wafblog v3.0

So people, do you really think Joe’s blog has much more influence than you think? I mean really – as someone who blogs, I don’t really think being extremely vocal on my site is going to do much. At the same time, I suppose if you take something like LiveJournal and think about how easy it is to make a community, some very strongly-worded icons and the like, then yeah… maybe bloggers are making an influence. But a few hundred people voicing their concerns about TV programs isn’t really going to make a difference is it? If it was why are we still watching reality TV? Not sure, I suppose I should be thankful that bloggers are seen as being ‘influential’, but if that voice is not being used for something meaningful, then really I think it’s just a waste.

In other news, I have gotten nowhere with my thesis lately. In fact, I pretty much haven’t started on that JSP. *smacks head*. What the fuck am I doing with my time? I have no idea – I’m slowly, slowly, slowly wasting away on LJ, Yahoo!Groups, and blogs. o_O Actually, it feels kind of pathetic. I really need to get out more but I’m too lazy to get off my arse really.

More importantly, I have a midsemester exam for Computer Engineering this Friday. It is somewhat annoying that this subject has the same name as my degree, because people ask me what subjects I’m doing and I’ll be like “Computer Engineering” and they look at me funny. It’s the subject dammit!!!! It’s a somewhat fun subject, but usually involves a lot of facepalming because my partner and I think too in-depth. We always forget that we’re not really dealing with the ‘circuit’ itself, moreso the ‘system’ and how it fits together. Anyways, it was cool to make the little LCD thing light up. I really would like to make a shift-adder or something though. I suppose writing words to the LCD is more cool or at least, the results are more… noticeable. I must start studying for this very soon. There’s no recommended text, just the two reading pack thingies we bought for the course. So tomorrow will be full on JSP *crosses fingers, closes all web-browsers not JSP related* and then Wednesday will be more JSP and possibly some VHDL. Wish me luck?

Uni’s not really as fun as it used to be. I’m not sure if that’s because most of my friends have graduated and there’s no one doing the subjects I am or I’m just sick of it. Admittedly, the subject I’m doing isn’t *as* bad as I thought it would be. I actually managed to complete the tutorial today. It was pretty hilarious though, my lab partner and I spent ages designing this schematic plan of some circuit thingy and then we thought we hadn’t drawn the wires correctly so we went back and make them all “connect”. Later the tutor was like, “they’re not meant to look like that… that little dot is a ‘join’”. *sigh*. So we had to change them all back! At least we know for next time right?

Met up with Manda for ‘lunch’. It wasn’t really lunch as such. Just a celebratory beer for St. Patrick’s day. There was green (mostly) and orange everywhere. Didn’t get to have any ‘guinness stew’ although it was the union meal of the day. Not sure if I really missed out on anything special :P

I tried installing Ubuntu onto Mephisto, which I screwed up. I forgot I’d removed small 10MB partition I’d made at the front of the HDD for the MBR. So I told GRUB to write over my XP install. LALALA. *Sigh*. I’m not exactly devastated, I wasn’t using that comp anyways, even after installing a DVD burner. Think I’ll install Fedora Core 4 instead. Except that I need to download the damn install. I could go with Fedora Core 3, but it seems a little ‘old’. I’m not having a good time with technology lately it seems. I tried to use that new MPH Game Loader on my PSP, which didn’t work. I then tried to install v2.0 firmware only to have the damn machine tell me it was ‘low on battery’ and ‘could not proceed’. What the fuck is with that? So yeah. The decision has been made. I’m going to upgrade the firmware. I’ve bought like 3 games recently and I have another two sitting there because I can’t play them. So it seems utterly pointless to keep with 1.5. Plus, I figure I can downgrade later if I really want to.

In any case, I’ve decided eBay is the devil in disguise and whilst retail therapy is good for the soul, it’s not good for the hip-pocket. I really must stop. It’s not like I have the time to play all these games or watch DVDs. ):

Anyways, back to trawling for icons/avatars. No kidding. I’m really hoping I’ll get the time to make some of my own.. some of them are utterly hilarious :D Not sure how to do the animated stuff. Might give the “Animation Shop” which comes with PaintShop Pro a go. I have no idea how to use Photoshop (anybody want to teach me? :P) *sigh*. Too much to do. Not enough time…..