Archive for September 2007

Getting Through The Day

This really made me smile, guess it turns out Maths can be fun after all:
Teacher: “Well, I only mark a selection of the homework [that you do]”
Pupil: “Well then I’ll only do a selection of it”
As they say all over the web: “Hilarity ensued”
Nope, he wasn’t best pleased…

Posted at 10:50 on September 28th 2007, filed under Education, with no comments yet

Oi, Remember Me?

This week, the most monumentally fantastic thing happened in my life – Facebook finally added a bloody Remember Me button. At last, no more hitting the return key to login every time I close the browser – this is definitely going to increase the life of my keyboard dramatically…
Joking aside, why did it take so damn [...]

Posted at 22:53 on September 27th 2007, filed under Technology, with no comments yet

Warwick Uni Open Day

Just got home, so I thought I’d fill y’all in on what I did with my Wednesday:

Left here (Chiswick, London) at about 7:50 this morning, getting to Warwick (the town, not the university) at about 9:45.
Spent an hour and a half (yup, till 11:15) sitting in the biggest traffic jam ever with all the people [...]

Posted at 16:01 on September 26th 2007, filed under Education, Life, with no comments yet

TV Stats

Shocking television statistics in the RadioTimes magazine from this week:

77% of all people who subscribe to high definition watch less standard definition now
Films and sport, the two genres with the most HD material, have seen the greatest increase in HD viewing hours

Boy, do I look surprised…

Posted at 1:05 on September 24th 2007, filed under Life, with no comments yet

Sweets

Since I’ve had very little (free) time in London since the end of June, I only just started going through my “goodie bag” from the open day at Imperial College. One tiny thing that I really love is a tin that contains miniature smarties – this is tough to explain, but you click the middle [...]

Posted at 15:47 on September 22nd 2007, filed under Life, with 2 comments