Merry Christmas to One and All! I hope you all got what you wanted for Christmas :) I certainly did!
I got an iPod iTouch, quite a few DVDs including Princess Mononoke, a few games including Trainz Railway Simulator 2004, and a large poster detailing the inside of the USS Enterprise-D.
Brilliant!
The week before Christmas took a wonderful turn when on Saturday, we went down to the Honda garage and they announced the car had arrived! It is available to be picked up on Friday, so I will have a new car for Christmas too!
I have been quite busy during the week, doing some work for work and Uni, as well as playing EVE a lot. On EVE, I bought a new Thorax and an Iteron IV (a Cruiser and a Trading vessel) with the Thorax being a great EVE Christmas present!
Anyhow, I will finish off this bizarre blog post by adding that over the next couple of days I will be online on MSN, so if you want to catch me you can.
Wednesday 26 December 2007
Monday 17 December 2007
Christmas Hols: The Beginning
Long time no post, I know... but the weeks after Operation Gold were extensively busy. For starters, I had two assignments to deliver by Tuesday last week. One was a Database systems coursework, and another was a Data Communications assignment.
The Database coursework was mostly easy, if long, except for two particular questions that were designed to be extremely difficult, and a challenge for even those skilled at SQL. The Data Communications coursework involved analysing PING packets sent to ten different hosts in South Africa and the Middle East (supposedly) and took a lot of time to complete to perfection.
Add on top of that the biggest Java lab of all (GooChristmas), as well as all the other stuff that goes on, and things just got in the way.
The Christmas holidays began early on Friday after the Java lecture was cancelled. The day after was spent mainly out in Guildford at the LaserQuest (and Burger King for lunch) for my brothers late birthday party. Saturday evening, my brother hijacked my laptop for a 'through-the-night' gaming session, that ended at midday the next day. As would be expected, he has since slept for the past two days.
Sunday's highlight was a trip into Redhill to visit Honda. I planned on getting a new Honda Civic Hybrid, but when comparing it with what the original Honda Civic offered, the latter was chosen. Other then that, Sunday was quite a relaxed day, and I found out that our Corp had been declared war on in EVE. Magical!
Today I went for a test drive of the Honda Civic. It drives beautifully; feeling like a manual car turned auto rather then an ordinary automatic. In that respect, you get to feel the gear changes the car makes, and Honda's intuitive 'paddle sticks' on the steering wheel, in conjunction with the gear stick, allow you to switch between controlling the gears manually and letting the car do the hard work. Not to mention the car looks like something out of, say, Star Trek... and I love the 
dashboard! (Similar but not quite right picture). Enough said!
Tomorrow is also going to be a busy day, but that's for a future post!
I also want to announce here that I intend to release GooChristmas on my website over the next few days, as well as put more work for my group up on the dotProject site, do some work for work (my job), and carry on playing EVE. So the fun never stops!
The Database coursework was mostly easy, if long, except for two particular questions that were designed to be extremely difficult, and a challenge for even those skilled at SQL. The Data Communications coursework involved analysing PING packets sent to ten different hosts in South Africa and the Middle East (supposedly) and took a lot of time to complete to perfection.
Add on top of that the biggest Java lab of all (GooChristmas), as well as all the other stuff that goes on, and things just got in the way.
The Christmas holidays began early on Friday after the Java lecture was cancelled. The day after was spent mainly out in Guildford at the LaserQuest (and Burger King for lunch) for my brothers late birthday party. Saturday evening, my brother hijacked my laptop for a 'through-the-night' gaming session, that ended at midday the next day. As would be expected, he has since slept for the past two days.
Sunday's highlight was a trip into Redhill to visit Honda. I planned on getting a new Honda Civic Hybrid, but when comparing it with what the original Honda Civic offered, the latter was chosen. Other then that, Sunday was quite a relaxed day, and I found out that our Corp had been declared war on in EVE. Magical!
Today I went for a test drive of the Honda Civic. It drives beautifully; feeling like a manual car turned auto rather then an ordinary automatic. In that respect, you get to feel the gear changes the car makes, and Honda's intuitive 'paddle sticks' on the steering wheel, in conjunction with the gear stick, allow you to switch between controlling the gears manually and letting the car do the hard work. Not to mention the car looks like something out of, say, Star Trek... and I love the dashboard! (Similar but not quite right picture). Enough said!Tomorrow is also going to be a busy day, but that's for a future post!
I also want to announce here that I intend to release GooChristmas on my website over the next few days, as well as put more work for my group up on the dotProject site, do some work for work (my job), and carry on playing EVE. So the fun never stops!
Monday 3 December 2007
Operation Gold: Result!
Operation Gold (that of my grandparents 50th Anniversary surprise party, (yep that's right, 50 years married)) was a huge success! People who I haven't even met before came to celebrate and enjoy the company of everyone else who came, and we've got some fantastic pictures to share soon!
The theme of the party was Only Fools and Horses, and we saw some interesting stuff! My family (and by that I mean my close family) all dressed up in clothing to represent the theme, complete with hat, jacket and bling!
We had a huge banner in the hallway which contained the text "Congratulations! Shirley and Bill! Only Fools and Horses Last 50 years!" and a rather digitally enhanced (you could say digitally edited) picture of the two standing together against a rather picturesque background.
For food, we had a huge buffet that included simple foods and Indian snacks, and when evening came had curry too! And for drink, we had everything, even a small bar filled with all sorts of spirits and stuff!!
Everyone enjoyed themselves, and even my grandparents (despite their dazed shock; they thought they were coming to Christmas dinner!) who couldn't stop smiling as they met old and current friends alike!
Overall, super!
Will post a separate blog entry containing pictures.
The theme of the party was Only Fools and Horses, and we saw some interesting stuff! My family (and by that I mean my close family) all dressed up in clothing to represent the theme, complete with hat, jacket and bling!
We had a huge banner in the hallway which contained the text "Congratulations! Shirley and Bill! Only Fools and Horses Last 50 years!" and a rather digitally enhanced (you could say digitally edited) picture of the two standing together against a rather picturesque background.
For food, we had a huge buffet that included simple foods and Indian snacks, and when evening came had curry too! And for drink, we had everything, even a small bar filled with all sorts of spirits and stuff!!
Everyone enjoyed themselves, and even my grandparents (despite their dazed shock; they thought they were coming to Christmas dinner!) who couldn't stop smiling as they met old and current friends alike!
Overall, super!
Will post a separate blog entry containing pictures.
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