The time has come..

...for me to start on my two home-exams tomorrow for my courses. Of course the seven projects I have to finish for these are not done either, but luckily we do not have any deadline on them currently so from now on the home-exams are my number uno priority as they have to be handed in no later than friday. I have my hopes up as a PhD at the institution who had previously taken both the course (or was it maybe just one of them) commented that the home exams are fairly easy, and the professor supervising the two courses told us we should be able to finish them off within a few hours for each. I haven't had any home exams before but my guess is that they are supposed to be an equivalent of an ordinary exam, taking from 2 to maybe even 10 hours to finish in worst cases, only difference is that you do it from home. Of course they questions aren't the same as you would expect on a written exam as we have internet and books for our use at any time writing this exam, but I am fairly confident in at least one of the courses that I will do good, the dynamical astronomy course. For the second course, statistical and numerical tools in astronomy I most of us are not very confident on the contents of the course still, but what you don't know you can always read up on!

I have acquired my new external harddrive and mobile phone now, actually it was a while ago now but I have forgotten to mention it, and I love them both. The external harddrive is already set-up to do backups on my essential data such as pictures, school stuff, my other written texts and music and more. It feels safe to have it.
The C905 mobile is almost as I anticipated it. It didn't feel as large as I thought it would, but using it was not as easy as I had anticipated. I mean sure the camera in it is really good, but it takes a bit of effort and luck to get those perfect photos you want. Never the less, you get adequate photos anyway for most of the time, without doubt good enough to send to the photo shop to print them out as any standard camera photo. I take a bunch of photos, but for now I am too lazy to upload the picture to the computer. But guess what? My laptop is on the way and it should be landing in my lap sometime late next week. When I have that working I can easily stream my photos to the laptop using the built-in bluetooth, and with its arrival I will have what I need in terms of electronics. All I need to get now is some sort of skin or bag for the laptop to protect it from scratches.

Fredrik's small netbook arrived earlier this week also and I am amazed at how powerful the little thing actually is. Sure it is no match to my laptop, but for its size it can handle a bit of work anyhow. This along with the great battery-time of ~7h makes is nearly too delicious to resist, unfortunately it has no connectors for tv-out signals of any sorts which I have great use for in the apartment. But I won't whine about it, I am confident I will enjoy my new computer. The only thing that makes the difference is actually the size, I think I will be annoyed with the small 10' screen. But I will surely be thinking about buying one next time at least, but for the lifetime of the new monster I am waiting for I will have what I need.

Until next time, cheers!

It's magical!

Yesterday was a day dedicated to relaxing, relaxing in terms of trying to kill opponents using cards invoked with immence powers of pain and destruction. I am of course talking about the old classical "Magic: The gathering" game. Of course my cards were very basic compared to my opponents, my old cards are gone since long now so I have to start over. But as you see now my deck is at least looking...big.
The magical cards on display, glistering and shining with power ready to be sent upon some unlucky foe. ..and for all magic games you of course need: a table, cards and a number of opponents. In this case we were five people playing, either in 1vs1 games, all five in one single game or team-play. Well tomorrow it is only studies that will be on this fellows mind, time is running short for the courses.

Happy new year

Yes, I wish you all a happy new year and I hope you have had a good start on it already along with a merry christmas celebration! I had myself a good celebration last night for the new year, and with that the dawn of the international year of Astronomy. Unfortunately I have no pictures from it as my mobile is delayed so I have to wait another couple of days, but then I will have in my hands an awesome piece of modern machinery. I find it very elegant and nice looking and the 8.1 MP camera inside it is high-class from what I have heard in reviews and from trying it out myself. Can't wait to get it!
What also got delayed was my external harddrive which I ordered a couple of days ago, but unfortunately it got stuck in the post office central in Jönköping due to the holidays around new years. I had planned to use it for the new year's celebration to bring my music with me, but unfortunately those plans were sacked. But it is coming here soon enough, can't be more than a few days at least. Doesn't it look fancy eh?

And yes, christmas has passed. Mostly I got money and things but one thing extra-ordinary is my new highly advanced calculator. I have already worked a little with it and its wonderful. An advanced piece of machinery as well!

The last thing on my check list now is a laptop, unfortunately this is delayed as well as I want to collect some information about the laptop I have selected first hand. So what I am waiting for now is the workers at the shop to answer my mail with my questions and then it is ready.

But now I will return to my sofa for some movie, this day will not be very productive unfortunately. But tomorrow I have to start working again, I've fallen behind well enough during the christmas holidays. This is me logging off, again