2007
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Comic Day
We decided to have a go at some comics after seeing some crazy comics at Pandyland.
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ASD Services Web Site Goes Live
The ASD Services web site is now live. ASD Services are one of the largest selections of built-in and free-standing appliances to trade & retail in Yorkshire. Over 5,000 products are available for delivery or collection from their showroom in Morley, Leeds.
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Enough Packaging?
After some trouble with our Belkin router recently, we managed to get it replaced under the lifetime warranty.
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Leeds Festival 2007
What can I say!
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Square Wheels and Catenary Roads
I learned that square wheels can ride on a road constructed of inverted catenaries.
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Pickering & Tadcaster
I went on holiday this weekend to Pickering with my parents and Geoff and Gwen. Okay, it’s not that far away — one might argue that it’s not a holiday if the Coastliner goes past the camp site — but we had a really great time, despite the rain on Friday!
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Back in Scholes
Well, that’s it, I’m back for good. It feels very strange to think I won’t be going back to Durham again! That’s not entirely true; I’ll be back for the start of next term to sort out the changeover of the HBMC, and then there’ll be Claire and my graduation in January, but it won’t be the same!
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I Can Has Cheezburger?
Lolcat has taken over my life. I spend far too long looking through pictures of amusing cats superimposed with intentionally grammatically incorrect captions.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me…
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Dublin
Best couple of days ever…
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End of Exams
So much stuff going on!
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Feeling Guilty
This just goes to show how little time I spend in the department: After my meeting with Stefan today, we went to photocopy the work sheet, and I checked the pigeon holes for any mail. Shamus saw me looking and said, “you won’t find any mail in there; that’s for postgrads.”
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Hannah and JC’s Visit
This weekend, Hannah and JC have been up to Durham.
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Countdown Numbers
As a mathematician, obviously I am pretty poor at mental arithmetic, but I’m usually okay at the Countdown numbers. Not quite as good, however, as this guy:
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Spider-Man 3
We went to see Spider-Man 3 for Jay’s birthday today. I’ve seen the second, and really enjoyed it. This one, I must admit, was no different — despite warnings from critics and friends alike that “there’s too much going on.”
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Ooh, Vector Art
Today I stumbled upon this vectorising tool, called textorizer, that converts images into SVG format. You can specify your own text and size, as well as playing around with the edge-finding sensitivity.
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MySQL Joys
1NF teaches us that we should not store repeating groups in fields. Given that we have a table satisfying 1NF containing values as such:
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College Day
Always a great day, and this one was no exception!
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My Favourite Number
I love the Internet. I love how countless code monkey hours are wasted trying to stop the inevitable. I love how people actually think it’s possible to remove information from the Word Wide Web.
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Gmail in Multiple Clients
Gmail has always confused me when opening POP emails from multiple clients.
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Back in Durham 2
It’s good to be back up here. When I got back we went for a drink at Wetherspoons, where Reg showed off his new back piercings — and Lara managed to slap them as she left! Then Monday night: the first day of term, Collingwood’s fund raiser at Walkabout, and St George’s Day — so many reasons to have a few (many) drinks! And tonight, some live metal/harcore music at Bar19, thanks to Helen and Chris! All in all, a great few days.
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Blog Accepts Media Network Commenting
This blog now allows you to comment using your Media Network profile.
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Tex & Junior Tex’s Party
The weather was just right for the party (mainly for Rob’s 18th, but not far from Tex’s 21st). A couple of 9-gallon kegs from Wold Top Brewery and a hi-fi up on the banking topped off the afternoon! A game of killer table-tennis gave me my (apparently) inevitable injury as some of the garage clutter collapsed while running round…
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Leeds Wall
The weather was more suited for outdoor climbing, but since we couldn’t manage that we decided to visit the Leeds Wall.
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Internal Anchors
Well, it was an interesting hour that resulted in this…
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Jess’s Party
Last night was Jess’s 21st night out. She’s not 21 until Monday, but that doesn’t matter!
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PHP Snippets
Whilst browsing the old Invisible Shadow network, I was looking to see if any of the old stuff existed on there. One thing I remember was a section for code snippets, both Visual Basic and PHP. It seems that Logan has started it up again. I always recommend that the best way to learn to program is to read others’ code — this kind of website helps with that.
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Song Covers That Work, But Shouldn’t
Not sure what was going through my head to think of these, let alone write them down.
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Clubs & Socs Formal & Summerhill
The Clubs & Socs formal at Hild Bede is always a great event, with much celebration of attending the best college at Durham (true fact — ask Andy), and this year’s was no exception! Our table had by far the best balloon, a fact proven by a jealous girl with a knife in the bar afterwards…
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OpenID Now Working
After my attempts earlier this week, I have managed to get OpenID working on the blog. I haven’t yet sorted out any linking of an OpenID with either a Media Network profile or a tag profile, but it’ll be added in soon.
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Adapting for OpenID
Adapting for OpenID is no fun.
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Reg’s Birthday
Last night (well, Wednesday night, it’s 2am) was Reg’s birthday night out. We started up at Butler — without Reg, I might add — before moving along the hill and then down to Varsity for a bit of drinking and table dancing (Ste, Jon) and finally Love Shack. A select few had gone to the effort of making tank tops (beaters, if you will) with some excellent pictures of Reg and themselves… see the pictures for examples!
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New Wii & JC’s Antics
Andy got a Wii the other day. A complete impulse buy — but a good one, I might add! It came with Wii Sports, a game that demonstrates the revolutionary controller known as the Wii remote:
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Durham & Planet of Sound
Andy and Jay finished their Engineering project yesterday. And Lara got her Physics project in. And I did half her Physics project. So we were all out to celebrate!
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Life Soundtrack
If your life was film what would the soundtrack be?
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Val Thorens
I have just got back from my trip to Val Thorens with Collingwood College Skiing & Snowboarding Club. It was great! The snow was much better than Val d’Isère, at least for the first part of the week. The last couple of days weren’t so good, but I missed out on the penultimate day so that was all right!
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If Only I Could Get Away With Saying This
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
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New Year
Happy new year!