Uni has kicked back into full gear, as I have been fairly busy over the last few days (well, busy enough not to be bothered to make a blog entry anyway). Yesterday i spent most of the day updating the conceptual design for COMP3804.

In the last few days I also ordered an iTrip, which is a little FM transmitter for the iPod. There is no cassete deck in the car that i drive, so normal car-adapter kits would not have worked. The iTrip quite handy in that it allows you to set a FM frequency to transmit on, … Read more →

It seems that the proposed grade capping ammendment was approved by all students on Friday, so they will be implementing it into the course. I don't know whether this is a good or a bad thing for me, because when my grade was capped at a 5 there wasn't as much pressure to do well in this subject anymore. Now that I have the opportunity to get a six by doing really well, it seems to all be back.

This semester it is weird. I have Mondays off which is sort of strange to me. Whenever i have had a … Read more →

This morning was the first day of COMP3804, and it was revealed the planned changes to grade-capping scheme, if all students agree to it. The new plan is as follows: students that didn't get a 7 can improve their capped grade by 1 grade by: doing really well in the overall mark by achieving that level of grade + 5%. For example, because my grade is capped at a 5 because of my exam mark, i can achieve a maximum of a 6 by getting 80% (the 75% cut-off + 5%) or higher on the overall grade AND not get … Read more →

The full title for Star Wars Episode III was announced a few days ago. It is:
Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.

This title is not so much a surprise for those die-hard Star Wars fans such as myself. Let me enlighten the rest of us as to why this was the expected (and probably fan favourate) title.

As we all probably know, the original Star Wars trilogy (eps. IV-VI) were: Episode IV: A New Hope (1977); Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980); and Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983).

In regard to the last … Read more →

Yesterday was my first day at uni. All i had was the INFS3200 lecture and the first COMP3804 group meeting since last semester. It's depressing having to get back into it.

Ah well, life must go on.… Read more →

Today is the first day of semester 2 2004 at UQ. I really, really don't feel like going back. I don't actually have any uni on Mondays, so it isn't really my first day, although I am organising myself for this semester (i know i've left it a bit late), which is really depressing.

Had a good weekend though, which is probably why today is feeling even worse. Saw The Stepford Wives on the weekend, which i thought was a really crap movie. I didn't like it at all: the movie rarely seemed to expand on what i had seen … Read more →

It's kind of coincidental that this site has reached 1000 hits only a few days after the 1 year mark. Well, not really, because that 1000 hits is the site as lucascosti.com and not of the free telstra webspace before. And of course the 1000 hits are not necessarily 1000 different people. (i'm pretty sure that most of them are probably Andrew!)

Anywho, I'm starting Uni next week. Tonight and tomorrow i've got work. I should really check my timetable again and make sure that nothing has changed. I did notice before that there is a clash between the second … Read more →

Well, i've just uploaded my new intro. I wanted to do something different for it, mainly not having anything related to either myself or the site. Trying to think of what to do, i settled on the extinction of the floppy disk with the advent of the USB drive. (I drew the USB dude myself)

Dell and other computer manufacturers aren't including floppy drives by default in their computers any more, so I thought it was a relevant topic for a computer geek like me. Other possibilities were a soap opera parody among others.

I'm sure we have our own … Read more →

I'm currently working on a new intro. It will be markedly different from the intros i've done before, and will be probably be the last one in a long time because i'm going back to uni next week.

Stay tuned over the next few days. … Read more →

Today I thought I would be having a meeting with my COMP3804 group, but it turns out that it will be happening tomorrow.

Yesterday me, Despina, Eleni, and Con did the Queensland Cancer Fund doorknock in Carindale. Because there was four of us it only took us around an hour-and-a-half to do a section of Carindale.

Only a week to go till the semester starts. I haven't done that much 3804 work as yet, but probably will in the next week.

It seems that Apple will be unveiling their new iPod in the next few days. The iPod has been … Read more →