At the moment I’m waiting for my lazy arse lab partner for Digital Electronics Design to turn up so that we can work on our VHDL (Very high speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language) assignment which is due tomorrow. At the moment we haven’t even tested the program on the FPGA (field programmable gate array) board so we’re not exactly in the best position and I’ve been waiting for over an hour now.
Unfortunately I cant get on without him because he has the FPGA.
Fortunately the damned thing is only worth 10 marks however if we get zero for it I will have to get 96% in the exam to still get an HD.

I am currently using my spare time to work out what I will have to get in the exam for each subject in order to get an HD.

Technical Software Development: 85%
Digital Electronics Design: don’t get know, somewhere between 81% and 96% depending on the assignment.
Engineering Mathematics: 88%
Structural Mechanics: don’t know yet

Distinctions seem more likely than high distinctions for most of my subjects but TSD shouldn’t be too hard to get an HD in.

Somebody on TPN – Probably Richard, maybe Cameron (not about to go trawling though old episodes of G’day World and the Gadget Show to find out) once said that just about every website worth going to has an RSS feed.
I was reminded of this the other day when I got my first RSS doodad and started looking around for feeds. I went to Camerons blog, clicked on feed search and… nothing. Given the aforementioned remark this made me laugh. Fortunately I didn’t mention this before as I had a check today and he seems to have RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0 and Atom so I was totally wrong. The only question is, where the hell were they when I first checked???

As you might be able to tell I’m rather exited about this! Colin gave it to me the other day and given they’ve been discontinued and sold out across the country he must have gone to a lot of effort to get his hands on one.
Apparently he even got up at 5am to bid on one which closed at 5.20am but some other git beat him to it (Isn’t he the worlds best boyfriend???)
Its an ex-demo model which is fine by me as its in very good condition and I don’t have to settle for a TX (yuk!)

I’ve already found a whole lot of handy-dandy little applications to make my life run smoother. These include

• Splash shopper – good for shopping lists, and calorie counters and wishlists etc
• Splash money – so I can keep track of my spending, it shows several accounts and allows you to track deposits, withdrawals, transfers, budgets and a basic what I’m spending on what, where.
• Several games
• eReader
• PalmPDF

and various other goodies.

Unfortunately as I haven’t get gotten around to buying a case for it, it currently lives in a sock so it doesn’t get scratched (I do have the flipcover on but that only protects the face)

As Colin pointed out a moment ago I do actually have something to talk about: the saga of the plug. Or as he so eloquently put it:

Tell em about how you lost the plug for the kitchen sink and spent half an hour looking for it and you couldn’t find it and you got all frustrated and weirded out and the kettle growled at you and then the plug was stuck to the bottom of a plate which you found when you were washing it!

Basically I went to wash the dishes and I couldn’t find the plug. Except I hate not being able to find something. It freaks me out so I was going a little bit mad.
Eventually I went downstairs and grabbed the plug out of the laundry because I knew that if I kept looking for it I’d probably go crazy. Then whilst I was washing the dishes I was sure the kettle laughed at me in an evil manner which weirded me out even more and I had crazy thoughts about the kitchen appliances conspiring against me and stealing the plug.
Eventually whilst I was washing the plates I found the plug suction-capped to the bottom of a plate.