Published by Neil on January 25th, 2010 in Days Out | 1 Comment
Eeek, I have been neglecting this blog majorly again. Only excuse – too much work. Anyway, I took some time out this weekend to go and see Elley and Avenue Q in London and it was hysterical. Go see it, especially people with a dave like sense of humour!

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Published by Neil on January 1st, 2010 in General | 2 Comments

It is -10ºC and a brand new year. A brand new decade and so much is going to be new this coming year. Different, scary, exciting, a good mixture I hope…
My five years at uni are quickly running out (less than half a year to go!) and I can’t believe dad is already discussing graduation plans and dates. I am also going to break my longest standing principle at Easter by prioritising work over a holiday. I have never ever ever done that before, and it is going to break my heart sending twelve eager souls off to Tarifa South Spain for the annual kitesurfing trip with out being one of them. A few weeks from now I will be handing over my society presidency for the same reason. But at least it is one of the things I am most proud of from my years at university. I am pretty sure I have sacrificed the odd percent of a grade here and there for my society involvement but it has been worth it several times over. Incidentally, not dancing this year has been killing me slowly and painfully so I have decided to pass on the kitsurfing but take on some kind of dance class one night a week. I am feeling so stale these days without enough regular sport. I also hope to practice with Sammy again a bit next term and enter an open ballroom competition for a bit of fun before the deadlines come crashing down.
Did I say I was skipping holidays? Well that is a lie because in a few hours I am leaving for Austria will Elley and her parents and sister and sister’s fiancé. The snow isn’t great but it hopefully will be by the time we get there. Europes biggest interconnected ski resort – bring it on!
And then when I get back it is jobs. I have a visit to DCA design to prepare myself for an interview and I need to ring up GE Research in Munich and ask them to get a move on and make a decision. I also hope to be able to approach a product design agency in london with an offer from DCA in hand and try and bribe them into hiring me. All of this whilst doing my IEE and project work. It is going to be busy… especially since I will be visiting Elley in London lots. And especially now she has a tea pot!
Happy New Year everyone =)
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Published by Neil on December 22nd, 2009 in Random | No Comments
Google have recently posted a note on open software, open information and the open internet. It finally explains a fair amount about the business model of Android – something which has mystified many for quite some time – and is generally good reading if you such way inclined…
Tags: Google, Software
Published by Neil on December 1st, 2009 in Days Out | No Comments
It was super great to get nearly everyone in one place round Orsi’s on Saturday. I still can’t believe someone fished out photos from the ball, Barcelona, Prague and all the other weird stuff we have been upto throughout the years. Looking at those, I definately need to get my hair cut soon! Thanks everyone, it wasn’t so hard to sort out so we should so it again.
Tags: Friends, London
Published by Neil on November 30th, 2009 in Random, Uni | 1 Comment
For some reason Wills Memorial is green tonight

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Published by Neil on November 23rd, 2009 in Random | 1 Comment

Visit
cata to find out what this is all about…
Tags: Personality
Published by Neil on November 21st, 2009 in Random | 2 Comments
Hmm, not much written here in a long time. Very bad. Needless to say I am projecting like mad, kitesurfing like crazy and have booked an epic snowbaord holiday for after New Year. Speaking of… I hope people are around in Malmö for NYeve =)
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Published by Neil on October 29th, 2009 in Nights Out | No Comments
By popular demand of my flat mates we all went to a rather random cabaret Halloween show last night. There were acrobats and fire eaters and a woman doing very freaky things with long nails and a hammer. But the best bit was dressing up as someone famous who is dead…


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Published by Neil on October 27th, 2009 in Music | No Comments
Went to phoenix last night at the O2. It was awesome:

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Published by Neil on October 18th, 2009 in Societies | No Comments
No wind again! This is beginning to look like last year on repeat. At least we bought a new set of kite soc buckets and spades to replace the missing ones. And put them to good virgin use burrying Josh…
Tags: Kitesurfing Soc