Archive for November, 2009
Unfortunately, Week 7 this term has seemed to fade away into distant memory; more specifically, I just don’t think anything interesting happened, so now, in the lead-up to Christmas as I write this, I can’t remember anything interesting happening. Even with the aid of my Google Calendar / Facebook updates… I seem to have disappeared [ READ MORE ]
This week saw the continuation of teaching myself PHP / MySQL, finding it a fair bit easier than other programming languages – probably due to both their nature (being web-based) and the fact that I’ve had a year of computer science at university to instil some kind of core concepts. Anyway, that’s coming along well, [ READ MORE ]
The main, and mostly only, event this week was going to London and seeing Jonathan Coulton live! After faffing around with our booking reference (I gave them to Jess to take back to her house by accidentally leaving them in my rucksack, oops), the trusty iPhone was able to save the day by downloading them [ READ MORE ]
I think the bullet point system works well, so I think I’ll employ it again for the main bulk of the post. This week, I: Did lots of programming; As a consequence of the above point, had action-packed dreams involving PHP functions…; Went to Simon’s really interesting talk about “code making and breaking”; Made microwave lasagne (the result was average, [ READ MORE ]
Thought: Why do some people write Halloween Hallowe’en? Silly people. Anyway, this week included the following (yes, laziness is prevailing somewhat): Writing a letter to the BBC commissioner asking that old children’s TV shows be released on DVD or on iPlayer; Planning to go to two company presentations; Failing to go to two company presentations; Creating a Halloween costume consisting [ READ MORE ]