Greetings everyone
so today is my last day in austria. I am currently taking a break from packing the luggage.
It has been great here. the last week was pretty hectic. Parties had to be done, I needed to get all the paperwork and stamps from the school, prepare for my trip home.
It was hard. but know I have everything and it is a mere matter of catching my plane.
Also did a lot of fun stuff this last week.
On tuesday I went to Linz with carina. very beautiful city and we also visited the alps. well the beginning of it.
Normally we would climb them aswell but we were a bit short on time. It was a great day. I really got an austrian feeling there, and the air there was wonderful. Since I have astma I really notice pollution in the air and I could breath there. fantastic
then I also had a party at my flat. That was ... different. I had a little drinking contest with martin. Whiskey cola. First time I had whiskey btw. So after 5 glasses I just crashed. I was beat.
But martin was fine! he didn't have anything. He rigged the drinks. has to be. He just had cola. I had the whiskey with some cola for color. Yup, that's it.
Then yesterday there was also a party at domus. Was also very fun. met some new people.
That stuff always happens on the last day. It's pretty hard to say : nice meeting you, see you never again.
Oh well. Guess I'll live.
for the project, everything goes along great. I got my grades on the internship. 17/20
not bad eh.
Well i'm off now. have some more packing to do.
I will report back on wednesday, then I know if I passed the entire year and then I can tell how the jury on monday went.
greetings!
Friday, June 27, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Meh
Greets!
So I have some bad news. I wasn't able to attend novarock, too bad .
why do you ask ? well Marion, my ride there fell sick the day before so we weren't able to go. Very unfortunate but nothing you can do about it.
so other news
the project is finished! Squid has been running since yesterday and so far so good. the project isn't online for 24h and we already have 12000 entries... neat huh :D
Also , newsflash i'm bored... very
I have paperwork to do but I don't want to.
Bleh!
listening to: Nirvana - Blew
So I have some bad news. I wasn't able to attend novarock, too bad .
why do you ask ? well Marion, my ride there fell sick the day before so we weren't able to go. Very unfortunate but nothing you can do about it.
so other news
the project is finished! Squid has been running since yesterday and so far so good. the project isn't online for 24h and we already have 12000 entries... neat huh :D
Also , newsflash i'm bored... very
I have paperwork to do but I don't want to.
Bleh!
listening to: Nirvana - Blew
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Hurr ruurrr
So greetings!
Well last time I talked about the BBQ, didn't happen..
It was raining freakin sideways! I think my oh it hurts.. post overdid it a bit.
I did attend a little party on thursday, spent the evening at mau's place, drinking white wine with cola. wasn't that bad. hits like a hammer after an hour though.
it was great. played some drunken darts, Ended up second. and I didn't throw it into anyone's eye.
not that I know of but hey.
The weekend was pretty hectic. It turned out my thesis was due last monday while I thought it was the 16th. Yeah great going steve. you genius. Turns out that was the date my girlfriend had to deliver her thesis... woops..
Anyway! so for this week. deploying the Squid! I'm really excited about it. I've been running a test config for weeks now so I don't expect any major difficulties but you never know with software. then for the weekend I'll be attending Novarock!
It's going to be awesome. They do foresee a lot of rain but that might be a benefit on a festival. I am worried about my camera though ... we'll see , stay optimistic as marion told me. which is a good idea. but you should ask yourself how optimistic can you be without it turning into being pure hopefull.
I mean being optimistic is like going to the store and thinking that the whole cart won't be more then 80 €.
But going out with a girl thinking you'll get some tonight if hopefull..
yeah I'm deep as the ocean baby!
you probably won't see me till next monday orso so I bid you farewell, be good and have fun :-D
signing out
Well last time I talked about the BBQ, didn't happen..
It was raining freakin sideways! I think my oh it hurts.. post overdid it a bit.
I did attend a little party on thursday, spent the evening at mau's place, drinking white wine with cola. wasn't that bad. hits like a hammer after an hour though.
it was great. played some drunken darts, Ended up second. and I didn't throw it into anyone's eye.
not that I know of but hey.
The weekend was pretty hectic. It turned out my thesis was due last monday while I thought it was the 16th. Yeah great going steve. you genius. Turns out that was the date my girlfriend had to deliver her thesis... woops..
Anyway! so for this week. deploying the Squid! I'm really excited about it. I've been running a test config for weeks now so I don't expect any major difficulties but you never know with software. then for the weekend I'll be attending Novarock!
It's going to be awesome. They do foresee a lot of rain but that might be a benefit on a festival. I am worried about my camera though ... we'll see , stay optimistic as marion told me. which is a good idea. but you should ask yourself how optimistic can you be without it turning into being pure hopefull.
I mean being optimistic is like going to the store and thinking that the whole cart won't be more then 80 €.
But going out with a girl thinking you'll get some tonight if hopefull..
yeah I'm deep as the ocean baby!
you probably won't see me till next monday orso so I bid you farewell, be good and have fun :-D
signing out
Monday, June 2, 2008
Long overdue
So greetings everyone
been a long long looong time since I made a post. but i'm going to make up for by a long post.
So what have I been up to lately. well nothing out of the extraordinary. I took a trip with the ISN to burgenland. Not as cool as it sounds but it was a very beautiful environment. you find some pictures and movies on the links to the right. Feel free to have a look. Once we were there we took a bike trip through the vineyards and those things are huge. also because of the hot weather that day I got a bit of a sunburn. nothing too bad but enough to get me some red skin and irritations for a few days. the boat trip was ... different. the boat would take us up a lake , and cross the hungarian border. very beautiful view and the wind was awesome. especially if you're burned :-D
then we also got a BBQ on the boat. good meat! and free wine. this was a bit of set back for me. I don't really like wine but I do like free stuff so I had 5 glasses. and I was in good shape. well statistics for that trip: 16-18 ISN people, 2 hour boat trip. 12 bottles of wine. Yeah, not bad huh.
well we paid 30€ for that trip. that includes lunch, the bikes, the boat, the BBQ and the bus trip there and back. We had to earn that money SOMEWHERE. and the idea of picking wine grapes for 30€ did not appeas me. Well not in their unprocessed form :-)
As for the rest, the usual. watch some movies. hang out. take a little walk and work.
Speaking of work that is going awesome. I completed the bulk of the project so now I'm throwing in some new shiny features like a Perl script that has some of the more common queries for the database and gets them for you at the press of a button.
Well the idea behind it is simpel. the more you do yourself, the less an other person can fuck up.
Also a big achievement I'm kind off proud of is my SQLDaemon script. the Perl script opens a FIFO, waits for input and when it comes , formats the input and inserts them into the database and then waits for some more input. It's like a taiwanese hooker when the navy is in town!
Squid doesn't support databases by default so I had to make a work around for it that proved to be quite stable.which is a good thing. Should anyone out there want the script for making Squid write to a PostgreSQL database... let me know. It might not be the best coding but it works and you don't have to do it anymore.
Currently it's only 4 more weeks and then back to home. Although St Pölten is a pretty dull city I will miss it. the easy going here got me kind off attached.
There are a few events planned for this week and the next.
wednesday there will be a BBQ for the ISN students, free. So I'm going .. duh!
I'm planning on inviting some friends here for a movie night or a drinking party or something. I'm hoping that there will be a party soon and then we can warm up here. I have 2 fridges of beer that need emptying. I swear they will be empty by the time I leave! that or I enter the plane drunk from the left overs. should prove interesting... Michiel will stand up for his homies. I hope
So that's it for today. i'll report back on wednesday and let you know how the BBQ was.
Oh and to the people of belgium.. how's the weather ? Heat wave in austria bitches! Oh it hurts doesn't it, it hurts ... *happy dance*
See you around!
Currently listening to: Nirvana - Lounge act
been a long long looong time since I made a post. but i'm going to make up for by a long post.
So what have I been up to lately. well nothing out of the extraordinary. I took a trip with the ISN to burgenland. Not as cool as it sounds but it was a very beautiful environment. you find some pictures and movies on the links to the right. Feel free to have a look. Once we were there we took a bike trip through the vineyards and those things are huge. also because of the hot weather that day I got a bit of a sunburn. nothing too bad but enough to get me some red skin and irritations for a few days. the boat trip was ... different. the boat would take us up a lake , and cross the hungarian border. very beautiful view and the wind was awesome. especially if you're burned :-D
then we also got a BBQ on the boat. good meat! and free wine. this was a bit of set back for me. I don't really like wine but I do like free stuff so I had 5 glasses. and I was in good shape. well statistics for that trip: 16-18 ISN people, 2 hour boat trip. 12 bottles of wine. Yeah, not bad huh.
well we paid 30€ for that trip. that includes lunch, the bikes, the boat, the BBQ and the bus trip there and back. We had to earn that money SOMEWHERE. and the idea of picking wine grapes for 30€ did not appeas me. Well not in their unprocessed form :-)
As for the rest, the usual. watch some movies. hang out. take a little walk and work.
Speaking of work that is going awesome. I completed the bulk of the project so now I'm throwing in some new shiny features like a Perl script that has some of the more common queries for the database and gets them for you at the press of a button.
Well the idea behind it is simpel. the more you do yourself, the less an other person can fuck up.
Also a big achievement I'm kind off proud of is my SQLDaemon script. the Perl script opens a FIFO, waits for input and when it comes , formats the input and inserts them into the database and then waits for some more input. It's like a taiwanese hooker when the navy is in town!
Squid doesn't support databases by default so I had to make a work around for it that proved to be quite stable.which is a good thing. Should anyone out there want the script for making Squid write to a PostgreSQL database... let me know. It might not be the best coding but it works and you don't have to do it anymore.
Currently it's only 4 more weeks and then back to home. Although St Pölten is a pretty dull city I will miss it. the easy going here got me kind off attached.
There are a few events planned for this week and the next.
wednesday there will be a BBQ for the ISN students, free. So I'm going .. duh!
I'm planning on inviting some friends here for a movie night or a drinking party or something. I'm hoping that there will be a party soon and then we can warm up here. I have 2 fridges of beer that need emptying. I swear they will be empty by the time I leave! that or I enter the plane drunk from the left overs. should prove interesting... Michiel will stand up for his homies. I hope
So that's it for today. i'll report back on wednesday and let you know how the BBQ was.
Oh and to the people of belgium.. how's the weather ? Heat wave in austria bitches! Oh it hurts doesn't it, it hurts ... *happy dance*
See you around!
Currently listening to: Nirvana - Lounge act
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