Quick, unrelated, disjointed ramblings.

For my birthday I received a watch (to replace my old broken one), the latest Red Dwarf DVD release to add to my collection, a £30 cheque and the promise of a new chair. Overall, this pleases me.

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Mini hacking idea: LJ is now giving me a shedload of storage (10GB) with unlimited bandwidth, but only for images - one could write a script to add png headers to a file with a basic image and store binary data commented out within it. Another simple script on the receiving end to strip out the superfulous image stuff and we've got a nice way of surreptitiously distributing mp3s, movies, etc. over a fast server with easy controls by way of LJ friends groups to optionally limit it to certain people.

I think that could be quite nifty... Does anyone know if JavaScript can manipulate binary stuff? - it'd be wicked cool if you could just point a webpage at an LJ-hosted image and it prompts you to download the embedded movie or whatever.

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Things I need to do over the next couple of days: sort out my sleeping patterns; buy xmas presents; rectify my weird brain activity; eat properly; become my normal self again.

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I really want to learn how to properly fly a plane. Like, really want to do this. Does anyone know how I go about it? I want to do it in something more than a "novelty present for dad" kind of way - something more serious (not that I wouldn't it as a present, mind ;)). Money is a limiting factor, of course. I am a student. But I'd be willing to spend a considerable chunk of my expendible dosh on it.

I've been daydreaming a lot lately of quitting my course and training to become a pilot. When I've mentioned this to people they've been saying it's something I should actively persue, at least in part. I agree with them. I'm still young in the grand scheme of things, I'm not overly unintelligent, I should be viewing my future as a blank slate. The sky is still my limit, I should be shooting for it.

The simple fact of the matter is that I can think of fewer things worse than being sat infront of a computer all day every day debugging code. I like the creative side of programming, but I don't think it's going to be the career for me. Plus, I am becoming bored of the overly broad "Computer Science" course at an alarming rate. Everything is pointing for me to change things and change things dramatically.

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How are things with you?