December 31st, the last day of the year. Overall, 2009 was a fantastic year, seeing me getting more stuff done, being engaged almost 24/7, furthering all abilities, and acquiring new ones. January started off on a high point with my competing in the Esat BT Young Scientist competition, with my project “What are the issues [...]
Well, because it’s the holidays, I just lose track of the days. When you’re doing nothing but drumming and playing cards, you can’t really differentiate which is a weekend day and which is a weekday. C’est impossible! Yes, I’ve joined the Glee train, and this week’s song is Don’t Stop Believin’. There’s a drumming video [...]
Right now, there’s almost a sense of… ‘how’d I manage that?’. Seriously, an entire year without chocolate. 365 days. 8,760 hours. 525,600 minutes. Was it easy? Yes and no. When undertaking this, how easy you find it is directly proportional to how much chocolate you eat. I ate relatively little – we never stocked that [...]
Well, Christmas is over. The next big thing we have to look forward to is the coming of the New Year. I think the days between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day perhaps my favourite days all year. No one is working, in fact, no one is doing anything at all really. I think it’s [...]
We are a family of precious few traditions, it has to be said. Well, tradition in the, erm, traditional sense of the word. You know, like going to midnight mass or having Grandma over for Christmas dinner, or everyone piling on the couch at 20:30 on a Christmas Eve to catch the Father Ted Christmas [...]
There’s too much ritualistic, I-don’t-mean-it-but-it’s-what’s-done wishing of a Merry Christmas on blogs and Twitter I think. This isn’t one of those Merry Christmases, I assure you :) Twitter had a gift for me too: Abuse? I don’t tweet thaaat much. Certainly I know several people who do elephantine proportions much more accurately than I do [...]
I’ll come out and say it: I’m not the world’s greatest fan of poetry. I’ll read it an appreciate it but I never enjoyed the autopsies that you do in school, spending many lessons agonizing to find hidden meanings behind the lines, between the lines and wherever else you care to look. There are however [...]
This morning, John arrived home for Christmas. I decided to join Mom and Dad in going to collect him, joking that good brothers came and met their siblings from the airport when they came to visit, because when I had gone to visit John and Patrick in Boston, neither of them had been able to [...]
Apologies for the drop in programming this afternoon. I tried to update WordPress to 2.9 and next thing I knew, I couldn’t reach my blog. Or Mum’s blog, or indeed John’s (*tumbleweed blows by*) blog. The man himself was asleep when I fubared the server, so I went off and watched the 3rd episode of [...]
When I was in America, back in August, they recommended that I get some voice recognition software. I actually got around to buying the software last week but decided not to touch it until I’d finished my exams, or else I wouldn’t have got any study done. However, now that my exams are over (yahoo!) [...]