Lauren Dempster

I rarely feel the need to pass comment on articles I see on the Internet, however I recently read this article on BBC news about the film The Golden Compass.

Bypassing the hatred I feel on calling the film by its name (it will always be Northern Lights to me). The annoyance I felt about this article is summed up by the following quote:

The three-part series culminates in an epic battle in which God dies - at the hand of a child.

Not true. Just not true in the least bit. Yes God dies, but not at the hands of our heroine, more in the arms of our heroine. She is helping him, and doesn’t even know that this angel, is actually God.

Little by little I have noticed the standards of BBC news (especially their website falling), sentences that don’t make sense, spelling mistakes, inaccuracies, were they always this bad? or do I compare the BBC to a rose-tinted version of the BBC, that they never were?

Hey folks, I guess I won’t bother giving a huge update on all the stuff that has happened between May (my last post) and now. The basics are that I graduated, moved to Edinburgh and have started working.
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Finally made the changes to the blog that I meant to do at the very beginning. Now my webpress blog looks a bit more like my original dudelet blog. Maybe one day I’ll do something more daring than changing the tagline and the link and header colours.

On other updates, I have finished my fourth year project. The Dynamic Graphing System is called LDG (Lauren’s Dynamic Graphing System) because it was the placeholder name used in the report, and I never got round to changing it.

I have been offered some summer work at the University, depending on funding, to try and fix the (minor) bugs in LDG so it can be released for research purposes, maybe I’ll change the name to something more interesting then.

Apart from that I have no other firm updates to make, apart from the fact that you can tell it is now officially exam time, as the sun is shining in Glasgow - bloody typical!!

Laurenxxx

Tonight me and Matt were making dinner together, satay stirfry for anyone whose interested. In order to save some money I had bought some frozen chicken from Morrisons, however 5 pieces of the chicken was frozen stuck together.

After trying to pull, cut and bash them apart, I thought we should just defrost all the pieces and leave it at that, but Matt unable to let the frozen chicken beat him, tried some more, and increasingly wacky, ideas.
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Hey folks

Happy New Year! I had a fairly good holiday spending a week and a half in Dumfries, which was great, got to catch up with friends, go out to the infamous Jumpin’ Jaks and spend my New Years Eve the same way i have for the past 4 years (God is it really that long??) in my local pub. Fantastic.

Anyway the real reason for this post is to come up with some interesting new things for Compsoc todo. Recently we’ve been getting a little stick for not having different types of events, especially ones that don’t involve alcohol (?!). We’ve come up with the basic ideas Bowling, Laser Quest and well thats about it…

We need ideas to get everyone who does computing to get involved, nothing overly geeky, or overly expensive, but any ideas would be much appreciated.

Have fun,

Lauren xxx

I once wrote a post called Point Of View.
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I realise I haven’t written a post in a while, there are many reasons for this, apart from me just being very lazy. In the past few months a lot of things have changed.

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Today I thought I would do my parents a favour, it being my first day back home. I thought “hey it’ll sweeten them up a bit if I do some general tidying up”, well as I have said before the best laid plans…
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Welcome to my new blog!

I have finally started blogging with the big boys. It is a very proud day for me, although I fear my mum may think I have finally become an undisputed geek.

Once I have finished looking at all the new settings I get with this new fangled blog I may even find time to write a post or two…. I’ll certainly try…

Over and out world,

Lauren

P.S. I fear the title of this post alone has upped my geek rating