Saltank.log

Which gamer are you?

2008-03-15T13:23:00.002Z

Business...

2008-02-14T20:59:00.000Z

A Japanese car company and an American car company decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race.
On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile.
The Americans, very discouraged and depressed, decided to investigate the reason for the crushing defeat. A management team made up of senior management was formed to investigate and recommend appropriate action. Their conclusion was the Japanese had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering, while the American team had 8 people steering and 1 person rowing.
Feeling a deeper study was in order; American management hired a consulting company and paid them a large amount of money for a second opinion.
They advised, of course, that too many people were steering the boat, while not enough people were rowing. Not sure of how to utilize that information , but wanting to prevent another loss to the Japanese, the rowing team's management structure was totally reorganized to 4 steering supervisors, 3 area steering superintendents and 1 assistant superintendent steering manager.
They also implemented a new performance system that would give the one person rowing the boat greater incentive to work harder. It was called the 'Rowing Team Quality First Program,' with meetings, dinners and free pens for the rower. There was discussion of getting new paddles, canoes and other equipment, extra vacation days for practices and bonuses.
The next year the Japanese won by two miles.
Humiliated, the American management laid off the rower for poor performance, halted development of a new canoe, sold the paddles, and canceled all capital investments for new equipment. The money saved was distributed to the Senior Executives as bonuses and the next year's racing team was out-sourced to India .
Sadly, the End.
Here's something else to think about: The American car company has spent the last thirty years moving all its factories out of the US, claiming they can't make money paying American wages.
The Japanese car company has spent the last thirty years building more than a dozen plants inside the US. The last quarter's results: The Japanese company makes 4 billion in profits while the American company racked up 9 billion in losses. The Americans are still scratching their heads.

Rodents (Mice inc.)

2008-02-10T22:47:00.000Z

My trusty Logitech G7 has broken down. Don't squeese them too hard I say...

I've always liked wireless mice because they lacked the annoying wire. It's simple, there's no other reason. The G7 was just as good as any other mouse, albeit it felt maybe just a bit more "laggier"...

No matter how much choice of other wireless gaming mice there is, ordering the same one again felt strange and I wanted something new. So ... I ordered a new mouse which should be here soon:

Ass' Creed

2007-12-26T11:42:00.001Z

It's been a long while since I've wanted to spend so much time with a video game. Most of the second half of this year was just about playing some Team Fortress 2 here and there and the x360 lay dormant and gathering dust. I guess it's life span was expanding as I still have the launch model (which has not given me any problems as of yet).

I picked up Assassin's Creed along with Mass Effect and after playing through the latter I finally started the Creed.

All I heard of this game was that the producer was really hot and you're some assassin missing a finger running around Jerusalem and stuff, didn't take much interest. That is why it became so ultimately cool when you find out you're role playing your ancestors' DNA memories from the present-time. The backstory is an amazingly orchestrated performance, giving you information in such limited quantities that you'll be frustrated to comprehend in the beginning, but later on you'll start to listen and it will make more sense.

The graphics are top notch and set an ideal atmosphere for performing the tasks at hand, I've found some textures to be flickering and glitchy (close up and in the distance), but it was minor.

The gameplay reminds of Prince of Persia, but this time it's more logical and you don't jump around unrealistic landscapes and buildings *almost. The combat system is finally what I've been meaning to see in games of the sort, you have more control of how to react in combat situations and the animations are sweet and accurate. Amongst being really serious, there are some hilarious flaws that can only be described as "oh it's a videogame" - in the main base town of Mysaf you can "gently push" city guards that are standing on a ledge to an untimely - and unnoticed death. The funniest thing is them waving their arms before just falling off and the guard next to him not reacting at all!

You'll be faced with performing various accomplishments to unlock achievements, all are pretty basic and make sense, only if you want to get ALL of the achievements you will probably need a map to find the bloody flags, that's an annoying part of the game I find as it took me more than half the game to find the full 20 flags in Mysaf.

Music is an important part of any game - Jesper Kyd did an great job yet again, but the audio was badly mixed sometimes (volume wouldn't match the game sounds and it didn't have enough bass...).

I'll be looking forward to seeing the producers not screw up such an amazing game for the sequel - there is so much to be done (remove repetition of certain aspects of the game, improve AI - oh and my console started freezing towards the end...) and so much hope for an even more assassinative mood, maybe emphasising on more stealth....

World in Conflict

2007-10-09T20:52:00.000+01:00

Buy it. Play it.

Alternative history is something that everyone fortakes in their daily lives ... "what if?" ...

So if you can imagine the Soviet Union waging World War 3 in '89 and now the Chinese machine is on the doorstep, this is perfect for you!

One of the best games of the year, nearly GOTY material.

Bush vs Zombies

2007-09-09T23:37:00.001+01:00

Hitler gets banned...

2007-06-12T00:20:00.000+01:00

Windows Vista by Bill Gates

2007-02-01T22:36:00.000Z

Angels got caught

2006-12-02T19:50:00.000Z

Pregnancy

2006-10-13T18:58:00.000+01:00

An 18 year-old girl tells her Mum that she has missed her period for two months. Very worried, the mother goes to the Chemist and buys a pregnancy kit. The test result shows that the girl is pregnant.Shouting, cursing, crying, the mother says, "Who was the pig that did this to you? I want to know!" The girl picks up the phone and makes a call.

Half an hour later a Ferrari stops in front of their house; a mature and distinguished man with grey hair and impeccably dressed in an Armani suit steps out of the Ferrari and enters the house.He sits in the living room with the father and the mother, and the girl and tells them: "Good morning, your daughter has informed me of the problem. I can't marry her because of my personal family situation but I'll take charge.I will pay all costs and provide for your daughter for the rest of her life. Additionally, if a girl is born I will bequeath her 2 retails tores, a townhouse, a beach front villa and a $2,000,000 bank account.

If a boy is born, my legacy will be a couple of factories and a$4,000,000 bank account. If twins, they will receive a factory and$2,000,000 each. However, if there is a miscarriage, what do you suggest I do?"

At this point, the girls father, who had remained silent, places ahand firmly on the man's shoulder and tells him, "You fuck her again"

Politics!

2006-09-13T09:15:00.000+01:00

DEMOCRATIC
You have two cows.Your neighbor has none.You feel guilty for being successful.

REPUBLICAN
You have two cows.Your neighbor has none.So?

SOCIALIST
You have two cows.The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.

COMMUNIST
You have two cows.The government seizes both and provides you with milk.You wait in line for hours to get it.It is expensive and sour.

CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.

BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.Under the new farm program, the government pays you to shoot one, milk the other, and then pours the milk down the drain.

AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one. You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the analysts, stating that you have downsized and are reducing expenses.Your stock goes up.

FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.You go on strike because you want three cows.You go to lunch and drink wine.Life is good.

JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.Most are at the top of their class at cow school.

GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.Unfortunately, they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.

ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don't know where they are.While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman.You break for lunch.Life is good.

RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.You have some vodka.You count them and learn you have five cows.You have some more vodka.You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.

TALIBAN CORPORATION
You have all the cows in Afghanistan, which are two.You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private parts.You get a $40 million grant from the US government to find alternatives to milk production but use the money to buy weapons.

IRAQI CORPORATION
You have two cows.They go into hiding.They send radio tapes of their mooing.

POLISH CORPORATION
You have two bulls.Employees are regularly maimed and killed attempting to milk them.

BELGIAN CORPORATION
You have one cow.The cow is schizophrenic.Sometimes, the cow thinks he's French; other times, he's Flemish.The Flemish cow won't share with the French cow.The French cow wants control of the Flemish cow's milk.The cow asks permission to be cut in half.The cow dies happy.

FLORIDA CORPORATION
You have a black cow and a brown cow.Everyone votes for the best-looking one.Some of the people who actually like the brown one best, accidentally vote for the black one.Some people vote for both.Some people vote for neither.Some people can't figure out how to vote at all.Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which one you think is the best-looking cow.

CALIFORNIA CORPORATION
You have millions of cows.They make real California cheese.Only five speak English.Most are illegals.

New Computer

2006-02-07T15:04:00.000Z

So, I did manage to get a new computer system over the holiday season:

Shuttle XPC SN25P
AMD Athlon x2 3800+
nVIDIA GeForce 7800GTX OC
2GB Corsair ValueSelect RAM
500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 HDD <-- this thing is loud..is it meant to be so?!

Along with my new Belinea 20" WideScreen LCD..everything rocks and is as it should be. I also have the Logitech G15 keyboard and the G7 mouse, both rock and are highly reccommended.

I also recently received an XBOX360 Premium as a gift, I managed to pick up Condemned: Criminal origins and PGR3 with JadeEmpire too. I use the VGA Cable to connect to my LCD, there are several issues with this none which can be solved by myself, it's all up to Microsoft.

1) Contrast - this is not normal, it is too high or something, colors aren't very colourful :)
2) Size - Surely you can support a proper 16:10 resolution? They have 1280x768 but not 1280x800 so my cars are all stretched!

Routines

2006-02-07T14:57:00.000Z

Weekday:

8am: Continuous alarm rings or pleasant music from the alarm music player, followed by throwing of the objects closest to the bed and/or smashing on top of with hand
8:10 Further alarms, repent with smashing on top of with hand
8:20 Alarm won't stop fucking with me, I unplug the power and go back to sleep
8:30 The alarm next to the bed goes off, Classical radio turns on and the signal is scrambled. Jammed with hand(s)
8:40 Finally time to get up. Shower!
9:10 Breakfast
9:40 Time to stop chatting on IRC and dress up
9:41 Leave for work
9:42 Stuck in traffic
11:00 late to work by one hour, heads roll

Weekend:
Sleep.
Wake up because of weekly cycle messing with your brain. Biological clock resumes order but go to sleep. Wake up 6 hours later with headache.

Desktop 6.1.6

2006-01-06T18:38:00.000Z

Broken x360

2005-12-26T17:39:00.000Z

Pelican

2005-12-21T00:45:00.000Z

2005-12-17T15:37:00.000Z

2005-12-09T22:49:00.000Z

My xbox 360 core system! (going up on eBay!)

2005-12-02T20:47:00.000Z

G15 & G7

2005-11-20T16:18:00.000Z

WoW

2005-11-16T22:17:00.000Z

What Race Was Jesus?

2005-11-16T13:14:00.000Z

What Race Was Jesus? (HUMOR)

There were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Jewish:

1. He went into His Father's business.
2. He lived at home until he was 33.
3. He was sure his Mother was a virgin and his
Mother was sure He was God.
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But then there were 3 good arguments that Jesus was Black:

1. He called everyone brother.
2. He liked Gospel.
3. He couldn't get a fair trial.

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But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Italian:

1. He talked with His hands.
2. He had wine with His meals.
3. He used olive oil.

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But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was a
Californian:

1. He never cut His hair.
2. He walked around barefoot all the time.
3. He started a new religion.

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But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was an
American Indian:

1. He was at peace with nature.
2. He ate a lot of fish.
3. He talked about the Great Spirit.

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But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Irish:

1. He never got married.
2. He was always telling stories.
3. He loved green pastures.

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But the most compelling evidence of all - 3 proofs that Jesus was a
woman:

1. He fed a crowd at a moment\'s notice when there was no food.
2. He kept trying to get a message across to a bunch of men who just
didn't get it.
3. And even when He was dead, He had to get up because there was work
to do.

AMEN

Domain names

2005-11-06T15:21:00.000Z

Thanks to mad_ from #3dfx for this one:

People spend a lot of time thinking up their children's names. It's just a pity they don't always think as hard about their domain names.
Firstly there is Who Represents?, a database for agencies to the rich and famous:
http://www.whorepresents.com/
Second is the Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views:
http://www.expertsexchange.com
Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island:
http://www.penisland.net

Need a therapist? Try:
http://www.therapistfinder.com
And there is an Italian Power company:
http://www.powergenitalia.com

Finally we have the Mole Station Native Nursery, based in New South Wales:
http://www.molestationnursery.com

Halloween Joke

2005-10-31T19:27:00.000Z

A cabbie picks up a nun. She gets into the cab, and notices that the veryhandsome cab driver won't stop staring at her. She asks him why he isstaring.

He replies: "I have a question to ask you, but I don't want to offend you"She answers, "My son, you cannot offend me. When you're as old as I am andhave been a nun as long as I have, you get a chance to see and hear justabout everything. I'm sure that there's nothing you could say or ask that Iwould find offensive."

"Well, I've always had a fantasy to have a nun kiss me."

She responds, "Well, let's see what we can do about that. #1, you have to besingle and #2, you must be Catholic."

The cab driver is very excited and says, "Yes, I'm single and Catholic!"

"OK" the nun says. "Pull into the next alley." The nun fulfils the cabdriver's fantasy with a kiss that would make a hooker blush. But when theyget back on the road, the cab driver starts crying.

"My dear child," said the nun, why are you crying?"

"Forgive me but I have sinned. I lied and I must confess, I'm married andI'm Jewish."

The nun says, "That's OK. My name is Kevin and I'm going to a Halloweenparty."

FEAR

2005-10-15T17:38:00.000+01:00

LONDON

2005-09-13T01:44:00.000+01:00

A bit more.

2005-09-13T01:33:00.000+01:00

More Toronto JULY

2005-09-13T01:25:00.000+01:00

Toronto July - Construction

2005-09-13T01:23:00.000+01:00

Self Portrait ... not trying to turn into one of those laggy picture filled websites so just be cool.

2005-09-07T01:12:00.000+01:00

r00m

2005-09-04T15:30:00.000+01:00

•Cartossin•

2005-09-04T15:26:00.000+01:00

naked w0w

2005-09-04T15:23:00.000+01:00

Vociferate

2005-08-03T23:33:00.000+01:00

Games of Summer 2005

2005-05-31T16:48:00.000+01:00

I believe that summer is here now, definately in UK, still a bit chilly but the sun is out for a hansome amount of time to satisfy the most dormant burrowed geek.

Anyways, this summer there will be many things to do, places to go, relax, party, drink (Karl) etc., including playing games. Summer is usually not so hot for games with the exceptional Blizzard release, Max Payne or Doom3 but this summer seems so different. These are the games that I will be playing, and so should anyone who does:

World of Warcraft: the addict' personal favourite, I am going to reactivate my account once my exams are over. I am in EU so that means I will be playing on EU-Twilight's Hammer Alliance side, fader (Mike) from #3dfx recently switched there from the server Crashridge that was dominated by Spaniards.

Battlefield2 : Absolutely every person must buy this game and play it. Hook yourself up with XFIRE and play! Several people have been eagerly awaiting this game including me. When the first Battlefield 1942 came out I was leading a large clan of about 20 people in tournaments to victory, I was pretty good because I loved playing this game! Battlefield 2 is ideally the same thing with a new theme, modern combat.

Guild Wars: I don't have this yet, but it is on my to get list, get it too. Do not compare it to WoW or you will be hanged:

(02:24)Ciddy: IS GUILD WAR BETTER THAN WORLD OF WARCRAFT?
(02:27)Zenon_: . tempban Ciddy
(02:27)—›kick: (Ciddy) was kicked by (Ameriduh) (You have been banned for 60 seconds.)

I don't watch tv...

2005-05-31T16:05:00.000+01:00

.. but it was very interesting to see someone point out that a Russian Miss Universe from Canada won the Miss Universe contest this year. A few years ago Russia also won the contest, I'm proud!

Check out this picture from last year, this Canadian contestant was smoking or what not.

Perpendicularexation

2005-05-29T10:37:00.000+01:00

My three months of College have come and gone, a lot faster than I expected, now I am into the final week of 'studying' for my exams which start on the 7th of June.

I have always looked with vexation upon my birthday, because my education absolutely always and constantly gets in the way of it. It IS supposed to be one day, but you'd like it to be one day that lets you slack off for the rest of the weekend and have some fun. A few years ago I've had exams on my birthday, now it isn't much different except for I have a few days breathing room.
Anyways, having woken up like 30 minutes ago I am still acting like an ape, really tired and yawny. Today is a very special day to me because one year ago I met my angel girl, Lena. It's been one hell of a ride, we don't live in the same countries yet and the Internet has been our focal point of communication with the ocassional trips to Toronto, Tunisia and London. All of that is changing as I plan to move out this summer, for the absolute best. I cannot wait!

Jobs, they suck. I've been casually looking for a part time job before college and didn't have any luck. Now I plan to be working full time after my exams. Seeing as how I am a party qualified accountant I hope my luck changes and I will be happy at least for a few months. Gotta go run errands and study now. Be sure to check out #3dfx on EFNET irc.

2005-05-14T14:08:00.000+01:00

EXAMS :P
CBL, BTX & FMC

:O

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II, the Sith Lords

2005-02-14T23:43:00.000Z

I was a big fan of the first KOTOR, if you know what that is. One of the best games for the XBOX in my opinion. Released in July 2003, I remember many well-spent days and nights during Calculus class with this game. It is epic, good storyline, captivating sound and graphics, interesting characters. It has it all. My favourite is the combat, I hope they continue to make a few more games in the series while improvising the visuals more and more.

In KOTOR2 you are a Jedi Exile. The game drags on without revealing your true identity..

... bla bla bla. I didn't finish this article neither do I have the time. But I want to make ONE point.

Companies like BioWare should not outsource their games and let other companies ruin a sequel. The first KOTOR was AMAZING but I believe KOTOR2 was a rushed mess, it was great, definately not as good as the first one though. There could have been so much more in this sequel, yet the feeling I get from it is a greyish color just signifying a neutral position, this game is worse than its prequel but just average. Try it if you liked the first one.

I hope BioWare does release a decent sequel soon, KOTOR3 should use a new engine with a few more character emotions, I was sick of seeing the same emotion when a character you talk to twists their head to the right after every other line of speech.

Bureaucracy

2005-01-28T21:46:00.000Z

Ok so I am sitting on this wonderful rainy morning here at home in London while trying to do a few things such as order a new Cellphone, look for a job, ask about driving licence inquiries etc., when I realize that the whole of the United Kingdom is built on this annoying system of politics.

I can't stand it. Write us a letter, call us and wait for a few hours in line ... we won't do a damn thing for you!

It really is true, no matter where you go it is always line ups, filling out forms, marketing scams. What is wrong with this world, I think we should just all be able to fight over what's right and if that means pushing the granny infront of the queue out of the way, then be it. I've had enough of wasting precious time to do just ONE little tiny peice of work.

I am waiting for my Credit Check to go through for my new Samsung D500 on Orange ... i've been told it takes time, but not when a whole day is wasted because of their laziness.

Now I am going to go make some tea and eat cookies and I hope that I receive that magic phone call.

The Necropsy of an Astral

2005-01-26T09:09:00.000Z

So I was tipped by fade from #3dfx that Channel 4 was showing a programme where a group of scientists and a TV Presenter were dissecting a human body. With my intuition guiding me steady, I didn't hesitate to run to the living room and turn on the TV. I was stunned beyond imagination, almost. I am not a squeamish person, ever since seeing Predator at the age of 2 or something I am never sqeamish towards any sort of 'blood and guts' spectacle.

A quite apparantly german man was cutting open with a bunch of play knives, the lungs of a man, the heart of a man and they were teaching the audience about how the body works. This is, in several years one of the most interesting television programmes that I dared to watch on the TV, since I really rarely go near it. I immediately though how well planned out it all was and thought I'd write it down here. Not like I write down crap here that often anyways, once in a while if you make an extraordinary self-finding discovery you want to make note of it somewhere.

SO, I saw the programme and thought "hey good job people, finally something interesting and worth watching in terms of education!" .. "and I really like how it is all set up, with the pictures of the 17th century operating tables where a group of doctors cut open some no good beggar!". The show is called Anatomy for Beginners or something creative like that.

Oh, I also managed to get the hang of eBay! On the weekend I had a little shopping spree, I bought a palm M500 PDA to keep myself organized for just 30 pounds and some other various junk that should arrive here shortly. Soon I think I'll be able to sell stuff I don't really need anymore :)

Uhh yeah, so back to more Curb Your Enthusiasm. I love this show only for reasons I do not comprehend. I just don't get it, Larry keeps putting himself in the most disastrous and god-forsaken situations and I find myself whining to the LCD screen "YOU FUCKING IDIOT! JUST APOLOGIZE AND MOVE ALONG!! GOD!! " But really, it's what a friend called 'Situation Comedy' and dear god the situations are unpleasant to watch sometimes ... not like I am one of those sensitive people in the audience that has the bag of popcorn flying everywhere as I am shouting at the screen with irrelevant comments and remarks.

I am looking for a job, I've been semi-busy with that and it looks like I am waiting for something but I'm not sure why.... soon I will find the right part-time accounting related job.

They say patience is a virtue, and I repeat the phrase too much only because it is so true. I have the patience for nearly everything in the world, most of all my girlfriend but not that rotten laptop of hers that CONSTANTLY has one problem, another problem then a tenth problem with one thing after another, I just can't be bothered with it, you know what I say, get a new one we wanted to play games together anyways to pass the long-distance time

Back to doing ...work... lazy..work.

I'm back

2005-01-18T21:47:00.000Z

...never really went anywhere!

Well, with the [good] exploits of the past month well behind me, I have adjourned back to London, UK for an entirely new and rather difficult lifestyle. My trip to Toronto went very well, time was of the essence to me and of course, it flew by me faster than a speeding red-neck in a Jeep.

Arriving in London after an accelerated-by-the-tailwind flight AC862 from Toronto on Saturday morning left me in a state of almost permanent jet-lag. I am one of those people that like to go to sleep very late and wake up late consecutively, for no apparent reason, even if I know that when I could go to sleep at an earlier time, waking up earlier it would give me the same amount of time in the day only, I would not get as tired sitting at the computer!

I have engaged a part-time job hunt, proving to be almost completely illustrious. It's difficult to find a job you want here in London, you just have to ... know people :)

I have also bought a new USB headset for use with the greatest program ever, called Skype ( www.skype.com ). Plantronics DSP100, I'll post my opinions later. And with that purchase I bought the THX-certified Logitech Z2300 speakers, something I've been dreaming of for many years now, I'll post pics as soon as I can unpack it ... my camera seemed to have run out of battery life while I wasn't using it. Curious.

Resting

2004-12-17T08:03:00.000Z

I finally am in Toronto. I've been really lazy to update this place. Really lazy! I slept for 8 hours in 72 over the last weekend, played World of Warcraft at day and studied at night! An awful mix :) Right before my last exam i crammed until 5 am and got some sleep, wrote the management exam and was finished with it. Then I went to the airport and came to Toronto, and here I am not, relaxing and trying to catch up on things I've missed.

Information Systems

2004-12-07T01:12:00.000Z

After doing tossing and turning in bed, waking up at 3 am, 3:30 am, 4, 4:30 am and so on until 8AM I proceeded to the Wembley Exhibition Centre Hall 1.

Three hours passed and I was out, finished, with my first exam on Paper 2.1, Information Systems.

There were a total of six questions, in part A there was a CASE study and three manditory questions regarding some aspect of IS/IT. In part B you had to choose two out of three questions. I completed most of part A before moving on to part B. In question 4 I had come to a little dead end in the first part where it asked me about the disadvantages of decentralisation, so I left it out until the end and came up with something later in the end of the exam.

Now, I started doing question 6, a "Decision Table" had to be constructed for 12 marks, wow I thought, so damn easy! But I've encountered these innocent easy questions before, you get the 12 marks and the other 8 marks were a red herring, you literally had no clue what to say. I started doing it and doubted myself, and scrapped it. Turns out I did it correctly in the first place, but they won't mark it

I did question 5, which had one 10 mark question regarding Data Flow Diagrams, an aspect I knew quite well, so I drew my illustrations, examples, more examples and explanations. The other 10 marks of the question were regarding some sort of interview and questionnaire junk, I mostly had to use common sense and logic in that one.

The first three parts, are too scary to describe but I would just like to say that I managed it.

Thirteen pages of writing in three hours, not too shabby! Roll on Law...

Hi

2004-12-05T18:57:00.000Z

Hi, my name is Dima (pronounced slightly differently that you may think), I'm 19 years old and I'm from Canada. I decided to get this blog thing, since I've been too lazy to set up my own Nucleus on my personal website I wanted something that would already be set up for me. And this ain't bad at all. Only problem is, I would probably want my blog to be more customizable, I want more themes!

I am here in London studying for the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) www.accaglobal.com exams, which actually start tomorrow. So I am going to stop wasting my time and go revise one last time before my skills are put to the test.

The ACCA is the worlds largest and most professional accounting organization. After I completed high school in Toronto, Canada I didn't have any clue what to do and decided to go on a little tour, so I visited London. And I found out about the ACCA and a little College that would tutor me their stuff called Barnet College in North London. I however didn't do extremely well on my first year of exams so I have to retake some this second time around.

The ACCA has a set of fourteen (14) total exam papers that are pretty much spread over three parts, or three years, if one managed to pass every single one then they're in luck. Part one only has three papers, part two has six and part three..well, I don't want to think about it yet because it freaks me out. ACCA hosts two exam sessions per year, one in June and one in December, you can take four papers only per session. So here I am, taking four.

First, on Monday I have the Information Systems (paper 2.1) exam, 10 am and three hours.

On Tuesday I have the Corporate and Business Law (paper 2.2) exam.

On Friday I have the Financial Information for Management (paper 1.2) exam.

And on Monday the 13th I have Managing People (paper 1.3) exam.

I am ready for all except for the Law exam, that is a tricky one. The syllabus (contents of the paper) deal with British Legal System, Contract law, Partnerships and Company Law. The latter being the most highly examinable topic. I won't go into detail, but company law deals with the Companies Act 1985, it is the very corporate essence of the paper and includes some interesting information about Public Limited Companies, Unlimited Companies, Private Companies, formation of a corporation, Directors and Secretaries Duties and last but most definately not least, the Cessation of a company.

Now I am going to go eat breakfast and do a few things around the house, today I want to figure out how to customize this Web Log page a little bit more and possibly add some links to weblogs of other people who I have come to known (most particularly from Internet Relay Chat, channel #3dfx on EFNET where I have been sporadically visiting since 2000).