The time has come..

...for me to start on my two home-exams tomorrow for my courses. Of course the seven projects I have to finish for these are not done either, but luckily we do not have any deadline on them currently so from now on the home-exams are my number uno priority as they have to be handed in no later than friday. I have my hopes up as a PhD at the institution who had previously taken both the course (or was it maybe just one of them) commented that the home exams are fairly easy, and the professor supervising the two courses told us we should be able to finish them off within a few hours for each. I haven't had any home exams before but my guess is that they are supposed to be an equivalent of an ordinary exam, taking from 2 to maybe even 10 hours to finish in worst cases, only difference is that you do it from home. Of course they questions aren't the same as you would expect on a written exam as we have internet and books for our use at any time writing this exam, but I am fairly confident in at least one of the courses that I will do good, the dynamical astronomy course. For the second course, statistical and numerical tools in astronomy I most of us are not very confident on the contents of the course still, but what you don't know you can always read up on!

I have acquired my new external harddrive and mobile phone now, actually it was a while ago now but I have forgotten to mention it, and I love them both. The external harddrive is already set-up to do backups on my essential data such as pictures, school stuff, my other written texts and music and more. It feels safe to have it.
The C905 mobile is almost as I anticipated it. It didn't feel as large as I thought it would, but using it was not as easy as I had anticipated. I mean sure the camera in it is really good, but it takes a bit of effort and luck to get those perfect photos you want. Never the less, you get adequate photos anyway for most of the time, without doubt good enough to send to the photo shop to print them out as any standard camera photo. I take a bunch of photos, but for now I am too lazy to upload the picture to the computer. But guess what? My laptop is on the way and it should be landing in my lap sometime late next week. When I have that working I can easily stream my photos to the laptop using the built-in bluetooth, and with its arrival I will have what I need in terms of electronics. All I need to get now is some sort of skin or bag for the laptop to protect it from scratches.

Fredrik's small netbook arrived earlier this week also and I am amazed at how powerful the little thing actually is. Sure it is no match to my laptop, but for its size it can handle a bit of work anyhow. This along with the great battery-time of ~7h makes is nearly too delicious to resist, unfortunately it has no connectors for tv-out signals of any sorts which I have great use for in the apartment. But I won't whine about it, I am confident I will enjoy my new computer. The only thing that makes the difference is actually the size, I think I will be annoyed with the small 10' screen. But I will surely be thinking about buying one next time at least, but for the lifetime of the new monster I am waiting for I will have what I need.

Until next time, cheers!