers, and security cables on the equipment. In the evening I donned some gray face paint and loomed over people. The vampire larp was much fun, and I was even awarded an extra xp for roleplaying. Friday I mostly finished getting the lab sorted out (modulo the equipment that wasn't available, which includes a number of security cables with the right type of lock on them). I later dropped by Joe's place and chatted for a while. Hadn't seen him in months. In other news, so far PHP seems to be quite straightforward. I'm starting to wonder when the other shoe will drop (and expecting it to be related to security somehow). (Comment on this)
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
5:01 pm	I have a data projector. As I type, I'm reading this off my wall :-) Have also been playing around with PHP5 and postgresql. (Comment on this)
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
11:05 pm	Wore shorts out for the first time in quite a while. Went to a picnic this afternoon. I am now rather sunburnt. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
1:22 am	I've signed up for yet another year of university study. This time I'm doing a DipGrad in Electronics. One minor problem with my chosen course is, of course, 9am lectures. Another minor problem is labs twice fortnightly from 2pm to 6pm. Here's hoping the papers turn out to be as interesting as they sound. Current Music: Nina SImone - Ain't Got No...I Got Life (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
10:55 pm	Played an NPC in a LARP tonight. Was moderately surprised at not being attacked en masse by the end. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
12:38 am	Had a good time in Chch, caught up with some people (but not as much as I'd've liked, and next time I go up for any length of time I should try and organise some actual catching up time), got drunk and undoubtedly (more) obnoxious, and gained some slight familiarity with the Chch street system. Wish I could've spent more time with a few people, but reality diverged from my wishes as per usual. Current Music: Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child (Comment on this)