One of the most basic laws in the universe is the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This states that as time goes by, entropy in an environment will increase. Evolution argues differently against a law that is accepted EVERYWHERE BY EVERYONE. Evolution says that we started out simple, and over time became more complex. That just isn't possible: UNLESS there is a giant outside source of energy supplying the Earth with huge amounts of energy. If there were such a source, scientists would certainly know about it.

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nifflas.ni2.se takes a 24 hour break

Yesterday, our government agreed on a new surveillance law (often referred to as FRA-lagen here), which makes Sweden a bit less Sweden, and bit more Soviet. Now you obviously don't even have to be suspected for anything, for having your phonecalls recorded, and internet traffic stored. It's a dark day for Swedish democratic rights and integrity protection, and I'd like to give some more attention to what's going on by taking my website down for 24 hours or so. This was not supposed to happen, yet I fear it's only one of many steps in a really alarming social change.

-Nicklas

Turns out school went better than I expected. I got an A in computer science (what I was aiming for), and a D in calculus (better than I expected).
My Weather and Climate class grade still hasn't come in unusually, but I'll be very surprised if I get below a C in that class. Basically I'm not in any kind of academic trouble and I'm keeping my scholarship.

Apparently I've changed pretty recently. My friend Danny says I seem to have lost my "happy little spark", he was worried that I was depressed (I'm not). My brother noticed a change as well, he said I didn't seem sad or anything, just less insane that I used to be.

This is kind of disturbing, but I don't really know what to do about it.

Also new touhou games are out and expect some kind of post about that soonish.

So the final project is to make some kind of exam administering program. I hit a road block and wasn't able to get past it until I realized "it is possible for there to be more than one correct answer."

Took me a while to figure that one out.

Just cleared a hurdle in java so I'm taking a breather.

During the summer I'll much downtime. So besides getting a job, hanging out with friends and trying to improve my life, I also plan on started some anime that have scared me away in the past due to length.

The first one is Card Captor Sakura. I'm up nine out of seventy episodes in right now. I'm enjoying it. It doesn't force me to marathon it and it doesn't force me not to which is nice.

Then IF I finish with that I'll try my hand at Monster which is 74 episodes long. Or maybe Akagi if I don't have time for monster.

Still planning on keeping up with spring anime. Currently I'm watching six shows for sure, two or three which got skipped this week due to the fansubbers having finals as well (so anime isn't interfering with studying mom). They are:
*Kaiba
*Code Geass
*Kyoura Kazoku Nikki
*Allison and Lillia
*Kamen no Maid Guy
*A guilty pleasure I don't feel like naming

The other anime fall anywhere from "thought I dropped for sure but not so sure anymore" to "following on random curiosity in case it gets good" to "I think I really want to pick this up but I'm not sure and I can't yet" and finally "will pick up once I get home because Marcel is watching it"

Marcel is watching Chi's Sweet Home and Maid Guy. I don't know how he's making his decisions, but its not all my fault I swear. He also recently finished Dennou Coil.

Aria is also in progress technically, in case I decide I want to watch pretty girls drink tea for half an hour. Marimite is on hold behind Aria as its not as good and fills a similar niche. I'll start watching it again after I finish Aria, but that will be sometime in 2009 at this rate so its effectively dropped.

I've been trudging through Cowboy Bebop as well (I actually started this a good five months ago or so). I have three episodes left, two if you count the two parter as one episode. It's really well made, there's no way it can't be all the important pieces are there. Spaceships, mysteries, gunfights, shady characters, crazy hacker sidekick. But somehow I find it really really really really really boring and I have to force myself to get through it. I don't get why people who have seen a fair bit of anime give it titles like "best anime ever made."

I also told myself I'd try reading One Piece and GTO over the summer, to expose myself more to manga and more to shounen. It may seem like I don't have time for all this, but if you break it down I really do, even with a five day a week job (my primary plan for this summer).

EDIT: Also FORRRRRRRRRMMMMMMMMMUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! (or is it shinsen's fault)

Learning regex junk. Whee. All about the "Differences Among Greedy, Reluctant, and Possessive Quantifiers" and such.

To stop the troubles I had you need to declare the exceptions a function might throw in its header. So it should be:
Foo (File aFile) throws IOException {

This actually makes a lot of sense.

I still don't like java though.

CSE 114 is java. I'm now working on the final project.

( Nerd rage, profanity and jargon )

At least we're doing C++ next semester (I think).

So my sanity was starting to slip for the past one or two days or something. Finals stress combined with some other things. As a result my sleep squedule is once again backwards, but now I'm in a position to fix that.

Well classes are over and I'm feeling fine now so I'm getting started with the serious studying. Science final is May 20, 2008 at 11AM in the same place lectures meet. Calclus final is May 16, 2008 at 11AM at a currently unknown location (not having my old favorites I'm having some difficutly finding my class's webpage).

Various computer science homework and extra credit is due may 12th. The computer science final project demonstration is on May 19th at the Computer Science building sinc site at 5PM.

I'm aiming for a A in Computer Science to offset the strongly likelihood of me failing calculus (due to missing the second midterm). Lots of extra credit is available in that class, I intend to make the most of it. As it stands I have around a B- in science, the final is 40% of the grade so I have the opportunity to bump that up to a A- or so. A + A- + F = I survive.

That being said I'm still going to study for calculus. A extra credit thingy never turned up, sorry mom about not nagging more for it.