Bound to diss your float accounts

I'm fed up of this Project Plan, so time to update again. Speaking of updating, ModArchive finally updated for the first time in nearly two months, so I can start releasing things again. I can't help but feel that I need a better artist name.

I haven't updated in so long because there's been a massive push to get everything finished for Computer Science - I think this is the first day since Reading Week that I haven't spent in the lab. These included such activities as designing Turing machines, rewriting ancient programs in Java, creating a pointlessly recursive algorithm to make change, and summarising three lectures given by a small Chinese man on the subject of computational finance. (It was a struggle to keep a straight face when he mentioned "float accounts". Those who know why will know why.) And now I have to map out the entire University's network.

Just about the only notable thing that's happened apart from that is the way that I nearly managed to lose my home directory on the CS servers. An email was sent round on Tuesday warning people not to download music or films through their servers, because they'd caught people that had BitTorrent files and the like in their folders. I hadn't been able to access my account the afternoon before, so I assumed that they'd removed mine for having MP3s there. I was ready to go down and mention to them that I had written the music that I had had in my directory, and that therefore it might be reasonable to assume that I owned the copyright to it. However, my directory was back up, so it seemed for me it was just a temporary problem. It's a shame, in a way, because that would have been immensely satisfying.

As you can see, one of the problems with leaving an update for so long is that I accumulate things to say and then instantly forget them all when I sit down try and write a remotely entertaining update. It's like a full stack with its pointer being reset prematurely. Oh dear, I'm at it again, I think I'd better go and lie down.