Ever since I got back from the MySQL Users Conference in California I’ve been wondering how soon I could convince work to send me on another one. It seems every second post in my blogroll is about some conference or another. And it’s not just the cool conferences like JavaOne, either. I find myself reading …
Gallery
I’ve managed to get gallery2 integrated into wordpress in at least a half-decent way. At the moment there is no dedicated link to the gallery but you can get there by clicking on the random picture displayed in the sidebar and then clicking your way around. I suppose you could also click on this link. …
Birkbeck MSc CS Prize
Man, I just keep surprising myself: ——– Original Message ——– Subject: MSc CS project prize Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 11:59:01 +0100 From: Szabolcs Gentlemen, As you may know, each year we choose the best MSc CS project. This year, your projects were shortlisted. Well done to all of you and congratulations to David for …
San Francisco
Now that the MySQL Conference is finished I have spent the last two days in San Francisco. It’s a really great town and the weather has been fantastic but, man, those hills! Yesterday I wandered through China Town and up Telegraph Hill where I rode the elevator to the top of Coit Tower. Telegraph Hill …
New site
After five years, I have decided to consign the old site design to the archives and move frogcake.net over to WordPress. The old site worked ok but it wasn’t the easiest to update with new articles or pictures and until yesterday the RSS feed was updated manually by hand! It was as I was incorporating …
Virgin Media has bad service
Andrew’s been blogging about service lately and it made me think of an experience I had recently. My BT line is rubbish so I thought I would try cable. NTL had a deal where I could get broadband and a phone for £25 a month so I thought I would give them a go. My …
Graduation
Yesterday was my graduation ceremony for my MSc in Computer Science. I got to wear a funny hat and there are pictures in the gallery. There are also pictures from the CCO recording and our trip to Paris with my mum and dad.
Googlefication
Google is gradually taking over my browser. At work we have switched our mail/calendar handling to Google which has encouraged me to look at what else Google has to offer. Bloglines was starting to annoy me, so I have switched to Google Reader for reading blogs. Andrew put me on to using Google Notebook for …
Distinction
The waiting is finally over. I slept in this morning as I needed to recover from an all-nighter working at the colo on Thursday night and as I stumbled to the shower I saw the envelope from Birkbeck lying on the floor. After reading the first paragraph I did a little jump. Here is what …
Rome & Florence
So it’s been a couple of months since my last update. At that time I was up to my eyeballs in Java ME and mobile phones but thanks to some proof-reading from Andrew and some late nights from me I got my MSc project in on time. I also got my exam results which, if …