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Saturday, Oct 27, 2007 - 19:06 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

One More Down

What's Happened: Recovered mid-term results for the Programming Languages module, which slightly to my surprise weren't too bad at all despite another bit of carelessness. About as surprising was the fact that no-one managed to get full marks for it. The lab I referred to a couple of posts down got only 70%, but the average happened only to be about 55%. Am I getting too obsessed about grades?

Also helped my grandfather fill out an "Annual Survey on Infocomm Manpower and Usage by Enterprises" for his one-man repairman "business". It turns out that fixing up old refrigerators and air-conditioners partly as a pastime has little to do with the vaunted infocomm edge, and I ended up circling so many zeroes that I may be able to get some advanced credit towards becoming a Zen initiate.


Profound (Source)

"The Zen circle, a popular motif in Zen art, represents the entire universe in a single, perfect stroke. Although simple, images like this are difficult to paint successfully and thus must be done with a clear mind focused on the task." - ReligionFacts website

Listened to DotA chat on a late bus home from two distinct sources - a group behind me were discussing the merits of a Skadi and two Divine Rapiers on a hero (painful build, I've got to say) while the student seated next to me held an animated handphone conversation on a 1v1 challenge for the night and debated Battlefury-to-Butterfly for Bounty Hunter. Brings back memories when I myself got Bfury on just about every melee hero when I just started :)

Version 6.49 just came out btw.

Management & Organization group video out, get it while it's hot (may be taken down by member request, no promises):



Had to take a crash D.I.Y. course in Adobe Premiere to produce it, in the meantime learning a couple of new tricks such as video-within-video and greenkeying. Downloaded a bunch of free/shareware to integrate the many different media formats I was handed, and discovered that a decent format to export to is WMV9 NTSC 512K download (30+MB for a 8:59 video, decent quality).

As for the opening 20th Century Fox spoof, no I didn't do it from scratch myself (though I briefly considered it); I rightly assumed that someone out there was probably both good enough to create an editable 3D model (it's a famous enough scene) and kind enough to share it, and after coming across a couple of US$50++ offers for the scene as part of a package, I found him. The free Blender 3D editor (7+ MB) looks interesting, maybe I'll try it after the exams.

Another week of marginally positive returns ($111.20/$100) for imaginary punting, though it could have been so much more had Everton held Liverpool to a draw as I expected them to, not that they didn't deserve it. $1070.70/$1150 entering Round Eleven.

This week, some risk-taking:

$50 on Arsenal to beat Liverpool (at 2.40) - Pool are at the formidable Anfield, form out of the window when two big clubs meet, blah blah. Believe me, I would love it for Liverpool to take some points off Arsenal, but realistically they could be badly punished. 2.40 seems very generous
$20 on Man United (-2.5) vs. Middlesbrough (2.30) - Three clear goals at home; It was just weeks ago that one would have been worshipped. How quickly things change
$15 on Sunderland to draw Fulham (3.15) - Looks like one
$15 on Portsmouth to beat West Ham (1.70) - Silent, strong type for the win



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