Personal

Well after being incredibly busy for a few days I actually have time to do stuff now.

Unfortunately blogging is not a priority since I have work to do for IVDC.

The most important bit of news is the indefinite closure of OrbWars.

Well it seems a bit late since it’s everywhere else, but I thought I should at least mention the recent death of James “Scotty” Doohan. For more information visit CNN.

Imperial College’s bid to host the Inter Varsity Dancesport Competition in 2006 has been succesful and I’m on the “support team”.

Wohoo!

Not something I want to go into in depth, I just figured I should mentioned it before I post something since it’s all over the news while I type. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050707/140/fmtu4.html

Guess I picked the right time to leave London.

I’ve been in Brussels for two weeks and didn’t get internet access long enough to write anything.

But I’m back now.

As anyone who saw the local London BBC News yesterday (and possibly others) will know, there was a large open air tea-dance in Trafalgar Square yesterday! One possible highlight was setting the world record record for the most couples involved in a open air tea-dance - 195.

I also got sunburnt on an unluckily sunny day.

For some reason we were talking about albinos and specifically whether albino polar bears exist. Imagine someone on expedition to look at polar bears. The only way you could tell it was albino would be to look at it’s eyes. And by that time it would be too late for you.

“So is it a polar bear?” “Actually I think it’s an albinaaaaaaagh!

Firstly, I think the flurry of people reading this from XHTML Friends has calmed down so I’m more confident in posting complete crap now :)

I was watching They Think it’s All Over on UKGold last night when Gary Lineker of all people came up with a nasty joke, outdoing even Rory.

In the round they had to identify which of a series of grunts came from Monica Seles:

Guest: “Are these grunts from when they were playing tennis?” Rory “When else do women grunt?” Gary “Well, when they get stabbed…”

Just to bring the tone down even further, you keep wine in wine cellars, beer in beer cellars and knives in…

I apologise to Monica Seles for any offence cause and will remove the above post if she asks personally. :P

Anybody watching the BBC today will notice how they have decided to give all their up-and-coming talent a chance to shine today. From announcers to news reporters (and no doubt production crew too) the less experienced ruled the roost today.

The fact that the proper staff are on strike obviously has nothing to do with it.

Microsoft are now offering free versions off some of their Visual Studio products. And although they are slightly limited compared to the complete version they seem to allow commercial use (from the FAQ: “Create fun and interesting applications for their personal enjoyment or to share with their friends, or even commercially distribute your programs. “)

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/

They won’t stay completely free though. Once the products leave beta they will supposedly be available for $49 each. Which is still affordable for us students though :)