General

I just found out that my Google Summer of Code (TM) application to work on the Kalzium 3D molecular editor has been accepted! The status just changed to accepted. So over the summer I am going to be working on perfecting the 3D molecular editor in Kalzium. I am so amazingly pleased that my project was accepted and it certainly promises to be an amazing summer where I get to work on a project combining my passions for KDE, Qt, C++ and molecular visualisation!

Time to get some sleep as it has gone 4am in the UK! Thanks to Google and everyone at KDE and I am sure there will be lots more to come over the summer.

Today was a beautiful day (as have been the last few) so I took a break from writing my thesis to get out for a while. We went out by Ladybower reservoir for a walk with Dax. It was great to get out of the office for a few hours after having quite an intense week of work. Lots more to do but it has been a productive week.

As you can see in the photo the weather really was great although it was really crowded out there too. Dax enjoyed himself and I got some nice pictures too. We came back and had a barbecue. It is really nice now the weather has improved and it isn't getting dark so early.

In other everyday news I got my new office chair too. It was a bit rubbish so I transplanted the arms to my old chair and all is well Even got a foot stool out of it as it seemed a shame to waste the rest of the bits. I am hoping to spend a little less time in the office once I get my thesis finished though...

It would seem I have been working so hard on my thesis that my chair has given up the ghost and broke. I was pondering over some graphs in I was plotting for my thesis, lent back slightly and the plastic arm broke I am going to have to go out tomorrow and find a replacement as I am getting back ache and don't need any excuses not to work on my thesis

They just don't make things to last any more... In related news Nick convinced me to join Facebook. Despite writing my random ramblings for the world on my blog, and putting up random pictures in my gallery I have never really bothered taking part in any social networking sites. I will see how it goes but don't intend to let it distract me from my primary goal right now - finishing my thesis!