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…but you only live once, right?

Last Wednesday I was chatting with artemis and she mentioned that she was in Warsaw. So, I decided to book flights & pay a visit (for the weekend just gone). This was my first trip to Poland and it really took me by surprise.

I was expecting grey and drab, dull and monotenous, the classic bloc stereotype. However, I found another modern European capital. I feel that you can tell allot about a city based on what advertisements it displays. Warsaw seemed to match advertisements one would see in New York, London, Paris or Brussels (fashion, consumer electronics, &c.).

When someone loses in a certain situation another typically wins. It would appear that Poland are striding ahead while the West worries about recessions and cutbacks. I’m told that Warsaw is the most expensive city in Poland, but it still feels cheap by Western prices. You can’t beat €1 for a glass of beer or shot of Vodka in a local bistro.

In other news, I got an ASUS EeePC 901 on Friday. The thing is a trooper. It lasted a good 7+ hours on Saturday, 2 on the bus reading Heroes comics, 3 in the airport on the internet and then another 2 in the air reading comics again.

Myself and Hugh have started a WLAN project, with the aim of connecting 5 houses in college court. We’re currently waiting on parts from Deal Extreme.

I’ve started driving lessons again. Have one tomorrow.

I’m chair of Clubs and Societies Council this year. It’s a line for the CV, but it means I don’t get to argue and make points in council meetings, which I really enjoyed (and I’m pretty sure everyone else hated).

I suddenly see that I have little to no free time in 4th year, and it’s only going to get worse as my project load increases. I can see myself living in here (AM-061) for the next few weeks.

I’ve started thinking about next year too, and what I’m going to do with myself once I graduate. No hard plans yet.

I’m just after toying with Microsoft’s Photosynth. I only managed to copy 13 photos off my camera before it died, so I’ll have to give it a larger set of photos. At the moment it doesn’t look terribly impressive, it’s just a iPhone-UI-esque 1999 panoramic image viewer. I do like the way you can license the photos under a Creative Commons license, considering recent licensing hiccups.

I’ve been toying with the idea of going to 25C3.