So, why blog? Note this is not, why do I blog? (Answer; I like to write, I like to believe people care.) But rather why should other people blog? For your everyday folk like me there are a few very good reasons, it hones your skills of written communication, it gives you a public forum [...]
Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
Why blog?
Posted in Blogging, Education, Life, Student issues on May 16, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Healing hands
Posted in Life, computers on May 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As well as being a professional cycle mechanic I have somehow also managed to attain status as a talented computer repairman. I’m not sure entirely how I gained this reputation but gain it I did, and because of it I have become something of an amateur expert. While far from professional I can usually ascertain [...]
RSS update
Posted in Life, computers on May 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
To continue from my post and subsequent comments on ‘mucking about with rss’ I thought I’d try being useful and posting my solutions for the benefit of others.
I tried the methods of utilising rss suggested by Mark and Si but have found the best thing for me I’ve tried so far is a combo of [...]
WHAT THE FUCK?!?
Posted in Life on May 5, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Apologies for slipping into the vernacular but I’m rather annoyed. The time is 01:00am and I have just returned from driving around town in a police car. The story begins like this…
I left work at the usual hour and on the way home stopped off at the woods for a ride. After this I went [...]
moving on more
Posted in Life, Student issues on May 3, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Applied for university accommodation today. Opted for the student village in the end. With a large room in a mixed flat as my first choice. Hopefully this will leave me room for my van loads of stuff I have accumulated over the years! All I need do now is sort out the complications with the [...]
Moving on
Posted in Life, Student issues on May 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
With student loan forms out of the way May comes around, trailing in its wake a letter from the university regarding accommadation for September. I can apply online starting from tomorrow (the 3rd of May) and I intend to get my application in asap to ensure I get what I want. So now I have [...]
Global warming – the silent killer*
Posted in Life, cycling on April 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Regular customers are the life-blood of any bike shop. The shop where I work takes most of its actual revenue from tourists throughout the Summer months but it is the regulars who send them to us and who recommend our services. For this reason we like to take good care of our loyal customers and [...]
Mucking about with RSS
Posted in Blogging, Life, computers on April 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Just a quickie, pub quiz in a bit. I have found myself interested in RSS feeds of a sudden. Does anyone out there have any recommendations on how to quickly and easily set up an aggregator so that I can find news on some quite narrow channels of interest? I am a comblete noob to [...]
Fiscal frolics
Posted in Finance, Life, Student issues on April 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It may be time to reveal that I have ‘done’ university before. I don’t think it would be an unfair to say that I was not a good student. In fact diabolical is a term that would not be out of place. I did not attend lectures, I missed practicals and I was responsible for [...]
Educational Embarkation
Posted in Education, Life on April 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There are many things outside of physics that I am interested in. One of these is the educational process itself. As I have already stated part of my reasoning for this blog is that if I can explain things, I can understand them. In fact this is useful on another level as I am seriously [...]
