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Today was the (sniff) final meeting of the Friday Afternoon Club. Talk about going out with a bang. We did Threads, and tried to crash Vista by starting off 1,000 at once. Of course it just kept going (but the CPU usage in Task Manager did max out quite dramatically).

I took a couple of pictures.

You can click on them for larger versions from Flickr. I really enjoyed the lecture and I hope that you lot did as well. See you for Software Engineering next semester.

Waaaaant onnnnnne!

We went to see a movie tonight. We sort of have to pick the films based on the time they start, and on that basis we went to see "Fools Gold". This is a south sea caper with buried treasure, murderous rappers and a non "will they-won't they" romance strand. The characters are a bit one dimensional, the treasure plot is over complicated and Donald Sutherland's accent atrocious. But I can think of much more unpleasant ways to spend a few hours in a cinema. "There Will Be Blood" for example.

I've had a rush of creativity. No, really.

This is a screenshot of the Simple Simon Project at Very Silly Games. It will eventually be a pattern matching game remarkably like another game named after a pieman.

I've only written the first bit for now, with some questions that you can use to brush up your programming smarts. Study the code and answer them and we will see about moving onto the next phase of the development.

Back to work today. Plenty of business and stuff. The jetlag keeps switching my brain off at inopportune momen