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It’s Disney taking the piss out of Disney. Fantastic.

Truuuue loooove’s kiiiiiss.

As you may of may not know, next year I’m living in a place called The Junxion with a few friends. We’ve decided to go a bit above and beyond the usual student flat with printed photographs Blu-Tacked to the wall by heading to everyone’s favourite Swedish store, IKEA.

The trouble is all the cool stuff we really want to get, like better lighting, shelves, artwork, hanging rods for kitchenware and so on rely on us drilling holes into the wall, which will probably upset accommodation.

We’ll just try make the flat look so good they don’t care.

It is with great pleasure that I announce that I’ve finally gotten around to recreating The Drama Society’s logo in glorious vector format, meaning that we can scale it up indefinitely for great victory!

I took the original, small and somewhat low quality JPEG we had (Since the original creator of the logo either didn’t leave us a high quality version, or it has become misplaced somewhere) and then ramped up the scale, despeckled, sharpened it and converted it to PNG in The GIMP. I then had a marginally better quality version to load into Inkscape and use the ‘trace bitmap’ feature on. Sadly this left behind some very wobbly edges due to scaling, so it was out with the path editing tool and some heavy-handed deleting of spline points. I think the result is quite good.

No, I am not going to tell you how to do this.

I have recently discovered that the library security at Lincoln can be easily defeated using nothing more than a simple, freely available online tool. This allows you to enter the library simply by knowing a valid Student ID number (All undergraduate student email addresses begin with these), and check books back in which aren’t actually there.

This is not good.

I’ve got too much data. 460GB isn’t enough to store it all, I need a bigger hard disk.

Bring on the 2TB external drive!

Well, my last assessment is handed in. I have one demonstration of my website to go, and one exam.

I also have to find a job.

After writing 1500 words on it, I can safely say that Systems Thinking is yet another instance of consultants coming up with a set of convenient buzzwords and terms to explain something at £500 an hour that I could explain in 10 minutes for free.

I acknowledge that there is a need for people to sit back and look at things like processes and systems in order to better understand and improve them. What I don’t get is why it has to be wrapped up in endless diagrams, words that nobody else understands, and marketed as a silver bullet to solve all business woes.

Systems thinking is an approach to analysis that is based on the belief that the component parts of a system will act differently when isolated from its environment or other parts of the system.

That’s it in a nutshell. Wikipedia rules. I have somehow managed to drag that sentence into a 1500 word report. It’s like UML all over again, but with fewer boxes.

I’m off to submit 42 pages of work. Normally 42 pages would be a huge essay or report, perhaps extensive technical documentation. No.

I’m submitting 9 pages of report, and 33 pages of printed code. Almost 4/5 of my submission is something which does bugger all when printed, and would make far more sense to submit on a CD.

Stupidity rules.