Staying Alive

That song, apart from being awesome, serves two other purposes. First and foremost, it represents what people in the eastern part of the island are probably trying to do right now, in the midst of all the unrest being caused by the attempted arrest of Dudus. (For those of you who don't know, google Christopher Dudus Coke and Jamaica). Secondly, it represents what I need to do next week, when the bulk of my exams descend upon me. From Tuesday to Friday, I have exams. All long papers. That's Biology, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, all on sequential days. No time to swat during the week. I'm not too worried though.

Thankfully I haven't (entirely) wasted the two weeks I got before these exams. I really feel like I have a lot more Biology in my head at this point in my life than I ever will, including after graduation from medical school. T_T

Bring on the summer!! Now I've gotta go on MSN and have a quick study session with some friends (seriously, studying on instant messenger actually works).

TTFN,
Gavin.

Microsoft Word 2007 is a B****

So kids,here's my latest bitching topic. I'm working on my Chemistry project which I got for the holidays. I'm on the second to last topic, so I'm almost finished. Out of force of habit, I press Ctrl+S to quick save on a regular basis(like every 10 minutes or so).

So I press it, and it brings up the huge "Save As" dialog box. I decide to refrain from cursing at that point and just save over the document, which would have the same effect as the quick save. It's located on the base C:\ drive. I click the button. The little green bar on the status bar at the bottom of the screen fills pretty quickly, then it appears again. About 85% of the way through it stops and tells me there is an error in saving chemproj.docx. I curse.

My little brother hears me and laughs.I decide to try it again. Hmph. Same f**king thing. I decide to outsmart Microsoft and copy the entire document to an empty word document and saving it. Didn't make a scrap of difference. I got an error there too. Shit. I do a bit of googling for a solution, since I typed a lot and I don't want to have to retype it.

I see somebody talking about disabling their firewall and antivirus. I'm skeptical, but desperate, so I try it. Nope, no such luck.

I resign to my fate of losing the 3 paragraphs I wrote. I close it, and give up for a few seconds. I decide to open a blank document, type some crap, and see if it will save. It does. I decide to try saving my project again. It doesn't. >_<

I scream, and try the tactic of copying the whole document to a blank file again. I save it to My Documents, and somehow it works.

Its pretty damn weird.

Right now however, I'm just thankful that it worked. I'll figure out the issue later. There is no way I was planning to lose 3966 words of information that was hell to find.

*Sigh*
Oh well. I just had to let it out. I also did a Twitter post about it. For those of you who don't know, besides being an aspiring computer programmer/neurosurgeon, I also want to be a PUA. You can see the Twitter status update on my other blog.

Thats about it still, so I'll write up something some other day. Wish me luck on the project.

The Past 2 Months In Less Than 500 Words

Wow, perfect. Another "sorry I haven't updated in so long" post. Its sorta becoming a habit, don't you think?

Well, without further ado, here's the rundown of the past two months.

1)School started. Its a bitch.

2)I learned a lesson the hard way about the importance of backing up stuff. My old computer's motherboard,hard drive,graphics card and memory stick went bad all at the same time. Lost over 200 GB of stuff.

3)I finally realized that I was really good at Mathematics and probably should consider taking over Stephen Hawking's job at CERN.

4)I underwent a period of psychological trauma after starting college Chemistry and realizing that electrons don't actually orbit in shells, their positions are random, that is, they have a 95% chance of being found in a regions of space known as orbitals. I wept.

5)I had an epiphany, and realized that its pretty simple to build a nuclear bomb.

6)All hail President Obama!!! Finally, a balla president. Lots of people died that night, since after seeing that, they probably had nothing left to live for.

7)At some point, I realized that I more or less forgot about Happy Desolation. Some good Samaritan reminded me about it(Thanks Robyn!!).

That's about it. Lets hope from now on, I can be more regular with the updates. For your sake,since I know you all live for this. lol.

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Hehehehe.

That aside, by next week this time, I'll only have one more exam to worry about. Yup, thats right, the Add Maths Paper 2. I feel really good about the CXC. I mean, Physics and Chemistry were just amazing.I THINK Bio was good too, but I might have mentioned my track record with Bio earlier...

Oh well, I did a little bit of work on LunaGFX, only now, I've changed the name.

That's right kids, LunaGFX is now known as the X-LAX Graphics Library, the crappiest graphics library known to man or monkey.

I'm serious.

About the name change that is, not about the crappy part.

In a week kids!!


P.S. I might be getting a summer job. More about that some other time.

Halfway Through Hell

Well, that was pretty much it for my first week of mock exams. I had no exams for like 3 days out of the whole week so I spent the time at home.

In an unexpected plot twist, our protagonist, Gavin found the Biology mock exams unusually easy, but the Chemistry very difficult. He hoped that the Chemistry was marked relatively, so he would have excelled(relatively), coming second only to Clive, who he believed had psionic powers, which enabled him to create a mental feedback loop with his Chemistry textbook(known to normal humans as studying).

As for English, it was a breeze....simple, easy English. I R DA SEX!!!!

Well, mock exams end week after next, screw it, I have a few more free days.

As you might see, I made a few updates to the blog. I changed the layout and replaced the donate button with something less antisocial, thats right, a COMMENTS box !!!! DUM-DUM-DA!!!

No videos this time...maybe when you grow up. No pictures of little girls either Javon ( A.K.A "Sparky).

Alive and Kicking

Well, I decided to post this just to remind Planet Earth that I'm still alive. I just handed in my IT SBA today, and I have some more lab reports due on Monday.

Still, I feel pretty prepared for the exams. I have English first on Monday(piece of cake), then on Thursday, I have the long papers for Chemistry and Biology. In between I have a lot of free time to swat :).

Anyway yeah, thats about it, nothing particularly new or interesting.