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I’m learning Koine Greek at the moment and found a great guide on getting your computer setup to type greek. At least I was learning greek until I got back home after the christmas break and promptly got snowed under with work which had been piling up while I ate mince pies and sang christmas carols!

Anyway I should be on top of it all by the start of next week so it’s not that bad. For those of you who are interested in what I’m going to be studying at Warwick here’s a link to some course notes  which I’m reading through in preparation.

What an interesting year it has been. We missed out on Euro 2008, made up for it in the Olympics and of course it was the year of the credit crunch. On a more personal note I finally finished my degree this year.

Just when you thought 2008 was over astronomers decided to make us wait even longer for 2009 to start by adding an extra leap second to 2008.

Anyway Happy New Year everybody!

Have a great Christmas everybody!

Take a moment to remember what we’re celebrating at Christmas

Went to see Oxford University play Cambridge University at Twickenham today. It was an exiting game that Oxford won 33-29.

I’ve never been to a rugby match before and it was a great experiance.

I got my final degree results this week from the Open University.

They were good enough for Warwick University, so I’ll be starting a research PhD in Computer Science next year.

I played the front nine at a very wet Brailsford Golf Course on Wednesday.

The picture is from behind the right bunker on the first hole.

I got my first par score on hole 4 which is a par 3 so I was quite pleased with myself.

Golf is one of those sports where even if you are playing pretty awfully (which I am most of the time) it is still great fun.

I’ve finally come up with a revision plan for my exams in October. I’ve taken the specimen exam this week and as there aren’t any past papers I’m re-reading the 12 textbooks and then taking the specimen again.

Hopefully this will show up the areas which I’ll be needing to work hard on in the last week leading up to the exams.

As I finished another OU assignment yesterday, I only have two more assignments and two more exams until I’ve finished my OU degree.

As I’ve been doing a lot of python programming recently it’s been wierd trying to get back into Java programming for the assignments. Using Netbeans does make the transisition a little easier as it always reminds me when I’ve left out a semi-colon here and a “}” there.

I had to get an extension for this assignment because of the exam revision for M366 taking up a lot of time, however it’s finished now and I can concentrate on finishing off the two remaining courses.

I’ve just go back from taking my final exam for M366 Artificial intelligence. It was a tough exam but I think I’ve done ok.

Just two courses left before my final final exams in September and then I’ve completed the honours degree!

I think I’ll go watch Italy and France play football and relax now…

Smokin Aces put two teams in for the M5 division of the British Leg of the European Millennium Series.

I was part of the Smokin Aces Extreme team, we won 8 out of 12 games.

Videos follow after the jump…

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The Smokin’ Aces came third in the UK Masters Lite Xball May ‘08 tournament.

Here’s a couple of photos: