Exams: one down, three to go
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 to the pub and drown our collective sorrows... and rejoice that we never have to deal with this subject again. Then it's back to work for me... need to obtain payment from a client and then work for another client and help out in the labs for the last time this year. And buy tickets for the cinema all-nighter on Tuesday. Oh, and revise.
Exam timetable
This is mainly for my own reference, so I can actually find it. My exams are in red.
Dedicated hosting
I now have something to distract me when I should be preparing for exams (although, naturally, it won't). Retiarius has just purchased a dedicated server from FastHosts (on which server this blog is now running) and so I've been spending time setting it up. So far, it has Apache, BIND, MySQL, PHP4 and PHP5 in parallel, and the beginnings of the RageControl backend. I'll slowly be adding more and more features and software over the coming weeks, including FTP and email... and maybe more bits of RageControl.
Automatic email forwarding
Well I got fed up with email filter rules last week, and this is the rather bizarre result: autoforward, a Perl script and configuration file that will automatically generate Exim filter files (.forward files), mainly to be used on my University account. My email processing rules have become pretty complex and messy, making them difficult to control, and there's a lack of uniformity about them. I decided there had to be a better way, so set about writing a configuration format and parser... and I think I succeeded.
Time flies past…
Wow. It's amazing to think that the day just gone has marked three and a half years together with my wonderful girlfriend. Obviously, nobody can say it has always been easy, but it really has been the most wonderful three and a half years of my life. It's amazing how everything else seems to fade into insignificance compared to her... so I just want to say "thank you" for being the most wonderful person I know, and for loving me and putting up with me for so long.
First post
Well, I suppose that everyone has one of these, sooner or later. I guess I finally got round to making one for myself. It's pretty blog-standard at the moment, but given enough love and attention (which I doubt it will get) it should at least keep me busy for a while.