Microwave Banana and Rasin Sponge

February 6, 2005 – 18:19

Ingredients:
- 2 Bananas
- 100g self raising flour
- 100g butter or Margarine
- 100g sugar
- 2 Eggs
- half a tsp of baking soda
- milk as required

Instructions:
Put the bananas in a microwavable bowl, and soften in the microwave for 4 minutes. Cream the butter and the sugar together, add the eggs, flour and baking soda slowly and beat to an almost pourable mix. sprinkle the rasins over the bananas and pour over the sponge mix. Put in microwave for about 5 minutes (750w)

bash.org #450301

January 25, 2005 – 22:26

#450301 +(602)- [X]

<@buo> A byte walks into a bar and orders a pint. Bartender asks him “What’s wrong?” Byte says “Parity error.” Bartender nods and says “Yeah, I thought you looked a bit off.”

Yeah its one of those stupid geek jokes but i liked it.

BETA, BETA, BETA

January 8, 2005 – 13:52

It is obviously the time of year for MMORPG betas at the moment, Wish 2 beta started on 1st January, City of Heros Europe started not long after and it looks like World of Warcraft Europe is on the horizon.

It is very nice to see so many games taking the european market so seriously, games like Lineage II, CoH and WoW are going to mop up after SOE decided all european players would have to play on US servers.

And for anyone who is interested, NCSoft have their offices in Brighton, UK so if you want a job take a look at their website. [link]

Power Up (or not)

January 5, 2005 – 18:17

Having issues today with power at work, yesterday we had a new generator installed, then we had a power cut… at least we know the generator will kick in, as long as we don’t mind waiting 15 seconds. Of course the computers, servers and all can’t cope with this.

So we have ordered UPSs for all the computers in the Admin Block, hopefuly will get some for the servers too, you never know we might be able to have an up time longer than one week.

Other than power issues, work is quite good, we are really getting in to the swing of things, still lots and lots to get done but, it looks possable now. My main issue at the moment is documenting all the things that I rushed to get done because they needed doing yesterday. note to anyone in the same business: document as you go is much, much, much easier

Everyone on OcPS is looking forward to World of Warcraft EU looks like lots of the old Planetside gang is getting together to make an impact on Azeroth, most of us have played it before in the NA beta.

A Break from MMOGs

November 3, 2004 – 19:07

I have decided to take a break from EVE and MMOGs in general, I say I have decided… I can’t afford it at the moment so I havn’t got a huge choice in the matter.

I did get a chance to play Guild Wars for a weekend last weekend, which was a huge amount of fun.. not strictly a MMOG but it feels pretty good, kind of a cross between Lineage II and Phantasy Star Online.

I have decided that I will use my time to re-design OcPS which has needed re-working for quite some time. And if I get really bored I have a month of Lineage II waiting for me in the box pack that I bought a couple of months back.

Exam Results

July 26, 2004 – 5:55

Got my results for my final year through in the post today, forwarded from home, which is why it took so long to find out about it.

Object Oriented Design and Architecture 48% (D)
Computing Engineering Concepts 44% (D)
Computing Dissertation 65% (B)
Comparative Programming Languages 56% (C)
Design of Communitcation Protocols 36% (Fail)
Client Server Technologies 34% (Fail)
Network Management 42% (D)

In summary a Third Class degree, which is a bit rubbish… they are asking me to retake the Design of Communitaction Protocals exam at the end of august (the week before I get married) and re-submit my Client Server technologies coursework.

On top of that the project which is due in at the end of august as well is not going as fast as it should be by any stretch of the imagination, I am struggling to convince myself that I should at least attempt to get something out of this degree.

Exam

June 14, 2004 – 8:47

That has to be the most amusing exam in the world, I answered half of three questions, the maxium number of marks I can obtain is about 25 out of 100, ergo I need to get a fairly high grade for the courswork to even pass the module… FUN!

Exam Tomorrow and Tuesday

June 13, 2004 – 21:46

I have an exam tomorrow, Design of Communication Protocols (room W623), I have done little or no revision for it, because I have only turned up to three lectures because I have been ill, Saeed the lecturer failed repetedly to put the lecture notes up on the Internet… I don’t know how he expects me to pass the module when he has failed those of us on the module who have not been able to attend the lecutures due to the extreme workload of the final year at University.

There is nothing I can do now, except pray, but that has been distressing me as I am dwelling on the point. Todd Agnew – Grace Like Rain came on the Internet Radio and I just started praising God, there is nothing I can do now with the exam or the course or my degree as a whole… I trust everything to God’s greater plan however hopless I may feel now, I must just raise my hands to the heavans and praise him for all he has given me.

Todd Agnew – Grace Like Rain
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now I’m found
Was blind but now I see so clearly

Hallelujah, grace like rain falls down on me
Hallelujah, all my stains are washed away, washed away

‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed

Hallelujah, grace like rain falls down on me
Hallelujah, all my stains are washed away, washed away

When we’ve been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun
We’ve no less days to sing Your praise
Than when we first begun

Hallelujah, grace like rain falls down on me
Hallelujah, all my stains are washed away, washed away

Hallelujah, grace like rain falls down on me
Hallelujah, all my stains are washed away, washed away

Dissertation All Over

June 4, 2004 – 11:40

Had my dissertation presentation today, went quite well nothing of note particuarly, but it does mark the waypoint of the end of the dissertation, you can see all my notes, critiques, hand ins and the presentation in the university section here

I also got an extention to the Client Server Technologies coursework, which I am going to work on after the weekend once Catheirne has gone home.

Fonts Site

June 1, 2004 – 11:15

If you are looking for free fonts then you cant go far wrong with DaFont, they have a huge number of free and commercial fonts, I have not looked into the licences for the free fonts but for personal publications they are free to use :)