Well, the initial individual project allocations have been published, and it looks like I’ve definitely had my project confirmed. As far as I know, it was going to happen anyway, but it’s nice to have official confirmation now, so I can start working on it.
What is my project? Well, it was my own proposal, and the title is Towards a Database Filesystem, which may give you a clue. The aim of this project is to build a database filesystem that can store various elements of metadata about a file, allowing you to categorise and organise files differently depending on how you’re feeling or how you want to find your data. Continue reading “Masters thesis” »
So, I’m now back at University – it feels good to be back! I’ve moved back into the same house as last year, with the same guys as before, which is great. They’re a wonderful bunch, and we live more like a family than a collection of students.
Today was the Freshers Fair, and it was great to see a lot of people again after six months away. I saw a few people from the department, as well as some other very good friends and my dance partner. It’s amazing to realise just how much I’ve missed everybody, and how glad I am to be there with them again. I’m really going to miss this place when I leave this year.
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Introduction
There has been some recent controversy over Facebook‘s Terms and Conditions: specifically, it seems that these Terms imply that they own any Content that you post to the site. When I first heard about this on 1st October 2007, I thought that it couldn’t be right. A company couldn’t just bury that in their Terms and Conditions… could they?
I decided to go through it, and having assauged my own doubts, I felt it was worth explaining in detail to anyone who is interested. Hi to anyone visiting from a group set up about this.
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This is something I’ve been meaning to write for a while, and finally got round to doing. Basically, it’s a simple Thunderbird extension that makes it easier for you to check other folders for new messages. I’ve named it FolderCheck* (rather unimaginatively), and it’s available from the Mozilla Add-ons site sandbox.
The problem is that, at the [...]
So, I got to thinking about xkcd‘s famous (or infamous) map of the IPv4 address space. And, naturally, I wondered if I could write a program to draw it. After looking around on their forums, I found an algorithm or two which seem to do this, and all it needs is the input list of integers. [...]
OK, another personal post: my girlfriend told me to do this! Basically, you have to put your music player on random, with your entire collection, and (being honest), choose each random track as it comes and put them next to these headings in order:
Opening Credits: I Just Can’t Wait To Be King (The Lion King)
Waking Up: [...]
Well today was my first day at my 6-month work placement. I was pleasantly surprised by how quick the admin stuff was to sort out. I got all my passwords and usernames and everything (aside from a few hiccups). I’d even been receiving email since February, which I thought was quite impressive. Add to this my [...]
Well that’s it: exams are over. For better or for worse. Now off to do some drinking, [...]
Revision officially sucks. Well, I suppose it’s ok; I just wish I had more time in which to do it. There just isn’t enough time to revise all three courses for tomorrow today. Argh. At least I have 5hrs or so tomorrow, 8am-12:30pm. Then it’s solid exams for the next three hours, and then it really [...]
Well that was nowhere near as bad as I’d expected. In fact, it was almost good (and I finished 30min early)! Turns out that Derren Brown’s memory techniques actually work, if you apply them Well done to Motti for predicting Oticon coming up. I’m just waiting for others to finish so we can go [...]
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