Submarine... burning in hell!

During the most productive morning that I have had all year, before my first and only lecture of the day I'd gone up in to the town and posted off a Christmas package at the exorbitant price of £6.70. I then went down to the JCB to hand in the project plan, where I discovered that they have fixed the lock that didn't keep anyone out. Now it just doesn't let anyone in. You certainly can't fault its efficiency.

Once I'd achieved victory over the door, the next battle was against the printer in the lab. It seems that only a few machines in the whole room will send anything to the printer at all, and once it's there the printer will think about printing for a few seconds and then more often than not give up. And this from a department of computer science. Nevertheless, after taking about half an hour longer than it should have done, the Project Plan was successfully stapled together and handed in to the office.

In the afternoon I even got the token ring completed - the practical that I had been worrying about all week. It's almost worth the vast amounts of stress in getting programs to run, just to experience the tidal wave of relief that ensues once everything works as it should. And of course, once everything works you can spruce your program up a bit with completely unneccessary bits that are just nice to have around... which is strangely fun in a perverse sort of way.

That's been the case ever since writing the first program in Higher Computing Studies, where the six of us that took it would spend ages trying to outdo each other with added functionality to the Windows calculators we were making. "Ha, my calculator can handle natural logarithms!" one of us would call out triumphantly. And at that, the other five would rise to the challenge and try and program in not only a routine that calculated natural logarithms but also another that saved the last twenty calculations and provided an instant messenger service, or something.

For this practical, though, I eventually decided the error messages "CRC is b0rked" and "Good job, you've lost the next node" were slightly too informal for handing in and changed them at the last minute. Now that that and the project are out of the way for now, there are just two more practicals to do next week and then I'm free to worry about the exams in a month's time on subjects that I know nothing about.

Oh, by the way, sorry to those who were caught out by the last entry - incredibly childish, but it did amuse me. In fact it was kingradix that got me with it first, making me very glad that I didn't put a surname in the Crush field.

By the way, I've found a DDR song that might be even better than Nori Nori Nori. Nonsensically, it's called Hot Limit, and there's a Flash of it here. Ignore the video if you want.