Yes, that time is approaching once again. In just under 2 months a ridiculous amount of people will be flooding on to the big stage at the RNCM, some as peers in the House of Lords, some as fairies, all singing and dancing. Yes, MUGSS are back with this semesters G&S show, Iolanthe. OK, 2 months is quite a long way a way for anyone who isn’t actually involved with it, but buy your tickets now! Last November I was a member of Fat Sams gang in Bugsy Malone, (a few photos above from that), and after 6 sell out shows of that, this one is looking to be amazing as well. Tickets are cheap, and anyway, you get to see me turn in to a fairy. You cant put a price on that, surely?

http://www.webupon.com/Web-Talk/Top-10-Barely-legal-Gadgets-for-the-Modern-Spy.89197

I want the laser. and the lock picks. Actually, just give me everything…

Had my final year project demo today. It went well, i think. I managed to answer all the questions they asked, and there weren’t too many glaring bugs. A few things propped up that i need to work on, but on the whole i think my supervisor, and the marker, Goran, were impressed. They nodded and smiled a lot anyway.

Just got to finish the cod, and write that 14,000 word report now… Fun times.

If you want to have a look at Mwungo so far, feel free to play @ http://mwungo.kaisa.org.uk. There are no instructions really, i might delete any data you enter, it may cause your toaster to explode. I take no responsibility!

I spent hours yesterday trying to work out why a model in my uni project Mwungo, wasnt being updated correctly. Turns out it was a typo i had. Two of my database columns were named incorrectly. Very annoying. Part of the problem, in my opinion, is that the polymorphic associations rails has, which allow you to link up one model to many different models (for example, you can have an address model, and link that to a users model (users have many addresses), and also to a company model (companies have one address maybe)), dont seem to give an error if you misname the two fields you need to include for the relationship, the {relationshipname}_id and {relationshipname}_type fields. So when i was trying to create a new record, rails wasnt setting those values and the associated polymorphic model wasnt associated . Anyway. Glad i noticed reasonably early today. I guess i should report this as a bug now.

Some great clips of people crashing vehicles, falling over, generally being idiots. It’s a bit You’ve-been-framed-ey, but funny all the same.