When I started writing this, it's 23:03pm. I don't know why that's relevant, it just is. So, obviously the actual time displayed above is the time at when I submit this which includes the time taken to write it and spell check it (yes I do that).
Sometimes, it's nice to take whatever power you have, and just flaunt it. I just picked the menu for the annual choir dinner (sounds dull? Free posh 4 course meal isn't bad) which means I get to pick what I like to eat and also means I can exclude things like parsnips which are awful. We're having trout and wild boar incidentally in case anyone was wondering.
However, none of this helps the fact that the great job hunt is a none starter after having approximately 6 rejections before interview. I can't be that bad........ Ah well, I decided to add more things to the tutorials section. Namely my Idiot's guide to weird stuff which I'm sure will bring enlightenment to many for years.
I bought some memory yesterday, and it arrived today, which isn't bad seeing as it's a bank holiday weekend. Kudos to those people over at Crucial. The grand plan was to sell the current stuff off to someone else and buy some new memory so I could have an extra DIMM slot free blah blah blah.
Anyway, took old memory out, put new in. It said "I don't like this" by beeping at me lots. So I took new memory out, put old in. It beeped. I took memory out. It beeped. Here was a £200 piece of hardware that was complaining for no apparent reason. I thought I had killed it and was therefore running around the room yelling things and pausing every now and again to change direction.
2 hours of this passed after which it decided to un-break and fix itself and finally acknowledge that nothing was wrong and that nothing ever had been wrong. Damn thing.
For anyone that might be bothered, I've got to be up early tomorrow and I'm not feeling particularly 100% (more like 4%) so I might just go get lots and lots of shut-eye.
Well, I'm bored again, so I thought another news post would be good. This morning I conducted the lovely Pembroke Choir at Gt. St. Mary's (big church in the middle of Cambridge) because today of all sunny days we had to sing at the University Sermon. This apparently is a great phenomenon that occurs about twice a term and consists of someone talking a lot and a bit of singing at the end. This time, the talking went on for about 23.5 minutes meaning that I didn't quite fall asleep.
I'm not sure why or how that was relevant, but I'm now going to go and frollic in the sunshine :)
If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Serge Lang's Algebraic Number Theory.
I cover all of the basic material of classical algebraic number theory, giving the student the background necessary for the study of further topics in algebraic number theory, such as cyclotomic fields, or modular forms. Part I introduces some of the basic ideas of the theory: number fields, ideal classes, ideles and adeles, and zeta functions. It also contains a version of a Riemann-Roch theorem in number fields, proved by Lang in the very first version of the book in the sixties. This version can now be seen as a precursor of Arakelov theory. Part II covers class field theory, and Part III is devoted to analytic methods, including an exposition of Tate's thesis, the Brauer-Siegel theorem, and Weil's explicit formulas. This new edition of me contains corrections, as well as several additions to the previous edition, and the last chapter on explicit formulas has been rewritten.
Last night was the annual Pembroke College Choir Dinner. This is an event that occurs every year where the College decide to give the choir (and me) a nice posh 4 course meal with lots and lots of alcohol. There follows a certain amount of entertainment followed by more alcohol. This normally goes on until some early time in the morning. When I got up (just now - yes it's half one...) I found that I had gained 4 port glasses, a port decanter, a college coffee cup and saucer, a white wine glass and a guitar. I will be returning these (of course) whenever anyone asks for them ;)
And then tonight, I have to work all through the night doing a get-in at the ADC (local amateur theatre) follows by one of the most important college occasions in chapel and then I go to another party on a boat. I'm blatantly not going to get much sleep.
Just got back from the ADC (theatre) and it must be said that Cambridge looks fantastic in the dawn sunlight. Not a cloud to be seen and that rather good shade of blue in the sky. I now have the dilemma whether to stay up and work or sleep. I think work is in order.
