Last exam today and its Programming Languages, Principle & Paradigms.

Yes it is as boring as it sounds. I have to admit, I was wrong about Graphics, THIS is the hardest of the lot because its just too damn difficult to revise due to the unstructured content of the course… Ralph is a fucking idiot (Lecturer). Lets hope I can at least pass this.

As for Graphics, I was lucky yet again. This year papers seem to be in my favour, consisting of topics I have gone revised well. But I doubt this is the case for PLPP since theres so much. I think everyone is in the same boat for for this one. So wish us luck heh.

“Inmate walking the green mile!”

Well, today its friday and that means its the day for Graphics…

Yesterdays exam actually went quite well, it was a good paper and I revised a big scoring question the morning before the exam and it came up… word for word, value for value…>:D So that made me feel pretty good.

But THIS exam is the end of me… unbelievably hard Got just over 1 hour of possible revision time left and I am clueless about a lot of things. I’ll be lucky to get a decent grade on it, I’m just hoping my other grades are good enough to pull it up (also my Graphics coursework could help, I did pretty good job on that too).

Well, nice knowing you.

Well, Compilers went well yesterday, think I did pretty good.

Now it time for Database Systems :/ Very touch and go here, I could seriously screw this one up badly… never been too good with database theory Oh well…

Let’s see how this turns out.

Well, first day of my exams!

In 3 hours time I will be at the all nations centre, ready to take my first exam, Compilers. I think this exam should be my strongest one, I’ve done quite a bit of revision for it and it seems fairly straight forward. I just got to be careful on the wording of the questions. Its all basically text parsing and stuff, lots of diagrams and stuff… easy to score big points, etc.

Well wish me luck

It would appear I have been conscripted for baby-sitting duty for my brother while he needs help while recovering from his op on his lung. But his house is a frikkin’ ice palace… I’m currently sat in his front room at 8am (already been here an hour) and freezing my nads off and hes upstairs still asleep in a toasty bed… sonova…

On another note, we’ve had 3 letters from Swalec saying that we haven’t been paying our bills, but we have been*, it’s just that Homelet have been in a dispute with Swalec recently and not paid them and we’re getting the repercussions. You see we pay Pinnacle, who pay Homelet, who pay Swalec. Anyways, most of this has been sorted out (I think). But the rest of the house want to split off from them and pay the bills directly… which I think is a bad idea, I don’t think they realise how much it will actually cost for our house to do this, especially with the 14-odd computers pretty much on all the time. I mean, this ice palace here hardly ever has it’s heating on and it’s currently paying more for its gas, electricity and water bills than us and we have 2 more house mates than them, plus a dish washer . So yea, I am kind of skeptical of moving away :S

Well this blog post has warmed my fingers up slightly… I think I will see if I can watch some House MD or something (I think I have it on my laptop)…

You stay classy Cardiff!

(*Some of us have not been paying pinnacle as of late, but since our landlord moved away from Pinnacle and only use them for our bills at the moment, they have no record of us. So with this and Homelet charging Pinnacle a lump sum for all bills from all Pinnacle houses with them together, they have no records of us and are paying it blindly on our behalf )

Yea, so I’ve developed this twitch in one of my eyes.

It’s probably related to all the programming I’ve been doing lately… late (say until 5am or so *looks at time*). I needed to play catch up on my final year project after not doing any during the first semester due to masses of coursework, and I’m making good progress. Unfortunately the project that I’ve chosen to do, is turning out to be rather large… at my current development speed, I should be able to complete it with ample time. However, I have to take into account: revision, exams and other coursework pieces I will be given out this coming semester… THEN I have to write up the project report, GAH!

So, looks like I’m going to have to cut down on the gaming and just go insane from the shear amount of coding ahead

Anyways, off the depressing stuff and onto the cool stuff! Ben and Toby have got round to sorting out the comscare.org domain now with a nice sexy splash page. Well done guys, looks awesome, but I still reckon it should be centred vertically (don’t care what you say Ben ).

Just finished coding on project for the night, might read a bit before I go to sleep :-/

Laters, Jargon

Wheeeee, tis 2006!

Christmas actually turned out quite well considering my bro being incapacitated. Actually he isn’t too bad, unlucky as he is… he seemed pretty good on christmas day and he liked presents, especially the cool thing was playing with it all day.

Anyways, as we are past all the festivities now, I am now getting myself back into a working attitude and have been working on my evolution simulation project, dubbed “Evolution Simulation” yay me for original names. I was thinking about calling it Darwinia but I like having money so I decided agains’t it. Anyway, I made a lot of progress on it today and now my little lifeforms move around their environment, some even managed to escape into Textpad. I shit you not! You can ask Grif, he can back me up… was weird.

Also been playing Warcraft 3 an unhealthy amount recently. Grif and I make a lethal Tower Defense map team. A TD map is basically a map with a number of strips (depending on players and teams) that are enclosed by a raised wall, going from one edge of the map to the other. There are a finite number of round, which monsters spawn at the ends and travel along the strip to the other, and you (and your partner, if it is a team TD map) have to build arrow towers and the like inside the strip to kill the monsters before they get to the other end (without blocking the entire strip wall to wall, otherwise they get stuck and start bashing the crap out of your towers). Anyway, as rounds go on, monsters have more life and you have to build better towers. But you only have a certain amount of gold to spend on them, you get more gold from bounty from killing the monsters (which slowly increases as monsters get harder). To win, you just have to kill all the monsters on every round.

Ok, so now you know what TD maps are. Me and Grif have been playing Morts Power TD map repeatedly, we are so good at it we never let a monster get past. However we have never got to the end of the map because you need at least 1 other team still surviving otherwise the map ends in victory for the last remaining team. Which is not cool when you want to get to level 99 (the last one). We have hosted this map on the battle.net so many times, and always the other teams are crap and die before the 20th level. So annoying. So we started hosting maps with “Pros Only” at the end of the game name, which is quite common place on battle.net. But nooooOOOOOo, every fucking noob in europe tries to join instead. So we upgraded our game name suffix to no retards… but alas they still come.

Was hilarious in one of our most recent games. Grif saw the green player building really weak towers at the beginning of the game, tons of them… absolutely pointless… so he started bitching at him saying something like “Look green, you’re useless. You might as well quit now you waste of space” (he might of been getting a bit impatient with all the noobs), and the next thing I know, green quits… awww bless, probably went to cry himself to sleep.

Whoa, been talking a lot about Warcraft 3 oh well

Anyways, to finish, the most recent game we played we actually got right to the end, level 99, with 1 other player (his teammate quit but he still fought on). Only to find that the level 99 monsters were pretty much immortal… didn’t do a scratch to them…. DAMNIT!!! It’s not fair, it shouldn’t end like that!!!