Miss World

While I'm here, I'll just share a little something.



Yep, that's Miss Iceland and she won the pageant in 2006 I believe. This is actually just me playing with the coding. Just thought I would do it with some style.

Yeah, long absence

Yeah, long absence but now I'm back. Ever since exams finished twenty days ago I've been having various amounts of fun in various ways.

One of them is a little prgram called fractal explorer. It's very fun to zoom and zoom and zoom until the computer runs out of decimal places. This is made possible by the rather odd fact that some fractals, namely Julia sets and the Mandelbrot set, amongst others, have infinite complexity, so you can keep zooming and never run out of detail. However, the computer only keeps, oh, 16 decimals I think, so eventually things get blocky. Fractals are a world of colour and form though. Recommended

Big news here is the election. It's only a state election so it doesn't mean all that much, but we all like to do our bit. I'm doing my bit by actually working in a voting centre. It's situated in Millgrove, a little town outside Melbourne but it might as well be on the Moon. My task will be to guard the ballot boxes from the legions of terrorists, respectable politicians and nimrods waiting outside in the peaceful streets, who would like to mess with the results. My title is "Ballot Box Guard" or BBG, which in my language stands for "beastly, bottom-feeding Ger-man". Essentially I will have to sit there all day. I will, however, guard the ballots with my life - democracy is worth a few lives anyway, but I will be powerless to act in an effective manner if the voting centre is hit by nuclear, meteorite or air strike.

I have also been developing my musical talents. Not as an instrument, but as music reading. I had no idea what the little bs and #s were, so now I've found out what they are and how it all works. I'm still learning though.

It's over ...

Exams are finally over, have been over,m in fact, for a week. It's been a good week.

I've embarked on a sort of self education program, with no limiting factors or guidelines. I'm learning a bit about music (sheet music) and I found a website that has some basic Icelandic on in from which I'll learn all I can before buying a book. Needless to say trying to find an Icelandic language school here in Australia is like trying to find water on Mercury.

I've been playing computer games a little bit, but not much actually. Been keeping busy with other stuff. I'm entering all the tunes from our Psalm book into Noteworthy Composer so I can learn them and hear what the parts sound like etc.

Another thing I've been busy with is my university course structure. It's apparently going to be quite a big problem for me to have done an MTE unit instead of MSC, even though it's the same thing. I still don't know what the ultimate outcome will be but one possible future includes me having to do five subjects next semester, and that does nothing for my motivation to go back to uni.

A book I've recently read was on the biography of Richard Feynman. It was a superb read (Genius, by James Gleick), and had a few genuinely clever momnents of humour. So much so I feel like reading it again and writing them down. This is the book that's reinspired me to take education seriously. At the moment I'm reading Chaos, by the same author, which is a history on the origin of Chaos Theory. After/during that I'm also reading "The Biblical Basis for Modern Science" which is probably less dull than it sounds and has extreme relevance to me, even if its stance on creation is flawed.