Julia and I finally got around to buying a new car, given that we haven’t had one since we got married. I’ve never been a car person, but as soon as I got it I ripped the stereo out and bought a new one, along with two decent speakers for the back (I still need to replace the front two). The old stereo was Japanese, so it would go nowhere near the FM range that I like, nor did it have any means to plug an ipod into (other than tape, which sounded awful). I got myself a decent Panasonic stereo which has a CD player (and it can play CDs/CD-RWs with MP3′s on them), and an auxiliary input plug for the ipod.
The car is a Nissan Bluebird Le Grande, and it meets my car criteria (i.e. it can drive me from A to B). We bought it from Turners Auctions, hence their advertising in the photo below. Overall, I’m happy…
Just as a quick note for the future me (and to anyone interested), here is the paper I was involved in earlier this year, now that it is published. As is the title for this blog post, the title of the paper is “A Formal Contract Language for Plugin-based Software Engineering”. It is to do primarily to do with our research into plugin-based software such as Eclipse (which is completely plugin-based), and our thoughts on a way to strengthen the relationship between plugin and the plugin host (or extension and extension-point in proper Eclipse lingo).
Any questions feel free to ask.
Donald Rumsfeld briefed the President this morning. He told Bush that three Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq. To everyone’s amazement, all of the color ran from Bush’s face, then he collapsed onto his desk, head in hands, visibly shaken, almost whimpering. Finally, he composed himself and asked Rumsfeld, “Just exactly how many is a brazillion?”.
