Exam One...

One down (networks), one to go (tomorrow-Object Technology). I think I got about 80%, or somewhere not far off that, so I'm fairly pleased. There were a few questions I really didn't know the answers too, such as how an application gateway filter differs from a packet filter (WHEN were we taught that again? Must have missed that one!), but overall not too bad, the Maths stuff was all there, the Nyquist and Shannon/somebody else's theorems relating to data transfer...yawn...over a medium with/without line noise taken into account. At least all that's behind me now...let me just...there, I've freed up that memory, room for more junk!

Watched Closer last night with Bex, if there's one film that I'm surprised got a "15" and not an "18" rating in the UK, this is it. It's shockingly sexual, without actually having any sex in it at all. Neither has it any love, but again, it's full of it! I think it's a great film. For all its emphasis on the physical side of relationships, it does a good job, almost unwittingly-through contrast-at showing how a relationships physical side relates to its (good?) spiritual side. It shows how Sex and Love are two different things, but strangely reliant on each other. They're part of the same animal, and in this film, man is the animal, and particularly one man: Clive Owen steals the show, he is (as he says) a cave-man, he's scary, he fills the screen, he's brilliant. Natalie Portman also shines, if that doesn't sound too film-reviewing a thing to say!