I have to say I wasn’t expecting much from a Xyratex point of view as I went last year and spent most of my time explaining what Xyratex does to people whilst thinking ‘I wouldn’t employ you if it was my choice’. This year I spent most of my time explaing what Xyratex does to people who seemed quite promising. It was much better than Bath careers fair (sorry Nia) where we had a couple of good people. At Imperial it was probably in double figures. This was all largely helped by being at the end of the UDH so we got fewer people visiting but those that did make it were the motivated ones.

Whilst on the subject of Imperial it is possibly time to say that I do miss Dramsoc. Not university as such but Dramsoc and the stuff related to it. I get very few chances to do anything big like Freshers week now, the big society thing and bar nights were good too. Having said that I’m determined not to say ‘I wish I was back at university’ it’s very much a one opportunity ends and another begins, sort of. I still get urges to march up to the staff in clubs and demand to do some decent lighting rather than the crap they have. I’ve also spent the weekend looking a various techy website and discovered how simple DMX appears to be compared to other serial busses.

Finally, there has been much argument about whether Linux is ready for the desktop or not and usability as a whole. I got a phone call from Andrea wanting to check her email so I told her the details to log onto my Ubuntu system (so a Gnome desktop). Now Andrea isn’t the most computer literate person, but a while later I phoned back and she said that everything was in an obvious place, that it was easy to use and that she ‘prefered it to Windows’.

Anyway, stuff to do. More later

So as I was saying I need something constructive to do. I think I might try and learn something useful. I think first off I’m changing the comment module so you don’t have to be logged in to add your name. I’ll have to think what else to do.

I might write some more later and I might put some pictures in my shiny new gallery (I’m not liking to it as I’m moving it at some point in the near future).

All I can say is SET Lighting and Sound are fairly poo. – Again more on this later (maybe)…..

Back to project work and the confusing world of SML and type mis-matches. Oh Joy

[Gary Ewer]

You can tell Gary’s revision’s going well – not only has he spent his time writing a summer ball website instead but he’s also using terms from one of his courses in the titles. For the less Geeky of you RFC stands for Request for Comment. Ironically this is actually a standard for various cryptography thingies and if you actually commented on them you’d probably be told to sod off.

Speaking of stress Easter sounds fun. Revision (which I’ve sort of started already – Bayesian Networks; confusing to start with, easy when you realize what’s going on (from what I remember anyway)), Fuzzy, IC Design, Digital Synthesis and Roman Empire courseworks, Final Year Project. Yay! I’m going to have so much fun.

And Looking even further ahead – Summer. I though summers were meant to be long spaces with not much to do. So following the end of term: I’m planning to help at the Guildford Festival, followed rapidly by MT Soc Tour and moving swiftly on to St Petersberg via Bejiing. Of course there are some morons (actually that’s a bit unfair, an insult to morons everywhere. Let me correct that – incompetent morons ) that could through a spanner in the works but it’s a long long long story and, in my opinion anyway, quite outrageous.

Anyway back to coursework – lots of numbers on a screen and not a clue what’s going on…..

I also went to see Elly’s final recital. She was very good, it’s quite odd really. I always end up in a world of my own whilst listening to ‘classical’ music. She played some Mozart and some Spanish sounding thing then some Ludwig Van (as the bloke from ‘A Clockwork Orange’ would say). I can’t say I’ve ever been big on Ludwig Van. Oh well, I think my (classical) musical taste is a bit like my artistic one – centered around the 1900s generally, usually not later than 1950. A bit of a contrast from the night at Surrey thought.

Digital beckons. More later I’m sure we might get a bit bored.