In a round a month’s time, I’ll be touching down in a airplane in Singapore. I’ve been doing some Googling for my trip to Singapore, checking out where Antti & Ile live and where Orchard Road and the famous Raffles Hotel is. I’m really stoked about the trip, it’s been quite a while since I’ve been somewhere as new and interesting as Singapore (you can’t really count my trip to the Canary Islands in January as ‘new and exciting’ since it was neither).
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Calendars are a real pain in the ass. Over the recent years, I’ve tried using an ‘analog’ paper calendar, a PDA, Entourage’s own built in calendar (Microsoft’s answer to Outlook on Macs), OS X’s own iCal and my phone’s built-in calendar. These have always worked great until a certain point;
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A month or so ago, I decided to quit working and concentrate more on getting my courses through for the fall semester. In the long run it’s a good choice but jumping back into school sort of ‘midway’ into the semester was a bit harder than I had expected. Or rather more complicated. Turns out the school’s administration are a bunch of lobotomy patients and as a result of this, I needed to see some people about a few course registrations that when tits up.
Anyway, all’s well in the world; unless of course you count the fact that one of my fall courses, Relational Database Management Systems (sounds fun, eh?) is a real pain in the ass. Also, there are a few other courses that I really don’t give a flying fuck about but hey, that’s life. XML starts next week which I’m sort of looking forward to, and also the Computer Labs where we’ll get to mess around with Novell’s network operating systems and also Microsoft’s Windows Server 2003. They should be a hoot.
I have mondays off, which is a great start to the week since mondays are mostly shit anyway.
On a side note, I picked up a few books from the bookstore earlier this week, five to be exact. Four of which are purely extracurricular. I bought ‘Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything‘, a great insight into the world’s working through the eyes of Chicago University Economics professor Steven D. Levitt and NY Times writer Stephen J. Dubner. It asks questions like “What do estate agents and the Klu Klux Klan have in common?” and “Why do drug dealers live with their mothers?”. It’s a really funny book. I suggest you check it out. NY Times also has a Freakonomics-blog, which I suggest you take a peak at if you enjoy the book.
Also I bought ‘The Google Story‘ (autobiography of Google), Steve Wozniak’s ‘iWoz‘ (story of Apple’s co-founder) and Richard Dawkins’ ‘Climbing Mount Improbable‘, a look into the natural selection and what drives a species to evolve. The fifth book was Business Data Networks and Telecommunications, the textbook for a same-name course; corporate networks and the like.
So that’s me.