Yesterday i recieved an email from the EPSA faculty replying to my request for a graduation check. I was kinda surprised that they replied so quickly (well, not as quick as the Arts faculty). The reply from both Arts and EPSA confirmed that i am on the right track. I only have to complete the four subjects I am taking this coming semester, and 3 more in semester 1 next year and i walk out of UQ with two degrees in my pocket.

I'm a tiny bit tired after working from 7:15 this morning, and I also worked yesterday. I … Read more →

I have chosen my courses that i will be doing next semester:

COMP3804 - Advanced Information Technology Project: I passed the exam, so it would be stupid of me not to continue with this year-long course. I think I only need 12% to ensure a passing grade, but I will be pushing for the 5 that my grade is capped at.

COMP2502 - Algorithms & Data Structures: Sounds fun doesn't it???(sarcasm) It's the last compulsory IT subject (other than COMP3804) that I have left to do, so that's why i'm doing it. Should be fun.

INFS3200 - Adanced … Read more →

Every now and then i really get into a song. In the last few days it has been 'Experimental Film' by They Might Be Giants. The video was launched on Homestarrunner.com a few days ago (it's done by them, which is cool). I've always been a fan of TMBG's type of music, my favourate of theirs till this date has been 'Doctor Worm', which was about 5 years ago. Gee that takes me back to year 11... Haven't heard much TMBG in the last few years though. TMBG and Homestarunner.com: a winning combination.

I've been doing a bit of work … Read more →

One year ago to this day, this site in all its crappy glory, was unleashed onto the internet.

'How did i remember?', i hear you ask? When i made the latest site updates i noticed on the News History page that the first date corresponding to the site launch was the 13/7/2003. One year later here we are.

I'd like to think that this site has come a long way since its humble and pov beginnings one year ago, especially since the migration over to 'proper' hosting in January of this year (screw the free Telstra webspaces!!!). Although i hardly … Read more →

Today i start work on my COMP3804 stuff. I'll have a lazy start by just downloading and installing MS Visual Studio.NET and really just planning what I need to get done.

Other than that, tonight i will be going to another lecture, this one at St. Paul's Antiochian Orthodox Church at Wooloongabba on 'The Antichrist'. Looks like i'll be skipping Greek school again.

On Saturday, everybody at Church went out for dinner/coffee after the Liturgy. I really enjoyed it and think we should do it more often. Too bad i didn't bring the camera. Would've had some good photos.… Read more →

I am in pain. The whole day yesterday i spent at my Dad's work doing a lot of physical work. Thanks so much to Wil for coming and helping me out. We moved a lot of bricks into a skip, table-tops, filing cabinets, and all this up and down various flights of stairs. I now have a sudden appreciation of how Mark and Lloyd could do that 5 or 6 days a week. Muscles are sore that i didn't even know i had.

I am so not built to do anything with my hands (other than type).

On Tuesday I … Read more →

I am absolutely shocked and stunned. This morning Greece won the Euro 2004 football tournament. Absolutely unbelievable. They beat the hosts Portugal 1-0 in the final. Greece was 150:1 to lift the trophy at the start of the tournament, it is absolutely phenomenal that they actually did it. I stayed at home and watched it with Will, while Dad and Stephania went to the Greek club. My sister won the raffle, the prize of which was a Brisbane Strikers jersey autographed by the whole team.(wow thats worth a lot!! lol yeah right...)

Stephania took the camera and took photos and … Read more →

In the last week or so I have been converted. For my entire internet-surfing existence i have not strayed from using MS Internet Explorer as my preferred browser. Since experimenting with it on RedHat, I am now a fully fledged FireFox convert.

The main reason why I have converted over to FireFox is that it has a vastly superior handling of text and text sizes than IE. This has become a problem for me over the last few months because of the very high resolution of my laptop. Internet Explorer's 'text size' setting is almost totally useless on sites that … Read more →

Who would have believed it. I woke up this morning at 4:45am to watch the Euro 2004 semi-final between Greece and The Czech Republic. Greece won 1-0 in extra time, and are now into the Euro 2004 final. They were outsiders to even qualify (let alone get passed the the group stage), and now in only their second major tournament in the country's history, they are in the final against the host nation Portugal.

GO THE GREEKS!!

Officiating the match this morning was once again the ever-present most famous referee in the world, Pierluigi Collina, with the match being his … Read more →

I went in to uni this morning to receive my COMP3804 exam mark. An empty email box over the past week meant that i did not fail the exam which is a plus. No re-enrolling for me.

I got 68.5% for the exam. I'm satisfied with that but also slightly dissapointed. This means that my grade for the whole year-long course is now capped at a 5. Only 1.5% more and it would have been a 6. I hate being that close. I would rather it had been 65 or 63 to have my grade capped at a 5 instead … Read more →