In todays issue: exams; projects; procrastination; neighbours (both voyeuristic and aggressive).

Exams over today - I am feeling confident about Software Applications (Design patterns, C++, databases), and erm, thats it actually. Worried about Computer Systems 2 (Operating Systems, Concurrency, Architecture & Networks). Reasonably happy with the rest: functional programming & artificial intelligence, logic, grammer, software tools (perl), complexity theory, and software engineering.

I can start playing vice city again!I

left my recycling bin outside my house today on the way to my exam, and when I got back it wasn't there anymore. The neighbours however appear to have two. What I think happened is that ours was collected and so next door saw it and thought 'ah shit we have loads of newspapers to get rid of' and piled our empty bin full of them alongside theirs. Unfortunately they manbaged to miss collection so it was pointless. Tom and I covertly emptied our bin over the top of theirs (big pile of paper in the street now, how environmentally concious are we?) and took it back. We've now written our name all over it.

Our strange prostitute neighbour hasn't been around for a while but we've been communicating with her next door neighbour via messages stuck in our windows. Photos to follow.

My final year project title is 'Program Transformation in Functional Programming'. I don't know a great deal about the topic, other than a broad definition of program transformation, an interest in the technical side of compilers, and an understanding of the advantages of FP for these areas.

Trying to get hold of ER Series 2 boxed sets on ebay, to no avail :(

Yay, ER! Although I must admit the series currently screening here (the Abby and Carter soap opera, and Romano's arm isn't working, OH THE HUMANITY) isn't doing it for me.

I too had an "operating systems" unit that just clumped too much hard shit together. The network stuff alone merits a unit in itself IMO.

Posted by locust from 203.30.44.30 @ 06/06/2003 08:28 AM CST

The OS stuff is dead interesting, but the lecturer was really shit, and she basically set the entire Tanenbaum book / OS Concepts book as the syllabus, for only two questions on the paper! Also, the two Q's ended up both being on process scheduling (so if you did _anything_ else to do with OS, you'd be buggered)

I haven't caught a great deal of the new ER series, but I haven't been too impressed with it either. Which series had lucy the intern in it?

Posted by Jon from 81.26.112.6 @ 06/06/2003 08:17 PM CST

Aah yes, I hope your exams went well!

Posted by Jon from 81.26.112.6 @ 06/06/2003 08:19 PM CST

Exams? I left all that behind six months ago! Good luck with yours..

Lucy died towards the end of season 6 iirc. Don't know whether she came in at the beginning of S6, or whether it was earlier.

Posted by locust from 203.30.44.30 @ 06/07/2003 06:12 AM CST

AAah. That was roughly my favourite series.

Sorry yeah, I read your post in the context of my predicament! Erm, hope they _went_ well then ;)

Posted by Jon from 62.31.255.83 @ 06/07/2003 03:09 PM CST

stupid soap operas

Posted by ryan from 207.6.74.68 @ 06/09/2003 08:55 PM CST