Entries from February 2008 ↓
February 24th, 2008 — Friends, IF ITB
Just want to let you all know that if01 aggregator has been updated with the new Feedwordpress plugin. One of the most important bug that now has been fixed is “The ‘A’-only entries from wordpress-based syndicated site”.
So, starting from now, we can enjoy posts from:
And, last but definitely not least, warm welcome to: Ridho “Akihiro” Akhiro - steps of an akihiro, who has just arrived at Melbourne, Australia, to start his master degree at the University of Melbourne.
TODO:
- Update Wordpress, I’m now too lazy to update to newest Wordpress 2.3.3.
- New heads for new authors. While I’m at it, use the (currently empty) head page.
- Fill in that empty bubble in the title of the site (any suggestion?). That is, decide on the title of the site to replace the generic “if01 aggregator).
Keep on posting guys (and girls)!
PS: If you are a member of if01 and would like to be part of this site, please contact raizamn[at]gmail·com
February 24th, 2008 — TV Shows, Thessaloniki GR
Yes this is another rant about me delaying things. Definitely unhealthy. I’m a little bit jealous about someone who managed to finish things. While we are in similar conditions, I am already on my second semester and haven’t improved much.
I even made my own personal record. I made a 3-paged paper in only around 8 hours! I had two weeks to finish that assignment and I did it on the last day. This semester, I have two group assignments so far and I became the bottleneck in both. Another group assignment is due in the middle of next month. My individual assignment will due in next week. I will have another class (and most likely another assignment) next week. I still have to think about what to do for dissertation (6-month-project master thesis), and where I will actually do it. Reading or Madrid are more interesting than Thessaloniki. But for Reading, it’s quite hard to find a professor to become a supervisor since most of their expertise are network (due to the name of the course) and I’m quite new in this network thingy.
And I’m now watching the new series Knight Rider. So far it’s cool enough even it’s quite bland. I can almost taste the smell of Smallville (in the season four or five, where everything feels like it is repeated over and over again). The acting is mediocre, but the familiar revamped bum-bada-bada-bum theme sound is nostalgic and refreshing at the same time. The new series predominantly feature more candy eye in terms of special effect to show-off the new KITT (rebranded as Knight Industries Three Thousand). The bullet-proof feature and the ability to switch appearance (color and model morphing plus the famous license plate switch–now morph) boasted by the car now look more realistic and the car itself does look cool and modern (it’s a new Ford Mustang).
There are subtleties that the show is more directed at a liberal-minded audience. Firstly, the main protagonist (the son of the original Michael Knight) is first depicted as losing faith in monogamous relationship (and shown to prefer threesome) although he had deep connection with the daughter of KITT’s creator. Second, the main female FBI agent is hinted to be a homosexual (or is it just me?). And lastly, the show had a premiere on the Playboy mansion. But worry not, no vulgar or explicit scenes shown on the 80 minutes pilot episode. Moreover, I believe that these sexual hints are not to be emphasised more on the next episodes. If you are going to watch this episode, watch out for a very special cameo near the end!
Now Boost me!
February 14th, 2008 — Current Events, Environment, Pictures, Thessaloniki GR
February 12th, 2008 — Environment, Erasmus Mundus, Language, Thessaloniki GR, Travel
Tonight, while I was having my dinner in the university cafeteria (Greek students have lunch and dinner for free), I saw a man reading a French newspaper. After I finished my potatoes (my first serving) and beans (second serving, we can have as many food as we can, I’ve seen a guy had 4 servings!), finally I managed to say “Excusez-moi, Monsieur, vous etes francais?”
It turned out that he is a Moroccan. When we exchanged few words, I kept using “Ne” (Ναι), which is “yes” in Greek, instead of “Oui”. (Sigh) I must practice my French again.
Basically, we agreed that living in Greece is very difficult mainly because of the language. I told him that I am an Indonesian student and just arrived one month ago. He told me that he came to the cafeteria because the food is free (they don’t even check who you are, I can see a lot of people who I think most definitely not student). We talked for just a brief moment.
What amazes me is that, minutes before I finished my dinner and spoke to the Moroccan in French (and mistakenly used a Greek word), I listened to a learning Spanish podcast (from CoffeeBreakSpanish) taught in English with a heavy Scottish accent. So how’s that for an international environment?
(And I can still remember my IELTS teacher told me that I am too old to learn a new language)
February 12th, 2008 — Site
Someone told me that my previous post titled “Area of a Triangle” has its comments disabled. Sorry for that and the commenting feature is now enabled. I’m still trying to use MarsEdit to write my posts and I must have had some wrong settings.
So, looking forward to having your comments 
February 11th, 2008 — Erasmus Mundus, Reading UK, Study, Thessaloniki GR
One of my teacher mentioned that he would like us to somehow measure the area of a triangle. Not any triangle, but a special triangle, the one whose points are from the countries of each members of our assignment groups. So far, I had already three group assignments, the group arrangement for one was decided by the lecturers and the other two were decided by the students ourselves.
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