ok, so attempt number one at writing more in this journal :o)

basically have been spending a lot of time in work feeling inept, mostly cos i started knowing no java or html or jsp and suddenly being expected to learn everything from books in a few days, which doesn't really suit me. the slightly annoying part of all this is that almost everyone else in the building is programming in C, which i can do absolutely no problem at all. ah well.

basically i'm trying to design a cunning interface between two different web servers so that pages of one are transferred to the other and embedded in an html page to be sent to the user. all very good. would be easier though if people actually knew what they wanted it to do, what the pages coming from the second server were going to look like and how they would have to be modified to fit into the existing pages and what menus etc would be available. you know, minor things like that. i believe it is sometimes called a spec, but as everyone knows you should never start programming without a spec.... uh huh. anyways, this has resulted in me spending a lot of time getting google to appear in the middle of web pages, which is quite cool, then spending lots of time trying to find a better way to do, until my manager finally accepted that there wasn't one. so now have to spend the afternoon adding my little function to a custom tag library, and trying really really really hard not to break anything that's already there!!

other than that, not a lot been happening, just generally chilling out with people. played my first ever game of ultimate frisbee on tuesday and discovered i wasn't as shocking at it as i expected to be, although i don't think i really understood anything anyone tried to tell me in the tactics lesson, going more for the "running into a space, getting the frisbee and passing it quickly, hopefully in the right direction and to someone" approach. all rather fun. was meant to be playing touch rugby this lunchtime but have to go to a meeting about the graduate recruitment brochure and what i think about it instead... i only saw it for the first time yesterday so it's been kinda hard coming up with some opinions! my major point is why don't they go to any careers fairs other than cambridge and oxford and warwick...

oh yeah, i completely forgot to mention, i'm the only person here not from oxbridge. eeeeek! and most of them do maths. double eeek! but i am able to say with pride that i didn't get in cos i didn't apply :o) not wanting to blow my own trumpet further, but finding it very amusing, remember the fun test i did at my interview where i had to work through a program outputting numbers at certain points and i did it in 14 mins? james, one of the guys here, sat next to me at interview and was apparently telling people last week, during one of those random 'what was your interview like' chats, about this girl who had done the test so amazingly quickly. tee hee hee! legend already!

anyways, i should probably try and find the latest bug in my tag library declaration...