I have a cold.

Before I start moaning, I need to clear up the issue of my comparison in my last post of Toast with Mario. Toast is nothing like Mario. Toast is a very original, side scrolling platform adventure. It has jumping, dying and enemies. Mario is different, it has jumping, dying and enemies which you can kill.

Right, glad we sorted that out.

I have a cold. On top of this I have Physics coursework. We all know coursework/lab work is a bitch, however I always grow to cope with it. This time I haven't though, because it just won't work how I want it to. I am supposed to be investigating crosstalk in a couple of wires. I decided I would test the variables of distance between the wires, the angle they lie to each other and the frequency of the original signal.

This would all be acceptable if I could actually observe it. It took me three sessions to find an oscilloscope that worked and fish out the other equipment I needed. And I spent the next two getting the experiment to work full stop. Now I can observe some crosstalk. The problem being though, I can only get 5mV of the damn stuff! When changing the frequency over a range of approx. 1kHz - 100kHz I observed between 1mV and 5mV - and it's 5mV per division!

So, my results are crap. And things just don't get any better in that there are no digital oscilloscopes left. And I need an A in Physics. Without coursework that would require me to get 120/100 in the two exam units!

I could compare it to being stuck in a hole with no spade, but someone will only point out Physics A levels don't have spades... Or something.