Chris’ Blog

I went to see SOiL play again, last time I saw them in the Bristol Bierkeller, this time in the Exeter University Lemon Grove. The venue was more packed out but it is much smaller than the Bierkeller but the acoustics are better, shame about the stringent alcohol policy (due to lots of minors in attendance.)

Last night I went to see SOiL at the Bristol Bierkeller, they were being supported by Lennon, Brand New Sin, and Godhead.

It was an amazing gig, 4 really good acts, with the exception of Lennon’s supporting guitarist (appears he is a roadie) best thing is, I get to see the gig again free in Exeter: I am on the guest list ^_^. I can hear them sound testing now…

A Christian Union group banned from student facilities is taking legal action under the Human Rights Act.

Exeter University Evangelical Christian Union were suspended from the student guild and had a bank account frozen. [...]

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My return to Exeter is coming fast, I cannot believe I have been at home for nearly 4 weeks now (madness I tell you.) I am looking forward to going back, will miss the home comforts again, like magically washing clothes, and the dishwasher. I hope everyone had a smashing New Year and a wonderful Christmas (if you celebrate the event) I personally had a wonderful time, until my granddad was admitted to hospital via a NeeNaw with a suspected heart attack, luckily it was only a over indulgence and a serious case of indigestion. New Years eve was a probably a gaggle, giggle and most certainly a blur … more over indulgence, this time the weapon of choice C₂H₅OH. I think I will go and watch some movie and then plunge into counting sheep.

Only a week to go until I see SOiL … Woo!

I am home from university for a nice 4 week break, none of this 2 weeks that school kids gets.

In short the (Evangelical) Christian Union here at Exeter University is beginning legal action against the University and Students’ Guild because they do not agree with Guild policies et cetera. Its all going crazy and getting lots of press attention from certain organisations, some more biased than others.

• BBC Politics Show
• BBC News
• Guardian
• Times

At University my login shell is set to tcsh which I do not like, I prefer bash. I was unable to use chsh because the network uses NIS, and the NIS command ypchsh kept throwing errors. I searched the internet for a solution, not have much success, eventually I stumbled here which guided a bit further.

My final solution is to edit .cshrc to contain:

# Only run bash if the shell is interactive, otherwise X breaks!
if ( $?prompt ) exec /bin/bash --login

Now when I login or open a virtual terminal I am greeted by an authenticated bash shell which when closed (ie logout) also closes tcsh. I am very happy

One thing would be nice is to only apply the --login to true login shells but thats not much of an issue.

Edit (25/10/2006): I had to make a small change after I realised I was unable to login locally to X!

Smile you are on camera, this thief obviously didn’t think that CCTV cameras would record him stealing them.

I see all the fuss regarding the name of the (E)CU has got into the news too.

Got egged walking home from the Imperial, a local pub, wasn’t just me a few in our group did but not nice all the same; bastards…

… I have got to wash my coat now its covered in egg. *grumble*

Ahh the wonders of British weather, lovely morning very mild nice refreshing breeze (woke me up,) became very overcast around lunchtime and from about 2200 it has been pouring it down with rain with the odd flash and rumble mixed in for added excitement. Walked back from the Ram bar in the torrents of rain in only a t-shirt and trousers, I was totally drenched by the time I got back to the block (still wet now!)

Found a letter poked under my door today, it appears we didn’t follow the emergency instructions when the fire alarm went off last week, whoops. It also informed us that we would be having a drill sometime, but when? Best not be tonight in the rain.

Spent the watched Cinderella for the first time in donkey years tonight, most amusing. We have a whole collection of Disney films in the flat, how sad.