Colin's Europe Adventure

Final goodbye

Colin — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:12:04 -0400

Some things need to come to an end. Crazy european Masters degrees are no exception. I have been hesitant to say anything because this was my creative home away from home for so long. And no one wants to be homeless, so I didn't want to put the final nail in the coffin until I had a new... [read more]

A Taste of Reality

Colin — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 22:28:31 +0000

Today got a bit more real than I had originally expected. To start things off, I had a great time on my whole trip. This past month has been amazing. I will be sorting through my photos once I get home and I will detail more about it when I am not so tired. However, this is about a wake... [read more]

Guten Tag

Colin — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:40:01 +0100

Greetings from Munich. I am currently staying in a great hostel here called Euro Youth Hostel, and I would recommend it to anyone thinking about staying in Munich. On the train ride from the airport I met two other travelers who had just flown from Madrid and were staying one here, and the... [read more]

Erasmus Convocation

Colin — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:52:18 +0000

Dad was able to grab a couple of shots of me before the professional photographer took his. The culmination of 18 months of school and two years of an amazing experience, the 2005 intake of Erasmus Mundus Network and eBusiness Centred Computing students finally graduated. And what a ride... [read more]

Back for more

Colin — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:58:46 -0400

By tomorrow morning I will be back in Europe. This following a 6 hour flight through the night. It will also be the first time that I have flown anywhere with both of my parents in over 10 years, and with either of them in 7 years. However I couldn't be more pleased. I always love the... [read more]

Final Journey

Colin — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:51:34 -0400

Well I have booked my flights for my final voyage through Europe. I felt a bit like a travel agent for a while, trying to cobble together flights from different discount and holiday airlines. But I managed, and I think I came in under budget too, but that remains to be seen, there are... [read more]

Coda

Colin — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:36:04 -0400

Panic has done it again. At least they are trying. Introducing Coda, the all-in-one web development center. With their Transmit software being one of, if not the best FTP program for many years, Panic has applied their same amazing skills to develop a product which will take your entire... [read more]

True North

Colin — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:39:18 -0400

Well, I made it home safe and sound along with all of my luggage, so I guess I should be happy. The weather here is a lot colder than London but I was expecting that. I guess it isn't time to retire my winter wardrobe just yet. I'm off to bed to take care of this jet lag. Cheers.

Final Chapter

Colin — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:42:26 +0000

With about 12 hours left until my flight back to Canada, I am currently writing the final chapter for this adventure. Not to say that there won't be other adventures in the future, but those will be other stories. There will hopefully be one encore to this adventure come July, but that... [read more]

And then there was one

Colin — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:40:04 +0000

Pablo and I stand on the West Hampstead Thameslink platform waiting for his train to Luton. Even now the post-project microadventure is drawing to a close. As of yesterday, my project term colleagues have all left and while I plan one more visit to Reading before I go, there isn't much... [read more]

Scottish Adventure

Colin — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:22:01 +0000

Heading towards the motorway from where we spent Friday night on our road trip to Scotland. Well, I'm starting to recover now after an intense, three day driving trip to Scotland. Six of us decided that as a last celebration of our program we should take a trip together. It was a fun... [read more]

London Bridge is falling down

Colin — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 03:27:30 +0000

Well, Nenad and I have arrived safely in the UK, and as expected it was a bit of an adventure. As it turns out, there is no real train route from Gatwick to West Hampstead at the time which we needed. I wish I had the presence of mind to search for that before I started out on this trip,... [read more]

Gracias espaÃ�Â±a, ha sido divertido

Colin — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:37:34 +0100

Posting an entry for what may be the last time in Spain, I just wanted to thank all of those people whom I have met here for making my stay that much more pleasant. I arrived one year ago yesterday in Spain, bright eyed and bushy-tailed, ready for anything. A lot has changed in the time... [read more]

How sweet it is

Colin — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:12:46 +0100

Nenad, Pablo and I after finishing our project presentations. I must say: that went pretty well. Despite a few issues here and there, the presentation session today was a success, a process involving multiple people in multiple countries. I feel I delivered my slides with some degree of... [read more]

124

Colin — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:19:49 +0100

This is going to be brief because I am a new kind of tired. Just to let the world know that I submitted all 124 pages of my project paper today. I'm still not out of the water yet, I have a presentation and two other documents to prepare, but I can see land. Reading those pages as a PDF on... [read more]

Thesis Tools: BibDesk/BibTeX

Colin — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:58:45 +0100

For every research paper you write, there are always references which you need to manage. Sometimes you don't have many, and you can do this manually. Fine. But if you are writing something longer and more involved, good luck using a word processor to put that together. In fact, I'd say... [read more]

Stop and smell the...

Colin — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:02:04 +0100

Walking to campus, I need to pass through the small neighbourhood of San Nicasio. And regardless of the path I take through it, it seems that it is a constant assault on my olfactory senses. I guess you can become accustomed to these smells after a while, but sometimes, the magnitude of it... [read more]

Running the gamut

Colin — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:26:20 +0100

In the past half an hour, I have run the gamut of emotions. I received an email a little over an hour ago, which I didn't read until a bit later than that. At first I was annoyed that I was still on some list that I had signed up for years ago. Then I realized that the email was from... [read more]

Really, I actually wrote this.

Colin — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:12:59 +0000

I have known for a while, since my first work term report I believe that I have a problem with my technical writing. I have a hard time being confident about my facts and results. I tend to use the words Ã¢â�¬Å�reallyÃ¢â�¬Â�,... [read more]

Frog shadow

Colin — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:07:48 +0100

Normally I prefer to use my own desktop wallpaper images, usually doctored photos I've taken or original creations from Photoshop, but recently I've been enamored with a particular image I found online by another designer named Vlad Gerasimov. I think that it is simply called... [read more]