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Programming, gadgets and life as a lecturer in a UK university.
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January 2005 - Posts
London Calling
Monday, January 31, 2005 9:43 PM
Went to London with David Grey to give a paper to the JICC conference. We were telling them all about the .NET MSc course and the horrible things that we do to the students. They seemed to quite like it, and there were some interesting papers on teaching
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Plasma Madness
Sunday, January 30, 2005 7:55 PM
Went over to see my dad yesterday. He has just bought a big plasma telly and had a man come to install it. Well. Very nice telly, somewhat botched installation. The reason that he got the big screen was to watch stuff through the satellite decoder. So
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Meet The Fokkers
Saturday, January 29, 2005 9:20 AM
Went to see Meet The Fokkers (MTF) tonight. Not really my kind of film. Meet the Parents was ok in a toe curling kind way, with one or two set pieces almost as good as the ones in, say, Home Alone II. MTF is different. Good things about the evening: the
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Journey into Spaces
Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:51 PM
I was talking to Paul yesterday and he asked me about blogging. He was wondering if it was a good way to keep in contact with project students. Good question.The problem is that normally what you blog is put up there for all to see, which a student might
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Friday Blues
Friday, January 21, 2005 9:58 PM
David's hard drive broke today. And Richard's keyboard. And the Friday before last I had my, ahem, little local difficulty with my disk too. We are starting to wonder if there is something about Friday itself. I think that next Friday I'll use pencil
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Seventh Heaven
Thursday, January 20, 2005 8:49 PM
I've got a digital radio. (my wife reckons that if there was a digital toothbrush I'd get that too). They are jolly good, but the sound quality is not as wonderful as they might have you believe. But the things I listen to don't have ultra high quality
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Computer Juggling
Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:04 PM
I looked around my office this afternoon and was surprised to find that I have four computers humming away in the room. Plus my laptop and a couple of other machines which are very old and never powered up.This cannot go on. I'm embarking on a rationalisation
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Low Sun Pictures
Tuesday, January 18, 2005 12:17 PM
I love this time of year for photographs. The low sun makes for some nice colours. If you were on campus first thing this morning you might have seen me scurrying round with my camera. I like sunshine on brick. This one came out quite well:Oh, and if
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Another Book to Buy
Monday, January 17, 2005 11:15 PM
I bought another book last week. This one has nothing to do with computers though. A chap called Nick Wood has taken a whole bunch of panoramic pictures of New York. He sets down a tripod in the middle of somewhere interesting and uses his Nikon to take
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Smartphone Sunday
Sunday, January 16, 2005 10:27 PM
Spent a big chunk of the day playing with code. Not done that for a while (and I did wash the car too). I'm messing around with some Smartphone stuff which might see the light of day as more Cheesy articles. You never know.... I've also been playing with
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Buy This Book
Thursday, January 13, 2005 10:47 PM
I've long had an ongoing relationship with "Code Complete 2" by Steve McConnell. But now a new suitor has come along and quite taken my fancy. This is not because I am fickle where Software Engineering texts are concerned, but because I'm always
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Marking Time
Wednesday, January 05, 2005 8:10 PM
Spent most of the day marking. The pile on my desk is now a lot smaller (but this is mainly because I moved a big chunk of it onto the floor to avoid depressing myself too much). My aim is to get all my marking done this week so that I can get on with
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