Cut the Jap

It's really hard to choose what CMP modules to take this coming semester. I dropped 'beginner Japanese' in favour of 'Data Structures and Algorithms'. I hope to take Japanese at a later date. Lucky enough I've discovered a way of viewing all the lecture notes for every CMP module online. maybe I can be better prepared.

Been cycling, cooking noodles, throwing stuff away, re-arranging my tiny room.

Sean the new house-mate moved some stuff into his room today. He asked me for a front door key. I gave him mine, I will use the back door instead.

Two uber geeks arrived today to visit Adam. Adam has only ever met them online. They look trust worthy enough...

I've just been downstairs to find no sign of Adam, but found the two 'Welsh computer gamers' having a LAN party in the front room. And why the hell has the fridge been filled with plates of chips dowsed in ketchup ???

Track and Field

Luke came-over and after some adjustment to my bike we cycled into town. Luke bought new bike parts and a rfid chip from http://www.immobilise.com/

Cycling was fairly difficult for me uphill, but as I found-out later the back brake was very slightly on, making cycling alot harder...

I looked pretty stupid with my podge belly and a tight Burghaus top.

There's a new and looks to be interesting podcast : http://www.japanpodcast.net


that is all...

Robots, toy tanks and Lube...

Woke early (well, earlier than any other student.) Went to the doctor's surgery. It was raining outside so I thought about wearing the trench coat, as I haven't a umbrella. Decided against it, a trench coat whilst wearing shorts underneath isn't a good look...

Spent the day trying to research mobility and robotics. Then Luke appeared.

Luke lubed the chain to my new bike, then made use of our free wireless Internet. I was trying to watch old 26C3 footage on wireless Tesla power experiments, though Luke kept showing me YouTube clips of toy tanks and Russian aircraft.

Freebie GB

I've found-out I could have claimed some free money; so I will.
Went to Luke's house, where he cooked me curry rice. He had never cooked 'curry rice' before and it was abit experimental. We spent the rest of the night watching season one of the tv series 'Red Dwarf'. Like always I nearly fell asleep.

Charity

Luke came-over. He's moved into his new house here in Norwich. For some unknown reason he started to give me random stuff. He gave me an old bicycle and a trench coat, also, a raid PCI card.

Back at Luke's house we sat eating carrots and scanned for wireless on his rubbish Alienware Dell... he tried to play a Red dwarf DVD but for some lame reason he didn't have the correct Linux codec... Luke has two decent books, one on Solaris 10, the other, algorithms and methods of the Linux kernal. He says that he's going to read them, I have no reason to doubt that.

I walked home through Eaton Park indifferent as usual.

Also, people who shop on Sunday aren't worth listening to, or worth my time.

Somehow...

Seem to be held in limbo at present, waiting for the new semester to start. Somehow I managed to progress to the second year of my degree, but I'm finding it difficult, and will have to try harder this coming year.

People seem to be returning to campus and stuff happening again...

I expect to have a new housemate arrive soon. Lets hope he's clean and tidy. Not being a facist about it, but some basic hygiene would be good.

Watched 'The Big Lebowski' the other day and 'This is England'. Both not that good...

King of Cups

Doesn't look like I'll be able to go to Berlin. No surprise.

There's masses of snow here, and the temperature in Germany is apparently going to be -10 degree celcius.

Just been sat indoors for the past few days, sleeping bag, coffee, camped next to the radiator reading. Might go visit mum and dad.

It's so cold here, Adam's cup cracked when he poured boiling water into it. I tried hard not to laugh... I own all the cups !!!

Apparently Nothing

I continue to drift along trying not to be mental. Always around Christmas time I became more mental than usual. Mumbling on the bus, with all my good intentions I always end with some mental leakage.

I seems to be getting okay passes on my University assignments, though I'm not sure how. Mostly luck I guess. Something I've really taken an interest in is Java serverlets. It took me awhile to get a Java development enviroment and postgreSQL installed on my eeepc, but now I'm all set.

I seems to be a lot of group-work at University, I really hate working in groups.

I must have looked a bit of a clown in Nero coffee shop today. I have holes in my pockets. Firstly, I dropped change into my pockets only for it to fall through my trouser leg bottoms, spilling onto the floor. Then I reached my other pocket to pull-out a stream of paper napkins I'd collected from different coffee shops.

Seriously thinking about a loan to get me to Berlin...maybe.

Happy Christmas, hope you're well. And Cor, don't work too hard !!!

A strange situation happened today. I witnessed the old lady walking ahead of me, fall flat on her face dropping her bag of Christmas cards. As I bent down to pick-up the dropped items. Loose change and bank cards spilt from my pockets onto the street. Suddenly my priorities had changed; I was swarmed by people helping the elderly lady to her feet.

Just my luck, I didn't help, it must have looked like I was pinching her money and credit cards instead.

Back door Spam

Been doing some research on carbon emissions and data centres.. Went to play badminton with Pouwei and Chris. some kids knocked on the door for Halloween. I never experienced this before but lucky enough Adam's sister paid us a visit yesterday and left some 'Quality Street' chocolates. I emptied half of the tub of chocolates into the kids bags, "there you go mate!!" Meheh!!! Wonder if he notices !!!

Basic XHTML

Being chatted-up by German doctors
Frisbee
drinking eating cris[ps and playing Tekken
walking home drunk through the park thinking about ghost people...

Removables and Ghost People

Woke late today at 8:45 am... I had ten minutes to take a shower and get to congregation hall. We have to write a report on Google Books and the Apollo 11 mission..

Went for meeting with my advisor Dr Ben Milner.. I really like Ben despite swearing to never speak to anyone called Ben...ever. It was hard I kept trying to mention topical subject to keep the conversation going. So scared of the lull periods. I spoke of many subjects and probably stuff I shouldn't have mentioned. typical of me, anything to avoid long silent periods.

Went into the city to buy lots of junk food with my new found wealth. I spent almost an hour watching the 'East meets East' projects presentation in the Forum's curve theatre. Part of which featured Alice the Taiko club's teacher I met last Wednesday.

Bumped into Mick the Australian guy who was at No2ID. We talked and joke for awhile and did some vegetable shopping. Heh..

Later I went with Chris to buy some beer from the Tesco metro..then watched Judge Dredd and then Final Fantasty.

Pay Day

Chris has lived with Adam for five days now. He's already talking about trying to kick him out. There's no excuse, we all knew what he was like before we moved in. Though he is really fucking annoying.

Chris and I went for registration. Adam was still in bed and didn't have to register 'till later. It goes my Surname. There's only one thing to mention about registration and that was what happened to the person waiting in front, or for that matter what he did. The queue was stretched down some steps. Between levels, there was a drop either side or the stair. The person in front of Chris and I dropped all his paper-work accidentally over the side. I managed to stifle my laughter as he had to go all the way down two levels to collect it. What was strange was that he then again joined the end of the long queue, and not just reenter where he was previously. AWWWW poor guy. But it was funny...Heh

Chris and I managed to hand-out some NO2ID leaflets. I'm getting use to it, but it's embarrassing when you try hand someone a leaflet and they ignore you. I notice once one person in a group says no, everyone then in that group no-longer feels obliged to say yes.

Later after the usual talks in the conference hall I met with Powie. We went to the CMP party for free coke and pizza.

I went to bed angry because Adam had written over

Scummy Mummy

Today at Norwich Cathedral they held the 'Battle of Britain' ceremony. I took my seat to the side of the main congregation; it's advisable, as I knew I would slowly become angry. In no-way would I want to disrespect the British Legion. But.... There was a guy I can't name; a large portion of his speech was dedicated to how we're so lucky to have freedom of speech in England. Wtf ??? He was so ill informed. FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS BEING ERODED OR HAS BEEN ERODED NOW.. THIS DAY !!! Why the fuck do they refuse to acknowledge this ?? I kept looking for the exit, and had to bite my lip, but I tried to act normal and not offend.


After I went to the park for the 'Friends of the Earth' music event. I met-up with Tom and Chris on the No2ID stall. There was one other guy from Australia who may get involved. Dr Ian Gibson was there too. He spoke to us about how nobody will listen to the issues of NO2ID. It was good to chill in the sun listening to the music.

Waiting at the bus-stop a strange woman rubbed herself against me..Spooky ??
She was walking past and stepped sideways towards me. She stood with her body against mine and started mumbling something. I guess she was drunk, or pretending to be. She then looked down at my crotch and ask, "what have you got in there?" I ignored her comment and started telling her about NO2ID. She then started asking me questions about what I'm doing at University.

King of Pong

I received another email from Fen, the lady from Beijing. I was quite surprised, wasn't expecting that. Apparently she returned home August the 5th; and said alot of nice things about England.

In the evening Powie came around and we all went to the Sportspark to play table tennis. Later that night we spent a good hour or two in our kitchen trying to bounce the ping-pong ball into a cup... Once you start you just can't stop...

We then watched the film 'American Psycho.' I never noticed before, I think the music in American Psycho is Philip Glass.

Rengae Rhythms

I was questioned by community support officers for standing in the cemetery, and looking odd. OK, so I admit it was strange, but it's not for them to judge me and ruin my day. Telling me I'm different and therefore I should be questioned. This has only convinced me even more that ID cards are a very wrong idea.

This evening I attended a Taiko class. It goes without question, everything was awesome. I definitely want to practice with them. There seemed to be an even number of men and women of varied ages, also a young girl of about eight years' old. They had built new drums from bits of industrial tubing and canvass. The woman instructor was so graceful in her movement, with a powerful rhythm.

They are preparing for the demonstration they will give as part of the 'East Meets East' project.

Powie and Chris have returned from summer holiday, we watched the film 'Ghostbusters'.

Didn't Know you were Out...

Yterday something unusual happened. I went for my usual at the Forum. As I scanned the faces of the people beside the table I would sit at. I noticed someone familiar. The woman looked like she could be an old friend's mum. No, it was Helen McDermott the presenter from Anglia news. I listened to the conversation she was having with two elderly ladys. I think she maybe appearing in this year's panto.

Started the day listening to 'War of the Words' then the old indie band 'Mudhoney.' In the evening I went to the No2ID meeting at the Workshop. It seems there will be a music event on the weekend. Zero Emissions... we might be setting-up a stall there...

When I returned to the house I could hear Adam and his stupid laugh eminatting from his open window. The front door chain stopped me from entering and there seemed to be a chair wedged up against the handle from the inside. wtf ?? Adam looked out his window, then took about half a minute to let me in. Bode was with him and said some crap about a burgular trap. I couldn't give a shit what they get-up to, so long as it doesn't effect me.

I've drunk lots of Coke and can't sleep now :( I

Following and Followers

There's this large tall black bloke who lived in the same building as me last year. I keep seeing him on the bus, in the city, and now in the supermarket. I'm worried he thinks I'm following him.

Paid a visit to the NO2ID stall in the city. Show my support, and might goto the meeting Tuesday.

Stood in the dark cemetery again whilst listening to Philip Glasss' Koyaanisquatsi and dancing like a robot. (yeah I know it's not normal) I nearly shat myself when I turned to see a fox had crept up behind me.

Who's Emobile in Tokyo ??? All visitors from Japan usually seem to be coming from the same network. I just assume it's one person on different computers, but Emobile, that's a new one..

Creep

Squeezed through a gap in the railings of a cemetery. I then stood for three hours in the dark. A shiver went down my spine every time I thought about the coffins beneath me.

I'm probably not going to update this blog very often now.

SOoon Soon SOOOn So

Spent the day reading about basic cryptography... Watched a film about Allen Turing whilst cracking WEP keys... Spent ages trying to get Adams new wireless card to work properly...Failed. I decided to wrap his computer in tin-foil, just for fun. Still no better.