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I quite like random little anecdotes/stories/tales, so thought I’d share:
There’s an office here that the porters look after the keys for. If you want to get in the office when there’s nobody else around, you have to ask them for a key; they check your university card against a list of people who are authorised [...]

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Shell scripting is really pretty good fun. I’m nowhere near claiming to be an expert (hell, I’ve been doing it for about three weeks now), but I kind of feel like I’m getting somewhere. Here’s some stuff I’ve been messing around with, hopefully accompanied by some clear explanations that, if nothing [...]

Quirky lecturer thing: Maths person who pauses, says the word “right?” fairly distinctively and then continues. Lectures take five times longer because of this (technically, we get five times less stuff done because of this). I got so frustrated with it last week that I decided to put an asterisk in the margin of my [...]

Well… I made it to the University of York, and survived Freshers’ Week; making my way through two fire alarms, a few dozen pints of Guinness and more free Dominos pizza than I care to remember.
The newsy-thing that came up today is the flyer that’s displayed to the right – UoY’s Computing Services are asking [...]

Email is really important to me, especially at the moment – I’m going to be moving a fair bit over the next few months, but my email can stay in one place (the cloud, if you don’t cringe every time you hear that). Like just about every geek, I’m in love with what Google have [...]