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It is obvious that people would find life extremely difficult without computers, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we be able to cope?

Be a part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate!

Shutdown your computer on this day and find out! Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?

– From Shutdown Day
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So, it has come and gone again. With this, the common tests loom ever closer.

I managed to snatch a 182^nd this year, less than half of last year’s ~500 position. No, I’m not disappointed because I didn’t get a two digit position like what some of you might be thinking; on the contrary, I’ve met my target of being below 300.

But honestly, I would say I’m not satisfied yet. There is still room for improvement. My current record stands at approximately 25 minutes now. I’ve never really timed it. I just took some estimates from the others’ timings and subtracted/added the time the elapsed while I/they were waiting for them/me after the runs respectively. What a mouthful. But nevertheless, I’m still like 10 minutes behind the record breaker if I’ve ran today at the same pace. Much more room for improvement. (Not that I can reach that standard – at least I could try and close up the gap )

An interesting tidbit: Apparently, the Mathematics Department in VJC is pretty good at running. The top five male staff runners were all from the Mathematics Department. (Yes, GISC is included as well – there’s no such thing as a “computing” department.)

And a word of advice: Sometimes it’s better not to comment when you have nothing constructive to say. Thank you very much. AND NO! I am not some ignorant kid who stays at home the whole day sitting in front of a machine doing nothing but play games. You know who I am talking about.