This is basically just an update on yesterday's post

Coming to you straight from his now wireless-enabled Eee PC, it's everyone's... what's between favourite and least favourite? Like, right in the middle. I don't know. Doesn't really matter. Anyway, it's me, Alasdair Corbett. Not between least favourite and favourite, I mean here right now, typing this.

Typing, as I said before, on my Eee PC. I'm not quite sure what was up with the Wi-Fi last night. I definitely tried the correct password a couple of times then but I suspect that wasn't the only problem, since the family desktop and another laptop were having the same problems at the time.

This little thing has already proven surprisingly useful. At the very least, it's been a fun and helpful gadget. I took it into school today, partly to use it, partly to show off. Both plans worked out fairly well - I managed to type up some Computing homework and I intend to use it for a Physics report tomorrow and throughout most of lunchtime, it was taken from be by a gang of Frozen Bubble addicts.

Did rather distract me from my Maths revision though.

But the remainder of the test went well enough. It has got me a bit scared for the prelim though. Not just the difficulty of the work but the sheer volume of it in such a short time. I'm still not hugely concerned about Computing. The only problems I've had so far with the practice stuff consisted of not knowing a few facts and some badly worded questions.

I'll try the official questions some time during the holiday but I know from experience that they'll be of better quality. As an example, the paper I was doing for homework tonight (which stopped me playing Mass Effect again but did allow time for some more of Link's Crossbow Training) ended with a question on searching, giving a list of terms and asking you to compare the efficiency of two algorithms when looking for a particular term.

Of course, it didn't bother to tell you what term you were searching for, a small fact admittedly, but one that's rather vital to the answering of the question.


I'll say this for the Eee - once it gets a grip on your cables, it does not like to let them go. I stuck my headphones into the jack to watch a video a few minutes ago and now I can't get them out again. Maybe if the end of the cable had a larger grip it would be doable but these are just little iPod ones and they're simply refusing to come out.

I'm currently trying to rationalise this away. It'll loosen up after a few uses, I expect. Maybe it's the fact that it's quite warm; heat making the metal expand, perhaps. I can deal with it in the morning either way.

And that's about all I've got. if I remember, I'll try to get a woodle up on Saturday. Don't get your hopes up but I have some ideas and I know an artist with way too much free time on his hands.