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..when you find yourself smiling and making all the normal facial expressions you’d use in a face-to-face conversation to a MSN chat window.

And then blog about it.

Time for a break…

Ben Macintyre has written “a cracking poem”:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-168-1560959,00.html in The Times to celebrate the Royal wedding.

Certainly made the wedding for me, and beat Poet Laureate Andrew Motion’s poem hands down (cannot find it online to link to)

Well, I was hoping to post a follow up to my first computational physics project and then my second one, but revision has got in the way (why am I writing this when I’m supposed to be revising? Oh, I remember - revision’s boring!). So, what’s been going on?

* My dissertation is finished and handed in
* My second piece of computational physics coursework is in. This time written in C - it made sense as I had existing code, and required 3.8 million calls to the Runge-Kutta algorithm at each position it was run.
* I’m now lining up for two exams next Tuesday and Wednesday. Kind of a shame, as I’ve lost interest in this physics and want to get back on with my CMS I’m developing, but not long to go now…

That’s all computer-wise that I can talk about publicly at present. I’m still dreaming of a new system for this website, combining a blog with easy-to-maintain sections on physics, programming, photography.. let me know if you know of an existing system

Well, it’s been a very long time since I last updated this blog
I’m into the third year of my degree now and dissertation work, amongst other things, has been taking up a lot of my time, leaving enough free time for relaxing but not much programming.

Now we’re into holiday season, I should hopefully have time to catch up with a few things.

Back in just over a week. Don’t let the web collapse while I’m not around…

Anyone know of a text editor that autosaves files even when they don’t exist on disk? I wrote a long post for this weblog this morning (and it was better than my usual posts), came back to the computer just now, and closed the text editor - clicking ‘No’ to the ‘Do you want to save changes?’ dialogue as well, without even bothering to look.

Hmmmph.

h3. “Preparing for Emergencies”:http://www.preparingforemergencies.co.uk/

Priceless

I got this idea while eating yesterday evening. I’m looking quite hard on EBay at present for certain items, but often they’re not coming up. Are there any services out there that offer the opposite of EBay - that is, I can post what I want and have people offer it to me, competing against each other to sell the item? Like “eLance”:http://www.elance.com but for consumer goods.

..so I won’t be replying to emails or comments.

Keem ‘em coming - the PHP template engines thread is fun! Maybe we can actually _do_ something about the situation.

I rather liked Jeremy Hedley’s “Philosophies of Life”:http://www.antipixel.com/blog/archives/2003/07/14/philosophies_of_life.html - particularly the one:

bq. If you do fuck up, stand up and take the bullet. No one wants to listen to excuses and besides, it probably doesn?t matter anyway.

Definitely hard to apply, yet so true.