Bored, and at school

Yep, I'm writing this from school. I don't have any classes for 3 hours and I don't have anything better to do than to sit around at the public computers. I just received my acceptance to Williams Business College and the needed information to pay the tuition fee, which is over $2100 (in AUD). When I pay that, I can apply for the visa. There's no hurry to do that though, getting the visa to Australia is a quick job because of the internet. The more important matter is getting the plane tickets in time before they cost more than life itself ;)

I finished all of the Cisco module assignments yesterday, so I'm hoping that I could do the 4th (and last) semester's final exam on next Tuesday. I have to discuss about the final lab job next Monday when I see the lab instructor again. I might actually be the only one in my class who has a chance to pass the damn thing before the summer vacation.

The new project started yesterday too, and on today's schedule there should be some talk about who's doing what for the project. It's one big project that the whole class is working on, although no one really cares a shit. I guess we're just trying to make it ok, but not really good. Just so we can pass the course with minimal effort. Most of the people still have lots to do with Cisco and Visual Basic, so they aren't really enthusiastic about getting more stuff to do on their own time. I've managed to get myself into a good spot by mainly concentrating on Cisco and doing that Visual Basic project on the weekends.

Other than that, I guess there's nothing new. Still waiting anxiously for that new Dalek episode of Dr Who :)

The last week of April is starting

Yep, time seems to move so fast nowadays. I still can remember April fool's day like it was yesterday. I made some more progress on the Visual Basic project and it's now functioning like I wanted it to work. There are still some minor bugs left, but I have about 2 weeks to try and fix at least some of them. Although I'm not taking pressure about it. I consider the program to be finished now, and I'm only doing some fine tuning before printing the source code and attaching it to my report.

My Cisco studies have been advancing as well, although I couldn't do some module assignments on Thursday like I wanted to. For some reason Heikki (the instructor) decided that everybody else can do 3rd semester's assignments, but I can't do shit because I'm ahead of others and on the 4th semester already. But I have read all of the material available on the net, except the last module. I'll try to read that tomorrow and hopefully I can do all of the missing module assignments on Tuesday.

The 1st of May is also approaching, and here in Finland that's our students national get wasted day. I haven't got any plans, so dunno what I'll do. But I'm trying to save money anyway, so it's not a BAD THING™ if I just stay home and be sober. I could work on these current projects and on the upcoming one which has to do with my school's current student services.

This spring at school sure has been different from last year's spring, when I really didn't have shit to do. The class schedule is about as empty as it was last year, but we now have lots of stuff to do on our own time. That's pissing me off, but on the otherhand it's kind of cool that you can do some stuff at home too and don't have to drive to school.

Oh yea, and about Dr Who. This week's episode was pretty good, although Mickey firing a missile towards 10 Downing Street using the internet and Rose's mum's puter was a bit funny. Even if he logged into UNIT's website using a top secret password, it's still so god damn risky to put something like that on the net that I can't believe in a million years that any government would do that. But then again, it's just Dr Who.

One of the most interesting revelations from this week's episode was the preview of the upcoming Dalek episode. Apparently only one Dalek survived (the Skaro incident?) and ended up being a part of some alien museum exhibition. For some reason the Dalek activated and again a world was in peril because of a Dalek. I liked the new special effects, and I really am glad to hear the good old "Exterminate! Exterminate!" Dalek voice again. The unofficial story goes that Skaro wasn't infact destroyed, but the planet Antalin was. Daleks had foreseen Skaro's destruction, and decided to "dodge the bullet" by terraforming Antalin to look like Skaro. So Skaro still might be out there somewhere, and nobody else than the Daleks know it. But we have to wait for the next weekend's episode to really know what happened to the Daleks.

This was a long blog, but then again I haven't blogged in a while days. Hopefully at least a couple of readers are still awake. I'll try to make the next one shorter :)

I bid thee farewell, until the next time.

Weekend!

Yes, you read that right. My class schedule is empty for the rest of the week and next Tuesday should be my next day at school. However that doesn't mean that I can just have a short vacation because of three reasons, which are: Cisco, math assignments and the Visual Basic project. But I'm still going to try and relax a bit by gaming, haven't done that in a while. I actually just finished installing some of my old favorite games.

Other than that, I don't really have anything big to report about. Just the same old same old school stuff. So I'm off to the gaming world while I still can. All work and no play, makes Jollemi a dull boy.

Week starter blog

Since the last blog I've been watching through more and more SG1 episodes. Other than that, not much has happened. I did manage to write some code yesterday, fixed some problems. The only thing I now need to do is make the game write player information (name & score) to the database, and it would be good if the program would know the right place where to put that name. So sorting out the list based on the score would be a good place to start. After all, it doesn't matter in what order they are in the database. As long as the program displays it right. I also managed to put some of the stuff on "paper", meaning I wrote some stuff up using Word. I just need to finish the damn thing and then I can finish the report, but I still have about 3 weeks left to do that. So I don't have to go mental just now.

The instructor still hasn't opened up the 4th semester for me, regarding the CCNA studies. My 2nd last Cisco lab classes are today, or at least according to the class schedule. Things might change, depends on Jukka (the guy in charge of the Cisco lab stuff). Getting a bit excited about the final lab exam, but hopefully everything will go fine.

Other than those, I don't think anything has really happened on the weekend. Oh yea, of course I can't forget that the new Enterprise episode was aired last weekend. Enterprise was on a looong break. It's good that it's back, although that means it will be over soon. There will be no 5th season of Enterprise, at least not yet. You never know if some company will be interested in it later on, but currently it doesn't look good. Oh, and one cannot say it enough, Dr Who rocks! It's a shame the Doctor will change for the next season of Dr Who though. The Doctor can regenerate limited times after all, and the new one will be the 10th Doctor. If they don't figure out a loophole, the last Doctor will be the 12th. Although I'm sure that if the new series will be as successful as the old series (one can only hope), they'll find a loophole.

I think that's enough blogging for now, as I really didn't have any significant reasons to blog anyway.

Success!

I passed the 3rd CCNA semester today, about 2.5 weeks ahead of schedule which is about half of the full amount of time given to us to complete the semester. Hopefully I also passed the product development exam I did last week. So now I can concentrate on the 4th and last semester of my CCNA studies and the Visual Basic project. I have less than a month to complete the Visual Basic project so I really should put my mind into that too, before it's too late to finalize my current code scribblings. I also need to make the database connection to function properly. Hopefully that source code Baz gave me earlier helps with that. I think my earlier database connection project at school didn't even work properly, so it's not a good piece of software to be taken as an example. So help from Baz is highly appreciated.

The thing with Microsoft wanting to send a PC to me has been worked out. As I read the agreement more throughly I noticed that I can't talk about it anymore. If those papers arrived at Microsoft safely (as the fax was giving me trouble), I'm keeping quiet about this from this day forth. Nobody wants to play around with Microsoft's lawyers because there's a 99% chance that you get hurt, financially.

I've also recently been watching Stargate SG-1, instead of waiting for new episodes to be aired here in Finland. Thanks to some cockatiel for that. So, I think I have my hands full of stuff currently. I'm just waiting for this whole school thing to end, I really need a break. I need to gather energy to face hard studying in a different country. Dress code, 80% attendance at classes, 70% minimum in exams etc., but I think it will be well worth the trouble. And not to even mention the 2 month summer vacation I'm going to have over there when it's winter in Finland.

Ok, I think this is enough blogging for now. Time to return to the world of Goa'ulds, Asgards, Replicators etc. for a brief moment before hitting the hay.

To accept, or not to accept

I got a mail today from Microsoft, they want me to start beta testing Microsoft Update using Media Center Edition 2005. They want to send me a computer for that, and that's the problem. Normally there wouldn't be a problem, but a computer is not a cheap and small thing. So the toll might be interested in it. The agreement doesn't clearly state if Microsoft will pay for those expenses too. I don't even know if there will be any expenses from the toll because it's not my hardware, it's only for loan. That's the problem, and looking at the toll's homepages doesn't help. There isn't anything there regarding this kind of things.

The other problem I now have is that I got even more stuff to do on my own free time from school. Luckily there shouldn't be anymore "surprises" because that's the only new course we have in this school year. Even the teacher is a bit surprised why he's in charge of the course because he's a math teacher, and the course is about projects of all kinds. To top it all off, the project we have to make isn't good enough, there's even an exam about it. I'm just getting tired of school, I need a break. Too bad there's not a break in sight for a month or so. Damn summer vacation never seems to start early enough.

But first things first, I need to make my decision regarding the computer issue by Friday or I can forget the whole thing. Oh woe is my brain, so it's time to concentrate on my stomach. Pasta time!

Monday, bloody Monday

Another Monday with nothing to do really. In my boredom, I added a counter to the blog. It doesn't count unique visitors, just page loads. And it doesn't help me to see your IP addresses, so there's no need to be paranoid ;)

I did manage to watch one video clip about VLANs, which wasn't quite what I expected. I guess the CCNA course has changed a bit in the last few years, as that educational vid didn't go too much under the skin. A lot of the of the stuff what's in the CCNA reading material on the net, can't be seen in the vid. On a side note, I finally got the first two CCNA semesters in the student system where you can see all your grades.

I now have gathered 96 ECTS points. I still need to gather 9 more points before I can go study abroad. Luckily it shouldn't be a problem to get those last few points before the school year is over. I'll get 30 ECTS points for studying abroad and 30 ECTS points for work practice, and one (or two actually) report I should do is related to the work practice thing. But I would have to fill out two reports about two corporations I've worked for, and I haven't just been arsed to do that. Besides, I still have that Visual Basic project to worry about and the rest of the Cisco semesters (which should be done in hyperspeed if you compare it to how much time we had to get through the first two semesters).

My very own blog, I guess

Ok, so I was a bit bored this night and finally made this blog thing. Earlier than I planned at first, but what the hell. I first went to see how the M$ Spaces blog looked like, but I just somehow disliked it. So like all other (elite) bastards, I created a blog here, at Blogger.com.

So what should I blog about now. Well, the last period at school started and I'm slowly starting to realise that I don't really have much school left in general. If you don't count the fact that I'll be studying in Williams Business College for about 7 months, starting on October. And I am really looking forward for that time in Sydney. My life will be completely changed really, nothing's the same over there, not even the language. But with an open mind and some adventurous spirit, everything should go ok.

But anyways, I think this is good enough for my first blog entry. See ya all later!