Check out their new Surface Computing! Alas, only for businesses and such for the moment, but they hope it will come down in price until common folk like you and I can afford one.

They’ve also released betas of Messenger, Writer, and Mail. Prepend all those with “Windows Live” to get their full names. Writer is a pretty decent piece of software for blog posting, and it integrates with all the major blog providers, not just Live Spaces, which is a welcome relief. I’ve been using it for a while and it’s an excellent tool.

The Messenger update seems mostly cosmetic though, so it’s hard to see where they’re going with it.

I’ve also been invited to try out Popfly, which is a way of building Web 2.0 mashups without writing any code. My first impression is that while you can build something that displays the last 10 Twitter posts on a map based on where they came from, it’s hard to do anything too complex.

A Facebook/Microsoft C# wrapper for the Facebook API. My inner geek is happy.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/showcase/

I wish I didn’t have exams on and so had more time to play with this…

For the love of all that’s good and true, talk to me. I need to speak to someone about this very soon.

Lost > Heroes.

Wow.

I’m torrenting, and there’s a Swedish guy pushing data at me at about 90 kB/s. It’s not the first time I’ve seen such a Swedish uber-peer.

Now there’s a Dutch guy sending me stuff at 160 kB/s. It’s nuts, it is.

Damn our slow and reserved British internet connections.

In other news, xkcd this week is being awesome. If you don’t love it too, there might actually be something wrong with you. And at least he knows that contemplating making out with yourself is troubling.

Thanks to our European super-friends, my torrent is now complete. I bid you farewell!

It’s 23 degrees C outside according to the little weather ticker on my desktop, and it bloody well feels like it. Doesn’t help that my computer’s on, I imagine.

Anyways, I want to go outside and run around but I feel like leaving my room would be an admission at how horribly I’m failing at revising.

I’m so screwed for the upcoming exams.

At some point I’ll also remember to comment on things that really deserve to be commented upon. People like Lucy are smoking me at writing stuff that’s interesting.

I love how Americans can’t pronounce anything.

So I just had my last lecture of the year, which just so happened to be (the best song in the world…) Maths Analysis. In it were covered some properties of matrices, and surprisingly enough it actually looked quite useful. I’m actually pretty glad that I did the maths course because going deep into the maths can be both interesting and rewarding if you have a mathematically inclined mind.

I’m partly here because I’m sponging leccy to charge my MP3 player, but partly because I haven’t blogged properly for a while and I really quite enjoy it; it’s nice to leave a record behind of what you’ve been doing, those minutae that will escape you in times to come.

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