For Great Justice - Rosti's Blog

Internet Streaming

2012-01-07T17:48:00.001Z

There are quite a few web streams I follow lately, mostly StarCraft related, and I was always fairly curious to know how much money the guys behind these things actually make from streaming. I was particularly interested in the SC2 players because their revenue from streaming is typically their main income besides what they earn through tournaments. Most of my questions were answered earlier

The Holiday Period

2012-01-01T19:53:00.003Z

I was back home last week for the festive period. It was nice to see family and be home for a little bit, and it's also nice to be back in Cambridge now. I didn't so much enjoy the travelling though. What I learnt on my way back up North was that the buses in Cambridge are absolutely shite. I've heard rumour and anecdotes from friends about how shit they are but I've never really used them much

Happy Christmas (Term Is Over)

2011-12-16T17:17:00.000Z

It's been frickin ages since I've really had the time to write a blog post, mostly because of the amount of time I was having to spend doing my degree and coxing and stuff (also Fairbairns Dinner was a stupid amount of admin). Term finished last week, and it's been awesome to have a week of mostly lazing around and sorting out all the stuff I've been putting off until term was finished. Finally

On Occupy Wall Street

2011-11-24T13:00:00.002Z

The Occupy Wall Street movement has been fairly big on the internet for a while now, especially on Reddit, and I've been meaning to write this for ages because I've slowly been getting more and more annoyed by a lot of the crap coming out of it, and a lot of the really bullshit anti-government and anti-capitalist crap that various people spew over Facebook and various other parts of the internet

Rage Against The Machine (or Laptop)

2011-11-23T14:02:00.000Z

So besides MET taking up most of my day, I've also sort of been goaded into coxing again by the possibility of coxing Fairbairns M1 and the fact that I actually can for most likely the last time ever. It also allows me to feebly attempt to justify a place on the training camp to Banyoles, but that's a different issue. The off-set of this is that I basically have no time for anything properly any

Bish Bash Bosch

2011-11-05T17:30:00.000Z

Somewhat terrible pun for the blog title, but I like terrible puns (and despite Sadia posting it on Facebook first, it was my brainchild), so there you go. The placement at Bosch was somewhat good. The project itself went fairly smoothly, although it's fairly difficult with these sorts of things to tread the line between not really doing enough work, and overcomplicating things so much that it's

Winter Is Coming

2011-10-21T17:46:00.000+01:00

In the last couple of weeks the temperature has randomly flipped from being record-breakingly hot for October into proper winter cold. As usual, the temperature itself in Cambridge isn't actually that cold, but there's an arctic wind that makes it pretty chilly once you get outside. Today was the first day we bothered to turn the central heating on in the house, which in one sense was as simple

And So I Bought A Tablet...

2011-10-18T16:44:00.000+01:00

Typically I'm not one to impulse buy if it's something that costs real money. If anything I'm the opposite - I'll research fairly thoroughly to make sure what I'm buying is decent, and then I'll shop around and find the best deal I can get for it. That said, I impulse bought a graphics tablet a couple of weeks ago. Emily had impulse bought it on eBay, didn't want it, and I figured why the heck.

Google Analytics Keywords

2011-10-09T23:16:00.002+01:00

An alternative title for this post could easily be "completely weird shit people search for on Google". Or "I couldn't be bothered writing a proper post so here is a list of crap I'm just pasting from a website". I use Google Analytics on this blog, which provides me with pretty details info about the people who visit, where they visit from, and all that jazz. It gives me my hit rate (which is

A Trip To Aston Martin

2011-10-06T18:30:00.002+01:00

A fairly major part of my course this year, as anyone who has either spoken to me (or "listened to me moaning" as it could otherwise be called) in the last couple of months or reads this blog will know, is that I get shipped off at various points in the year to factories around the UK to do some sort of mild manufacturing/management consultancy work for zero pay. We then have to write an assessed

StarCraft II and eSports

2011-09-23T11:00:00.009+01:00

A couple of weeks ago I had a conversation with a friends of mine, Vincent Laurent (aka Amnesia, to tetris folk), on our history playing Tetris, and why we still bother hanging around the community and playing the game. There came a point at which I mentioned that if I could go back five years with the hindsight I have now, and do things differently, I'd probably choose to play StarCraft instead.

The Fourth Year

2011-09-22T17:18:00.002+01:00

I was sort of vaguely aware that I've not actually written a blog post in a while. I've got a few I've been half-writing that are unfinished at the moment, so it doesn't feel like I've neglected this thing too much, but then my pa brought it up in an email and I also noticed that Anna Railton was also massively out-posting me, so I figured I should get off my arse and write some shit down. There

The Return Of The King

2011-09-07T16:12:00.000+01:00

When Hodgson was sacked, all the way back in January or whenever it was now, I had somewhat mixed opinions. I thought perhaps it would have been fairer to give him more time, but at the same time I didn't particularly like the direction of football he was taking. I'd still somewhat stand by my opinions that Benitez was a good manager, and I feel that his demise was largely down to his inability

Day 30: Paris -> London -> Home [Epilogue]

2011-09-06T14:40:00.000+01:00

For our final day we stayed in the hotel as long as we could, watching South Park in French (which I could follow a surprising amount of, though it helps when I've seen it before). Eventually we had to shift out of the hotel, and we basically just set up camp in Gare du Nord until our train was due. Occasionally we'd venture outside the station for food, or for a toilet cheaper than the 75 cents

Days 26-29: Paris

2011-09-05T21:37:00.001+01:00

We kicked off our first full day in Paris by basically retracing the steps we'd taken the night before, and having a look around Montmartre in the daytime, heading back to the Sacre-Coeur and the surrounding area at the top of the hill. From there we went back to the hotel, picked up all our stuff, and shifted it to the hotel we'd be staying at for the rest of our time in Paris. Our second

Day 25: Brussels -> Paris

2011-08-31T18:53:00.000+01:00

Day 25 marked the final day before our interrail pass expired. Or, in slightly more specific terms, the day at which we had to end up in Paris before midnight, or else pay a small fortune to get our final train there. Travelling from Brugge to Paris required us to go through Brussels, and we figured that while we were passing through we might as well stop off and see the city. We were going to be

Days 23-24: Brugge

2011-08-29T14:46:00.000+01:00

In my general life I typically regard train journeys as being a somewhat boring necessity. If I need to go somewhere I take the train, and I accept that I'll be sat in a seat for an hour or two without much useful or entertaining to do. I'm sure that the majority of people feel pretty much the same way. By the fourth week of travelling you get to the point where the train journeys are actually

Days 21-22: Amsterdam

2011-08-26T15:36:00.001+01:00

I'm back home as I write these now, with a stable internet connection and a decent laptop. I'll hopefully burn through the rest of the trip entries in the next couple of days. Amsterdam is a city I've technically been to a few times before. I say "technically" because I've generally flown to Schiphol Airport and then instantly gotten the train somewhere else, and I've yet to actually see any of

Days 19-20: Berlin

2011-08-18T17:01:00.000+01:00

The train from Prague to Berlin is around four hours, so we caught the earliest train we could (8:30am) to arrive in Berlin for a reasonable time. We didn't have reservations, meaning we had a bit of a scramble to find seats and had to split up, but I was fairly grateful for the downtime after the marathon amount of walking in Prague. Berlin also marks the start of what is sort of the final

Days 16-18: Prague

2011-08-15T22:56:00.000+01:00

We arrived in Prague super-early off our sleeper train, and headed straight for the hostel. Surprisingly, the hostel was open, and even more surprisingly they had a room available for us to check in. We dropped our bags off and headed pretty much straight back out. The city hall has a pretty impressive astronomical clock on the front, with various decorations that animate on the hour (the

Days 14-15: Krakow

2011-08-14T07:51:00.000+01:00

Sleeper trains have the advantage of cutting out the number of daylight hours you waste travelling from place to place. Given you're getting a reasonable night's sleep for a seven or eight hour train journey, you're basically multi-tasking. The disadvantage is that you tend to get to a place feeling pretty filthy and you can't actually check in for a good few hours. Thankfully the people at our

Day 13: Budapest

2011-08-10T18:50:00.000+01:00

First stop on our full day in Budapest was the big castle in the Buda part of the city. It's bloody miles away from our hostel, so we took the metro. The metro was pretty cheap, and pretty straightforward to use because it only has three different lines, and they pretty much hardly interweave, though all the train station names are long and in Hungarian. We took the train as far as the other

Day 12: Vienna -> Budapest

2011-08-09T19:50:00.000+01:00

We started out our second and final day in Vienna by wandering around the centre of town a bit more, and heading to the Freud museum. I thought the museum was reasonably good, but it wasn't what I was expecting. It was in his house, and was filled with a reconstruction of his study and the like, and basically consisted of various items in cabinets on the walls which documented his history and a

Day 11: Vienna

2011-08-09T18:17:00.000+01:00

We didn't have reservations for the train to Vienna from Salzburg, but we managed to get ourselves in a single compartment. There appeared to be things on the doors of the compartment indicating which were reserved, with some having red tickets that clearly said "RESERVED" in German, some having nothing, and ones like the one we ended up in, which had white cards with writing we didn't understand

Days 9-10: Salzburg

2011-08-04T21:49:00.002+01:00

The train ride from Munich was fairly standard, and it took around two hours to get to Salzburg. The youth hostel (YoHo) was really good. Not expensive, the rooms were fairly nice, we each got our own keycards to the room, and the keycards also opened pretty sizeable lockers inside the dorms. Plus the bar had two happy hours each night, with pints being €2. Definitely a recommendation for anyone