"Moving On"

"Jus the Way I am Feeling" say Feeder on BBC2 at Glastonbury.

How True

But it is time to move on, I have finished my degree and the time has come to leave london, fun as it has been this last 4 years. Time to head a little north, I guess.

But first some time is to be spent in germany, then at sea, and then we see how it goes.

Of course, some people may be wondering how to contact me, now, google is kind of friendly to me, by the way, I went to Bourne Grammar School when i was younger… that might help some. I lived in Bourne. My parents still do. Its me, Edward Brown, Or Ed Brown, and on this site, most blatently Eddie Brown. And i can be contacted via the addresses plastered on this site… Just so you know.

Updates may get erratic. Well, I might have other things to do than post on here, and a little less net access….

Godd Night

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A lot of Balls…

Avid followers of my life, and people reading old weblog posts will know how betrayed I felt about the Summer Ball at Imperial College Union. Not the event itself, but the way in whihc its preperation was conducted.

Amusingly I can say that an amount of the final event wa due to me, and ideas that I, amongst others of course, made.

Anyway, I didnt go to the ball in the end. I and a number of others went to a BBQ in Guildford insted. Which was nice. One person I know did manage to get in some how gatecrashing the event. He wrote a review of what Smyle Productions did which has been useful, and oh so very very interesting, especially if we can manage to find the paperwork we had about the events organisation. Lets say its enough to show that someone, somewhere, was not doing his job propperly.

A famous man once said "Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence" or atleast i figure someone probably said it prior to the guy who told me. Ok, so step back, chill out. but the route of it is a certain, someone, somewhere still acted with malice. He lied for starters…. and he of all people we the students had to trust. oh well.

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Some people should open their minds…

Inevitably every so often my dial up number with Freeserve becomes useless. So I phone them up, say I am getting engaged signals, and ask for a new number (well, they used to just offer) and then all is good again.

So today my connection just isn’t going to get past busy, so I search in my mail archives for a phone number and give them a bell. “OH, we cannot give you a number, you have to download it from the Website”

And there on the page is “You must have Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher”

Excellent. Fantastic…. Works really well with my Linux box doesn’t it…. Oh well….download it on my XP box and then copy across the settings. Ho Hum.

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An Embarrassment to myself

I am an engineer, and I knew many years ago that I would end up doing something like that as my life. I always did well in the maths, and sciences, and not so well in English. Things didn?t improve when I moved to secondary school, and started doing French. Despite the many attempts by my teachers to instil in me the ide that it would be useful in later life, I did the bear minimum work. Actually that?s not true. During the two years running up to my GCSEs I did less than the minimum, and ended up doing ?punishment exercises? of writing out the vocabulary umpteen times as a result of really poor test performances. Not that I really cared, as I got top grades in the maths and science stuff?

Amusingly I got an A in my French GCSE. I don?t know how this happened. Different people will possibly use this as proof that their either is, or is not a God.

German lessons were completely different. Though not in a good way. We started a year later, and although the teaching approach was much better, I think I gave up a few weeks after starting. Somehow I got by, others did get worse marks than me, and so I dropped it as soon as I could (having the opportunity to do so with German, but not French)

Of course now I know the error of my ways.

having a very basic grasp of French has been when I have been in France. Though now mainly France is, for me, just a place on the way to Germany. Though I travel on the Thalys trains and catch that in (partly French speaking) Belgium.

So, my problem now is I don?t know very much German at all. And seeing as my girlfriend is German this is really a problem. She can (of course) speak English, but that is not really the point is it. So now I really must learn German. It really is only polite, to stop being an Englishman with the attitude that everyone speaks English so why bother.

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Spammers take day off?

Its almost like the spammers have taken the day off today, whihc is just as well, as they have been particularly agressive of late (something like 50 emails plus a day as spam). I have set my college account to do some more checking for spam, I am not sure if it will actually do much, or just make a mess of the subject lines, but its worth a try. Will take up to 24 hours to take effect though.

At least recieving a few emails today does imply that its not that my mail is totaly down. which is ofcourse, a relief!

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The Final Push

Its crunch time for my whole degree now. I am trying to pull my final year project together and see what grade of degree i can get. At the moment its mainly the hardware that is the problem. The main problem being it doesnt work, and I dont really have much time to play with.

Hence its on to the report to show what I have done, and been thinking about this past year. Mucho Writing tonight. Then pull together for the Presentation, my plan is to spend monday and tuesday whilst travelling writing the report and presentation whilst zooming accross Europe.

Wishing myself luck…

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