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Terrible Semester
Sep 19th
This semester is probably the worst I’ve had so far, ironic as I actually thought it’d be one of the best.
I mean…12cp major project, you finally get to do something that you enjoy doing, come up with something original but instead, we were lured into a project that seemed interesting at the time (robots, wiimote, opengl) but it’s turning out quite badly.
We have client deployment due next Friday and I’d say we don’t have as much done as we should have. At our current rate I’d be happy if we just got a credit.
I guess our lack of result is probably due to these sort of things happening.
Just thinking…
Jun 17th
So I was walking home today after a rather unexpected QQ exam. I was thinking why does our justice system support “emotions”. Maybe you law students can explain it to me.
For example, when a person commits murder and shows remorse why would his/her sentence be shorter or less harsh than someone that didn’t show remorse? You still killed someone, doesn’t matter if you show remorse now…that person is still dead.
By the same premise, if the victim’s family showed outrage then shouldn’t the murderer get a higher sentence simply because the family members were VERY VERY angry?
Makes no sense to me.
So yes, today was my AI exam. Well, for the most part I didn’t understand a lot of the concepts. Getting simple questions wrong, but then again, I got couple of harder questions right. Though I’m sure if were to come back to it in the future I might understand it a lot better.
2 exams down and 2 more to go. I purchased an iphone/ipod charger, cause I left my official apple charger in Canberra, I haven’t been bothered following it up and they haven’t bothered replying to me. The charger works pretty well and it only cost me $10 bucks. How long it’ll last is a different problem and it certainly doesn’t look as nice compare to the official charger. It does it’s job.
I also bought a battery charger for a Canon IXY 55 that my mum found. It’s a pretty old camera, only 5mp, in somewhat good condition. I bought the charger for $30. Going to charge the batteries and see if it still works. If it’s decent I might put off buying my own camera. If it’s crappy, I might ebay it or give it to my parents and ebay an even older Olympus Camera.
I’ll probably bludge for the rest of the day. Too depressed to do any work. I collected my AI assignment as well. Apparently by bi-directional search wasn’t working. I beg to differ. But I wasn’t in a mood to complain and if that 1.5% is the difference between a C/D (yes I’ve given up prospects of HD) then I will QQ so hard.
Ontop of everything, yesterday I owned my headset.
My leg got caught, I tripped and yeah…rest is self explainatory.
toggle_hsc_mode()
Jun 4th
The last time I invoked that function was after my last HSC exam. Two and a half years later it looks like I’ll have to call upon it again…
When Uni started there were heaps of people comparing Uni exams to the HSC. I still remember one person describing Uni as being two hscs in a year. Uni exams are nothing like the HSC.
The HSC is only important if you seek to enter a decent Uni, in a degree that’s extremely hard to get into. Yes, I still have sour grapes over the HSC, why do people do Comm/Law (apart from the image of being rich that’s been embedded in their minds since they learnt how to talk by their parents who failed to achieve that “dream”)?
Doing well in the HSC isn’t important at all but I think that the ability to do well in the HSC affects your ability to do well in other areas greatly. If I didn’t do well in the HSC, I probably wouldn’t have taken as much care in my results at Uni.
Lately I’ve been thinking of the future. What are my plans? What do I see ahead of me? Well in the short-term I have several exams coming up and I really would like to get HD’s in 3 out of the 4 subjects. Definitely possible.
In the next year or so I expect to be doing Honors and hoping to reach first class honors. I need a WAM of at least 80 in my honors year for First Class. Anything after graduating is such a blur. I don’t know what my plans are. Do I really wanna just jump straight into work? I’m really not the “backpacking” type but…there’s so much of the world I haven’t seen! (Yes…I sound like some arts student)
There’s also soo many things I do not know. It’s absolutely amazing the amount of technologies that’s out there! Gah, I want to be fluent in C#, VB.net, JS, Ruby and php. I also want to earn J2EE certification, perhaps even a CCNP.
But for now…
Life 2009.6.4 (r262:71605, June 4 2009, 21:08:50) [AZN v.1337 1024 bit (x1024)] on Wong09
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makes to its subprocess using this computer’s internal loopback
interface. This connection is not visible on any external
interface and no data is sent to or received from the Internet.
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Umbilical 1.0.1
>>> import life
>>> from life import hsc
>>> hsc.toggle_hsc_mode()
>>> print hsc.hsc_mode()
True
>>> exit()
Quick Guide – Setting up Pop3 for new USYD Uni Mail
May 9th
Quick and dirty guide on setting up pop3 for the new USYD Uni Mail.
