Tag search: universityDavid Thompson BA (Cantab.)
Just a quick note to say two things:
- I’ve graduated.
- The photos from the graduation are up on Flickr.
That is all.
Marvel at my balls
So, after 16-odd years in education, I’m home. Primary school, secondary school, sixth-form college, university, and now … what? Either holiday then job or job, holiday then job, depending on whether I can get hold of a decent job first. As for the holiday, I’m planning on doing a bit of a tour around some places in America, because I’ve never been and would like to see the sights.
Anyway, enough of future plans: here’s a quick recap of what I’ve been up to the past few days. In two words: May Balls. Not easy to describe in words, so I’ll let the pictures do the talking, from Trinity on Monday and Queens’ on Tuesday.
All over bar results tomorrow and graduation next Friday. Now I just need to start exercising my geek muscles to get back into this web design lark.
General life update
So, no blog posts in over a week: what’s happened of note recently and what’s slated to happen in the near future? In rough chronological order:
- I’ve been devoting rather more of my life than is healthy to San Andreas: it’s more GTA as we know and love it, but now with bikes! Oh, and dual-wield pistols, they’re fun too.
- Molly (yes, the Molly) came over to England and stayed in Bath with my sister and her girlfriend: much hilarity apparently ensued, as Flickr appears to testify. Elly appears to have entertained her as she does best: with syrup sponge.
- I’ve got two May Balls today and tomorrow: Trinity and Queens’ respectively. Both look like being astoundingly good, although I thought “Click to Enter” pages were meant to be hideously outdated by now…
- I speculated before about whether Microsoft’s new XML-based formats were too good to be true. It seems they were, as eWeek reports that the license Microsoft are using is not GPL-compatible, claiming something about software patents. I can’t really claim to be surprised, I’m afraid.
- On a research-based note, I’m intrigued by AJAX: seems to me like an interesting sandwich (or trifle, if you will) of technologies with a lot of potential (think GMail). Can anyone recommend any good AJAX resources to look into for an interested developer (who harbours an inherent mistrust of Javascript left over from all those irritating “you can’t right-click here” and “browser-jiggling” scripts)?
Well, brain-dump over. Until next time, kiddies.
Finished!
On Thursday 9th June I sat my last exam at Cambridge University, and potentially my last exam ever (unless I decide to get some really useful and well-respected additional qualifications). I have, of course, spent the time between then and now celebrating – finding out in the process that Lemsip is a fantastic hangover cure.
So what to do now? You may or may not remember a previous post in which I detailed four things I needed to do: I think I can safely say that I’ve completed goals 1–3 (although we shall have to wait and see whether the First is in the bag) and now I just have Goal 4 to do: redesigning this site. This brings me to my comment-encouragement question: how do people go about their designs? As you might have noticed, my designs tend to be fairly basic in nature, and I know there are a fair number of talented designers who read this site, so I’m going to commence brain-picking: do you tend to start with pencil-and-paper sketches, a prototype in the image software of your choice or just an idea in your head? Do you start with a basic layout and tweak it or plan all the measurements right from the start?
Discuss.
(P.S. San Andreas is out – it’s rather good.)
Updates (or lack thereof)
Apologies to everyone who reads this blog on a semi-regular basis (of whom there must be at least 10 or so) for the lack of updates in the past few days: I’m afraid I’ve entered into hardcore exam mode: first final-year exam was yesterday (that’s Tuesday for those of you who will get confused by me posting this at 10 minutes past midnight) and I have two more today and tomorrow, then I’m done. Forever. Scary.
Scariness aside, I shall hope to get back to more frequent updates as of Friday (or perhaps Saturday, depending on how bad a hangover I have on Friday morning) – there’s certainly plenty to talk about.