Another day in paradise, eh?

Well, today I've been to Church, but I have also been able to clear up some space on my PC, so now I have the very exhilarating enormous number of megabytes that are free to use up at about 700...
No, that's not much at all, I know.
But it's enough so some programs will run without any trouble and so forth, but it took some hard work, and I'm glad that I don't have to go through all the hassle to change hard drive (plus the fact that a new one will cost about 50 euros...) and install Windows XP (my Nintendo wi-fi usb-thingie doesn't work with Vista..) and all other things related to it.
...and thinking about it, I'd much rather have a new PC, since this old one can't run some programs very well that I'd like to try out more (Joost for example).

Sometimes I truly wonder what lies ahead for me.
Things were much easier in upper secondary school.

(I took the photograph 10Th June 2007)

The test

Well, as you might have understood from the previous post, today was the big D-day.
Or Judgement Day.
I had my knowledge tested to the limits by an incredible test, by the prophets of my course, "Information Technology for Private usage" (freely translated) - ITP that is.

Well, the test did turn out not to be such a huge challenge as I was afraid that it would be.
But some questions were a little bit more tricky than the other ones, and I'm afraid that might be the difference for me to get a Fx (almost the worst grade, F is worse though) or an A or B (the best grade is, of course, A)...

So, well, what other things has happened today?
Not that much actually, I ate my lunch while on the train (two sandwiches) and after the test I went back to my municipality and had a great Friday-dinner at a Chinese restaurant :-D.
This evening we've also seen the film "Wild Hogs", which I liked watching very much.
It seems to lack a little bit of that "edge" that I find in comedy films by Jim Carrey for example.
But it was worth seeing, and my grandpa seemed to like it as well (I'm not sure about my grandmother, she haven't seemed to be that glad at all this evening..).

For example...

...I've tried to learn the Fetch/Execute cycle (Instruction Fetch (IF), Instruction Decode (ID), Data Fetch (DF), Instruction Execution (EX) and Result Return (RR)), CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow Key), ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit, a subsystem of a computer that performs the operations of an instruction.), TCP ("connection oriented" - Transmission Control Protocol), IP ("forwarding" and "best effort"), UDP ("connectionless"), Ray Kurzweil (inventor of the first OCR (Optical Character Recognition) unit for the benefit of blind people.

This was just an example of things I have to remember for tomorrow's test...

Test tomorrow...

Well, I am very, very nervous, since this will be my first test ever during my University studies.
I truly hope that I have overestimated the task, and that the questions won't be so difficult as I do imagine them to be, but I'm quite sure that my wish won't come true.
There is quite an impossibility to learn the whole book, consisting of about 800 pages, plus all notes from lectures, and the material from the lecturers, as well as other material that the lecturers have referred to..

Well, good night, and I may only hope that I will have the power to do well on tomorrow's test.

More specific nerd-test

Well, I found a more specific nerd-test at Ivar's blog, and thought I'd publish the results.



As you see, I'm not near the results of Mr Ivar-Mega-Dorky-Nerd-King :-P
(Strangely, I am jealous...)

Please give me the strength to study harder

Well, I pray that the Lord is willing to give me the strength to study harder and be more concentrated on my tasks that I have before me, and be my guiding light, and I pray that His will will always come true.

I hope that He will show me what my calling is in this world, no matter if it's Priesthood, work in the IT-industry or anything else, I will always try my best and be true to my call.

I will also pray that God will show His Church for all people, so that people will be Saved.

Well, then some more earthly matters.
Today we went to a restaurant, since Doriz (our dog) is very sick, and my grandmother wasn't in the mood to cook something up (and I wasn't either, since I've spent every minute awake studying the book "Fluency with Information Technology" (by Lawrence Snyder)).
I had snails for entrée and grilled salmon as the main course.

We have also seen a new episode of "Desperate Housewives" and the episodes are just getting more and more perverted.
I don't think it would be too much of a loss if I missed some episodes, but unfortunately there are some very interesting happenings, which I must know how they'll turn out.

The days go by...

...and the day of reckoning is nigh,
though there is no time,
to ponder and find,
what's in my mind,
I have to study in time,
before standing in line,
for my final time.

(Yes, I guess I'm no good at this either, or what do you think?
Please leave a comment!)

No backwards compatibility in PS3s?

Well, I was quite surprised when I read at Eurogamer that the new 40GB PS3 will replace the 60GB version, and well, the only difference is that the 40GB-version won't have backwards compatibility. So, then there's no need to worry, eh? Well, from my point-of-view, I think there's a great deal to worry about, since I have been thinking of replacing or buying an Xbox 360, but not done so since for example Jet Set Radio Future and the Dancing Stage-games doesn't work on it, but I don't have a PS2, so I guess it's no problem for me actually...
So, back to my studies...

No hot air balloon today..

Well, I got an SMS (right after Mass today) from dad that we can't fly the hot air balloon today either.

I think it's about the 6th or 7th time they cancel it due to the weather, and this time it seemed as if the weather was fine (the weather hasn't been that terrible the other times it was cancelled either...). But I guess they know what they're doing, and in a way it's good since my sister probably wouldn't have been able to come with us since she works today.

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Hot air balloon tomorrow?

Well, if we're lucky (or maybe not) we're going to fly hot air balloon tomorrow, the whole (fathers'-side) family, including grandma (on my fathers' side of the family).
Today I've studied about three hours, but I've also cleaned my room and visited Åhléns to buy three pair of socks as well as the two last manga-books in the Love Hina-series, so I at last will be able to read the ending (will Keitaro marry Naru Narusegawa?).
Well, may God be with us all. Good night.

Swimming today

Well, I and Bob have been talking about swimming (in a swimming hall) for the past couple of weeks I guess, but today I actually think that we are going to swim, since I've got a bathing-trunks and I am not having a cold or anything.

As usual, when we have decided to go to the swimming hall, I had forgot to bring bathing-trunks from home, so I bought a new pair yesterday, which I also cleaned yesterday, so everything is ready for some swimming this afternoon.

4 hours accomplished

Yes, I've just accomplished four hours of studying today.
I truly hate myself for not having enough discipline on myself to stay away from the computer or to do other things than studying (I have to fetch water and tea to drink sometimes though...).
...but I'm glad that I'm a little bit of a nerd, compared to my friend Bob, who apparently isn't the least "nerdy" :-P

Studies... and nerd test?

I didn't know what to answer on some of the questions.
No, unfortunately I am not talking about studies (as I definitely should do).
I have still an hour of studying or so ahead before I hit the sack, but my friend Bob did trick me to take this (silly) nerd test, so I took it, and well, look at the results (Bob got 14, I apparently got 46 - "lightly nerdy"...)

Headache. I thought it was gone.

...but it has come back to haunt me now, I guess.
Well, as you should know (if you've been following this, my blog, or if you've read a bit in the archives) I've had very serious trouble with headaches in the past.
So today I have had the most terrible headache in ages.

I know, I shouldn't complain.
I'm lucky to have food and a roof over my head.
But it's just that it's stopping me from doing so much studying as I had planned, so now, altough it's only 20:31 a clock, I am going to hit the sack.

Oh, by the way, I would like to recommend everyone to take a look at the fantastic Catholic Message Board.
There are a lot of wonderful people over there ;-)

Wasted time

To be really honset to myself, and all others, I've really mostly wasted my time today.
I've been going around in my room thinking of what I would do today, but I've actually not been doing that much at all. Mostly I have been posting things on the Defenders of the Catholic Faith-forums, which I surely could spend less time doing...

Well, I've also read a bit in my book, but I should have been able to accomplish much more, if I had shut down my laptop instead of checking it every five minutes (and sitting there for another ten minutes each time, or much more, I have absolutely no sense of how much time I truly spend on these kind of things, I suppose...).

Testing if picture disappears

Well, I'm mostly going to test if a picture, if removed from my Picasa Web Album, is also removed from my web log.

Update: Appearantly it IS removed (according to the dialogue box that popped up when I tried to remove it) from my blog also if I remove it from Picasa Web Albums... :-(

I want unlimited storage on Blogger again! XD

Bourne Identity - just too much violence

Well, hello everyone.
This evening I've been looking at the film "Bourne Identity" (since I and grandpa, on my mother side, did consider to go to the theater to see "Bourne Ultimatum" but realised that one has to see the first two films before seeing the third in the series) which is considered a "James Bond-clone" by some reviwers, and I can't do anything but to agree with them.

Well, but for some things there are huge differences in how the film is made.
It lacks the kind of perfectionism that the James Bond-films has been able to maintain, that is to not cross the line where it's "too much" violence.
Unfortunately the americans doesn't seem to know where this line is, so instead of crossing the line, they've blasted the line into small bits.

Another thing the film lacks is heart.
In James Bond-films there is always room for some forgiveness and the organisation doesn't seem so cold, but rather friendly and caring about the British citizens.
The impression one receives from viewing "Bourne Identity" is that the USA isn't actually caring about the safety of its citizens, and the safety of human beings whatsoever.

Here you can find a review.

Gmail video

Well, the folks over at Google (the Gmail division I guess) has compiled quite a funny video with people "sending" a Gmail-e-mail-message. (Actually passing it over)

Take back your neighbourhood - Graffiti Tracker

Well, I just read from the BBC that the company Graffiti Tracker has come up with a system to locate perpetrators that spray colours and writing their "tags" with these colours, using GPS and digital photography technology. BBC's explanation was quite unsettling, so I decided to check it up myself, and the demonstration is much more satisfying.

(I have absolutely nothing against Jet Set Radio Future, it's actually one of my favourite videogame of all times :-))