Its been a while since my last post so a quick update is in order..
Finished the second year of my Masters. Again was under immense pressure to get reports and labs completed and had little time to study for exams. I just hope I passed!
I went to Stockholm for a quick trip for work, it was very interesting and I finally got to see the main headquarters. Stockholm is a fantastic city, I was very impressed but the cost of living there is quite high.
I’m now working in Rabat, Morocco. I’ve been here for nearly a week now and only 4 weeks left to go, I’m counting down the days. Its not that I dont like the place the project is extremely laborious and I hate being dropped in the middle of projects were you are expected to start running from a standstill. To make matters worse I’m doing work I have not been assigned to do, to say the least I’m angry about this. It happens and I’m expected to deal with it but it is a horrible way to work.
I was planning on taking part in SoFoMoBo seeing as I was in a foreign country and all but its proving impossible to take photos while I’m here. I might get a day sometime before I leave and try get all the photos I need but I can’t do a photo a day deal.
Right thats the end of the updates lets get onto something less depressing. A very good friend of mine got a tattoo yesterday and I think its really cool.
While its not the most original tattoo in the world (I know a good few girls that have a star tattoo) it is a very cool tattoo and the only tattoo thats acceptable on a girl. Made me think what would I get and where? Its difficult to get a tattoo if your a guy cause its very easy to get a tattoo then one day your in your 40s with a hairy chest and a stupid tattoo of your favorite football club on your arm or something.
Guys can’t have cool tattoos, guys with emo tattoos are gonna look stupid when they turn 40…..what am I saying they look stupid now. I remember contemplating getting a Metallica tattoo but there is no originality in that. It would be nice to have a tattoo that showed I’ve lived a little. I mean I travel a lot but I’m not coming back changed and trolling on about my experiences abroad, clearly I have none MaybeI should get a Henna tattoo or something while I’m here…..
So Reader! What tattoo would you get and where? Answers on a post card addressed to Rabat or post a comment to forgo the millions of stamps required to reach this place!
At the weekend I was out for a dew drinks with some German friends that were visiting Dublin. I love Germany particularly Berlin its a fantastic city and great people….or so I thought.
During drunken discussions about colors (don’t ask) the most shocking statement I can imagine was uttered by one German friend “PurPur……but we don’t use that word we just call it red”. PurPur is the German for purple and apparently Germany has abandoned using this word.
WTF!
So Barney the dinosaur was red was he? Was he fuck! How can you abandon a color?
EDIT: I’m annoyed there is not one blog that is saying “Fuck it we deserve it”, everyone is saying “oh I’m so proud…….I never thought I would be shortlisted for anything……” Everyone of the nominees should have the following on their website!
While I was rummaging through the stacks of paper and wires that is my room I discovered an envelope and there was a letter in said envelope. Now I remember receiving the letter and thinking wow a letter that is so 1900 but now I’m looking at it and I’m fascinated by it. Emails have taken away the touch and feel of letters they are so impersonal. There is no joy in sending and receiving emails, its a routine task…..quite sad.
I want to send letters to people and I’m going to start sending letters to a few friends very soon. If you are reading this and would like a letter too let me know, I’m bringing letters back, one at a time
This year is turning out to be back to basics…
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In other news, I’ve been asked to go back to work in Newbury. I’m a little disappointed as I had been told I might be going to China. Its clearly not meant to be so I’ll have to enjoy my time in Newbury, at least its a quick flight back to Ireland.
I went to Galway recently, I would put up a blog about it but this link explains the weekend better than I could – WhiteRabbitNI
I’m going on holidays (I say holidays but its basically a day trip) to Berlin in 2 weeks time. To be honest I’m not looking forward to it, I’m not up for drinking like an idiot in a different country and blaming it on another nationality. Not these days anyway, I’m just happy to get back to Ireland and do sweet fuck all. Due to timing constraints and one of the lads getting their dates mixed up (thanks) I can only go to Germany for 2 days while they will get to stay longer. So I’m not going to be the best of company if I’m honest. I’m quite angry having booked my ticket and finding out that those stay longer got cheaper flights. So I get less holidays and have to pay more? Ryanair you’ve excelled yourself this time.
If only it was on....
However, if I can get a cheap Canon or Nikon SLR whilst in Germany it will be worth the trip.
So many miserable people on Reddit and facebook saying they are lonely… Its a terrible holiday that reminds single people how alone they are and reminds every boyfriend or husband that they have to get something or they are in alot of trouble. To quote a good friend “women are crazy” and in this case he’s right (99% of the time he is the crazy one). I had a great Valentines day this year, I bought my gf some flowers and chocolates and everyone was happy. Contrast this to 5/6 years ago on the same day…
I was accused of sending a friend a Valentines card. This girl turned out to be 100% crazy but little did I know at the time. She had a bf at the time and he was not happy because I was talking to his gf. He suggested I had wrote an anonymous valentines card to my friend and hence the accusations were thrown my way. Oh I was not happy but its a prime example of why single people should be happy. Clearly a large majority of women are crazy even if you are not involved with them! Be happy! Celebrate being single and stop flooding Reddit and facebook with your woes, its ruined my Saturday inter-webing god damn it!!!
A Lot of good vibes have been coming from the websites engadget and gizmodo over how good the Windows 7 Beta is, but at the end of the day its only what Vista should have been. Don’t get me wrong I also love it but I want more. Have Microsoft really pushed the boundaries since Windows 95? Think of the jump they took going from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95, the concept of a “Desktop” that’s a big step. I want the same from Microsoft now, I want a Windows platform that you carry around in your skin literally. That’s a leap!
Windows 3.1 Screenshot
Windows 95 Screenshot
Another few Operating systems to consider over Windows 7.
Open Suse 11 -- Potentially my favourite Linux operating system but damn do they make it hard to get in to. There’s not the greatest support for open suse, so although its powerful and reliable its hard to get use to. Ubuntu -- Easier to use than Suse and has a huge support structure. Its the best OS for beginner Linux users or for those that find suse unnecessarily hard. One problem is the superuser usage. There is none and pretty much every command needs sudo before hand. Adding su would be nice but it takes away the easy use Ubuntu focuses on. Windows XP -- Wasn’t the finest Operating system but it has flourished into the fastest OS to date. With SP3 Windows XP is faster than Vista, Microsoft are really stupid if they expect people to change with this being the way it is.- MAC OS X -- brilliant operating system but sometimes its focusing more on the “oooooo thats nice looking” rather than the practibility and usability. A good example is the jumping icon when you start a program. Windows Vista -- Don’t go for this option no matter what. I have to use this in work and its nothing but trouble. On Thursday my work laptop could not but Windows after some update. Even when the OS works you have to constantly remind the system about stupid things for instance, you want to copy a file to the C drive you get 4 warnings saying are you sure you want to do this you need admin rights, of course I want to do it why the fuck wouldn’t I I’m the god damn admin!
Anyway enough OS talking….
I have found the commercial that Mark and myself fell about the place laughing at whilst in America. In Florida there is a channel focused purely on adverts (seems that way anyway) and there was one advertising to sell your scrap gold for money. Its a weird ad and idea but as soon as it got to this auld one we broke our sides laughing.
And finally…Le Nord has been added to my links, I believe this to be Emma or Carland, I’m not sure to be honest but lets address the one thing that matters.
How Come I’m link number 5 and Gaff (who doesn’t blog) is number 1. I’m outraged.
MaybeI should get a Henna tattoo or something while I’m here…..
