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Blogger lost my last post..Oh well thats what you get when you rely on others..

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My group project for SE is going pretty badly. Out of three emails I was meant to get today I only got one. Anyway I think I might scrape through with a pass for SE. It’s very strange I might do a lot better in Into to Digital Systems then in Software Engineering. There I was thinking I was a software guy. I have got high marks in all the previous Software subjets but not in this one. And badly in all the electrical subjects upto IDS maybe I am changing. Or maybe I just don’t work well in groups.

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I am quite tired today. I think I didn’t sleep well last night.
I got busted in a lecture today it was amusing. It was IDS and I made some comment about why we were being taught irrelevent crap. Anyway the lecture walked up to me I was in the back and asked me my name. And asked if I had any manners. I said I did but that there tollerence had been exceeded. Anyway it was all kind of ammusing..
I am sitting in a lab now waiting for my comm networks lab.

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I went to church at Turramurra Uniting Church again tonight. It was good. It was a lot greater then the sum of its parts. The sermon was a bit long and the music leader went on a bit too much for my taste but I felt comfortable there. I think I shall to make it my home. I don’t want to just settle for what is easiest but I think that Turramurra will be good for me. It is a bit evangelical but thats good because I am totally not at all. It also has the free vibe where people can say whats troubling them. It doesn’t pretend life should be easy which I think a lot of churches do. Howie and Adam came with me tonight. It was actually quite good that way. One it gives me some more critical analysis and two it was still good with them there.

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I went to Penrith today to visit my sick Nana. I love my Nana she is really really nice. She has been a bit sick lately she is in hospital at the moment recovering from a partial hip replacement. She has also had the shingles and a stomach wog. She still has her sense of humor which is good.

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Re last post I think keeping one self busy can be a sign of trying to stop being unhappy because you don’t have time to think. I don’t think that’s a good solution. My reason for wanting to be bussier is that I waste a lot of time doing things like writting in this blog.

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I think helping people with the IDS stuff was a step in the right direction for my own personal happiness. It may seem strange but helping people is really satisfying. It’s even better when your just some stranger in the course who happens to be in a position to help. Plus it keeps me busier. I have thought about doing official tutoring but I feel like it would comprimise my ability to help people. I think it is nicer to be helped but someone just random. Then again thinking back to Angel Season 1 Episode 4 “I fall to pieces” it could be better for people if I was just doing it as a job. I wouldn’t want to teach from someone elses lesson plan though. I’d want to do helpfull stuff. Plus I don’t know if I could deal with a whole classroom full of people. Plus I can’t draw properly on a blackboard. It could be a bit much for me. I don’t know how helpfull I’d be. I couldn’t get Jay’s thing to work which is still anoying me a LOT. I’ll have think more about it.

I might also see if people want more help with the IDS assignment 3.

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I went to see Punch Drunk Love with Adam tonight. It was bloody brillant. I think Paul Thomas Anderson is the man. He brings reality into his movies. They just feel more real. But damn I am depressed now. That’s the problem with reality it’s a bit depressing. The movie did have a happy ending though which is good. I just want to know when I’ll get one of those.

I used to think all you need is love and that you’ll find the person your meant to be with but now I just don’t know. It’s been along time between drinks for me more then 6 years. I have been looking so long for the perfect woman for me. But I don’t know if that’s going to happen. A friend told me that the guy that she is marring wasn’t the “ideal husband” but she’d never find the ideal one. She loves the guy which is good and they’ll be happy but I don’t like the idea of settling for imperfection. I am not saying I want the person to be perfect but I want there imperfections to be what completes it for me. Most of all though I just want to find someone who I can trust and love completly and who wants my love. I don’t want to seek to hard for the woman because I feel like the whole dating scene is slezzy and unsuitted to me.

On a side point when I get into a relationship I don’t want to be a jealous boyfriend type. I want my partner to be able to freely act and have close plutonic realationships with other men.

Anyway I think I’ll leave the women side of things to fate/God.

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It pays to have lots of text and be in search engines. I have got a lot of strange referals from search engines. It is very cool. I’ve got visiters from all over the world too. I think web stats are the kind of thing you should only check every so often..

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Oh well I spent a few more hours today helping Jay with her CPLD design I think her board may be hexed. She suggested that we had hexed it early this week by loading a hex file onto it. I guess that could be why. Anyway I then had to go into Uni it took about three hours by the time I got there printed out a statement of originality brought myself a stapler found my tut number and got home again. So much work.

I hate Statements of originality. They are cover pages you have to print out and sign to say you did the assignment yourself. The Uni rules already state that copying is bad so why should I have to sign an extra bit of paper. Bunch of morons.

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Hello sorry for the lack of posts yesterday.. I was busy at Uni helping people with IDS stuff. Then I went to the Matrix Reloaded, it was a great visual experience. The script was a little week in points but the fight scenes were utter brillience. They redifiened how to do fight scenes. Anyway it was a good experience. See what Tom /a> and Howie have to say about it. Anyway I have to go now to work to fix something and then to Jays to help her out and then to uni to hand in a report. So until next time stay well my blog readers..

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Today I went into to Uni to help people and do my demo.
Xilinx is totally flaky. At least the versions at uni. The engineering network was down for a while which was a pain.
I helped people for about four hours. Some of them had quite interesting designs. Some where doomed to failure. It’s pretty hard to design a system if you don’t know any theory. Anyway it was good to help people out.

Anyway I did my demo. My board was a bit flaky but I bluffed my way through. The simulation was also totally dodgy. But I managed to get 8 out of 8 so I am happy.. I can relax now and get ready for the Matrix Reloaded tommorow.

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And I got my timmer to work too.. Maybe it’s bed time now..

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Thank you world.. I now have a board that works.. With Jay’s programer board and some helpful hints burried in a discusion board I was able to program my fully working design into my cpld.. How cool is that. First go and it worked.. God bless simulation!!!!!
My problems were
1) The windrv.vxd file had been uninstalled and not reinstalled.
2) The Xilinix software (v4.2) has a bug with my cpld which causes it not to behave properly when programing the cpld. The auto erasing doesn’t work.
3) Winpicprog is a DOG!!
4) Connect the right wires..

I now just need to setup a new clock..

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I am sitting in the Comm Networks lab waiting for my lab partner. I tried to install pheonix but it wouldn’t work on windows or linux. In linux I got xpdf on and opera 6.12. Which is what I am writting this in. My text window is really really small. Anyway I might stop blogging now in this very small text box. I want them to update this system damn them.

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