mmm papacyWhat you didn’t know about the popes of …

mmm papacy

What you didn’t know about the popes of Rome.

 

On the evening of Saturday April 2, 2005, after receiving the Rite of Extreme Unction, Pope John Paul II passed away. At this time his chamberlain would have gone to the papal hospital bed and asked the Bishop of Rome a question, "Are you dead?" There would be no reply from the Pope. The chamberlain would then pick up a silver hammer and strike the Pope on the head and repeat his question, "Are you dead?" Again there would be no reply. The chamberlain would then thrice call out the Pope’s baptismal name. He would then declare the Pope to be dead. 


Originally by her divine shadow from The Neverending Acquisition Of Blogs on April 11, 2005, 6:39am

Blogging, intelligent agents and final year projects

It’s the time of year again where I get to choose a final year project. Again.

I would have been doing the project in the last year but I kind of failed all my programming. Oops. So this year it is.

The bonus however, is that I actually understand Java far better now and have a good grasp of Prolog. Plus, now I’ve had a whole year to browse through blogs and gather resources and stuff, I’ve got a better idea for what I actually want to do. Rather than a vague sort of “something bloglike”.

Of course, I want to try and get a more cohesive idea of what I want to do, and figure out if I have the skills to do it from scratch or will need to use open source tools and stuff as a jumping off point.

It’s all fairly exciting really.

Originally by her divine shadow from The Neverending Acquisition Of Blogs on April 24, 2005, 9:39am

More blogs.

Since I last posted, I have probably started two whole new blogs.

What is it about blogs? Are they somehow addictive?

I try to make sure that I post in them at least monthly, but is it so hard. I forget to. I can’t think of what to write.

I think the idea was, in the beginning at least, to think about things more, write more and learn to express myself better. Another part of the idea was to separate out different topics into different blogs (partly so that I didn’t get the same audiences for both).

Perhaps my end of July resolution should be to actually blog more. That way, I’d see if my vague sort of theory/thingy-that-I-can’t-remember-the-name-for (marvel at the improvement in my language skillz!) actually works. 😀

Originally by her divine shadow from The Neverending Acquisition Of Blogs on July 29, 2005, 2:28pm

To tell people you have a blog or not?

The question is, is it a good idea to let your project supervisor in on the blog you have to keep track of your project or not?

The complete lack of substance there might suggest to him that yes, I’ve not done very much work, but on the other hand, if like me, you have a supervisor that’s damn near impossible to arrange meetings with… it keeps them informed of what you’re doing.

That is of course assuming that you are doing something and if you are doing something you have gotten around to writing about it.

Currently, I’m stuck with a lot of boring reading. Not exciting blogstuff really.

Originally by her divine shadow from The Neverending Acquisition Of Blogs on September 4, 2005, 11:24am

tabulaswell, i paid for like.. a year and never ac…

tabulas
well, i paid for like.. a year and never actually used this account. so really there isn’t any point to paying for more.

livejournal for me is better. my friends are there, there is a great variety of communities…. and certainly this time last year tabulas was kind of confusing

the only good thing is that it crossposts everywhere.

Originally by her divine shadow from The Neverending Acquisition Of Blogs on April 3, 2006, 1:54am