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Student blogs about Guinness and coding, hilarity ensues
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m-Home to m-Homehunting
So last Saturday (I realise it was a week ago, I've never prided myself on punctuality) myself, Luke, David, Adrian
and more hooked up with the Academic Team down at the m-Home in London
for a tour, and a couple of neat presentations down at the Electric
Cinema. That 4am start was a killer, but worth it.
The m-Home is a three-floor house kitted out with (not inexpensive)
off-the-shelf bits and bobs. It's demonstrated by actors who were
chosen for their non-technical backgrounds (effectively 'normal
people'), who take you through a few typical things you do round your
home and show how the tech fits into it.
I was really quite impressed with a lot of it, the pictures I managed
to take don't say a lot because the technology just didn't seem out of
place for the most part. Ok, a PC in the kitchen mightn't be the norm
but it was an interesting idea. After you wander round you come out
desperately forcing yourself to put the credit card the goddamn hell
away because you neither need, nor can come close to affording a
touch-screen media centre or a laser keyboard. One day... Props (my
homies...) to Chris for arranging the whole shebang, we were indeed a priviliged lot.
This past week Babbage was the recipient of the good news that we're
one of the eight teams that'll be battling it out for the chance to
represent the UK in the Imagine Cup 2005 final in four weeks' time. I'm
going to spend that time rebuilding my parts of the project from
scratch for shits and giggles, interspersed with trying to find
somewhere to live.
There's a few of us looking at the minute, and it's not necessarily an
easy task. Between the three of us who're continuing to live together
next year we've requirements that start getting constraining; I want to
live in a fairly specific area that's close to the Pleasance union (and
uni, if you like that sort of thing), Fiona doesn't want a ground-floor
flat and I can't say that I disagree, and George needs a double
room. Still, we've three viewings on Monday so hopefully one of those
will give us a better idea of how likely it is we'll be able to satisfy
all of our requirements on our budget. Until then, more coding...
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