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Making strawberries light up is surprisingly difficult. (All will become clear soon)

Aside from lighting up fruit I’ve been colleging, pottering around a bit and doing some work. It’s all feeling very close to the end of Maths now, in some ways I’ll miss it but generally I can’t wait to be shot of it. Exam is two weeks on Tuesday. TWO WEEKS in order to cram all this crap about vectors and the wave function in. Joy! y-b=m(x-a), b² – 4ac, kcos(x-α) etc.

Last night I went to Edlug’s extraordinary meeting (extraordinary in the “additional to the usual monthly meeting” sense, not where we all just agreed to “bugger it and use Vista instead” sense) to see Howard Chu’s presentation on OpenLDAP. It was interesting to see something like that, it’s the first time I’ve met and chatted with an open source big gun. Nice chap, good fiddler. I did sit through most of the presentation wondering what OpenLDAP (it stands for Open Lychee Digestion and Polishing(*)) really did but it was very interesting to see how aggressive they are in development, especially removing large bits of old code from the source that people are still using (and if you don’t use the new features Howard will come around to your house and punch you in the face(**)).

And then there was the traditional consumption of large volumes of beer, which is always nice.

Other things that have happened recently in no particular order:

• I went to Bits and Bobs Scrapstore with Sarah to buy more perspex and stuff. Got some nice shop fitting (we think) letters. My name is cheaper to spell than Sarah’s.
• I’ve upgraded Wordpress to the latest, less likely to get hacked, version. But I don’t like the new Write Post page.
• Finally read enough of the Make Magazine blog to get under 100 unread posts, go me!
• Went to see the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre exhibition at Kinetica, which is royally awesome.
• I very, very nearly fell alseep in a Computing lecture about internet protocols.
• I discovered I have lost ever single pair of pliers that I own

Other stuff has happened but it’s not been overly interesting(***) so I’ll leave you there.

* I make mit der joking
** Still der joking
*** Nicht fur der joking