The Blog driven by Boredom

What is this thing we call sleep?

2010-01-31T07:10:00.001Z

As the title suggests, I am going through a nice bout of insomnia. AllI seem able to do at the moment, is lay in bed and stare at a nicegreen led in the smoke alarm. I'm tired, I want to sleep, and I canbet that I will nod off around 0830. Why then can I just lay here andthink about all the mistakes I have made over the past months? I layhere running over every single thing I have done or missed

Another Rant

2009-08-20T19:19:00.002+01:00

Wow, these seem to be becoming a semi-regular feature. Although, it is a rant at a similar thing as my last post.I have been working with that website (see last post) on and off for a couple of weeks. I started with a couple of days sorting out the drop down menus they had requested, which took ages. It looks great and works well. The I have had very little but the odd bug fix to do. Today at

A Rant at [removed]

2009-08-15T19:45:00.006+01:00

This is a rant. It is a rant at the designers of a CMS system. It is a rant at CSS implementation (or possibly specification). It is a rant to try and make me think...I am currently assisting in a web page redesign for the Students' Union. My role is to make it all work in a browser. They give me a design and I implement it. I suppose you could call me a web developer.The SU uses a Content

Me & Her

2009-08-13T12:42:00.001+01:00

The important one in my life decided to compare our blogs recently... Here are her word clouds.

Life in General

2009-08-13T01:44:00.003+01:00

Well, life is good at the moment for me. Well almost good. My contract for my accommodation is coming to an end in a couple of days. That means I am having to go home. Luckily this is only and hour away, and I can drive here. However, this is an hour away from somebody I would much rather be much closer to. We have agreed to meet in the middle, but it will, but it wont be the same. All we can do

I found religion!

2009-08-13T01:15:00.004+01:00

Just to start this, I am an atheist. Have been for a long time, however, I seem to have found the joy of religion. Not quite the whole worshiping the lord thing, that still kinda creeps me out. More the "Creationists say the funniest things" brand of joy.This probably isn't the healthiest way to enjoy religion, and is definitely not the way they would like you to enjoy it. But it is fun

Countdown to worry

2009-04-17T16:47:00.002+01:00

It seems to be the lead up to exam season again. Hence the additional post(s) to the blog. There may or may not be more, depending on how badly I start to worry about my exams. I expect the worry to start in about 2-3 weeks time...In other news, I have fired off an application to be Station Manager for the campus radio station. Updates will appear on that as and when they appear...

Freecycle

2009-04-16T20:18:00.002+01:00

I have just been taken on a trip all around town to collect free laptops.The laptops are courtesy of a selection of random strangers who have no use for them any more. As they have no use, they are giving them away to people who will have a use for them. It isn't only laptops that people do this for. They do it for pretty much anything that people think might have a use for. It seems like quite a

Major patent trolling alert!

2008-05-27T19:28:00.004+01:00

Time for some more procrastination methinks.I was browsing the net when I came across an interesting story. Vuestar Technologies seems to be claiming a patent on image hyperlinks.For those of you that don't know what that means, a hyperlink is somthing like the word story a couple of lines up. You click it and you go to a new webpage. An image hyperlink is a picture you can click on. Nice and

Southend Air Show

2008-05-26T16:16:00.004+01:00

As I am sure most people know, this weekend is was a bank holiday. It was also the weekend of the Southend Air Show. As it is the middle of my exams, it seemed like a good reason to procrastinate so I signed up to do the SJA duty there.The air show is a big duty, with multiple posts, ambulances and doctors in attendance. I was a part of the large contingent of bog standard first aiders looking

Rod(ent)s from God

2008-05-20T00:07:00.004+01:00

Was having a chat with some friends today and hit upon an interesting idea.If you drop a mouse, it will supposedly survive just about any fall due to it's size and weight resulting in a low terminal velocity. This leads to two questions...1. Can we test this? The best way I see of doing this is to drop a mouse out of a tall building and see if it survives, however I don't think I will be allowed

Back from the dead

2008-05-13T23:54:00.001+01:00

Yeah I know, no posty for ages. I'm not dead honest.In reality I have just had nothing to blog about. Now I have a little more interesting going on in life (and procrastination as a motivator) I might start to post more.In the past few months since I last posted, I have joined St John Ambulance and seem to have gained the position of Unit Leader in my LINKS unit (I was the only one foolish enough

Calculating e

2007-02-19T21:59:00.000Z

I'm sure that some people out there have heard of the mathemagical constant e (as in e^x). e is an irrational number formed by the equation e = 1 + 1/1! + 1/2! + 1/3! + 1/4! ... and so on and so forth. I got bored, so here is a little program that will calculate a value of e up to 18 decimal places.------start code------#include int main(){ long double e = 1; int i, n = 20; long double add = 1;

What are the prime numbers??

2007-01-30T23:19:00.000Z

I was bored recently, so I decided to calculate prime numbers up to an arbitrary amount. Here is the result of my efforts in C.----Begin Code----#includeint main(int argc, char *argv[]){ int numto = 100; if (argc > 1){ /*convert command line argv (if there is one)to int*/ numto = atoi(argv[1]); } int x[numto], y, i; i = 1; for (i=0; i<=numto; i++){ /*

New Year, New Term, New House; Same S**t

2007-01-14T19:33:00.000Z

Well, it is a new year. Yay for new year.It is a new term. Yay for new term. I now have a report on mobile phones due that I am going to rewrite because I am not happy with it. At least I have until friday. Over the past holiday I think I somehow managed to do more in programming in C (not what I'm meant to be learning) than in Liberty BASIC (what I am meant to be doing). Anyway, back to the

Cool little maths thing

2006-12-27T13:36:00.000Z

This is a cool little thing that seems to prove 1=2. It contains some bad maths though, try and spot it...We start with: X = Y nice and easy so far...Multiply both by X so we have X^2 = XY...Subtract Y^2 from both sides to give X^2-Y^2 = XY - Y^2...Tidy it up a little to (X+Y)(X-Y) = Y(X-Y). (Still the same as without the brackets)Cancel the (X-Y) to give (X+Y) = YSo we now have X+Y = Y. Lets

A small C program

2006-12-15T19:34:00.000Z

In the past week or so, I have been teaching myself to program in C. I found quite a nice online guide on a guy called beej's website. It is in pdf format so I downloaded it and started to learn. Here are the results of my attempts to write something that will accept arguments. It will accept two arguments and a string and then reverse the string in one of two ways.---start code---/*This will

TV Licensing

2006-11-22T21:29:00.000Z

Today I received a letter. It was from TV Licensing. Well, I say I received it, it was addressed to the person who lived here before me. As I am at uni, the resident of a room will change each year. Anyway, I called them up to say that the person on the letter was no longer living here. The first thing I was asked was did I want to have my TV license linked to that address. Now, I don't have a

"Linux owes us" - MS

2006-11-19T15:50:00.000Z

For those of you out there who read this (Approx 0) you may have been aware of the recent Novell - Microsoft deal. Basically Novell sells Suse Linux. Microsoft approached them with a deal where MS wouldn't sue Suse users for intellectual property infringements if Novell paid a little protection money. The same deal was offered to Red Hat, who told them to go shove it as Linux doesn't contain any

My first post

2006-11-13T20:28:00.000Z

Well I finally succumbed to the web 2.0 buzz. I have a blog. All Hail the almighty power of bloggers! Anyway, don't expect great things on here, not because i don't have time, more because I do have time. Too much time with not enough content to entertain me. Anyway, at some point I plan on doing something with those magnetic stripes on the back of library cards, so when I do that I will have