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Well, apparently I'm still awake. I've been doing maths since about 0000, and I've done some of the most time consuming tasks, as far as I know. I have about 2.2 of 4 tasks left, and I feel that it's going good. Since I'm going to Ørnes on Saturday (which my Grandmother doesn't know (ssh ), I have to complete this by the end of Friday. My plan is to get this done tomorrow so that I can enjoy the Friday with Anniken.

I must say, though, that I didn't understand much of Karnaugh maps when the lecturer went through them, and I surely don't understand much of them now. That is, when the lecturer taught us about them I understood, comprehended and actually followed him in his calculations. I even did the example he put up before he had started to work his way through it. But then I got this task, and it was nothing of the sort that he had gone through. So I suppose I'll have to toss in some more frustrations before I get this done. My calculations were tossing null no matter what, which sounds just too weird to be true.

Oh, and bai de vai, since Apricot was released I just had to redesign the blog. It seems to be a bug for visitors that they cannot see the links in the #myo div, so I'll have to look into it tomorrow. I am too tired (and having too much Boolean algebra in my head to comprehend CSS atm). Please report any issues you might see with the design. I'll try to fix them as soon as possible (read: at work tomorrow, probably *dodges the boss*). Getting paid and being able to work with my blog between work sessions doesn't sound so wrong? It's awesome.

... And I am waiting for a suggestion of a contract in a new one. More info coming up later on. :-)

I wish everyone reading a happy new year. May 2009 bring new opportunities, prosperity and solutions!

I wish everyone a merry Christmas!

Tomorrow I have my final exam for this semester (and, for that matter, this year). It is in "Programming", which basically is to understand and code in Java. The earlier exams have been mostly about coding various tasks, but this year, of course, they've changed the form of the exam to something else.

In the previous years, they've given exams which allowed us to bring own notes and books regarding the subject, which was quite alright since there are no answers to a programming task, just various methods to do the same (simply put. It may be only one "good" option, but there are many possibilities). This year, however, they're disallowing us to bring books and notes, and instead we have to know it all by ourselves, which isn't any problem, since I know most of the stuff in this course.

What I am afraid of, though, is all the poorly written questions we may be asked. If the mid-term tests were of any relevance, I am feeling gravely for this. I did score 85% and 95% (all errors except one on the first test were just me not thinking straight and the last was poor Java adaptation into the Norwegian language), but I noticed that some of the questions didn't provide any correct answer. For instance, we had a question which was something like:

Which of the following Java code is not valid, and we got about 5 different choices to choose from. All the code was something like for(int i = 0; i < myString.length(); i++), but the problem was that all options were misspelled. Seriously, none of the code given were correct. The code we were given was for(int i = 0; i < myString.lenght(); i++), and even though it's a small error, imagine what they could screw up at something as large as an exam. Unfortunately I could not comment on this, so I pretended that length was spelled correctly and chose the most correct accordingly.

I have been home alone since Friday morning, when Anniken traveled to Skien. I'm going after her tomorrow, and I'm looking very much forward to it. :-)