I got 3 from Introduction to Databases!! I was sure I was doomed, even though I made all the SQL exercises (so got max points for that) but in the exam I was writing whatever breeze came out of my brain (apparently no farts).
By the way, if you go to the link I gave above and read the definition 1. I never write “dir” on Unix at the dept, but “ls” on MS-DOS at home. And then wonder what’s it complaining about.
Using a kitchen towel that just yesterday was used as a sandwich wrapper to wipe your nose is not a good idea. It’ll smell like dog food.
[‘chow’ means food]
Matrix DVD collection box comes out tomorrow. 10 DVDs including all the 3 movies and their Revisiteds, Animatrix and more. Of course, I have bought all the 3 movies and Animatrix (not the Revisiteds, though), so it’d be crazy to buy the 70€ box, wouldn’t it?
There’s also a 4-DVD Indiana Jones box. I have all the 3 movies on VHS. It wouldn’t be that crazy to buy the 60€ box.
And, there’s a 3-DVD Star Wars box. I have all the 3 (+ Phantom Menace, I think, unless I haven’t gotten it on tape after a certain Unmentionable lost my first copy of it 
) movies on tape. Taped from TV, though, so it wouldn’t be crazy at all to buy the 60€ box.
2 out of 3 isn’t so bad. But the Matrix box would be so nice!
I got asked to continue in my job next year. Of course I said yes, because I had written in my traineeship report (about last summer) that I was glad to have been able to continue the work this autumn and wished I’d get to continue after this 3 months’ period. I don’t know if my professor had read the report yet… but anyway. I got my employment extended. \o/
My “room mate” at work asked me ONCE AGAIN that I’d close the door if I leave because he has an expensive laptop here. I just went “yes yes, I know” but I don’t have to be told more than once! GEEZ! I do have common sense (and then some), and even though I don’t have any fancy computers that I carry around, I care about my stuff enough not to leave the door open with a note “please, do come in and steal everything”. Besides, I hardly ever go anywhere (except lectures) so when I’m here, I’m like a guard dog.
I’m really offended (and annoyed) by the constant request.
Men…
Oh yeah, happy 1st of December!
Grandma asked what I want for Christmas.
*blank brain*
I have absolutely no idea. I’ll probably get Half-Life 2 from someone else (*cough*dad*cough*), Splinter Cell 2 arrives in January, Stephen King books are difficult to buy (a] there aren’t any in the book stores, b] I’m picky (has to be English, NEL and right kind of cover)), horror movies are too shocking to ask for 
Hmm… Maroon 5’s CD? I’ll probably ask for Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code even though I know nothing about it. And that’s it. Nothing else comes to mind.
Bummer.
[edit: Dec 1] I ended up asking for Da Vinci Code only. And from Dad I’m wishing either Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Deus Ex II: Invisible War, or Half-Life 2 [/edit]
On Tuesday at the study group meeting of Introduction to Application Design I made “a joke” with ’42’ in it. And people understood it. That was surreal.
[42 refers to Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I’m not going to explain it further, that’d spoil everything.]
I’m making my right-hand side menu a Tabbed one. The idea behind it is that I can put context-dependent links (subcategories when on a category page, dates when in monthly archive, all static pages when on a static page, or something like that). There aren’t any of those yet, maybe I’ll have time to tweak that during the weekend (although I’m translating a paper for Dad — well, I won’t be doing that in the evening I think). Yup, that’s all.
Here be narcissistic lines
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I suddenly noticed the admin’s post editing page doesn’t show all the posts. It stupidly is affected by the number of posts shown on the blog’s index page which certainly isn’t the way it should be.
On the WordPress forums I could find some old posts on the subject and a person there said he would post a patch when he gets around checking it.
Well, I tried his idea (copy-pasting a code snippet from post.php to edit.php to reset some variables) but I couldn’t get it working. So, I made an “unprofessional” patch.
I haven’t had more than 50 posts per month (that’s how the posts are categorized) so I added a variable to show 50 posts “per page” (there aren’t any pages, really). This is at the very top of edit.php:
<?php
require_once('../wp-includes/wp-l10n.php');
$title = __('Posts');
require_once('admin-header.php');
$showposts=50;
?>
As the forum posts suggested, you might have to do something about the edit-comments.php too, but I have exactly 10 comments so far so I don’t know if all of the comments will show.
I just love it how Stephen King sometimes refers to himself in his work (my emphasis)
Frank’s niece, Bobbi Anderson, lived on the Garrick place now — not that she farmed, of course; she wrote books. (…) Also, she wrote good old western stories that you could really sink your teeth into, not all full of make-believe monsters and a bunch of dirty words, like the books that fellow who lived up Bangor way wrote. Goddam good westerns, people said.
— The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
King also uses a lot of brackets and short paragrahps
2
(…)
‘Relax,’ Newt said, and Dick nodded. ‘No one is going to connect the disappearance of a four-year-old boy who prob’ly just wandered off into the woods or got picked up and driven away by a sex pervert with the disappearance of two big strong State Bears. Right, Dick?’
‘As rain.’3
Wrong.
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(…)
— The Tommyknockers by Stephen King