Bike Theft is Common - Saturday

I got up at the early early time of 0900. Okay, early for some, for me, that's a long long lie in. World of Arl results took a good 5-6 hours today, but Arakasi had connection problems. After the results I worked on the website and played a bit of Quake 3. I also looked on the Uni forums and found that last year there were lots of bike thefts, I'm impressed that everybody I asked said there was no bike theft. Even more worrying is that the University hasn't done anything about last years thefts yet says that biking is still a good idea. I think that's going to be my contribution to the SSCC meeting (Staff Student Committee somethingorother) Person of the Day - Is really a whole load of 'people' for the day. 419eater.com is a site dedicated to wasting the time of scam artists. These scam artists have ruined lives and the site is therefore both funny and helpful.

End of the Week - Friday

I got up at 0900, had breakfast and went down to the cafeteria. I used the great wireless to upload a new World of Arl site and add two items to the Chirstmas List. Both are books. I then went to Tawfik's lecture, it was pretty boring (as usual). Ironically, since my bike has been stolen the weather has been arotious for biking in. Today we had strong strong winds, yesterday, strong winds and lots of rain, the sort that gives me at least a little pause for thought. This evening myself, Briley, Sarah, Lorna and Lorna's sister, Faye went to the pub. There we met Greg, Sam and someone called Emma. I managed a good three pints of Coke tonight. I spent the time being told that I was very similar to someone from where Lorna and Faye lived called 'charlie'. From what I've heard he sounds similar, but different from me, I'd like to meet him. Person of the Day - Faye. Faye is Lorna's sister. Lorna, Faye and their brother are triplets. Faye isn't at Uni, but next year will be going to Southhampton university. Faye currently works at a care home.

Coursework handed in - Thursday

I got up nice and early, 0630 to be precise. 30 seconds after waking up, I knocked the alarm off for an hour and fell asleep. I managed to get all my breakfast down, dressed and washed before I had to go to the bus. I first went to Hassan's lab. David and myself were assessed and got 50%. We inquired as to why, we had the display working after all. We were told that we weren't doing something. I plan to have a quiet word with Hassan tomorrow if possible, he didn't emphasise that we had to do that, all of his lectures were on the programming side (which was top notch). After the lab I handed in my coursework and walked to Tesco with Robert and his floormate Sam. I got some milk and between us Robert and myself got some big chocolate cookies, mmmmm. After getting back I sat in the refectory and browsed the internet (Hassan's afternoon lecture was cancelled). Tom gave me free sandwiches, mmmmm, which were going to be left out for dinner (they hadn't sold or something). They were very nice. I think I had too many sandwiches, because I didn't eat all my dinner and couldn't go up for a second pudding (Tom had offered me one to start with). I went back to my room and played a bit of quake, finnished most of the stuff on my site, played some more quake and went to bed. Person of the Day - Sam. He lives on the same floor as Robert and Lawrence. Sam studies Computer Animation or Graphics.

Bike = Gone, Teifion = Not happy - Wednesday

I got in nice and early, in fact, I got in a good 10 minutes earlier than usual. Locked bike to bike rack. Went to lessons, came back 4 hours later. No bike. History has taught me that assuming the worst straight away (i.e. someone stole it) is not a good idea. I thought that maybe I had left it on the other side of Angelsea, I had turned up extra early to look for my water bottle that I'd managed to forget in a lecture theater, it was of course not still there. A short search revealed no bike, I went back, examined the scene a little more closely and found my lock snapped into two different bits (those are three difference pics of the lock, notice how thin and crappy it looks close up...). Well, it would once unlocked. I talked to security, talked to the police and did what I could. Ben saw me talking on the phone with a security person next to me and sussed out something wasn't good. He decided to walk back to my place with me (we had a 40 minute wait and we both walk fast) and stayed for lunch. I must say it was very nice of him to do that, he said that I can borrow his bike (which he doesn't use) assuming I get a new lock. Not only that, but Ben also taught me how to properly eat noodles, I assumed you left the water in. Wow they taste much nicer without it. I've got a picture of Ben and his laptop. He's just bought an iPod mini off EBay and it came with an apple sticker, he's put it on the back of his laptop, it looks pretty good. After Ben left I went to dinner, told Jack and a few others about it. During CU I got a few more bits of advice about posting up some messages about it on the Uni forums and also talking to some of the bike shops in Southsea (I know of only one, the map only shows one). After CU hallgroup myself and Sam put invites to the Carol service under the doors of all the people in the Tower. I got back to my room, finnished my work and decided to back up my laptop (I do it often anyway) and take off auto-login. I then restarted my computer. Now if that goes missing they can't use it as my password isn't exactly rubbish. Well, looks like I'll be riding the bus like a 'shmuck' tomorrow (it's what I called Gareth yesterday). I've figured that if the bike doesn't turn up and I manage to get a Job, I'll spend some student loan on a new one. Person of the Day - I'd love to stick Ben here, but I knew him already (incidentally he's Welsh) but the rules say it's gotta be someone I don't know. So I've got to introduce Marisa's friend Emily. She studies languages, lives in Dymond House and appears to have no clue as to how easily a bolt clipper will go through steel.

Quake 3 - Tuesday

I turned up to the 0900 Internet apps lecture. It was on the basics of CSS so I spent the time finding out that 15% of thejordans.biz server was due to one file. My next math test is on Complex Numbers, it looks like it'll be hard. David and myself managed to get our clock project working, we spent a good 15 minutes making sure that the display read 13:37 for when Hassan came over, only for him to say that he doesn't know what 1337 means and that we're meant to have 4 different digits... Cripp's lecture was semi-interesting. Someone brought along a Star Wars DVD so I spent some time looking at it in a program to do with DVDs and the Hard Drive, need I say more. After getting back I collected 201 rows of data for my B101 stuff. I'm going to talk to Chi about exactly what I need to do tomorrow and have it done for Thursday, we get 50% for just the spreadsheet! I got Quake 3 working on OSX, it runs nicely and I'm looking forwards to wiping the floor with my friends next time they play. I played it for about half an hour before I decided to chat to random people on MSN and get to bed not too late. New person of the Day - Dave. Dave is from Guernsey and knows Tom from school. Apparently Tom was an idiot there too. Dave studies some sort of computer course and is in the same year as me.

Good News - Monday

I don't have a cough. I got in for my 0900, despite being tired. After my first two lectures, I spent some time in the lab with David. We managed to get most of the stuff working. In the lab I was told that I should wear shorts, not sure why. I've also found some data to use for the Thursday thingie. After getting back I found I had mail. Thanks Dad for the CD, problem is, it won't work properly. I'm looking into getting a Mac OSX mod for it. I also recieved some mail from my Grandma, I can't however, remember her EMail address so can't contact her very easily. At the CU meeting I was told that I should wear trousers more often by several people and shorts by others. I'm starting to think that there's more to it than simple apperance. I was also called both Fit and Hot by someone, multiple times. Sadly, I can't tell when people are joking, so I'll have to assume they mean it. On the way home from the CU I sort of Raced Sarah, it was a good 3 miles, no traffic and no headstart, she of course won. My modem was also playing up, hence the late post. Item of the Day - I'll be replacing this with a new thing. Person of the Day. The challange is to every day meet a new person, get their name a little about them. Today I met someone called Deniese. I call her 'Der-Neez' becuase she calls me something I've forgotten. She's a second year and goes to the CU, I didn't ask her what she studies. I challange you to meet a new person every day and post about them.

I think I gave myself a cough - Sunday

I got up in time to get to Church. The service was interesting, the problem is that Jonathan kept on jumping all over the place, I could have used a PDF Bible very happily there. After the service I cycled back and began looking on the internet for some tabular data of Apple Share prices. I realised that I need by thursday... Seeing as I didn't find the data, I'll be talking to Chi about it tomorrow. I was given free food by the cafeteria staff (they have leftovers on sundays, I'll be going there more often). At 1600 I went over to Feebies (I think I spelt your name right) along with a load of other people from the CU. We watched Vegitales, laughed and sung some songs. After the service I race Sarah back to Langstone. The problem is that I left my coat unzipped. This meant that it looked really cool, but let my chest get nice and cold. I now have a slight cough. Item of the Day - Girls don't have balance, none of them can mount my bike (partly because they're all really short)