Scary Biscuits

Hmmm, surprise, its been a while.
 
I have been making a new thing to eat recently, and I have decided that chile con carne is nice. I was looking for something new to make while wandering the isles of Asda with dafydd, and came apon the idea of making chile con carne. 
 
Turns out it was a good idea, quick as a flash I purchased some random ingredients that I guessed I would need to make it. Luckly it turns out that I had actually purchased at least most of the stuff, and it was really nice. Turns out I put a bit too many chilie flakes in so it was a bit hot, but I had some sour cream to tone it down a bit anyway. 
 
The only downside was as it turns out I had not cooked rice in a while. So that was a bit of an experience, I am a bit paranoid about cooking stuff so I kept checking it and stiring it. This resulted in my rice being a little, whats the word, clumpy. Anyway one quick google search later, it turns out you ain’t supposed to stir rice (at least I know now). 
 
Google Magic - Cooking The Perfect Rice
 
So anyway, I am about to try again, this time with some frozen left over chilie. Hopefully I will fair better with rice this time.

Well only one exam left to go now, and nearly everyone that I have spoken too feels basically the same. Enough with the exams already. 
 
I have been passing the time between trying to revise by playing a spot of eve online, intermixed with playing 2v2 halo 3 beta with Ian which has been a laugh. I have been thinking about getting Command and Conquer 3 next week for the 360, since I still have a £20 whsmiths voucher from christmas so it would only be £18.
 
Anyway, got to try (possibly in vain) to revise some more….

Yesterday I went for a skills test with a company that I was hoping to get a summer placement with, and today I got an email from them saying: 
 
“Your results indicated that you would be able to cope well with the 
tasks planned for the summer. 
 
We would like to invite you to attend a short interview to meet our 
MD and development manager to complete the application process.” 
 
So hopefully that sounds like I have got that in the bag, hopefully I will get the accomodation I need from the university accomodation office so I can accept the placement!

Well I went into town today since I had to go by a black tie for the media awards tomorrow, and after I managed to pick up one for like £4 I wondered around the Swansea indoor market. Quite randomly I found a sweet stall that was selling easter eggs off at 3 for £2, what a bargin, so now I have two caramel and a heroes easter egg. 
 
Yum…..

Well another win for the DRM industry, another key which allows the decryption of all existing HDDVD movies has become public knowledge.  
 
The reason by which this key became public knowledge you ask, well it was discovered by someone on the Doom9 and then they send a DMCA request to remove the key from the site, but unfortunatly the key was actually contained within the URL they wished to take down. So now therefore the key is in the public domain and is popping up all over the internet. 
 
The result of this madness is that they have sent a DMCA request to google for them to remove all links which point towards the forum post as well as any links to pages that link to the said forum post. This of course is a ridiculous request. Hopefully someone will get around to making an HD DVD player for Linux now.

Just when you think you might have got a handle on your dissertation you find all of a sudden after a meeting with your project supervisor that actually you have a A4 page long to do list.
 
Typical…..

300 is quite possibly the most plotless, over hyped, vacuous film that I have seen in all my life.
 
That is all….

I got my response from BT about my application to do a summer placement, turns out they have had a bunch of applications and that they don’t want to pursue mine any further. In otherwords bugger off :P. Oh well, I will just have to hold out for the Canada placement I am hoping to get.
 
In other less interesting stuff I worked like crazy on my dissertation implementation yesterday so now I have got a bunch of new features added. Hopefully when I meet my project supervisor at 2pm I will be able to get a bit of guidence towards how to proceed from now till the final deadline in (I think) 2 weeks time.
 
Better get back to work.

I finally got a response to my application to go work at BT during the summer in a placement. So I have just taken a psychometric test involving some numerical and verbal reasoning. 
 
I think the verbal reasoning seemed to go really well, since I had around 5 minutes left at the end to check the answers. The numerical reasoning part was not quiet so good, found it a lot tougher, and got a little stuck at times. However I answered a similar number of questions to one of my friends that has also taken it, so hopefully that would be ok.
 
Apart from that I have set a meeting to speak with my project supervisor tomorrow which should be interesting since I don’t have as much done as I would have hoped, oh well.
 
Anyway better get onto the dissertation work.

I was finally getting down to some serious work implementing stuff for my dissertation, when I ran in to massively annoying bug. Everytime I resized a window containing a form that I was building half the fields would decide that they prefered dissapearing. This funny flash video portrays what was happening particularly well: 
 
http://madbean.com/anim/totallygridbag 
 
Anyway leaving my dissertation aside, I have been play Halo 2 a little bit recently since I was feeling like playing something a bit more retro. 
 
I guess I better get back to it, and I have to check on my dinner of pies and chips.