Well, for the first time ever, I bought an MP3 the other day. It was only £1, I thought “what have you got to lose?” It was a good buy actually, a tune I don’t think you can get on vinyl (the Hybrid remix of REM – The Great Beyond, in case you were wondering).…

… in that order: I went down to London on Saturday to meet up with some fellow Essex graduates. Philippa and I travelled down on the train with Simon, Matthew, Sarah and Jon. The first thing we did was go to Hamley’s and have a look round all the toys – that was great fun!…

I have to say, I am liking OpenOffice 2.0. The beta version shipped with Fedora Core 4, and I haven’t really used it much. Anyway, after my mammoth update yesterday it would appear that it’s now out of beta, and onto Release Candidate 2. I decided to do a bit of work on my CV…

I’ve been having a few problems with the ol’ blog system recently. Basically, it was archiving things in a funny order. I’ve changed the code slightly and it seems to be working now (as soon as I say that I know it’ll break, but still – you’ve got to try). Ah well… whether this thing…

I finally managed to update Fedora Core 4 last night. I’ve been having problems since I upgraded from version 3. For some reason, up2date doesn’t want to work… looking at the files, I think it’s still got a couple of the repositories from version 3 there. So, when it wants to update, it can’t, because…

Well, I haven’t put up a ‘The Weekend’ post in a while, so I thought I’d do one! On Friday evening, Philippa and I went to the Rose and Crown in Wivenhoe, as it was the Fresher’s Week “Walk to Wiv” event. We didn’t actually walk from campus, but we did meet up with people…

Well, something is not right. I’ve added a couple of blog entries recently, and nothing has happened. Upon further investigation, it turns out they’ve been archived but haven’t appeared on the main page. Grrr. I feel like re-writing this blog system now, might make it a bit easier to manage… ah well. C’est la vie…

Ok, I don’t usually mention this, but I’ve recently noticed a lot of people are mis-spelling the word “ridiculous”, instead choosing to spell it “rediculous”. Now, I know that the English language is fairly organic, but the dictionary.com hasn’t got around to including the new definition yet, and they usually include synonyms like that, so…

Hmmm. I’m not sure about this one. Apparently the Met Office are going to Simplify Weather Forecasts. I think I’ll just let the last paragraph from the article sum it up: …we have to wonder how much spin can possibly be put on the weather, or how useful it might be. For one thing, a…

Interesting. One of the things that I learnt about last week was ADF (Application Development Framework) and Struts. Well, I say that – basically all I learnt was that what we were being taught on the course was being phased out and replaced by ADF, and we should go on the next course… anyway. I…