Rambling of a Coder

Monitor Problems

Sunday 25 July 2010 at 6:18 pm

So, my third monitor has started to fail. It seems the back light on it starting to give out. Usual clues, Colours starting to fade/merge and just general brightness going.

Normally I’d either try to replace/repair the backlight myself, or just replace the monitor. But with the impending possible house move soon I really don’t want to be spending any extra cash. So i guessed my only solution i had at the moment was to post to my blog in frustration, which i have now done

Naa the monitor has served me well actually. had it for around 7 years now myself, and before that it was in a Workshop for god knows how long, so i really can’t complain. I’ll just continue to use it until it becomes completely unusable or if the move goes ahead before it dies completely I’ll repair it. Or maybe even replace, I think i could be doing with a new one.. or two..

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Team Work… sorta

Monday 12 July 2010 at 01:48 am

So, I’ve been actively doing another course lately. That's basically a remote team based course, and well its not went too well until the last week or so when because of the impending deadline for our first markable team submission people have actually began to communicate and read the communications from others.

Anyway, hopefully this keeps up because it will make the rest of the course a shit load easier and i really don’t want to be slogging through it at the pace we were. And i really want to get a head start on the next course, Which i can’t do with tasks from this one resting on my mind uncompleted. Get a breather for a day though, as I’ve submitted this paper earlier today and the new stuff won’t be available till midnight tomorrow.

I’ve been keeping a project log for this course, which has sorta stopped me blogged as most of the stuff I'd typically blog about have been going into my project log. I shall strive to stop this though, I have lots to say afterall!

In other news, We’ve basically reached our saving goal for moving home again. So the hunt is again active, finger crossed for this attempt for us?  

Beyond that not a lot else been going on, Its the summer holidays and G is loving every moment of it, it seems. He’s spent a few days Kiting, and we’ve just purchased him a new Buzz Lightyear figure which he loves. He got a few new 360 games too, But he’s still on a Transformers fix at the moment with Transformers War for Cybertron. I myself picked up a few new titles, the one that's most surprised me for enjoyment though is Alan Wake, i wasn’t expecting it to be as fun as it actually is. We also picked up Naughty Bear, Strange title but fun at the same time. Not something you can sit and play all day though. I should probably just make a games section on my site as i seem to buy to many and always end up just talking about them in a footnote on an entry like this. Something to ponder once i finally finish redoing this.

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Final Week Inc

Tuesday 08 June 2010 at 9:30 pm

Well next week is my Exam, Am i prepared for it?
Probably not.
Do i feel confident of getting a passing grade?
Course

I have 5 more mock exam papers at the ready and plan on using them wisely, I also have a very large stack of study materials which I’m slowly chipping away at. Still floundering about with the courses “Formal Language” but long as i can bullshit my way past the exam for it, I’ve never seen it used anywhere else in my life so am really not to concerned about it.

My other course is going well, Just had our first real-time meeting with 4 of the 5 others on the course and it seemed to go smoothly.  Here’s hoping our planned weekly meetings like this help us Gel together as a team for the milestones ahead. I find myself floundering on how vague the documents are, and how loose the terminology is within them. But mostly the fact is that the scenario we’ve been set i read and immediately went to the Solution and I’m finding it really hard to go back and do it in baby steps like the course is expecting of me. But i shall get past that.

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Progress

Wednesday 05 May 2010 at 04:41 am

So, I went a bit quiet again. My own fault, I finally got my car back YAY. Only took like 4 weeks or so to replace the clutch. Studying away for my exam in June, That’s going ok. But the final assignment for the course has a deadline of 20th of May, So its kind of annoying me that i have that and its distracting from the final exam, but i have the past 5 or so years test papers and once the assignment is completely and handed in I’m going to sit down and do those and see what bits i really need to brush up on. Overall i feel confident that I’ll pass though, so that’s a bonus.

Next course has already started, thought it is in my opinion a fluff course. Team work in a distributed environment, FLUFF. See how it goes when i finally get to meet and get in contact with my team.

Slipped back into the bad habit of WoW though in the past few weeks… I know, I know… can we just leave that at that? I have absolutely no intentions of letting it take over again (Famous last words?) And have mostly just been PVPing so after 30mins/hour of getting soundly thrashed i usually turn it off anyway. Also ran through Halo 3 : ODST before the Halo Reach beta, and finished it on Legendary mode Co-Op with Twobits. Fun game on co-op, Multiplayer still feels a lot like Unreal to me, and i quickly loose interest. Halo Reach is mostly the same Multiplayer wise, not as twitchy though. And kind of evens the ground between pro/noobs so you don’t constantly feel like your dying with no revenge. Overall for me, fun to pickup and kill a few minutes with then go back to whatever you were doing before hand. Hoping the single player campaign is as good as the previous titles though and that they don’t pull a Call of Duty and just stick on flimsy excuse for a storyline to the multiplayer game.

We picked up G a Nintendo DSi too, which he LOVES for the moment. Got to watch him though because he’ll be off to “Bed” and then you’ll hear the Mario theme or Sonic and Sega’s All Star Racing theme playing from behind his covers or door.

Anyway, that's basically it. Study, Game, Study, Give G some attention, Study, Sleep.

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