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I read an interesting article on Roland Piquepaille’s Technology Trends site the other day about Biomimetic Robots, so called because they were inspired living biological entities…
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After over 120 days uptime the web/mail server had a wobbly some time in the early hours of the morning and fell over. The site was…
Read articleNani jin desu ka?
Had my first Japanese class this afternoon which was great fun but fairly challenging. There were only about 12/15 people in our group which was good…
Read articleA New Hope
Finally got round to watching the first in the classic trilogy of the newly released Star Wars DVD box set last night. What instantly struck me…
Read articleGrave of the Fireflies
Went to the first Anime society meeting of the term this evening. We watched a great (but exceedingly depressing) film called ‘Grave of the Fireflies‘ (Hotaru…
Read articleFawlty Towers
Just noticed on the BBC News website that a poll carried out by BBC Worldwide has voted Fawlty Towers the best sitcom. Surprisingly many of the…
Read articleRarely Used Cliches
Are you ever stuck for words or in need of a way out of a tricky conversation? Not any more – the ‘Self-Annihilating Sentences‘ web list…
Read articleRobotic Pills
First day of lectures was fairly uneventful – started in the morning with ‘Program Slicing’ and ‘Human Computer Interaction’ followed by ‘Computer Graphics’ in the afternoon.…
Read articleDay Break
Quite an impressive sunrise this morning visible from my new room: Complete with prison in foreground!
Read articleNew Room
Moved into my new room in college today. It’s a pretty good room with a nice view out over the back down to the river –…
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