Status update

It\’s been a while since I last posted here and I don\’t feel like posting something huge here this time, so here is just a short life update:

  • Wrote all college exams (4 of them):
    • Artificial Intelligence – this is the only exam I feel like I failed. The subject is really boring, the teaches does not seems to be confident in the topic, exams were prepared by other professor who is very good in subject and probably did not consider that (as I believe) we were taught not in the best way. In addition the class is kinda boring. As I have concluded – it is like maths for me, but while in maths I know that I am totally stupid, here you think for the whole semester that the class goes fine and at the end you find yourself unbelievable stupid.
    • Software Engineering – this one went fine. A class is very boring and implies a lot of bureaucracy related to IEEE standards, but I think I managed it quite good mostly because IEEE has a lot in common with ISO stuff which I know not that bad.
    • Computer Architecture and Organization – went very easy because the amount of information given was very limited and a lot of it came out of previously passed Digital Systems.
    • Object Oriented Programming (based on Java) – went pretty good as well due to some programming experience I have as well as familiarization with many programming languages. One more time proved to myself that Java is not what I like – Perl is the best.
  • Preparing for the next semester – need to pay quite an amount of money for the college but already have some options. Thanks to all people who help me in this matter.
  • Learning AJAX technology and have a post about it on configfun.com here.
  • Preparing for the visit to immigration :( Hate this part of being in Cyprus, but have no other ways yet.
  • Planning to go for skiing one day into Troodos where there is some snow already. Hopefully my skiing equipment will be delivered to Cyprus by a friend of mine who is now in Moscow.

Going back to categories

I am moving all the posts back from tags system to categories since I am really fed up with this mess. I will be slowly converting all previous posts to utilize categories and when finished, I will remove tags and put a categories menu in the side bar. Until that, new posts will contain tags as well as will be categorized :)

ConfigFun.com – Tech Blog

As I have mentioned some time before, I was planning to set up a separate blog about technology related things. Few days ago such blog was successfully set up here: http://configfun.com. From now on, I think that the number of technical posts will reduce on my personal blog in favor of configfun.

Please note that I am not the only author at that blog, so I think it will be more fun for all of us :)

Setting up tags for anything

There are more and more things around me where I can use tags for categorizing stuff around and I really like it. Tags a very easy to use and very comfortable afterwards. However I have noticed one problem which I face while setting up tags on different systems: the delimiter for tags in a tag list is different from place to place. For instance in WordPress, tags are separated with commas, while on Flickr spaces are used instead. This makes a problem, because I start using spaces on WP or commas with Flickr and mess up all the tags :(