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Wednesday, Jan 30, 2008 - 23:35 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

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App One TA One

"The Presidents of the USA, Russia and Sri Lanka once got an audience with God, who said He would answer one question from each of them.

Bush went first. 'Will there ever be democracy and peace in Iraq?', he asked.

God thought for a moment and replied, 'Yes, but not in your lifetime.'

Putin went next. 'Will Russia ever be a superpower again?'

God thought a bit and announced, 'Yes, but not in your lifetime.'

Finally Rajapaksa asked, 'Will there ever be an end to the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka?'

God replied instantly, 'Of course! Just not in my lifetime.'"

- our SN1101E South Asia lecturer does it again


Missed the predictions for the FA Cup this past weekend, which for the romantics featured minnows Havant & Waterlooville leading twice against Liverpool before falling 5-2 - but the story of the round for me was Manchester City getting knocked out by a balloon (video), which naturally spawned a plethora of groanable headlines.

App One

Thought of reviving my EPL Tales series for these incidents and more, but thought better due to lack of time. Part of the reason was doing Assignment One for CS3216, the first module I've taken so far with overlapping assignments. It's a Facebook Application to create more Facebook Applications, so if you're on Facebook, have a go!

Getting Mr. Ham to model for the app was the hardest part:



Then it was Photoshop time:



TA One

Got an email out of the blue informing me that I was being assigned to Teaching Assistantship duties, and ended up becoming a TA for CS1101C (Engineers only), which has labs only on Wednesdays, my previously free day. Grr. Was a little concerned about the responsibility, though - I hadn't touched C for quite a while, what if I got bombarded with questions I couldn't solve?



It turned out that I needn't have bothered.

Just over a third turned up, and the eight who did mostly did fine on their own. There was a heartstopping minute when I tried to figure out why ls (or dir for you Windows command prompties) wasn't working for one guy, until I realised that it was because his directory was empty - he had just created his UNIX account. Duh.

And getting paid is always nice too.



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1 comment


Mm:) said...

nice to hear tht(: keep it up!


January 31, 2008 - 00:51 SGT     


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