Tim Bray writes about the decline of his handwriting. I noticed this happening to my own handwriting. When I started making notes for my exams this year, my scribbles seemed far less legible than I remebered. My first exam was shockingly badly written; in fact, I conciously made an effort to improve for the sake of the markers in later exams!

Maybe I should practice some writing each day to get my hand back into the habit, similar to how children practice their writing. It seems a little silly, but perhaps required. It would be rather sad if my writing were to suffer a shoddy fate; especially when it used to be reasonable, or, at least, legible.

I’m sure that, after writing this rant, I’ll be caught out next post. Still, I try my best.

Over the past month I’ve been revising for exams. Whilst reading, I’ve noticed a tendency to be liberal in applying the humble apostrophe to plurals.

The worst culprits are the subjects for which there are many acronyms and abbreviations. This seems to be a veritable minefield. There are innumerable CA’s, GP’s, GA’s, TSS’s and many other examples.

Reading about plans to create private email by various companies to combat so-called phishing scams has piqued my interest: surely there must be a better way to do this than to have an email account for each service that you use? Especially if you have to visit a website to read this email; it’s as if we had to go to the local bank to collect our mail from it!

I have a feeling that the girl who lives in the room below me uses her music as an alarm clock; it seems to come on at nine o’clock each morning. I may have to go downstairs to request that she turns it down a little — so it stops also being my alarm clock.

I knocked out a quick Bluefunk webpage: http://bluefunk.sf.net. It’s quite nice, though the background blue colour is a little funky.

The main problem that is preventing a 0.1 release is that the Gst-sharp bindings as of current SVN appear to be broken and not compiling. This is rather a major problem for a music player. It might be something to do with gtk-sharp 1.9.1 as the compilation dies with a GLib bindings error. The bindings appear not to have been updated for a while, at least on the tree I’m pulling from.