I passed my exam! I got 88%, 54 questions right out of 61. I'm well chuffed. I had no idea whether I would pass or not right up until when they told me my mark. The test was pretty hard. I had a good twenty minutes at the end to check through my answers and there were a good fifteen that I wasn't confident about. I think I may have been quite lucky in some of my choices.

I got a good breakdown of the test. Threads and garbage collection were my weak points. Especially threads. GC isn't so bad, there were three questions, I got one wrong. Overall, I got 100% in five of the nine areas.

All in all this is my best exam performance since about 1995. I think it may also be the first time I've revised since then. I did work moderately hard on the revision.

Afterwards I celebrated with a trip to Blackmarket Records and a new Warp t-shirt from Selectadisc. To be honest, that was more my usual pattern of rewarding myself for going to Soho. Used the tube competently again, well done me.

I think I worked it out today. I was in discussion with JC and with a couple of guys we got talking to in a pub in Southwark. I made the assertion that all the protesters at the pre-war protest and tomorrow's protest can't simply be anti-war. War is a fact of life today, as hateful and as shockingly horrible as it is, it happens a lot. All too much. No, I think that the protesters are out because they know that as much as Bush protests his innocence and his mission to spread democracy and peace, he's lying. The protesters know that there are many things he could be doing to make the world a fairer and happier place, but he just isn't. Iraq is a stupid war, but what makes it stupid is that there are so many countries that are commiting injustices and crimes that are just as horrible, but they get away with it! Israel is an example, with it's annexing of territory belonging to Libya and Lebanon, China is another. These are examples of many countries with terrible oppressive and also expansionist regimes. It's because Bush really doesn't care that people are protesting today.

Too many people think that Capital Letters should Be Used to Emphasise Important Words. This is an annoying habit, nearly as annoying as hyperexclaimation!!!!!

I was ill. Big cold, fever for a couple of days. Not fully fixed yet, still bunged up. I had to miss my grandfather's funeral because of the need to catch up on work. Grr.

The sun's up to something. Ever since I watched 2010, the solar system sometimes really badly gives me the creeps. Being on Earth is like running and hiding under my duvet. It's no help at all, but at least I'm not suspended in the cold nothing staring at a sun that is trillions and trillions times bigger than me and pissed off.

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