Tue May 25 14:48:20 2004
I have found 30 hidden packages in Portland on GTA3 - thats the first island. I don't think there can be more than 30 in Portland as there are only 100 over all, and the second two islands are both bigger.
Oh wait, GTA Unleashed says there are 33. :( 2 of these however can't be reached until you've opened up the other two islands so thats ok. Not sure where the other 1 is.
Vice City Unleashed is a good resource if you want to find 100 packages in Vice City.
Thu May 20 16:57:29 2004
I am considering academia after I graduate (assuming I have good enough grades; its all up in the air). The three main areas of interest for me are
- Programming Languages
- Compilers
- Operating Systems
As a result, it was nice to see Andrew Tanenbaum commenting on the Tocqueville institute's activities, as he is author of some of the best books on the subject of operating systems, as well as having worked with languages and compilers prior to that.
Tue May 18 12:27:27 2004
The Alexis De Tocqueville institute have played the open source community like a flute to promote their latest work, with their claims that `Linus did not write Linux'. Of course they mean that he did not exclusively write it, which the open source community knows all too well, and yet there are still loads of `outraged' blog posts about the subject. (This is a calm one).
I am in the process of failing my finals.
Thu May 13 14:18:07 2004
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is a terrific film, which I highly recommend seeing. Read obsess.com for a pretty good description of it (although I disagree about the ending).
There is NO CINEMA in the city of Durham. Potential applicants beware! The council vetoed closing down an independent cinema turning over a respectable profit; despite protests by the residents, students (united perhaps only on this one issue) AND police; to build ANOTHER drinking establishment. We even got a pop-up out-door URINAL in the middle of the high street as a thank-you from the pub chain in question.