Scatmania

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Feel like taking part in a sponsored masturbatathon? The internet remains a strange and wonderful place, as this form [PDF] indicates. Go take a look….

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Have you seen AQA (All Questions Answered), a new online/SMS service? The idea is that you text message a question to 63336 (only on O2, Vodafone, and Orange, right now: costs £1) and their server uses a clever combination of intelligent algorithms, data mining, and human researchers to provide you…

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[chez geek card]

The problem with long deadlines is they creep up ever so quickly.

This weekend, I’ll be learning JBoss, Ant, and JUnit, and then writing an an online bank program. Eep….

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This is just plain wierd. How to perform a fecalectomy on a keyring.

I’ve got some damn cool new board games, including the second best one in the world, and another one in the top 100, according to the voters on BoardGameGeek. Paul, Claire and I played Hacker from Steve Jackson Games (the people…

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I handed in my dissertation yesterday. What a farce. Here’s the approximate order of things.

08:30 - Get up. Compile a postscript (.ps) copy of my dissertation, and upload both this and the .tex source files to central.aber.ac.uk. Start walking up to campus (Bryn offers to give me a lift, but I feel energetic, so I bound on up the hill).

09:00 - Reach campus and pay for £5 of printer credit (100 pages). Find a workstation room, log into central, and ‘lpr -Puserarea diss-final.ps’ (print) it. Marvellous. Pick up the printout.

09:15 - Drop my (printed) dissertation off at the Library to be hardback bound. Everything’s going splendidly. Trek back down town. The hand-in window is 14:00-16:00, so I’ve got loads of time.

13:30 - Arrive back on campus, this time with two CDs (containing the source code and sample data for the project). I buy sticky things from the Union with which to attach them to the inside cover of my dissertation, and then trek to the Library to pick up the masterpiece.

13:45 - Hmm. The binding office seems to be closed. Guess they’re on lunch. I go to return a library book from the Physical Sciences Library, …

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There’s a lot of defence for wargames, as this Have-Your-Say on the BBC shows, but one or two people type that they feel that there is a lot of one-sided patriotism in the wargames that make it to the shelves of your local Game or HMV.

They’re right: you only have to look as far as Command & Conq…

At long last, after many nights (and days) slog, my dissertation is done. Enormous thanks to everybody who provided feedback to the developmental copies (don’t make any more comments now, ‘cos I’ve “gone gold” with it). Tomorrow I hand it in and I’m rid of it forever, yay!!!

I’m actually not as happy with it as I’d like to be. There’s so much more that I wanted to do with it. But I’m over the word limit already and pruning out old stuff and shortening sentences is such hard work, and I don’t think I actually have time.

Still: I bet I’m the only person who submits their project on two CDs… If only size were everything.

I’ve also come to the conclusion that I’ve been an unbearable cunt over the last few days (mostly to Claire); a result of the heaps of stress at this work I’ve had to do (alongside everything else… as usual). I’m not usually one to let stress get to me, but there I was, snappy and irritable. Much apologies and backrubs owed, methinks.

But hey. It’s done.

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I’m looking for help proofreading my dissertation. If you’ve been invited to, or you’d like to help, please go to http://scatmania.org/diss/, download the latest version, and post any comments here.

You will need a password. To ensure that only invited parties can get hold of the password, you’ll need to prove your identity. The following groups are permitted to log in:

• Members of Troma Night: go to the Troma Night web site and log in: the password will appear on the front page, underneath the words ‘Upcoming Events’.
• People listed as LiveJournal friends of Fiona: go to this LiveJournal post by Fiona (you’ll need to be logged in and on her Friends list).
• People who can guess the password - it’s the second half of the name of the project of my dissertation, in lower case, with the final letter replaced with the first vowel in the word that is the name of the logo of the organisation that benfits from my project.
• Other …

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[chez geek card]

Confused? Read this news reports from news.scotsman.com!…

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If you’re interested, you can read the minutes of the incorporation meeting of Peter Huntley Ltd., of which I seem to be a director: Minutes [PDF Format]….