Printing Slides...

So today I decided to catch up on some of the course work and thought I'd start out with printing the slides of my lectures...

If this seems like an amazingly simple task... well, it's not :-).

So I knew that I can print for free in the computer science labs. I managed to get the slides, put 4 on 1 and send it to the printer... (eventually I even figured out which one was the right one). First problem: No paper in the printer...

I set out on a "paper-stealing-mission" and nicked some from a photocopier machine, went back, put the paper in and it started printing... Just not MY stuff :-(... So all my stolen paper got used for someone else's report about Hacking... And again... I set out to steal some more paper ;-). Managed that without being caught by a securtiy guard, got back to the printer and finally it started printing my slides, yay... Until it ran out of paper again and then there was a printer jam and nothing worked anymore.

At least it did actually print most of the slides... At least those that were available on the net. Some of my lecturers don't seem to understand the notion of "putting slides online after the lecture"...

About the other blog posts I was going to make... Haven't forgotten about it, just didn't find the time to write about 1916 (I will do that, my Irish friends insisted on it) and I'm still trying to somehow get pictures of people walking around in crazy outfits... The problem is just to have your camera ready and not be obvious when trying to take a picture of a girl with blue hair, a mini skirt and not a lot else in autumn...

Apart from the printing experience it is going great here... A quick update for everyone:

I am down to 4 of my initially 6 courses... Mainly because the 2 courses I dropped were pretty boring and also because my courses - especially the Vision one - do take up a lot of time. So my 4 remaining courses are actually great and I enjoy going to lectures and doing the work. Also I did get a Final Year Project supervisor, which is great. I will get to work on a really interesting project and work with an existing program called SARA :-). The project is situated in Information Systems and more accurately in semantic web. The general idea so far is that my project will allow school children to enter queries in natural language about mountains and the output will be generated using SARA and various information sources, such as DBPedia.

Ok, hope you are all well :-)