[ from the I-leave-my-door-open-at-night dept. ]
So I popped in to London for some food earlier (Wagamama, Covent Garden) and had a reasonable evening escaping temporarily from Nottingham – not that there’s anything wrong with Nottingham, well, there is, but that aside, I enjoy being in London. Read more…
In fact, I’m thinking of going to see a play in London next week or soon after. I have not decided what to see yet however I am sure there are plenty of good performances on at the moment 
Paddington has an interestingly unencrypted, publically available wireless network called “Megabeam“, as some American man was telling me about earlier – in the typical “I know what wireless is so I know everything” style that people from certain parts of the world tend to do…annoying, but I put up with it because it was not worth getting involved with a discussion. The network is there and apparently free to use though I of course will not be trying that until I find out more about whether I am meant to be using it 
So, back in Nottingham, there are basically no lectures today. I am going to make the SSCC meeting I hope (I have a few issues to raise of minor concern – such as lab bookings and so forth. I suppose I could mention the department closing times again for the 4th or so time in a row…they might not change the opening times but I feel obligated to bring it up).
I will be in Birmingham later on today to visit Hannah and Joe, and Dan I hope. Pizza, town, escapism, great stuff. Then back to the hard life of being a student bored out his mind.
I have finished reading through some more Motorola documentation and now understand a minimal boot sequence for setting up a PowerPC CPU. The plan is to use this information to experiment with using MOL as an environment for executing binaries and then to branch in to more interesting setup (such as getting the MMU going properly with page tables and so forth rather than fixed size BAT regions of limited size and use). It’s all good.
Jon.