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Thursday the 16th of August was the day of reckoning for me. 10am I logged into UCAS to find "Congratulations! Your place at Loughborough University (L79) to study Computing and Management (4 year SW) (GN42) has been confirmed."

Anyhoo, about 10:45 me and Phil set off for college as Ben was running late, got my results:

• Computing: C
• Electronics: C
• Physics: E
• General Studies: E

All in all I did pretty crap.

In total I only got 200 (L'boro doesn't count general studies) of the 300 points I needed to get in to Loughborough, and I got beaten by Ben in computing! Shameful! But then I did put about 10% effort into the whole revision thing so I guess I deserved to get rubbish grades >.<

Anyway, as I got 100 points lower than needed I gave them a call. Without thinking anything awry the woman on the phone said I was indeed in to L'boro and that she'd see me in September! Crazy lady :P

Uni

As stated above I'm off to Loughborough university on September the 27th.

If anyone reads this and is also going to the same uni, gimmie a shout! I know nobody else who even applied really :S

Still, got my registration pack and the freshers week seems awesome. Everything from a BBQ to a foam party so should all be good fun. Best of all though is the fact the halls they put me in has it's own bar! Don't even have to stagger to and from the student union XD

On a more depressing point, I have no idea what might become of Palmnet. It might be paid for and keep going throughout the 4-5 years of uni, it might just die a sad and lonely death as I become entrenched in university work, who knows.

Hopefully it'll keep going though and be filled with all the latest geekery, only from uni instead of home. They might even have some sweet tach for me to play with and blog about too ^^

I stumbled across a post by the almighty _Why himself from many a moon ago which intrigued me muchly.
The article in question, http://redhanded.hobix.com/bits/rubyForWindowsInUnder1k.html, is about how _Why used a most interesting combination of JavaScript and the Windows Scripting Host to acces a script he has on hiw own site.
The interesting thing is he used XmlHttpRequest so he could send and recieve commands and text with his script, which is an interface to IRB pretty much.

This means that his tiny bit of code can actually function like IRB on a computer with no Ruby installed, and all it needs is an internet connection.

Well, thought I, why not write a program that does all that, rather than having to download a javascript file then use a command to run it I could ahve it all with a single click.
Which I did and is now residing in all it's morbid obesity of 1.75 KB under the name of Pico IRB.

But _Why's version was under 1KB, 920 bytes to be exact. And mine was pretty much double that because of all the indentation, comments and extra stuff it has.
Could I make a single click batch file that was under 1KB too?

Yes!
It's a total mess and has absolutely no nice features or semantic code. However, it is only 522 bytes. Now that is tiny!
It also resides on the server in it's shockingly anorexic state under name name of Femto IRB.