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Valentine’s Card

Published on 9th of February, 2010 in Life. 4 Comments Tags: , .

So this turned up in the post (along with three large boxes of stationary and six boxes for my dad – I wonder how long those have been hanging around for. Still waiting on some of my own stuff though; grr). It has one hit on Google, from two years ago tomorrow.

Featured this on the cover (well, minus an H):

Chemical structure of theobromine

And this inside:

We could model the compounds in chocolate,
Trace the genomes in any bouquet,
Or offer a market assessment
Of the future of Valentine’s day

We could fill both your ears with the music of spheres,
And we would, if it helped us to say
That we love MIT with a passion
And we hope that you’ll join us some day.

Congratulations and welcome to MIT!

Is this typical in the US? Seems kinda odd. I liked it though! I’ve never received any Valentine’s anythings, even if identical ones were sent to a couple thousand other people. It was signed though.

There will, of course, now be at least two hits for this on Google…

Filler

Published on 14th of April, 2008 in AjaxLife, Blog and Life. 35 Comments Tags: , , , .

I haven’t actually posted anything in a while. This is because during holidays I take a break from doing anything productive whatsoever.

AjaxLife updates will resume soonish, as soon as I get the backlog of schoolwork out of the way – although development will remain sluggish until mid-June or so, when I’m finished with all my exams and such. But IE6-in-corporate-environment users, I have not forgotten you! Stay tuned for fixes!

Oh, and I have a fancy new computer. Woohoo. Here’s a nice pair of screenshots:

Or, at least, here would be a nice pair of screenshots if WordPress 2.5′s upload facility wasn’t broken with calls to ctype_digit (which doesn’t exist) – what’s wrong with is_numeric (in fact, the patch to rectify the error just replaces all instances of ctype_digit with is_numeric – but I’m far too lazy to do that myself)?

Anyway. Blah blah blah. Exams suck, coursework moreso. Also, this is the first post with tags attached in a while.

Away for a week

Published on 8th of February, 2008 in AjaxLife and Life. 2 Comments

I’m going to be away for a week. Somebody send me an email tomorrow morning (GMT) reminding me to put AjaxLife’s latest code on my laptop.

Stupid proxies

Published on 21st of January, 2008 in AjaxLife and Life. 25 Comments

I’ve worked out why I can’t use AjaxLife at school.

You have attempted to access the following web page:

http://static.ajaxlife.net/AjaxLife.Libs.IE6.js

Access has been blocked because:
Page content filters applied – score = 7576

Since this file contains only prototype.js, scriptaculous and ExtJS, I haven’t a clue why it’s been blocked. It is annoying, however.

Happy New Year!

Published on 1st of January, 2008 in Life. 1 Comment Tags: .

Happy New Year to the UK!

(and exactly on time, too)

Birthday

Published on 26th of December, 2007 in Life. 10 Comments Tags: , , .

Forgot about this in my last post:

It’s my birthday today. I’m 16 now. Yay!

On an unrelated note, I’m looking set for a £100 phone bill without having made any calls. Boo.

Somewhat less internetless

Published on 26th of December, 2007 in Life. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

It appears that I can get an Internet connection – provided I pay either £10/MB for roaming GPRS on my iPhone, or £10.10/hour for a wifi connection on the boat I’m on. At 4kB/s, at best.

That said, I’m hanging around on MSN. MSN katharine@katharineberry.co.uk if you want to talk to me.

Oh, and if you’re wondering, I wrote this on my iPhone – WPhone doesn’t use much bandwidth, but writing posts takes time. And GPRS is faster.

Internetless for a week.

Published on 22nd of December, 2007 in Life. 4 Comments Tags: , .

Bye! See you in a week’s time! :P

:(

Development, holidays and stuff

Published on 16th of December, 2007 in AjaxLife, Life and Second Life. 0 Comments

Holidasy: I’m on holiday. As such, I’m somewhat less likely to get any messages you try to send me. Next week I won’t get any at all. Sorry about that.

Development: AjaxLife’s source has now been commented, at least to some degree. Client-side’s done, server is still to do. I have some nice things to add in the near future as well. Stability is a work-in-progress. :P

Stuff: A couple of days ago someone told me “Nobody would care if I called you Meredith.” – this may well be true, but it seems a somewhat random comment. In any case, it’s one of the few things from two days ago I actually remember, so I decided to put it down here.

Oh, and running WindLight on my laptop gives me the following highly encouraging message:
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It still manages to run faster than the standard client anyway, so meh. (20 FPS instead of 12 – with “Low” settings. Or 12 with “medium” + local lights.

Oh, more stuff: TSL Profiles is back. I’m going to put up some help pages in the new future so people can work out how to use it.

Going away for a bit.

Published on 14th of December, 2007 in AjaxLife and Life. 1 Comment Tags: .

I’m going to be hanging around in various middle-eastern countries for the next two weeks. I’ll have filtered internet access in one and none in the other. Expect even less activity than normal, and expect no AjaxLife access at all.

Bye!