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Holy crap. It's just gone past four o'clock and I feel like it should still be the morning. I got up just before noon and had just enough time to turn on my computer and have some lunch before I had to have my shower and go into hospital, wait for about half an hour, have my dressing changed and then come home.
All in all, I didn't get to actually start my day until just after three.
As a consequence, I've done absolutely nothing of any consequence. That's really making me very worried now. Tomorrow, I'm determined to do at least the equivalent of one Maths prelim paper and to look over some of my Computing notes. With any luck, I'll also have time to sort out the design for my Computing project.
That might just be wishful thinking but I've got little else at the moment.
I've no idea why but I'm feeling quite tired. And my neck is still sore. Still, I've got a couple of points to get through before I wrap this up.
First of all, it's more or less official now that Toshiba have killed off the HD-DVD format. This has a number of important repercussions, the most important being that I now owe Sam Stafford a tenner. We made a bet a couple of years ago over which would be the victor – obviously, he supported Blu-Ray while I went with HD-DVD.
The fact that we were planning to settle the bet on January 1st 2010 shows just how much of a surprise the sudden departure of HD-DVD has been. In the last few months, Toshiba's lost many important allies to Sony's format, mostly due to the resurgence of the PS3. I know people who are buying PS3s purely to use them as Blu-Ray players. That'll probably stop once prices of standalone players come down but Sony is probably hoping to have enough of a foothold by then to get by on profit from software sales.
Our second item of news for tonight is that I'm trying to come up with a name for my Eee PC. As you may or (more likely) may not know, Sam and I have a system for naming our computers. Old or second-hand systems are named using jokes, usually puns or funny references. Hence, my seldom-used Linux box called Linus (a reference to Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux) and my Mac LC called Lucy (Sam was originally going to call his LC Lucy but I convinced him to use Luke instead once I realised the potential for a Peanuts reference).
New computers follow a different pattern. Sam names his after moons (his Mac Mini, which he'd just got when we started the system, is called Luna) and I name mine after stars, hence why I occasionally refer to my iMac as Deneb. Moving outwards towards the edge of the solar system, Sam named his Eee after the smallest moon of Mars, Deimos, and I'm currently examining white dwarf stars for mine.
I should have a name by tomorrow.
Bah. That's it for now. You know, when I get my priorities sorted out and start doing these earlier in the day again, I've got a few things I want to wax lyrical about. The current weather, for example. Sort of not quite winter and not quite spring. I like it.
But I need to get to bed. I probably won't because I'm having a discussion about the mysteries in Life on Mars which may drag on but it's the thought that counts.
Have a nice day.
All in all, I didn't get to actually start my day until just after three.
As a consequence, I've done absolutely nothing of any consequence. That's really making me very worried now. Tomorrow, I'm determined to do at least the equivalent of one Maths prelim paper and to look over some of my Computing notes. With any luck, I'll also have time to sort out the design for my Computing project.
That might just be wishful thinking but I've got little else at the moment.
I've no idea why but I'm feeling quite tired. And my neck is still sore. Still, I've got a couple of points to get through before I wrap this up.
First of all, it's more or less official now that Toshiba have killed off the HD-DVD format. This has a number of important repercussions, the most important being that I now owe Sam Stafford a tenner. We made a bet a couple of years ago over which would be the victor – obviously, he supported Blu-Ray while I went with HD-DVD.
The fact that we were planning to settle the bet on January 1st 2010 shows just how much of a surprise the sudden departure of HD-DVD has been. In the last few months, Toshiba's lost many important allies to Sony's format, mostly due to the resurgence of the PS3. I know people who are buying PS3s purely to use them as Blu-Ray players. That'll probably stop once prices of standalone players come down but Sony is probably hoping to have enough of a foothold by then to get by on profit from software sales.
Our second item of news for tonight is that I'm trying to come up with a name for my Eee PC. As you may or (more likely) may not know, Sam and I have a system for naming our computers. Old or second-hand systems are named using jokes, usually puns or funny references. Hence, my seldom-used Linux box called Linus (a reference to Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux) and my Mac LC called Lucy (Sam was originally going to call his LC Lucy but I convinced him to use Luke instead once I realised the potential for a Peanuts reference).
New computers follow a different pattern. Sam names his after moons (his Mac Mini, which he'd just got when we started the system, is called Luna) and I name mine after stars, hence why I occasionally refer to my iMac as Deneb. Moving outwards towards the edge of the solar system, Sam named his Eee after the smallest moon of Mars, Deimos, and I'm currently examining white dwarf stars for mine.
I should have a name by tomorrow.
Bah. That's it for now. You know, when I get my priorities sorted out and start doing these earlier in the day again, I've got a few things I want to wax lyrical about. The current weather, for example. Sort of not quite winter and not quite spring. I like it.
But I need to get to bed. I probably won't because I'm having a discussion about the mysteries in Life on Mars which may drag on but it's the thought that counts.
Have a nice day.
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11:40 PM
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